2009. He is buried in Oklahoma City's Fairlawn Cemetery. His tombstone reads: His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him, that Nature might stand up — And say to all the world, "This was a man". Family Over her family's objections, Charles Francis Colcord married Harriet Scoresby (August 1865, Iowa – June 26, 1951, Oklahoma City), in Hutchinson, Kansas on February 9, 1885. She was the daughter of Rev. Thomas Smith Scoresby, a Methodist Episcopal minister born in England. They moved to Flagstaff, Arizona, before participating in the Run. They had seven children: Ray Colcord (born September 12, 1886, died February 1971, St. Petersburg FL), married Rena Piner Charles F. Colcord Jr. (born June 12, 1888 in Kansas, died August 23, 1900 in Oklahoma City) Marguerite Colcord (Mrs. Lee Dudley) Callahan, died May 1980 in Oklahoma City). Caroline Colcord (Mrs. John Wesley) Bates, b. August 8, 1895, Oklahoma Territory, died October 13, 1995, Tulsa) Sidney Colcord (born February 17, 1898 in Oklahoma Territory, died December 22, 1969 in Tulsa) Cadijah Colcord (Mrs. Walter H.) Helmerich (1899–1990) Harriet Colcord White (born September 2, 1901, died June 1979, Oklahoma City) Legacies Colcord built the Colcord Building, now known as the Colcord Hotel, which was the first skyscraper in Oklahoma City. It was also the first steel-reinforced concrete building in Oklahoma, because Colcord had seen the devastation to lesser buildings in San Francisco following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and resulting fires. Originally designed with two wings, only the east wing and connecting elevator/stair segment were constructed. Architect William A. Wells was a protégé of Louis Sullivan, a founder of the Chicago School style of architecture. Sullivan designed the molds for the decorative terra cotta ornamentation on the first, second, and twelfth floors of the Colcord. The building survived Oklahoma City's Urban Renewal efforts and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Developer Paul Coury, with the help of investors including Beck Design and Manhattan Construction, have transformed the office building into a boutique hotel adjacent to what will be the state's tallest building, the new 51-story, 274 metres/900 feet Devon Tower. The Colcord Building is now owned by Devon Energy. Colcord also built the Commerce Exchange Building and the Biltmore Hotel. When he died Oklahoma City named the new Civic Center after him. His dedication to the city and his cowboy origins landed him in the Cowboy