Edwin Roy Ford

Edwin married Barbara Jo Cayley [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Melanie Ford
2. Stephen Gough Ford was born on 6 Apr 1957 in Mobile, Alabama; was christened in in Mobile, Alabama; died on 27 Jan 2022 in Birmingham, AL.
3. Melissa Ford

Johnnie married Margaret Scruggs on 8 Feb 1917 in West Bend,Alabama. Margaret (daughter of Gross Scruggs, IV and Virginia Eliza White) was born on 3 Dec 1896 in West Bend,Alabama; died on 10 Dec 1948 in Thomasville,Alabama; was buried in Thomasville,Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

from Edwin Ford: John Tarplay came to Thomasville/Choctaw Corner to teach school but ended up keeping books for people. Had problems with alcohol. May have presented himself as being older than he actually was--cemetery marker says 1854, as written by his widow, but census suggests his actual birth may have been 1856.

Birth:
Edwin Ford: His tombstone lists 1854 as his date of birth, but the 1870 census lists him as 14 years old.

John married Stella Melissa Curtis. Stella (daughter of Dr James H. Curtis and Lucy M. Giles) was born on 29 Aug 1861; died on 2 Feb 1938 in Thomasville,Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

from Edwin Ford: Stella Curtis had 10 pregnancies, five of whom lived to adulthood. Some of her descendants are RH negative; maybe Stella was as well, and that caused the high infant mortality rate.

Notes:

Died:
Gross died after complications from being badly scalded in the explosion of the paddleboat James I. Staples.

Gross married Virginia Eliza White on 4 Jul 1880. Virginia (daughter of Josiah White, II and Sara Ann Harris) was born on 19 Sep 1862; died on 31 Mar 1925. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joel married Elizabeth B. Pickett. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Name:
Edwin Ford: either Pickett or Prickett

Notes:

from Edwin Ford: 1840 census shows Joel and Elizabeth in NC; 1850 census shows them with children in Natchitoches Parish, LA; 1860 census shows them in Mobile without two oldest children; 1870 census shows Elizabeth only in Choctaw Corner, AL, with her youngest son, age 14. They had six children altogether: the two who presumably stayed in Louisiana, one who was killed in the Civil War; Harrison who was injured but survived, Cassandra who was the second-youngest, and John who was the youngest.

Notes:

Lucy Giles was his third wife, and he had two previous children.

Birth:
Edwin Ford: He was 35 when he married Lucy Giles in 1860.

Died:
Edwin Ford: Grandmother (Stella Curtis) was told about his coming home from New Orleans, and her mother (Lucy Giles) saw him hunched over on his horse, and he didn't live very long after that. He became infected with some kind of fever or something and made it home but didn't live very long after he got there. Could have been 64 instead of 63, but I don't know.

James married Lucy M. Giles in 1860 in Marengo County, AL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Edwin Ford: Lucy Giles came to Shiloh, AL (Marengo Co) to teach school, supposedly. Lived with a family named Hosea. She was from Laurel, DE, probably born there. Had a brother than never married, who ran a box factory. When he died there was no will, so his estate was divided and Stella Melissa Curtis inherited $2000-3000, 1/76th of the total, a lot of money for the day. Have her copy of the letter announcing the distribution. Came just before the war. Think we have a copy of the marriage license from Marengo County.

Notes:

Edwin Ford: He was 35 and she was 18 when they were married.

Notes:

Died:
Typhoid fever while serving in Confederate army.

Place of death may have been Halls Mill Rd., Mobile, AL (Civil War records).

Gross married Chaste Helen Noble on 22 May 1854. Chaste (daughter of Joseph Noble and Asenath Turner) was born on 15 Feb 1839; died on 9 Feb 1902; was buried in Atlanta, GA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
or 6 Feb 1902

Josiah married Sara Ann Harris. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]