Brief Life History of Lucy Ellen
When Lucy Ellen Ford was born on 21 April 1858, in Barren, Kentucky, United States, her father, Austin Davenport Ford, was 37 and her mother, Catherine Kitty Bird Huffman, was 37. She married Henry Baldock on 12 February 1879, in Glasgow, Barren, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Magisterial District 7 Sartain, Barren, Kentucky, United States in 1880 and Temple Hill, Barren, Kentucky, United States for about 20 years. She died on 14 September 1911, in Barren, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 53, and was buried in Huffman Cemetery Number One, Eighty Eight, Barren, Kentucky, United States.
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- Lucy A Ford in household of Kittie B Ford, "United States Census, 1870"
- Lucy E. Ford, "Kentucky Births and Christenings, 1839-1960"
- Lucy E. Ford, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
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World Events (8)
1861
Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived near a ford (Middle English, Old English ford), or a habitational name from one of the many places called with this word, such as Ford (Durham, Herefordshire, Northumberland, Shropshire, Sussex), Ford in Sefton (Lancashire), Ford in Crediton and Ford in Holcombe Rogus (both Devon), Ford in Litton and Ford in Wiveliscombe (both Somerset).
Irish: Anglicized form (quasi-translation) of various Gaelic names, for example MacGiolla na Naomh ‘son of Gilla na Naomh’ (a personal name meaning ‘servant of the saints’), Mac Conshámha ‘son of Conshnámha’ (a personal name composed of the elements con ‘dog’ + snámh ‘to swim’), in all of which the final syllable was wrongly thought to be áth ‘ford’, and Ó Fuar(th)áin (see Foran ).
Americanized form of French Faure ‘blacksmith’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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