Brief Life History of James Hall
When James Hall Ford was born on 3 May 1846, in Barren, Kentucky, United States, his father, Austin Davenport Ford, was 25 and his mother, Catherine Kitty Bird Huffman, was 25. He married Nancy Katherine Baldock on 20 February 1876, in Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. He lived in Magisterial District 3 Temple Hill, Barren, Kentucky, United States in 1900 and Temple Hill, Barren, Kentucky, United States in 1910. He died on 2 March 1915, in Barren, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Huffman Cemetery Number One, Eighty Eight, Barren, Kentucky, United States.
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- James H Ford, "United States Census, 1910"
- James H. Ford, "Kentucky Marriages, 1785-1979"
- James H T Ford, "Kentucky Death Records, 1911-1967"
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1850 · 8th Most Populated State
According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
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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