Brief Life History of Della Mary
When Della Mary Ford was born on 31 May 1884, in Alabama, United States, her father, Powell R Ford, was 27 and her mother, Lucy Mathis Jones, was 27. She married John Walker Ford in 1905, in Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. She lived in Election Precinct 14 Sulphur Springs, Calhoun, Alabama, United States in 1910 and Election Precinct 2 Estaboga, Talladega, Alabama, United States in 1920. She died on 6 August 1929, in Eastaboga, Calhoun, Alabama, United States, at the age of 45.
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Sources (5)
- Dellar Ford, "United States Census, 1920"
- Mary Della Ford, "Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974"
- Della Ford in entry for Aubrey D Ford, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
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1886
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1886 · Giving Working Men a Union
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1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
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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