John Walker Ford

Brief Life History of John Walker

When John Walker Ford was born in 1877, in Calhoun, Alabama, United States, his father, Jacob King Ford, was 26 and his mother, Margaret Ann Haynes, was 25. He married Della Mary Ford in 1905, in Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. He lived in St. Clair, Alabama, United States in 1935 and Election Precinct 9 Wilsonville, Shelby, Alabama, United States in 1940. He died on 20 October 1945, in Crossville, DeKalb, Alabama, United States, at the age of 68.

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Family Time Line

John Walker Ford
1877–1945
Della Mary Ford
1884–1929
Marriage: 1905
Dewey Stetson Ford
1905–1983
Autis C. Ford
about 1908–2008
Lester Ford
1910–
Aubrey Dalton Ford
1919–2001

Sources (9)

  • Walker Ford, "United States Census, 1920"
  • J W Ford, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  • John Walker Ford, "Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974"

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1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act

A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

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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