Mary Molly Ford

Brief Life History of Mary Molly

When Mary Molly Ford was born on 29 June 1891, in Alabama, United States, her father, Jacob King Ford, was 40 and her mother, Margaret Ann Haynes, was 38. She married John Norman Jones on 5 February 1915, in Paris, Lamar, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Election Precinct 14 Sulphur Springs, Calhoun, Alabama, United States in 1910 and Justice Precinct 8, Lamar, Texas, United States in 1940. She died on 28 September 1961, at the age of 70, and was buried in Blossom, Lamar, Texas, United States.

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Family Time Line

John Norman Jones
1870–1945
Mary Molly Ford
1891–1961
Marriage: 5 February 1915
Aubrey Ford Jones
1916–1933
Commodore Dalton Jones
1920–2005
Margaret Ann Jones
1923–2013

Sources (7)

  • Molly E Jones in household of John N Jones, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Mary Elizabeth Ford Jones, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Mollie Ford in entry for Aubrey Ford Jones, "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976"

World Events (8)

1894 · Texas Files Lawsuit Against Standard Oil Company

Under the direction of Governor Jim Hogg, Texas filed a lawsuit against John D. Rockefeller for violating state monopoly laws. Hogg argued that Standard Oil Company and Water-Piece Oil Company of Missouri were engaged in illegal practices like price fixing, rebates, and consolidation. Rockefeller was indicted, but never tried in a court of law; other employees of his company were convicted as guilty.

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.

1910 · The BSA is Made

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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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