Brief Life History of Reginald Dewey
When Reginald Dewey Ford was born on 21 March 1899, in Leighton, Colbert, Alabama, United States, his father, Leander Axum Ford, was 39 and his mother, Addie Cordella Grissom, was 19. He married Esther Ethel Quinn on 1 December 1921, in Leighton, Colbert, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Election Precinct 11 Leighton, Colbert, Alabama, United States for about 40 years and Colbert, Alabama, United States in 1950. He died in October 1975, in Leighton, Colbert, Alabama, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Colbert, Alabama, United States.
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- Reginald D Ford, "United States Census, 1950"
- Legacy NFS Source: Reginald D. Ford - Government record: birth-name: Reginald D. Ford
- Reginald Dewey Ford, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"
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1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1900 · Giving Puerto Rico an American Welcome
A law that established government on the island of Puerto Rico and gave all Puerto Ricans citizenship. This law was replaced by the Jones–Shafroth Act in 1917.
1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
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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