When William J. Blackford was born on 3 April 1847, in Beaver Falls, Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Daniel W Blackford, was 26 and his mother, Mary Warrick, was 20. He married Elizabeth Jane Bartram in 1871, in Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Darlington, Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880 and East Liverpool, Columbiana, Ohio, United States in 1910. He died on 16 November 1915, in Ohio Valley General Hospital, Kennedy Township, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States.
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English: habitational name from any of various places called Blackford, for example in Blackford (Somerset), Blackford Farm (Sussex), Blackford Farm in Castle Eaton (Wiltshire), and Blackford House in Tanworth in Arden (Warwickshire), from Old English blæc ‘black, dark’ + ford ‘ford’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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