Mary Frances Ford

Brief Life History of Mary Frances

When Mary Frances Ford was born on 21 June 1908, in Claiborne, Tennessee, United States, her father, Green Berry Ford, was 28 and her mother, Laura E. Mink, was 25. She married Dewey E Clawson on 27 August 1924, in Monroe, Monroe, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Civil District 7, Claiborne, Tennessee, United States in 1930 and Civil District 2, Roane, Tennessee, United States in 1940. She died on 5 June 1979, in Spring City, Rhea, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Rhea, Tennessee, United States.

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Family Time Line

Dewey E Clawson
1902–1990
Mary Frances Ford
1908–1979
Marriage: 27 August 1924
Izora Clawson
1926–1938
Charles Christopher Clawson
1932–2003
Robert Clawson
1936–1976
Ulyess H Clawson
1939–2021
Jimmy Clawson
1943–1980
Dewey E Clawson Jr
1945–2013

Sources (11)

  • Mary J Clawson, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Mary Ford, "Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925"
  • Mary J. Clawson, "Find A Grave Index"

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1927

Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

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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