Brief Life History of Amos Milton
Amos Milton Ford was born on 18 February 1807, in Pennsylvania, United States. He married Margaret Bastress on 5 May 1829, in Jersey Shore, Lycoming, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Jersey Shore, Lycoming, Pennsylvania, United States in 1830 and Mifflin Township, Lycoming, Pennsylvania, United States in 1840. He died on 5 August 1854, in Ashland, Ohio, United States, at the age of 47, and was buried in Ashland, Ashland, Ohio, United States.
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- Amos M Ford, "United States Census, 1840"
- Amos Ford, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
- Amos Ford, "Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Marriage Records, 1512-1989"
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World Events (7)
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1810 · Change of capital city
Zanesville becomes the new state capital.
1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
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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