Sula Almeda Ford

Brief Life History of Sula Almeda

When Sula Almeda Ford was born on 16 April 1910, in Ratliff, Rankin, Mississippi, United States, her father, Lawrence Alonzo Ford, was 30 and her mother, Mary Alice Mitchell, was 18. She lived in Beat 3, Lee, Mississippi, United States in 1940 and Mississippi, United States in 2009. She died on 26 September 1979, in Lee, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Tupelo, Lee, Mississippi, United States.

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Family Time Line

Lawrence Alonzo Ford
1879–1939
Mary Alice Mitchell
1892–1978
Sula Almeda Ford
1910–1979
Mary Agnes Ford
1917–1979
Lawrence Mitchell Ford
1922–2009

Sources (7)

  • Sula A Ford in household of Mary Alice Ford, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Sula Ford, "United States Social Security Death Index"
  • Sula Ford in entry for Lawrence M Ford, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"

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1916 · Mississippi State Sanatorium for TB is Established

The Mississippi State Sanatorium is a hospital used for tuberculosis patients. This lasted from 1918 to the 1950s. The Sanatorium has now been turned into a museum.

1929

13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.

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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