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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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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