Mary Relda Ford

Brief Life History of Mary Relda

When Mary Relda Ford was born on 8 December 1888, in San Francisco, California, United States, her father, Tirey Lafayette Ford Sr, was 30 and her mother, Emma Byington, was 25. She married Samuel Finley Brown Morse on 8 February 1919, in Pebble Beach, Monterey, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She immigrated to San Francisco, California, United States in 1938. She died on 2 November 1951, in Monterey, Monterey, California, United States, at the age of 62.

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Family Time Line

Samuel Finley Brown Morse
1885–1969
Mary Relda Ford
1888–1951
Marriage: 8 February 1919
Mary Relda Morse
1920–2018

Sources (19)

  • Relta F Stott in household of Terey L Ford, "United States Census, 1910"
  • Relda Ford Morse, "California Death Index, 1940-1997"
  • Relda Ford Morse, "New York, New York Passenger and Crew Lists, 1909, 1925-1958"

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World Events (8)

1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.

1891 · Angel Island Serves as Quarantine Station

Angel Island served as a quarantine station for those diagnosed with bubonic plague beginning in 1891. A quarantine station was built on the island which was funded by the federal government at the cost of $98,000. The disease spread to port cities around the world, including the San Francisco Bay Area, during the third bubonic plague pandemic, which lasted through 1909.

1906 · Saving Food Labels

The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.

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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