(I.) David Ford

Family

(I.) David Ford4 [Oscar,3 Isaac David,2 Joseph,1].

(Isaac) David Ford was born at Rome, Floyd Co., Ga. 17 Oct., 1882 to Oscar Reece Ford and Martha Jackson [Floyd;b.r., newspaper, n.p., n.d. ___;b.r., Floyd;Probate,___St. Pe;d.r.? Ford Rec;1].

He died at St. Petersburg, Fla. 6 Jan., 1971 and is buried in Ashland, Mo. [ibid. n.p., n.d., ___, g.s., ___].

He married at New York City 26 Feb., 1902 Frances Maynard daughter of Isaac Horton Maynard and Margaret Maxwell Marvin [N.Y.C;m.r., Marv Fam;378, Falc Fam;__]; she was b. ___ and d. at ___ [___].

Children, i. born Manhattan, iii., were born New York City, ii., Louisa, b. Stamford, N.Y. [Marv Fam;378, Post Graduate Hospital, 2nd Ave + 20th St” |Manh;b.r.;54201; imf]:

• i. [Isaac] Maynard Ford b., 23 Oct., 1907 [imf.]; d. at ___ [___]; m. at Fitchburg, Mass. 8 Sept., 1930 Jane Parks daughter of Howard McIntire Parks and Hazel Woodward Hopkins; she was b. at Fitchburg, Mass. 23 Feb., 1909 and d. at ___ [jpf].
• Had: David Ford, II, born at Syracuse, 1934.
• ii. Louisa Ford, b. at Stamford, N.Y. 11 July, 1909; she d., a suicide, abt. 1947-9 [jpf]; never married, a reporter for a San Francisco newspaper; the city where she lived with her mother in later life and where she, apparently, died [jpf].
• iii. Lucy Ford, b. 20 Oct. 1915; d. at L.A., Cal. ___; m. at ___ Europe ___ [jpf]; they had: 1) John Harris, b. ___; lived in Freehold, N.J. in the 1980’s; living outside of Dallas Texas 1995 [df].
  • John Harris 14 September, 1961

He divorced Frances Maynard at ___ abt. 1939 [___].

He married, 2d, at ___ Kate ___ (a cousin, probably on the Jackson side) after 1939. Kate ___ Ford d. ___ [___]. She was married previously to ___, had children ___ who d. young, leaving George Kellogg, raised by his grandmother [df].

David Ford married, 3d, at ___ Ruth Wakka, daughter of ___ [___;m.r., dff from rwf].

Ford Rec;2:

About 20 years ago I was elected as a member of the circus Saints + Sinners and was “initiated” or introduced to the luncheon meeting at the Hotel Biltmore at the same time Lowel Thomas the well known world traveller + lecturer was given the same treatment — we both sat at the speakers table. I was proposed by my fiend Bill VanAthon[?] The proceeds are supposed to help a retirement fund for old circus people.