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Maj William Ford

Maj William Ford

Male 1797 - 1860  (63 years)   Has 2 ancestors and 18 descendants in this family tree.


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  • Name William Ford
    Prefix Maj
    Birth 1796/1797  Georgetown Dist, SC (now Marion Co, SC) Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male
    _UID 422E898DD2DAD4118AC44445535400009575 
    Death 1 Jan 1860  Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I17752  Marty and Karla Grant
    Last Modified 10 Nov 2012

    Father Preserved Ford,   b. Bef 1755   d. 1829, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 74 years)
    Mother ?,   b. Bef 1755   d. 1820/1829, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 74 years)
    Marriage Bef 1780  Georgetown Dist, SC (now Marion Co, SC) Find all individuals with events at this location 
    _UID F7524980CE90A649ACBDF8949630E1221DAC 
    Family ID F8883  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Beady Thompson,   b. 1796/1797, Georgetown Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1850, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 54 years)
    Marriage Bef 1817  Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    _UID C2EAE34CFEEBBF4A90C52EAC18938B3769E6 
    Children 
     1. Sarah Ford,   b. 1816/1817, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1880, Marion Co, SC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 64 years)
     2. Lewis Ford,   b. 1817/1818, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Feb 1860, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 42 years)
     3. William Ford,   b. 1822/1823, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1854, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 31 years)
     4. John T Ford,   b. 1831/1832, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1863, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 32 years)
     5. George W Ford,   b. 1835/1836, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1850, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 15 years)
     6. Beady Ford,   b. 1840/1841, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1863, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 23 years)
     7. Martha Ford,   b. 1848/1849, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1850, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 2 years)
     8. Enoch Ford,   b. Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this locationd. TX Find all individuals with events at this location
     9. Nancy Ford,   b. Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F8880  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 21 Aug 2026

    Family 2 Celia Elvington,   b. 1824/1825, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1869/1871, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 46 years)
    Marriage 1850/1860  Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    _UID 6C8C3FD6D7DF994C9A8681A2E6417CAD3B3D 
    Children 
     1. Ferdinand Ford,   b. Aft 1850, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1869, Marion Co, SC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 19 years)
    Family ID F8882  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 21 Aug 2026

  • Notes 
    • !CENSUS:1800;

      !CENSUS:1810;

      !CENSUS:1820 Marion Dist., SC pg 58
      William Ford age 16-25 (1794/1804)
      100100-10100-0, slaves=0010-0000;

      !NAMED-PROBATE ROLL # 268 Marion Co., SC Preserved Ford 1829
      Will dated 20 Mar 1829 proved 6 Apr 1829
      Wife Celia Ford
      son Charles Ford
      dau Mary Floyd
      son Jesse Ford
      sons and daughters: George Ford, James Ford, THomas Cooper, Preserved Ford, Jesse Ford, Jesse Rawls, John Ford, William Ford and Francis Floyd.
      Executors my sons Jesse Ford and William Ford.;

      !CENSUS:1830 Marion Dist., SC pg 19
      William Ford Senr age 30-39 (1790/1800)
      111001-101011, slaves=211010-320000;

      !CENSUS:1840 Marion Dist., SC pg 136
      William Ford Sen age 40-49 (1790/1800)
      1102101-0010001;

      !CENSUS:1850 Marion Dist., SC # 1091/1096
      William Ford 53 Farmer $8000 Marion
      Beady 53
      Lewis 32 "
      William 27 "
      John 18 "
      George 14
      Beady 9
      Martha 1;

      !EQUITY ROLL # 328 Marion Co., SC William Ford, Sr. 5 Dec 1863
      Elias B. Ford and John T. Ford vs John J. Gaddy and wife Celia Gaddy
      ... show that William Ford, Sr. died 1 Jan 1860
      heirs:
      Celia Ford his widow who has since married John J. Gaddy
      Sarah Watson
      Lewis Ford who died 1 Feb 1860, Jesse Ford Jr. adm.
      Enoch said to reside in TX
      Marshall Ford a son of William Ford Jr (died 1854) and a grandson of intestate
      Nancy Ford wife of Jesse Ford Jr.
      George W. Ford, residence unknown
      Beedy Ford
      orator John T. Ford
      and Ferdinand Ford infant of tender years.
      ...
      Widow Celia was daughter of Jesse Elvington
      ...;

      !REFERENCE: A History of Marion County, South Carolina From Its Earliest Times to the Present, 1901, by W. W. Sellers, Esq., of the Marion Bar. 1902. pp. 167-170
      ...
      The first one known to the writer, in about 1830, was Preserved Ford, universally called Zarv Ford ; he was then seventy-five or eighty years of age, may be older ; he lived on the west side of Caddy's Mills, then called Ford's Mills. It was at an association held at the old Saw Mill Church, on the east side of the mills—the church was old and dilapidated. It was there that I first saw him, and never saw him afterwards. He was a well-to-do man, and prominent in his day; he had three sons, Jessee, William and Charles.
      ...
      Major William Ford, the second son of old man "Zarv" Ford, married a Miss Thompson; he was a well-to-do man; had not many children; the writer does not remember but one, a daughter, Sallie, who had a personal distinction, seldom, if ever, met with—she had a black eye and a blue one; a very pretty girl; she married John R. Watson, who occupied and owned his father's homestead, on the road from Nichols to Lumberton, N. C. ; he died, leaving six or seven children together with his widow; the children all small; the widow managed well and raised a very nice family, sons and daughters—mostly daughters; the mother died some years ago, much respected while living. Major William Ford may have had a son, not now recollected; he had another daughter, as now remembered, who became and is now, the wife of Captain R. H. Rogers.;


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