Our American Family - Person Sheet
Our American Family - Person Sheet
NameJames Roscoe FORD
Birth Date27 Jul 1859
Birth PlaceLaurel County, Kentucky
Death Date23 Dec 1943 Age: 84
Death PlaceEl Dorado Springs, Cedar County, Missouri
OccupationReal Estate & Insurance Agent
FatherJohn P. FORD (1822-1880)
MotherPolly BROWN (1823-1912)
Spouses
Birth Date3 Sep 186617
Birth PlacePolk County, Missouri
MemoU.S., Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current
Death Date12 Mar 195917 Age: 92
Death PlaceNevada, Vernon County, Missouri
MemoHospital
Burial Date14 Mar 1959
Burial PlaceEl Dorado Springs, Cedar County, Missouri, El Dorado Springs Cemetery
MemoU.S., Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current
ReligionMethodist
FatherWiley Jay RYAN , 22 (1840-1907)
MotherMahala Jane "Haley" HENDRIX , 23 (1847-1914)
Family ID12
Marr Date13 May 1888
Marr PlaceCouley, Vernon County, Missouri
Marr MemoMissouri, U.S., Marriage Records, 1805-2002
ChildrenEverett Jesse (1891-1954)
 Maybel (1895-1986)
 Irene (1897-~1983)
 Wiley J. (1900-1979)
 Orthel L. (1902-1955)
 Nadine (1906-2000)
 Laura A. (1889-1960)
Notes for James Roscoe FORD
Death date also listed as 1943, 1940 from headstone.

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Notes for Martha A. "Mattie" (Spouse 1)
RYAN: Irish: simplified form of Mulryan. Irish: reduced form of O’Ryan, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Riagháin (modern Irish Ó Riain) ‘descendant of Rian’; Ó Maoilriain ‘descendant of Maoilriaghain’, or Ó Ruaidhín ‘descendant of the little red one’. Ryan is one of the commonest surnames in Ireland; there has been considerable confusion with Regan. KaM Americanized spelling of German Rein. EG Source: Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press

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From Eldorado Springs?, MO newspaper 1959
MRS. J.R. Ford, 92, Dies Following Recent Injury
Mrs. J. R. Ford, 92 years old, died March 12 at the Nevada hospital, where she had been a patient eight days, following an injury at the Ryan rest home in El Dorado Springs in which she a broken hip.
Mrs. Ford was born in Polk county, Missouri, on Sept. 3, 1866, and had been a resident of El Dorado Springs since she was 16 years of age. Her father, Wiley Ryan, operated the first general store in Eldorado Springs. She often told her her grandchildren stories of early days, how the town of El Dorado Springs was built around the Spring, and the beneficial help it brought to the sick.
She was the widow of J. R. Ford who was a real estate and insurance agent until his death 15 years ago.
Mrs. Ford was a member of the Methodist church.
She is survived by four daughters, Mrs. Laura burkhart, Springfield, Mo.; Mrs. Maybel Ripley, Palos Verdes Estates, Calif.; Mrs. Irene Smith, Colorado Springs, Colo.;Mrs. Nadine Fapp, Salina Kas.; one son, Wiley Ford, LaCrosse, Wis.; 11 ; 11 grandchildren; 13 great grandchildren; one great great grandchild.
Funeral services took place at the Gwinn-Carothers chapel, El dorado Springs, at 3:30 o'clock Saturday, March 14, the Rev. Harold Hunter, pastoer of the Methodist church, officiating. Burial was in El Dorado Springs cemetery.

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