Elias Barfield Ford

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Elias Barfield Ford

Birthdate:
Death: June 23, 1884 (74)
Place of Burial: Lake View, Dillon, formerly part of Marion County, South Carolina, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Rev. Jesse Ford and Elizabeth Ford
Husband of Anna Jane Ford
Father of Elizabeth J. McDuffie; Penelope Adela McDuffie; Sallie Ford; Christian Marianne Tolar {Page}; Frances Missouri Irene McDuffie and 4 others
Brother of Allen Ford

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About Elias Barfield Ford

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72936296/elias-barfield-ford

Son of Jesse Ford.

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Elias B. Ford, a most excellent and kind hearted man, born in 1809, married, 9th February, 1830, Miss Jane Herring, of Robeson, N. C, a woman of good property and one of the best of women; the fruits of this marriage were three sons. "Sandy" [Alexander] Ford, for a long time in Marion, and very prominent as a business man, now resides in Anderson County*, Dr. C. T. Ford, of Mullins, and Rev. Rufus Ford, a prominent minister of the Baptist Church, and now resides in Marlborough, and several daughters. Neill C. McDuffie, Sheriff, married two of them; D. D. McDuffie married one; Joseph N. Page married one, and George Fore married one; one unmarried and one dead, names not remembered.

Elias B. Ford lost his wife, the mother of these children, and he married, a second time, the Widow Helen Pitman, who had four Pitman children, two sons and two daughters; the sons were killed or died in the war, and one of the daughters died during the war, all unmarried; the other daughter, the youngest, Amanda, married the late Joseph R. Oliver, and had by inheritance a good property. Elias B. Ford had no child or children by his second marriage; he died some years ago, greatly missed by the poor of his neighborhood.

  • Moved to Texas

(From "A History of Marion County, South Carolina" by W.W. Sellers)

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Spouses:

  1. Anna Jane Herring Ford 1814–1856
  2. Helen Mitchell Pittman Ford 1816–1898
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Elias Barfield Ford's Timeline

1809
September 18, 1809
1834
October 4, 1834
Page's Mill, Marion County, South Carolina, United States
1836
December 25, 1836
1839
February 27, 1839
1841
1841
Marion County, South Carolia, United States
1843
October 8, 1843
1845
October 20, 1845
Marion County, South Carolina, United States
1848
February 26, 1848
Marion County, South Carolina, United States
1850
May 14, 1850
1852
August 22, 1852
Marion County, South Carolina, United States