Marty and Karla Grant

!CENSUS:1790;

!CENSUS:1800;

!CENSUS:1810 Marion Dist., SC pg 21
Jesse Ford age 16-25 (1784/94)
10100-00100-0-1;

!CENSUS:1820 Marion Dist., SC pg 58
Jesse Ford age 26-44 (1775/94)
300110-20010-0, slaves=2011-0110;

!NAMED-PROBATE ROLL # 801 Marion Co., SC S. B. Watson 1826
Jesse Ford, adm 13 Nov 1826 for Scacebook Watson, late of Marion Dist.
... of Little Pee Dee ...
15 Dec 1826 We the heirs of S. B. Watson ...:
Jesse Ford
Thomas Watson
Michael Watson
Sally Watson
...
12 Jan 182(7)? ... Dawson Waters one of the heirs is out of state
Mrs. Sally Watson widow 1/3
2/3 between Bryant Ralls, James Ralls, Dawson Waters, Jesse Ford, Michael Watson, Thomas Watson, John Watson and Virginia Ann Watson (last two under 14)
...;

!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
Jesse Ford age 40-49 (1780/90)
1111201-011001, slaves=321300-320210;

!CENSUS:1840 Marion Dist., SC pg 145
Jesse Ford age 50-59 (1780/90)
02201001-2101101;

!CENSUS:1850 Marion Dist., SC # 813/817
Jesse Ford 61 Farmer $- Marion
Mary 56
Elizabeth 35
Caroline 19
David 18
Charles 16
Sarah 13
Amy 12;


!NAMED-PROBATE ROLL # 2138 Marion Co., SC Scacebook Watson 1872
12 Nov 1872 heirs are Virginia Ann Haynes, Calvin Haynes, Dawson Waters, Elizabeth Waters, Sarah F. Watson and Beedy Amanda Watson
... divide among:
widow Sarah F. Watson
Martha E. Grantham wife of J. F. Grantham
V. A. Watson
W. F. Watson
C. H. Watson
J. C. Watson
J. N. Page purchaser from Calvin Haynes and wife Virginia Ann Haynes
the children of Elizabeth Waters
B. A. Watson
S. F. Watson
Calvin Watson son of John R. Watson shows that Scacebook Watson died leaving his widow Sarah who married Moore Lennon and the following children:
John R.
Michael
Thomas
Mary wife of Jesse Ford Sr
Sarah married a Rawls
Elizabeth Watson married Dawson Waters, moved to MS 40 years ago
Calvin Haynes and wife to TX.
John R. Watson died in 1852 leaving:
widow Sarah
James
Martha E. wife of Jno F. Grantham
Wm F.
Calvin H.
Calhoun
Virginia Ann
Sarah Frances
Beedy A.
James Watson died in War unmarried;



!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 Jessee Ford, the eldest son, represented the district in the Legislature in the twenties—I do not know the precise date.* [* Jessee Ford was elected a Representative in 1820. See list of Representatives in latter part hereof.] He was Major in the militia ; his first wife was a Miss Townsend, of Robeson County, N. C. ; by her he had two sons, the late Elias B. Ford and Allen Ford ; his second wife was a Miss Watson, a daughter of Scarcebook Watson, above Nichols, on the road from Nichols to Lumberton, N. C. by the second wife he had several sons and daughters ; the sons, as their names are remembered, were Watson, Jessee, Thomas, David and Charles Ford.
...
The daughters of Major Jesse Ford, as remembered, were Elizabeth, Mary, Caroline and Virginia. Elizabeth married William H. Hays; by him she had several children; Mary married John I. Gaddy, and died in a year or two childless; Caroline married Dr. George E. Shooter, and raised a large family, unknown ; I do not remember what became of Virginia. Major Jesse Ford may have had other daughters. ;

!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
...
Major Jessee Ford, the eldest son, represented the district in the Legislature in the twenties—I do not know the precise date.* [* Jessee Ford was elected a Representative in 1820. See list of Representatives in latter part hereof.] He was Major in the militia ; his first wife was a Miss Townsend, of Robeson County, N. C. ; by her he had two sons, the late Elias B. Ford and Allen Ford ; his second wife was a Miss Watson, a daughter of Scarcebook Watson, above Nichols, on the road from Nichols to Lumberton, N. C. by the second wife he had several sons and daughters ; the sons, as their names are remembered, were Watson, Jessee, Thomas, David and Charles Ford.