Marty and Karla Grant

!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.;

!CENSUS:1850 Marion Dist., SC # 861/865
Jesse Elvington 70 Farmer $500 Marion
Mary 66
Celia 25
Beady 1;


!NAMED-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 TZX
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
...;

!EQUITY ROLL # 324 Marion Co., SC John J. Gaddy 5 Jul 1869
... John J. Gaddy died 24 Feb 1866
Orators J. T. Jones, A. P. Brigman and wife Celia Brigman show that on 11 Jun 1864 John J. Gaddy made his Will that J. T. Jones and Celia Gaddy his wife (now Brigman) were appointed Executors. Oratrix married 1867 A. P. Brigman ...
10 Jul 1871 ... Celia Brigman has died leaving her heirs at law her husband A. P. Brigman and son Ferdinand Ford.;

!NAMED-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
...;

!NAMED-EQUITY ROLL # 324 Marion Co., SC John J. Gaddy 5 Jul 1869
... John J. Gaddy died 24 Feb 1866
Orators J. T. Jones, A. P. Brigman and wife Celia Brigman show that on 11 Jun 1864 John J. Gaddy made his Will that J. T. Jones and Celia Gaddy his wife (now Brigman) were appointed Executors. Oratrix married 1867 A. P. Brigman ...
10 Jul 1871 ... Celia Brigman has died leaving her heirs at law her husband A. P. Brigman and son Ferdinand Ford.;