Marty and Karla Grant

!CENSUS:1790 x
Georgetown Dist., SC Prince George Parish pg 507 *
George Ford } age 16+ (bef 1774) 1-2-3-0-63
Charles Car } age 16+ (bef 1774) 1-0-1-0-0
* This is probably some other George Ford;


!CENSUS:1800 Marion Dist., SC pg 439-783
George Ford age 16-25 (1774/84)
00100-00100-0-0;


!CENSUS:1810 Marion Dist., SC pg 15
George Ford age 26-44 (1765/84)
20010-20010-0-10;


!DEED: 2 Aug 1809 Marion Co., SC Deed Book F., p. 126
George Ford to Osbon Lain for $350 a Negro woman Pash.
S: George Ford.
Wit: William Whitfield, Benj. Lewis.
* From "Marion County South Carolina Abstracts of Deeds Volume Two Books F - I & K 1811-1823", Lucille Utley, Alita White Sutcliffe, 1997.;


!DEED:30 Aug 1814 Marion Co., SC Deed Book O, p. 361
Agreement between the heirs of Jeremiah Pain
... agree not to disinherit Mrs. Paine of plantation or negroes during her natural life ...
S: Stephen Ford, Bennet Flowers, George Ford, Archibald (his mk) Gasque, Theophelus Moody.
Wit: Benjamin Lewis, Isaac Lewis, James Flowers;


!CENSUS:1820 Marion Dist., SC pg 58
George Ford age 26-44 (1775/94)
110010-11010-0, slaves=0012-1000;

!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 18
George Ford age 50-59 (1770/80)
00010001-0001001, slaves=100010-110100;

!PROBATE ROLL # 269 Marion Co., SC George Ford 1833
... Benjamin Shooter made suit for ltrs of Adm for George Ford late of Little Pee Dee 1 Apr 1833
... many names in accounts, etc. no list of heirs ;

!REFERENCE:Diary of Rev. Simeon Campbell
Some whare about or near the date of 1800, There Lived a man by the Name of George Ford who Lived in the vicinity of Allins Bridge who raised a Family, 2 Sons and three Girls the Sons, married too Sisters by the name of Lupo's Wm Ford married Neoma and Nelson married Polly.
The Girls (Bettsy married Wm. Goodyer Samantha, Anthony Cribb Sally,
Benjamin Shooter All Gone.;

!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
...
There was another old Ford, by name of George, who lived just below Tabernacle Church, on the road leading from Bear Swamp to Allen's Bridge, on Little Pee Dee ; he was related to those other Fords, at least collaterally ; he was a very energetic man and accumulated some property.; I never knew much of him; he was not a very old man when he died. I know that he left two sons, William and Nelson Ford, and know that he had three daughters, if no more, to wit; second wife of William Goodyear, Sr.— her name was Elizabeth ; also the wife of the late Benjamin Shooter—her name was Mary ; she was the mother of the Shooter family, a numerous family, and among them the gallant Colonel W. P. Shooter, who was killed in the severe battle of Spottsylvania Court House, in May, 1864. A family noted for its gallantry in the war. Colonel Wm. P. Shooter and two of his brothers (names not remembered) fell on the same day and in the same fight. Another daughter was the wife of Anthony Cribb, and became the mother of our W. T. Cribb and of Dempsy Cribb, Jr. ; the latter is dead. W. T. Cribb is a respectable and good citizen, a brave soldier in the struggle for the "Lost Cause," and so was his brother, George T. Cribb. He lost a leg in the contest, and yet lives. Of the sons of George Ford, William (familiarly called "Little Bill Ford"), as now remembered, married, first, a Miss Lupo; he raised some family by her, the names and number not now known to the writer. "Little Bill Ford" has been dead some years, and perhaps his Butler wife. Nelson Ford lived to an advanced age, eighty or more, has not been dead many years; he was a most excellent man and worthy citizen ; he married a Miss Lupo, and raised a family, how many is not known; one of his sons, named Hardy, lives near Nichols, and is a most excellent man and one of our best citizens. The Ford family, as a whole, were good people, and extend down two or three generations further than herein traced ; for the want of information and personal acquaintance, the writer can go no further. They did their duty fully in the war, and demonstrated to their country a patriotism and courage of which the present and coming generations may be proud. Their connections are extensive. ;

!NOTES:1806 deed proves Milly is wife of George Ford *;


!DEED:30 Aug 1814 Marion Co., SC Deed Book O, p. 361*
Agreement between the heirs of Jeremiah Pain
... agree not to disinherit Mrs. Paine of plantation or negroes during her natural life ...
S: Stephen Ford, Bennet Flowers, George Ford, Archibald (his mk) Gasque, Theophelus Moody.
Wit: Benjamin Lewis, Isaac Lewis, James Flowers;
* Milly isn't mentioned by name, but her husband is;


!CENSUS:1850 Marion Dist., SC # 791/795
Nelson Ford 39 Farmer $500 Marion
Milly 62
George 7
Hardy 6
Elizabeth 5
Mantha 3;