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- !CENSUS:1850 Marion Dist., SC # 1247/1252
Stephen Fore 30 Farmer $- Marion
Mary 24
Jane 4
George 2;
!CENSUS:1860 Marion Dist, SC # 769
Stephen FORE, 41
Mary, 36
F. J. (f) 15
George, 11
Amanda, 9
Russel, 6
Florence, 4
A. T. (f) 9/12;
!CENSUS:1870 Marion Co, SC Kirby # 109
Stephen FORE, 51
Mary, 40
George, 21
Amanda, 19
Russell, 16
Florence Kersey, 14
Annie, 10
Cromwell, 8
Salley, 5
Clarence, 2;
!CENSUS:1880 Marion Co, SC Moody # 164 George FORE, 31 (1848/49) born SC/SC/SC;
!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. 148-157
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Of the daughters of Cross Roads Henry Berry, Mary, the eldest, married Stephen Fore, 20th February, 1845. The writer was one of his best men upon that pleasant occasion. Stephen Fore and 'wife are both dead; he died 11th March, 1881 ; Mrs. Fore died some four or five years ago ; the fruits of their marriage were five daughters and four sons, viz: Flora, Amanda, Florence, Annie and Ida ; the sons are George, Oliver Cromwell, J. Russell and Clarence. ;
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The oldest son of Stephen Fore is George Fore, one of our best and most worthy citizens; he married a Miss Ford, daughter of the late Elias B. Ford. George Fore has three children; two sons. Baker and Joseph, and one daughter, Kate - -all grown and unmarried. The oldest son. Baker, is a graduate of Wake Forrest College, and is a promising young man.[*Since writing the above, George Fore has died. ] ;
!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
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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" Ford, for a long time in Marion, and very prominent as a business man, now resides in Anderson County.[* Moved to Texas.] 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.
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1848 - Abt 1898 (50 years)