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- !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;
!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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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. ;
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