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1881 HISTORY OF SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS
Inter-State Publishing Company
Chicago, Illinois, 1881





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WILLIAM R. FORD, was born in Fayette county, Kentucky, July 3, 1824. The son of Daniel and Mary (Randolph) Ford, the former a native of New Jersey, and the latter of Kentucky. They came to this county in 1838, arriving, November 8, and settling in what is now Ball township, where he lived until his death, May 22, 1852. Mrs. Ford died in 1864. William R., the subject of this sketch, was married in 1849, to Minerva Jane Scott, who also was born in Kentucky, in April, 1830, and came to Morgan county with her parents. The two children in this family are, William P. and Sarah E., now Mrs. Charles M. Shephard. Mr. F. moved upon his farm, where he now lives, in 1856, when there was not even a rail upon it. He now owns two hundred and ninety-three acres of land, well improved, worth $50 an acre. Mr. Ford and Mrs. Ford are members of the Methodist Church. Politically, he is a Democrat.

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