The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
It is considered a research aid and is intended to assist in locating sources that can be used as proof.
Author: William Nathan Ford
Birth: 1750 - Culpeper County Virginia, USADeath: 1835 - Port Royal Henry County Kentucky, USA Son of Warner Ford and Frances Seaton.
Rose Ann Howe, Genealogical Chairman of the Chicago Chapter of the DAR, wrote a book in 1955 on the Warner Ford Family titled "The Ford Family of Kentucky and Indiana with sidelines of Underwood, Walker, Terrell, Lee and Hunt". The original was donated to the Newberry Library, Chicago, IL, and a copy of it is available on Ancestry.
It reflects William and his wife were buried in this cemetery. In 1955 the headstones were unreadable but two of his descendants still lived on his previously owned land and gave the information for the graves of him and his wife, Cytha Million.
He lived in Culpeper Co., Virginia and traveled into the Illinois Territory with George Rogers Clark in 1780 and again in 1782.
On the 1782 expedition he was accompanied by what would become the father-in-law, Robert Terrell, of his two sons, Robert and Jarrett Ford.
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