Elizabeth 'Betsey' 'Betts' (Jobe) Ford
--b. 1820/25 Sullivan Co., TN
--d. July 11, 1893 Monroe Co., Kentucky
----buried Ford Cemetery (Gaynelle Foley Farm) Monroe Co., KY
--m. Mordecai Price FORD
--abt 1842 probably Washington or Sullivan Co., TN
----b. abt 1820 Washington Co., TN
----d. after 1861 probably Monroe Co., KY
------buried Ford Cemetery (Gaynelle Foley Farm) Monroe Co., KY
------s/o William Ford and Mary Emilie "Leah" JOHNSON
--------gs/o Lloyd Ford, Jr. and Mary WOOD
----------gt gs/o Lloyd Ford, Sr. and Mary GRANT
Betts BIRTH:
-----1850 Washington Co., TN census shows her as age 30 (born abt 1820)
-----1860 Monroe Co.,KY census shows her as age 35 (born about 1825)
-----1870 Monroe Co., KY census shows her as age 48 (born about 1822)
-----1880 Monroe Co. KY cenus shows her as age 55 (born about 1825)
------Ford Cemetery, Monroe Co., KY - < http://www.public.asu.edu/~moore/files/ford/fordcem.html >
---------gives birth as 1820-1825
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My Websites for Betts
- Job(e) Legacy - Gedcom on Rootsweb World Connect
JOB(E) LEGACY
Descendants of Andrew Job Jr
-Zachariah is with his father, Samuel 2 males age 5-10 --------(1820-1825) Amon (1824) and Jesse J. (1826) 1 male age 30-40---------(1790-1800) Zachariah 1 male age 50-60---------(1770-1780) Samuel (1775) 1 male age 70-80---------(1750-1760) Unknown 2 females age 5-10-------(1820-1825) Betts (abt 1822) Unk 1 female age 10-15-------(1815-1820) Unknown 1 female age 20-30-------(1810-1820) 1 female age 50-60-------(1770-1780)
Zachariah Job 1 male under 5 ---------(1835-1840) George 2 males 5-10 -----------(1830-1835) Zack Jr and Enoch 1 male 10 - 15----------(1825-1830) Jesse J. (1826) 1 male 15-20------------(1820-1825) Amon (1824) 1 female 5-10-----------(1830-1835) Polly (1831) 1 female 15-20----------(1820-1825) Betts (abt 1822)
FORD, Price 1817 Tn
, Elizabeth 1820 Tn -nee JOBE (d/o Zachariah Jobe)
, Washington 1843 Tn
, Mary 1845 Tn
, Samuel 1847 Tn
, Leah 1784 Tn
Price and family moved to Monroe Co.,, Kentucky with other Fords, Jobes, Arterburns, and other families.
FORD, Price B 1820 Tn
, Elizabeth 1825 Tn
, Washington 1843 TN
, Samuel 1847 Tn
, Mary 1845 TN
, William 1849 Tn
, Benjamin 1852 KY
, Lara 1854 KY
, Richard 1856 KY
, Elizabeth 1859 KY
A story is told about Rebel soldiers coming to his house and asking for food and horses. He fed them and asked that they not take his food and horses as he was a very sick man and could not work to make a living. They asked about the horses in the pasture next to his and he said they weren't his. They left taking those horses.
Elizabeth FORD 48 F W Farmeress $300 $800 TN George W 26 M W At Home $500 TN Emiline FORD 18 F W TN Mary A 24 F W TN Samuel 22 M W At Home $100 TN William 21 M W TN Benjamin 18 M W At Home KY Lina A 16 F W KY Lisby M 13 M W KY Elizabeth 10 F W KY Henry C. 8 M W KY
Elizabeth FORD Self W Female W 55 TN Keeping House TN TN Layer A. FORD Dau S Female W 24 KY At Home Richard FORD Son S Male W 22 KY At Home TN TN Henry C. FORD Son S Male W 19 KY At Home TN TN
--m/1 Enoch GRIMSLEY
--October 29, 1870 Monroe Co., KY
----b. abt 1849 Washington Co., TN
----d. March 1880 Monroe Co., KY
------s/o Lofton Grimsley and Mary J. FORD
--------gs/o Micajah Grimsley and Penelope FORD
--------gs/o Enoch Ford and Elizabeth -
----------gt gs/o Lloyd Ford, Jr. and Mary WOOD
--m/2 Robert N. ARNETT
--abt 1883 Monroe Co., KY
----b. June 16, 1859 Hawkins Co., TN
----d. May 27, 1950 Monroe Co., KY
------buried Mt. Poland Cemetery, Monroe Co., KY
------s/o Lewis ARNOTT and Nancy J. -
--------gs/o John ARNOT, Jr. and Margaret STEELE
This original photo taken just after the death of Elzina in 1936 was sent to Randy by Michael Ford. Michael writes:
Was going through some old photos and found this. Thought you might be interested. It is the head stone for Samuel N. Ford with, what appears, the fresh grave of Elzina. What got my attention and wanted you to see was the condition of the Mt. Polland graveyard. Looks like something like Boothill in old movies. It sure looks much different today.Randy writes:
I want to tell you a few observations I've made. The angle the pic was taken...as I recall, when you are looking at the front of their stones, you are looking at the road and church. So looking beyond the fence corner in this picture is where they put the trailer today for all the food during decoration. This confirms some other pics I have seen where there is a buffer of trees between the road and the cemetery. If you can make a picture in your mind, the original church was about 200 yards further out the road where the land rises at a rock outcrop and faced the cemetery...back towards the Wolford Moore place.This is not the fresh grave of Elzina. She died in January and the trees and bushes have leaves. This was probably taken on First Sunday. Also, the yucca plants haven't bloomed yet...that usually happens in July in Kentucky. She probably didn't get her stone until after crops came in. But then again...unless your Grandfather was farming, only Dow was making a living at it at the time. Avery was always poor and the other 2 had probably moved on by this time. Dickie Hammer probably pitched in.
The practice of mounding is still being used in this pic. Before decoration celebration, the graves were filled in and mounded for the year. I've even seen cloth spread on the mound for the day. Some of our Rhoton kin still do it. If you look close you can see deer tracks on Elzina's grave, and the way the ground is broken, it has rained since the mounding.
One more thing about the angle...in the center of the cemetery you remember there are no stones to speak of today. And there were none in 1936 either it seems, even though there is mounding going on. Those are the graves some of our kin buried there from 1850 to about 1890. Before Chloe Ford passed away last year, she passed on to her neice Libby some of the names of those buried in those 3 rows...but she wasn't sure of all the locations.
Libby is currently making 8 gravestones to place on the unmarked graves and Doug Rush (current President of the Mt. Poland Cem. Association) is going to place them for her. I furnished her with as many dates as I knew.
One important stone she is making is for George Jobe. I was shown his gravesite 34 years ago and never forgot the location or story that went with his burial. Libby will be making more stones as she has time.
--m/1 Martha J. PARSLEY
--April 28, 1883 Clay Co., TN
--m/2 Sarah E. 'Sally' HAMMER
--February 27, 1890 Monroe Co. KY
----b. March 1867 Monroe Co., KY
----d. April 6, 1926 Monroe Co., KY
------buried Hammer Cemetery, Tompkinsville, Monroe Co., KY
------d/o Richard Nelson Hammer and Eleanor 'Ellen' HIX
--------gd/o Peter Alonzo Hammer and Keziah STEWART
----------gt gd/o Baltis Hammer and Elizabeth MEDOUGH
----------gt gd/o Russell Hix and Mary -
If you have any old photos for any descendants of this family, please send to me at
Ann (Jobe) Brown
