Person

James Ford (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer)

b. 1804?

Grant County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Sarah "Sally" O'Neal Ford in Gallatin County, Kentucky, on November 25, 1827. Father of Elizabeth Ford, Rosetta O. Ford, James W. Ford, Nancy A. Ford, Jesse L. Ford, Lutetia Ford, Angeline Ford, and Andrew J. Ford. Farmer in Grant County in 1850. Owned two enslaved individuals in Grant County in 1850. Farmer in Grant County in 1860. Owned four enslaved individuals in Grant County in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Grant County, p. 324B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Grant County, p. 3 of microfilm (accessed via ancestry.com).

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Grant County, p. 894.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Grant County, p. 38A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Gallatin County Marriages, Film #000509036, p. 93.

Citation

Ford, James. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32207613 (November 12, 2026).

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