Sarah Ellen Eads Hicks Ford

Sarah Ellen Eads was the daughter of Alfred Eads and Letitia Eads nee McDaniel. She married a Ford in Wayne County, Missouri.

The Death Certificate for Sarah gives us the following information:

• Alfred Eads, father born in North Carolina.
• Date of Death 17 February, 1911
• Cause of Death: Measles which she had had for 21 days
• Place listed as: Black River Twp. Wayne, Missouri
• Buried at Green Hill Cemetery, Wayne, Missouri 
• Informant was Jim Ford (Sarah`s Husband)

 We find the couple listed on the 1910 Census in Saint Francois, Wayne, Missouri:

    James Ford     M     35y     Missouri
    Ellen Ford     F     35y     Missouri
    Claud Ford     M     10y     Missouri
    George Ford     M     7y     Missouri
    Gladys Ford     F     1y     Missouri
    Ed Hicks     M     16y     Missouri
    Willie Hicks     M     14y     Missouri
    Mary Hicks     F     12y     Missouri
    Benjamin Hicks     M     9y     Missouri
    Ella Hicks     F     6y     Missouri
"United States Census, 1910," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MLMZ-48N : accessed 17 Mar 2013), James Ford, Saint Francois, Wayne, Missouri; citing sheet 4B, family 66, NARA microfilm publication T624, FHL microfilm 1374840.

I am unsure who the Hicks children are that are living with James and Sarah unless perhaps Sara was married to a Hicks Prior to this marriage and those are her children from the prior marriage?

I might make mention there is a 1900 Census for Mill Spring Twp., Wayne, Missouri that lists the following:

• James Ford-age 24-MO
• Jennie Ford-age 20-MO
• Claude Ford-age 1-MO

United States Census, 1900," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M3D2-G1F : accessed 17 Mar 2013), James Ford, 1900

Looking at the above census we now can conclude that Jim must have had a wife prior to Sarah and her name was Jennie, thus she is the mother of Claude.

I did a little more digging and turned up the following information for this family:

It seems Jim`s full name is: James Henry Ford and he was the son of  Albert C. Ford & Nancy A. Clemons. Jim`s first wife was named:Nancy J. "Jennie" Macum or Macow. James and Nancy were married: 25 September, 1898 in Wayne County, Missouri.

James & Nancy had the following children together:

• James Claude Ford b.1898
• William George Ford b.1903

 James then married Ellen Hicks which must have been Sarah Ellen Eads and she had previously married a man named Hicks and as I had previously stated the Hicks children are from her first marriage. So then it would appear that Sarah and James had the following children born of their marriage together:

• Gladys Ford b.1909

Sarah Ellen Eads first married Isacc Franklin Hicks from Kentucky. They were married 21 December 1892 in Wayne County, Missouri. After Issac`s death, Sarah then married James Henry Ford.

*NOTE: I thought that this would be something of a good nature to note for Ford family researchers. I have turned up several death certificates for Ford men that stated their cause of death to be: "Acute Myocardial Infarction with Coronary Occlusion".  That basically means:Complete Obstruction of an Artery of the Heart.  Given the fact that his may be familial it might be good to get some Genetic Testing done. I can recommend 23andme as far as their DNA testing, they test for a wide range of genetic diseases. Its always good when doing genealogy to have this test done so that future generations can see what health risks they have. I have had mine tested and waiting on the results and hubby will be getting his tested soon as well.

Moving on I have located a death certificate for James Claud Ford son of James and Jennie Ford nee Macum.

• Born 7 October 1899
• Died 6 Aug 1958
• Parents Jame Ford & Jennie Macum
• Wifes name: Grace Anthony Ford
•  Cause of Death: Hypostatic Pneumonia, Apoplexy, Hypertension contributing factor: Inordinate Obesity.
•  He died at Poplar Bluff Hospital, Poplar Bluff, Mo and laid to rest in Sparkman, Cemetery.

More to come soon! 

James Henry Ford (c) Claud "Sonny" Miller

                             James Henry Ford, father of James Claud Ford and William George Ford,   Grandfather of Dorothy Lorene Ford Miller and Floyd and Glen Ford. Husband to Nancy "Jennie" Macom, then Sarah Ellen Eads, his third wife`s name was Lilly.  Photograph donated by Claud "Sonny" Miller. Please click the link under the photo to visit Claud`s Find a Grave page and see the memorials that he has created for members of the Ford family and other allied families.