BORN IN: Massachusetts
DIED: 4/21/1888
AGED: 35
DEATH LOCATION: Redwood City
OCCUPATION: Blacksmith
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CURRENT EVENTS:- 1860 The Pony Express
- 1861 Abraham Lincoln elected President
- 1861 American Civil War
- 1865 Abraham Lincoln assassinated
- 1866 Ku Klux Klan
- 1869 National Woman Suffrage Assoc.
- 1871 The Great Chicago Fire
- 1876 Telephones (Alexander Graham Bell)
- 1876 Baseball's National League
- 1877 Phonograph (Thomas Edison)
- 1879 Light Bulb (Thomas Edison)
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OBITUARY ---------------WM. FORD
S M Times and Gazette
April 28, 1888
Wm. Ford, son of Daniel Ford, the pioneer blacksmith of this town, died at the residence of his father at 7:30 o’clock last Saturday morning after an illness of less than three months. Wm. Ford was born in Boston, Mass, in 1853. Nine months later, he arrived in San Francisco with his parents. In 1857 the senior Mr. Ford moved his family to this county and set up his business in Searsville, where he remained until the following year. Then he came to Redwood and in this town the deceased has lived ever since, with the exception of a few months spent in San Francisco. He was educated in the public schools here and on arriving at manhood was taught to be a blacksmith by his father, with whom he afterwards conducted the blacksmith and horse shoeing busìness on “A” street well known under the name of D.W. Ford & Son. During the recent severe weather following the first of January, he contracted bronchitis, which was rendered all the more obstinate from the effects of an almost fatal attack of pneumonia, the result of a drenching received white attending a fire some years ago and was forced to give up work With a view of regaining his lost health, he took a trip to San Diego, returning no better, his disease finally developed into dropsy. A short stay at Piedmont Springs, Alameda County, gave him no relief and he returned to his home which up to the time of his death he has been unable to leave.
The deceased was a member of Bay View Lodge by which fraternity he was buried. He was an exempt member of the Fire Company and his funeral was attended by both the active and exempt firemen. The funeral took place at 1 o ‘clock Sunday afternoon. Rev. Mr. McCallum conducted a short service at the residence, after which the body was conveyed to Union Cemetery and interred.
The sympathy of the community is extended to the father, sister and brother of the deceased.
Plot 86B
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