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Ford, Daniel


BORN IN: Ireland
DIED: 10/13/1891
AGED: 67
CAUSE OF DEATH: Typhoid Fever
DEATH LOCATION: Redwood City

OCCUPATION: Blacksmith

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OBITUARY ---------------

DANIEL FORD

(from Roy W. Cloud’s manuscript)

Daniel Ford occasioned much excitement in the 1870’s. He had been called as a juror and at noontime, the jury was locked in a room on the second floor of the courthouse. At calling of court at one o’clock, it was found that only eleven jury men were present. Shortly after wards, Mr. Ford entered the courtroom, and after receiving a stinging rebuke from the Judge, explained that he had climbed out the window and had dropped fifteen feet to the ground. Mrs. Ford had a special dinner of corned beef and cabbage, which he didn’t want to miss.

The burial book page 37 lists Mr. Ford as being born in Ireland. He is buried in Plot 86B -age 67—died Oct. 13, 1891.

Plot 86B

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