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Daniel Ford

Date of Birth: 2 Jun 1824

Born In: Ireland

Age: 67

Occupation: Blacksmith

Marital Status: Widower

Died: 13 Oct 1891

Cause of Death: Typhoid Fever

Death Location: Redwood City

Burial Plot: B86

FindaGrave ID: 6152192

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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.

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    John Franklin Ford

    Date of Birth: 1 Mar 1851

    Born In: Massachusetts

    Age: 75

    Occupation: Retired Printer/Taxi driver

    Marital Status: Married

    Died: 28 Jan 1927

    Cause of Death: Myocarditis

    Death Location: Redwood City

    Burial Plot: B86

    FindaGrave ID: 8108802

    John Franklin Ford

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    JOHN F. FORD
    Redwood City Standard
    Feb. 3, 1927
    In the passing of John F. Ford at his home on Winslow Street last Friday afternoon, Redwood City lost one of it’s oldest and most highly esteemed residents. Mr. Ford had been ill for several months and his death followed an operation performed several months ago. Funeral services were conducted from the Masonic Temple Sunday afternoon by RC Lodge No. 168, F & AM, and were attended by hundreds of relatives and friends, Interment was in Union Cemetery. Layng & Tinney were in charge of the arrangements.
    The funeral was one of the largest ever held in Redwood City. Mr. Ford is survived by his widow, Mrs. Mary Ford, a step daughter, Mrs. Grace Williams and three step sons, Percy E. Long, well known local merchant, Raymond E. and Milton H. Long, all of RC. A brother, Daniel W. Ford, and a sister, Mrs. Margaret Hatfield, passed away some time ago. Mr. Ford was 75 years of age.
    He came to Redwood City with his parents from Boston, Mass., in 1855, when he was a very young boy. He claimed the longest residence in Redwood of any other person, excepting Chase Littlejohn, Searsville, where the elder Ford conducted a blacksmith shop. Returning to RC in the early sixties, he opened a shop on Broadway, on the present site of the Standard office and plant. The elder Ford conducted this business for many years, farmers coming from all parts of the county and from the distant mountain districts, to have their blacksmith work done.
    John Ford took up printing as a trade and worked in the local shops. He was a writer of considerable merit, and while on the reporting staff of his paper met Fremont Older, now editor of the SF Call, and who at that time worked as a typesetter on the Times-Gazette here. The two men became fast friends and in later years of the younger days and pleasant were the reminiscences of the pair. In 1877 Mr. Ford took up seal hunting, and he followed this occupation for many years with much success. He spent many summers in the Behring Sea and also made trips as far as the Japan coast. Seal hunting in those days was done from small boats and the Redwood man became one of the most skillful shots in the business. Mr. Ford continued his seal hunting expeditions until the government ordered the hunting stopped in the north seas and confiscated the ships and cargoes of the hunters. A few years ago Congress voted to pay the claims of the men for their losses through the seizure of their property and the closing of the Behring seas to seal hunting. Mr. Ford’s share amounted to several thousand dollars. This money has not yet been paid by the government.
    For 16 years and up to about a year ago, when he retired, Mr. Ford was engaged in the taxi business in Redwood. The deceased was a member on one of the first fire departments in RC, the records showing that he joined the volunteer organization Jan 9. 1871, and was fire hose for the department. He also belonged to the San Francisco volunteer fire dept. and was a member of the State Militia for ten years.

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      John Fortney

      Date of Birth: 1 Jun 1881

      Born In: West Virginia

      Age: 39

      Occupation: Aviator

      Marital Status: Single

      Died: 21 Oct 1920

      Cause of Death: Punctured Lungs from Airplane Crash

      Death Location: Redwood City

      Burial Plot: 

      FindaGrave ID: 245573270

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      Redwood City, Oct 22- Miss Frances Lee, well known Chinese girl aviatrix, and John Fortney, aerial pilot, were killed just before noon Thursday when an airplane in which they were riding crashed to earth here.
      The machine was equipped with a motor recently patented by Fortney and he and his passenger were on a trial flight to test the new motor.
      Both lived in Redwood City. The bodies were identified this afternoon. No one witnessed the accident and it was not known in what matter it occurred nor the height from which they fell.
      Miss Lee was known throughout the United States and is said to have been the only Chinese girl to pilot an airplane.
      Fortney was operating the machine when the accident occurred.

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        B J Fossey

        Date of Birth: 1840

        Born In: France

        Age: 45

        Occupation: Tailor

        Marital Status: Married

        Died: 7 Mar 1885

        Cause of Death: 

        Death Location: Belmont

        Burial Plot: PG

        FindaGrave ID: 6152202

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        Name and entry lined out in Crowe book

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          James Foster

          Date of Birth: 1868

          Born In: 

          Age: 27

          Occupation: Millman

          Marital Status: 

          Died: 14 Nov 1895

          Cause of Death: Thrown from rock train cars in motion

          Death Location: Near Baden

          Burial Plot: PG

          FindaGrave ID: 6152210

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            Lewis Fowler

            Date of Birth: 1817

            Born In: Missouri

            Age: 88

            Occupation: Whitewasher

            Marital Status: Single

            Died: 25 Jan 1905

            Cause of Death: Congestion of Lungs

            Death Location: Redwood City

            Burial Plot: 129

            FindaGrave ID: 6152219

            Lewis Fowler

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            Lewis Fowler came to California from Missouri with his former master when he had been a slave. He was given enough money to live comfortably , but unfortunately was swindled out of it. He lived on Diller's Island and was a whitewasher until he lost his vision in 1887. Many local residents checked on him and helped him at his home.
            LEWIS FOWLER
            Redwood City Democrat
            January 26, 1905
            Lewis Fowler, the old blind colored man, died at his home on the Island last night. The deceased was a native of Missouri, aged 80 years. He had been ill several weeks. During his younger years, Fowler was a slave. After the war, he accompanied his old master to San Jose and was given enough property to make his life comfortable, but he was swindled out of his holdings. He afterwards became a white washer and lost his eyesight.
            He had resided in Redwood, the past eighteen years and was a county pensioner.

            R.C. Democrat February 2, 1905
            Louis Fowler, the old colored man who died last Wednesday evening, was laid to rest in Union Cemetery Friday afternoon, the funeral taking place from James Crowe’s undertaking parlors. The deceased was decently clothed for the grave and lay in a neat coffin provided by Mr. Crowe, who had highly esteemed the old man. A bouquet of fragrant flowers, the kind offering of Miss Crowe, rested on the coffin. The deceased was interred outside of the paupers row. Rev. Wilfred Kent conducted services at the grave.

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              Alta C Fox

              Date of Birth: 2 Nov 1860

              Born In: California

              Age: 3

              Occupation: Infant

              Marital Status: Single

              Died: 20 Jun 1864

              Cause of Death: 

              Death Location: Redwood City

              Burial Plot: 132

              FindaGrave ID: 245573720

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                Anna Minnie Fox

                Date of Birth: 1862

                Born In: California

                Age: 1

                Occupation: Infant

                Marital Status: Single

                Died: 20 Nov 1863

                Cause of Death: 

                Death Location: Redwood City

                Burial Plot: 163

                FindaGrave ID: 245573813

                Anna Minnie Fox

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                  Benjamin Franklin Fox

                  Date of Birth: 3 Apr 1805

                  Born In: New York

                  Age: 65

                  Occupation: San Mateo County Judge

                  Marital Status: Married

                  Died: 1 Feb 1869

                  Cause of Death: Paralysis

                  Death Location: Redwood City

                  Burial Plot: 163

                  FindaGrave ID: 12523399

                  Benjamin Franklin Fox

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                  Died at Redwood City February 1st Benjamin F. Fox, a native of New York, aged 64 years and 10 months.
                  We are called upon this week to record the demise of one of San Mateo county's most prominent and respected citizens, that of Hon. Benj. F. Fox, who departed this life on last Monday morning at his residence in this town. Judge Fox was born in central New York in 1804, and was in his 65th year at the time of his death. He was reared in and near Buffalo, living with an elder brother who was a lawyer of considerable prominence. In 1826 he removed to the then wilds of Michigan, where he married Betsy Crane in the following year - who still survives him. About this time, he happened one day to be present in a Magistrate's Court, in which a poor widow was about to be tried upon some criminal charge, and she being without counsel, and the Judge being satisfied that a great injustice was about to be done the widow, volunteered to defend her, which in done with such skill and ability that she was acquitted. From that time, his appearance as consul in the inferior courts of his county was quite frequent - and almost invariably on the side of the oppressed, it making no difference with him whether they had money or not. He was frequently advised by his friends to be admitted to the bar and make the practice of the law his profession, but he declined to do so. In 1848 he was elected a member or the legislature of Michigan, in which body he soon became a prominent member. He was an able and ready debater - never at a loss for language with which to express his ideas clearly and forcibly.
                  In 1850 he came overland to California and with others was caught by the snow in the Sierras, where they suffered from cold and starvation to such an extent that several of the party died, and those that survived were many months in recovering from the effects or their sufferings.
                  In 1853 the Judge returned East and brought his family to California, and settled in San Mateo county, where he continued to reside up to the time of his death.
                  Upon the organization of San Mateo county in 1856, he was elected County Judge, which position he occupied for four years.
                  A few years ago he received a stroke of Paralysis from which he never fully recovered.
                  He leaves a widow, four sons and daughters, surviving him: he was the father of C. N. Fox of the firm of Campbell, Fox & Camp- bell of San Francisco; of George W. Fox, District Attorney of this county; of Benj F. Fox ,Lieutenant in the U. S. Army; and C. P. Fox of this place; one of the daughters, Mrs Quigley, resides at La Porte, Plumas County, in this state; the other, Mrs Palmer, lives at Gilroy.
                  The funeral of deceased took place on inst Wednesday afternoon, and although the weather was unfavorable, the people generally turned out to pay the last sad tribute of respect to the remains of him who they had known so long. Religious services were held at the Congregational Church, Rev. Mr. Henderson , (Baptist) of San Jose preaching the funeral discourse, after which the body was taken in charge by Bay View Lodge No 109, I.O.O.F., of which the deceased was a member, and conveyed to the Cemetery, where the funeral ceremonies of the Order were performed. Judge Fox was a man of positive opinions - strongly attached to his friends, and equally inflexible against his enemies, which some may consider a fault, while others think it a virtue. But few men have less faults, and but few possess more virtues, than did the deceased

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                    Betsy Crane Fox

                    Date of Birth: 12 Jul 1807

                    Born In: New York

                    Age: 77

                    Occupation: 

                    Marital Status: Married

                    Died: 30 Apr 1884

                    Cause of Death: 

                    Death Location: Oakland

                    Burial Plot: 163

                    FindaGrave ID: 6152229

                    Betsy Crane Fox

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                    MRS. BETSEY CRANE FOX
                    Times and Gazette
                    May 3, 1884
                    Mrs. Betsey Crane Fox, the widow of the late Benj. F. Fox and mother of Charles N., Benj., F, George W., Chester P. Fox, died on Wednesday morning last at the home of Charles N. Fox in Oakland.

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