Drawing of flag in the photo section is the flag of "The Culpeper Minute Men," Revolutionary War. The Culpeper Minutemen was a militia group formed in 1775 in the district around Culpeper, Virginia. Like minutemen in other British colonies, the men drilled in military tactics and trained to respond to emergencies "at a minute's notice." The flag bears some similarity to the so-called "Gadsen" flag, but it is not the same.
14 AUG 2020 SAC suggesting that the last paragraph of the original bio section perhaps needs to be clarified. First of all, the original creator is speaking about multiple people named Warner Ford, after the original Warner Ford, patriarch of the Warner Ford Family. They included information about a Warner Ford, 10th in the line of people so named, who married a Lucy Amanda White, but it is not the same Warner Ford who is the subject of this memorial. They (the original creator of this memorial) were making reference to another descendant named Warner Ford who was born in 1847, so it was a bit confusing. [Thanks to Kathy (Whitfield) Stepp for pointing this out; further explanations added to that section.]
15 JUN 2021 SAC to change suffix from "Sr." to "II"~Son of Warner Ford and Frances Seaton.
Rose Ann Howe, Genealogical Chairman of the Chicago Chapter of the DAR, wrote a book in 1955 on the Warner Ford Family titled "The Ford Family of Kentucky and Indiana with Sidelines of Underwood, Walker, Terrell, Lee and Hunt". The original was donated to the Newberry Library, Chicago, IL, and was still in their possession when I checked in 2005 and verified it. A copy of it is available on Ancestry.
It states him and his wife were buried in this cemetery. Two of his descendants still lived on his previously owned land and gave the information for the graves of him and his wife, Cytha Million.
He lived in Culpeper Co., Virginia and traveled into the Illinois Territory with George Rogers Clark in 1780 and again in 1782.
On the 1782 expedition he was accompanied by what would become the father-in-law, Robert Terrell, of his two sons, Robert and Jarrett Ford.
His Revolutionary War service is documented in DAR records and also in books at the library of the George Rogers Clark Memorial in Vincennes, Indiana.
When I was looking up Warner and Robert's records at the George Rogers Clark memorial I did find that two brother's of Robert Terrell sit on the board that passed out the land grants from George Rogers Clark's grant from Congress.
DAR #A040973
While looking for some records on the Warner Ford's of this line, I have nine from this line now, I found a connection between this line and the John T. and Rachel Spencer Ford line from Stafford Co., Virginia. Among the Warner Ford's in Henry County, I found a 10th one in the 1850 & 1860 Census, Warner Ford born 1847* to Silas and Amanda McKinsey. Silas was the son of Samuel Ford and Elizabeth Yates and a grandson of John T. and Rachel. John T. died in 1803 in Shelby Co., Kentucky. This Warner Ford* [the one who was born in 1847] married a Lucy (Amanda) White in Chariton, Missouri in 1871 and resided there until the 1930 Census, when he is shown with a daughter and her husband in Broward Co., Florida. [The one born in 1847 does not appear to be on Find A Grave, at least under Warner Ford. (Original) Manager's note]:cawatkins - 6th Great-Grandson
Grave Stone info: It is my conclusion the grave stone was placed in a pile of other gravestones, after being moved from their original location. The pile was formed as described below. ***************************************************
( the following paragraphs were found on the memorial pages of George Jones, Mary Rhodes Jones, Tholemiah Jones)
When traveling to Kentucky to visit the graves of my many family members in 1980. I visited Port Royal Cemetery, it was highly overgrown, almost up to your waist in the older section of the cemetery.
Sometime in 1990-1991 the Cemetery Association allowed the caretaker, to use a bush hog to push all the headstones in the older section of the cemetery into piles, to allow for the "thistle" to be cut, and grass to grow. This was approved by the Cemetery Association (per telephone call in March 2006 with Vicki Johnson, Member of the Board of Directors for the Cemetery Association who said that this was how it was done. She also informed me that they have "no record" of the locations of any of the graves in the cemetery, even though they were continuing to sell graves there. She also told me that it was their intent to create a "new location" for this headstone and reset them. As of August 2016, these headstone are still in piles and have not been reset. I contacted the Kentucky Attorney General and filed a complaint, and suggest that others do the same). Several of these headstones were destroyed or broken during this act.
Tholemiah Jones, son of Revolutionary War Soldier, George Jones, were among those graves that were displaced due to this "deliberate" distruction by the Cemetery Association.
Written by Teresa Goodwin-Skaggs, 5th Great-Granddaughter of Tholemiah Jones
***************************************************
14 AUG 2020 SAC suggesting that the last paragraph of the original bio section perhaps needs to be clarified. First of all, the original creator is speaking about multiple people named Warner Ford, after the original Warner Ford, patriarch of the Warner Ford Family. They included information about a Warner Ford, 10th in the line of people so named, who married a Lucy Amanda White, but it is not the same Warner Ford who is the subject of this memorial. They (the original creator of this memorial) were making reference to another descendant named Warner Ford who was born in 1847, so it was a bit confusing. [Thanks to Kathy (Whitfield) Stepp for pointing this out; further explanations added to that section.]
15 JUN 2021 SAC to change suffix from "Sr." to "II"~Son of Warner Ford and Frances Seaton.
Rose Ann Howe, Genealogical Chairman of the Chicago Chapter of the DAR, wrote a book in 1955 on the Warner Ford Family titled "The Ford Family of Kentucky and Indiana with Sidelines of Underwood, Walker, Terrell, Lee and Hunt". The original was donated to the Newberry Library, Chicago, IL, and was still in their possession when I checked in 2005 and verified it. A copy of it is available on Ancestry.
It states him and his wife were buried in this cemetery. Two of his descendants still lived on his previously owned land and gave the information for the graves of him and his wife, Cytha Million.
He lived in Culpeper Co., Virginia and traveled into the Illinois Territory with George Rogers Clark in 1780 and again in 1782.
On the 1782 expedition he was accompanied by what would become the father-in-law, Robert Terrell, of his two sons, Robert and Jarrett Ford.
His Revolutionary War service is documented in DAR records and also in books at the library of the George Rogers Clark Memorial in Vincennes, Indiana.
When I was looking up Warner and Robert's records at the George Rogers Clark memorial I did find that two brother's of Robert Terrell sit on the board that passed out the land grants from George Rogers Clark's grant from Congress.
DAR #A040973
While looking for some records on the Warner Ford's of this line, I have nine from this line now, I found a connection between this line and the John T. and Rachel Spencer Ford line from Stafford Co., Virginia. Among the Warner Ford's in Henry County, I found a 10th one in the 1850 & 1860 Census, Warner Ford born 1847* to Silas and Amanda McKinsey. Silas was the son of Samuel Ford and Elizabeth Yates and a grandson of John T. and Rachel. John T. died in 1803 in Shelby Co., Kentucky. This Warner Ford* [the one who was born in 1847] married a Lucy (Amanda) White in Chariton, Missouri in 1871 and resided there until the 1930 Census, when he is shown with a daughter and her husband in Broward Co., Florida. [The one born in 1847 does not appear to be on Find A Grave, at least under Warner Ford. (Original) Manager's note]:cawatkins - 6th Great-Grandson
Grave Stone info: It is my conclusion the grave stone was placed in a pile of other gravestones, after being moved from their original location. The pile was formed as described below. ***************************************************
( the following paragraphs were found on the memorial pages of George Jones, Mary Rhodes Jones, Tholemiah Jones)
When traveling to Kentucky to visit the graves of my many family members in 1980. I visited Port Royal Cemetery, it was highly overgrown, almost up to your waist in the older section of the cemetery.
Sometime in 1990-1991 the Cemetery Association allowed the caretaker, to use a bush hog to push all the headstones in the older section of the cemetery into piles, to allow for the "thistle" to be cut, and grass to grow. This was approved by the Cemetery Association (per telephone call in March 2006 with Vicki Johnson, Member of the Board of Directors for the Cemetery Association who said that this was how it was done. She also informed me that they have "no record" of the locations of any of the graves in the cemetery, even though they were continuing to sell graves there. She also told me that it was their intent to create a "new location" for this headstone and reset them. As of August 2016, these headstone are still in piles and have not been reset. I contacted the Kentucky Attorney General and filed a complaint, and suggest that others do the same). Several of these headstones were destroyed or broken during this act.
Tholemiah Jones, son of Revolutionary War Soldier, George Jones, were among those graves that were displaced due to this "deliberate" distruction by the Cemetery Association.
Written by Teresa Goodwin-Skaggs, 5th Great-Granddaughter of Tholemiah Jones
***************************************************
Drawing of flag in the photo section is the flag of "The Culpeper Minute Men," Revolutionary War. The Culpeper Minutemen was a militia group formed in 1775 in the district around Culpeper, Virginia. Like minutemen in other British colonies, the men drilled in military tactics and trained to respond to emergencies "at a minute's notice." The flag bears some similarity to the so-called "Gadsen" flag, but it is not the same.
14 AUG 2020 SAC suggesting that the last paragraph of the original bio section perhaps needs to be clarified. First of all, the original creator is speaking about multiple people named Warner Ford, after the original Warner Ford, patriarch of the Warner Ford Family. They included information about a Warner Ford, 10th in the line of people so named, who married a Lucy Amanda White, but it is not the same Warner Ford who is the subject of this memorial. They (the original creator of this memorial) were making reference to another descendant named Warner Ford who was born in 1847, so it was a bit confusing. [Thanks to Kathy (Whitfield) Stepp for pointing this out; further explanations added to that section.]
15 JUN 2021 SAC to change suffix from "Sr." to "II"~Son of Warner Ford and Frances Seaton.
Rose Ann Howe, Genealogical Chairman of the Chicago Chapter of the DAR, wrote a book in 1955 on the Warner Ford Family titled "The Ford Family of Kentucky and Indiana with Sidelines of Underwood, Walker, Terrell, Lee and Hunt". The original was donated to the Newberry Library, Chicago, IL, and was still in their possession when I checked in 2005 and verified it. A copy of it is available on Ancestry.
It states him and his wife were buried in this cemetery. Two of his descendants still lived on his previously owned land and gave the information for the graves of him and his wife, Cytha Million.
He lived in Culpeper Co., Virginia and traveled into the Illinois Territory with George Rogers Clark in 1780 and again in 1782.
On the 1782 expedition he was accompanied by what would become the father-in-law, Robert Terrell, of his two sons, Robert and Jarrett Ford.
His Revolutionary War service is documented in DAR records and also in books at the library of the George Rogers Clark Memorial in Vincennes, Indiana.
When I was looking up Warner and Robert's records at the George Rogers Clark memorial I did find that two brother's of Robert Terrell sit on the board that passed out the land grants from George Rogers Clark's grant from Congress.
DAR #A040973
While looking for some records on the Warner Ford's of this line, I have nine from this line now, I found a connection between this line and the John T. and Rachel Spencer Ford line from Stafford Co., Virginia. Among the Warner Ford's in Henry County, I found a 10th one in the 1850 & 1860 Census, Warner Ford born 1847* to Silas and Amanda McKinsey. Silas was the son of Samuel Ford and Elizabeth Yates and a grandson of John T. and Rachel. John T. died in 1803 in Shelby Co., Kentucky. This Warner Ford* [the one who was born in 1847] married a Lucy (Amanda) White in Chariton, Missouri in 1871 and resided there until the 1930 Census, when he is shown with a daughter and her husband in Broward Co., Florida. [The one born in 1847 does not appear to be on Find A Grave, at least under Warner Ford. (Original) Manager's note]:cawatkins - 6th Great-Grandson
Grave Stone info: It is my conclusion the grave stone was placed in a pile of other gravestones, after being moved from their original location. The pile was formed as described below. ***************************************************
( the following paragraphs were found on the memorial pages of George Jones, Mary Rhodes Jones, Tholemiah Jones)
When traveling to Kentucky to visit the graves of my many family members in 1980. I visited Port Royal Cemetery, it was highly overgrown, almost up to your waist in the older section of the cemetery.
Sometime in 1990-1991 the Cemetery Association allowed the caretaker, to use a bush hog to push all the headstones in the older section of the cemetery into piles, to allow for the "thistle" to be cut, and grass to grow. This was approved by the Cemetery Association (per telephone call in March 2006 with Vicki Johnson, Member of the Board of Directors for the Cemetery Association who said that this was how it was done. She also informed me that they have "no record" of the locations of any of the graves in the cemetery, even though they were continuing to sell graves there. She also told me that it was their intent to create a "new location" for this headstone and reset them. As of August 2016, these headstone are still in piles and have not been reset. I contacted the Kentucky Attorney General and filed a complaint, and suggest that others do the same). Several of these headstones were destroyed or broken during this act.
Tholemiah Jones, son of Revolutionary War Soldier, George Jones, were among those graves that were displaced due to this "deliberate" distruction by the Cemetery Association.
Written by Teresa Goodwin-Skaggs, 5th Great-Granddaughter of Tholemiah Jones
***************************************************
14 AUG 2020 SAC suggesting that the last paragraph of the original bio section perhaps needs to be clarified. First of all, the original creator is speaking about multiple people named Warner Ford, after the original Warner Ford, patriarch of the Warner Ford Family. They included information about a Warner Ford, 10th in the line of people so named, who married a Lucy Amanda White, but it is not the same Warner Ford who is the subject of this memorial. They (the original creator of this memorial) were making reference to another descendant named Warner Ford who was born in 1847, so it was a bit confusing. [Thanks to Kathy (Whitfield) Stepp for pointing this out; further explanations added to that section.]
15 JUN 2021 SAC to change suffix from "Sr." to "II"~Son of Warner Ford and Frances Seaton.
Rose Ann Howe, Genealogical Chairman of the Chicago Chapter of the DAR, wrote a book in 1955 on the Warner Ford Family titled "The Ford Family of Kentucky and Indiana with Sidelines of Underwood, Walker, Terrell, Lee and Hunt". The original was donated to the Newberry Library, Chicago, IL, and was still in their possession when I checked in 2005 and verified it. A copy of it is available on Ancestry.
It states him and his wife were buried in this cemetery. Two of his descendants still lived on his previously owned land and gave the information for the graves of him and his wife, Cytha Million.
He lived in Culpeper Co., Virginia and traveled into the Illinois Territory with George Rogers Clark in 1780 and again in 1782.
On the 1782 expedition he was accompanied by what would become the father-in-law, Robert Terrell, of his two sons, Robert and Jarrett Ford.
His Revolutionary War service is documented in DAR records and also in books at the library of the George Rogers Clark Memorial in Vincennes, Indiana.
When I was looking up Warner and Robert's records at the George Rogers Clark memorial I did find that two brother's of Robert Terrell sit on the board that passed out the land grants from George Rogers Clark's grant from Congress.
DAR #A040973
While looking for some records on the Warner Ford's of this line, I have nine from this line now, I found a connection between this line and the John T. and Rachel Spencer Ford line from Stafford Co., Virginia. Among the Warner Ford's in Henry County, I found a 10th one in the 1850 & 1860 Census, Warner Ford born 1847* to Silas and Amanda McKinsey. Silas was the son of Samuel Ford and Elizabeth Yates and a grandson of John T. and Rachel. John T. died in 1803 in Shelby Co., Kentucky. This Warner Ford* [the one who was born in 1847] married a Lucy (Amanda) White in Chariton, Missouri in 1871 and resided there until the 1930 Census, when he is shown with a daughter and her husband in Broward Co., Florida. [The one born in 1847 does not appear to be on Find A Grave, at least under Warner Ford. (Original) Manager's note]:cawatkins - 6th Great-Grandson
Grave Stone info: It is my conclusion the grave stone was placed in a pile of other gravestones, after being moved from their original location. The pile was formed as described below. ***************************************************
( the following paragraphs were found on the memorial pages of George Jones, Mary Rhodes Jones, Tholemiah Jones)
When traveling to Kentucky to visit the graves of my many family members in 1980. I visited Port Royal Cemetery, it was highly overgrown, almost up to your waist in the older section of the cemetery.
Sometime in 1990-1991 the Cemetery Association allowed the caretaker, to use a bush hog to push all the headstones in the older section of the cemetery into piles, to allow for the "thistle" to be cut, and grass to grow. This was approved by the Cemetery Association (per telephone call in March 2006 with Vicki Johnson, Member of the Board of Directors for the Cemetery Association who said that this was how it was done. She also informed me that they have "no record" of the locations of any of the graves in the cemetery, even though they were continuing to sell graves there. She also told me that it was their intent to create a "new location" for this headstone and reset them. As of August 2016, these headstone are still in piles and have not been reset. I contacted the Kentucky Attorney General and filed a complaint, and suggest that others do the same). Several of these headstones were destroyed or broken during this act.
Tholemiah Jones, son of Revolutionary War Soldier, George Jones, were among those graves that were displaced due to this "deliberate" distruction by the Cemetery Association.
Written by Teresa Goodwin-Skaggs, 5th Great-Granddaughter of Tholemiah Jones
***************************************************
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