My Genealogy Hound

Charles Monroe Ford, planter and stock raiser, of Richwood Township, is a son of William and Nancy (Bunch) Ford, natives of North Carolina, and was born May 4, 1846. His parents came to Jackson County, Ark., in 1854, and in 1855 entered a quarter section in Section 11, Richwood Township, but sold this and went to Illinois in 1864. The subject of our sketch was one of a family of ten children, and received his education in the schools of the county. He married Miss Margaret A. Balch, who had four children: Robert Newton (born December 14, 1873), Martha A. (born November 25, 1875), Nancy E. (born March 15, 1877), William Amos (born December 16, 1878). His first wife died in 1879, and he married Miss Eliza Jane Brown, of Tennessee. They have four children: Charles L. (born April 6, 1882), Laura Jane (born September 10, 1885), James Arthur (born August 4, 1887) and Rufus L. (born April 3, 1889). In 1868 or 1869 Mr. Ford purchased eighty acres of partly improved land on Section 11, and lived there until 1880, when he bought the farm on which he now lives. He now has 160 acres of fine corn and cotton land, about sixty-five acres unimproved, which is well stocked with good breeds of cattle and hogs. Mr. Ford is a member of Newport Lodge No. 397, A. F. & A. M., has been school director and justice of the peace, and is now postmaster at Ford post office. He takes quite an active part in politics, and also in educational and religious advancement.