Daughter of Joseph (13 Nov 1746-1789) and Freelove (Beal) (1741-)Ford.
Wife of Isaac Edson11Vi. SARAH, b. ca. 1777, bp. at Cummington First Congregational Church 12 Sept. 1779 (Cummington VRs, 27); date and place of death uleknown; m. at Milford, Otsego Co.. N.Y., ca. 1796 ISAAC* EDsON, son of John and Judith (Shaw) Edson, b. at Bridgewater, Mass., 6 Dec. 1770 (Vital Records of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, 2 vols. [Boston, 1916), 1:102), d. at Machias, Cat-taraugus Co., N.Y., 21 Aug. 1844. He went to Milford, 1793, according to Ezra Stevens's manuscript history of the town of Milford (Carroll Andrew Edson, ed., Edson family history and genealogy, 2 vois. (Ann Arbor, Mich., 19697), 2:642). He was in Milford, 1800, with one maie 26-45, one male 10-16, one female
16-26, and two females under 10. He deeded to Moses Ford, 24 Dec. 1805, 38% acres in Milford for S600 (Otsego Co. Deed Book G:371); moved two miles west to Edson's Corners, Milford. Sarah left. isaac ca. 1804 or 1805 and got a divorce. He m. (2) in N.Y..
1806 Persis (Bills) Curtis(s) and had further issue; m. (3) prob.
Adelphia
Sarah and her children moved ca. 1807 or
carlier to Bradford Co.. Penna., where her brother Noah Ford had located; ca. 1815 to Hardin Co., Ky., where her brother Moses Ford had located. Four children (Edson, Edson family.
2:642, 643, 646-648; Mrs. H. W. Woldt, "Edson family history" [Manhattan, Kans., n.d.], 8-10; both sources from Mrs. Mary Hodge, Bethany, Mo., through Mrs. William Coffil, Sonora, Calil.). Note that Sarah Ford is erroncously given as dau. of Samuci and Sarah (Dyer) Ford in Edson, Edson family. 2:642, this is corrected in this article 120 (1966): 54.
Page 256, lines 14-18. Note that data referring to Sally Ford who m. Philip Hodges, came from family papers of R. Z. Hopkins, Decatur, Mich., who died 1963 or 1964. Mrs. Florence H. Barclay suggested that Sally might be dau. of Joseph and Freelove Ford although no daughter's name was known at that
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