Re: Manley Madison Wood
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Re: Manley Madison Wood
bill R. Wood 11/28/02
Thanks Bill, I just now found your answer, for some reason, I wasn't notified when you responded.This is a big help.After I enter this info. into my tree will let you know if I find other connections.As I've found out, my family sure believed in keeping it in the family.So many first cousins, second cousins marrying each other.
I've added a bit more to my Ford file since our last correspondence.It seems as if William Ford, Jr. didn't die as young as the genealogists thought he did.Seems he moved away from Spartanburg, after the shame of the "Bastardly Bond" that was brought against him.He did marry Elizabeth Johnson, but it seems that she may have died young as he remarried a second time.Between the two wives there are a bunch of children.
I think the reason William wasn't mentioned in William Ford Sr's will was because either Sr. had already given Jr. his inheritance, or else, the old man was upset with him because of the "bond".I have met several of Jr's descendants and guess where they ended up? Yep, right there in Calhoun Co. right alongside my Fords.I knew that I grew up with a bunch of Fords up there that my daddy always said were "distant cousins".He didn't know where the connection was, just that they were kin.For over 150 yrs now, William Jr. and Manley Ford descendants have lived in the same community, and most of us didn't know the kinship.
I haven't even begun to add them all to my tree, there are a couple of thousand of them also.