448                            HISTORY OF JERSEY COUNTY.

    Horatio N. Ford was born in Delaware county, Penn., Jan. 17, 1845. His parents were Horatio N. and Martha L. Ford, both natives of Pennsylvania. He came to Illinois with his parents in 1846, they locating in Macoupin county, and he remained there until 1872. He went from there to Godfrey, Madison county, and staid there until March, 1877, when he came to Delhi, Jersey county, staying there until Oct., 1884. He removed from there to McCluskey, Jersey county, where he has lived up to the present writing. On the 9th of Oct., in the year 1867, he was married to Frances E. Wyncoop, born Jan. 23, 1842. Her parents were John and Rolando Wyncoop, he of Virginia, and she of Illinois. Mrs. Ford died Jan. 17, 1877, at Godfrey, and was buried at Brighton. Two children were born to them--Harvey L., born Aug. 21, 1868; Geo. N., born Jan. 1, 1877, died March 16, 1877. On Nov. 4, 1880, Mr. Ford was again married, to Jennie E. Scott, born Oct. 21, 1852. Her parents were Charles W. and Catharine J. (Kendall) Scott. Her father was from Virginia, her mother from St. Charles county, Mo. Mr. and Mrs. Ford are members of the M. E. church. He belongs to the Knights of Honor, No. 1129, of Delhi. He is postmaster, notary public and merchant at McCluskey, and is doing a good business.

Source:

Anonymous, "Horatio N. Ford" History of Greene and Jersey Counties, Illinois: Together With Sketches of the Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military, and Political History, Portraits of Prominent Individuals, and Biographies of Representative Men: History of Illinois, Embracing Accounts of the Pre-historic and Historic Races, and a Brief Review of its Civil and Military History, Springfield, Ill., Continental Historical Co., 1885, p. 448.