Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Robert Sydney Ford ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
Robert Sydney Ford
LAST NAME: Ford FIRST NAME: Robert MIDDLE NAME: Sydney NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE: Mr. GENDER: M MILITARY: 
BORN: 5 Mar 1870 DIED: 24 Feb 1933 BURIED: 1 Mar 1933
ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  Woodcutter
BIRTH PLACE:  Tennessee
DEATH PLACE: Jefferson, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 
OSBH DC (Marion County 1933) #156 - Robert Sydney Ford, male, widowed (Adia Ford), occupation woodcutter, b. 5 Mar 1870 in Tennessee, d. 24 Feb 1933 in Jefferson, Oregon at the age of 62 y's 11 m's 19 d's, name of father Thomas Ford (b. Tennessee), interment 1 Mar IOOF, undertaker Clough-Barrick, informant Fred Ford of Salem.
OBITUARY: 
ROBERT S. FORD STRICKEN WHILE CUTTING TIMBER. 
Suddenly stricken with a heart attack, Robert Sydney Ford, 63, fell to the ground and died a few minutes later on the Charles Pokan wood lot, Jefferson route 1, where he was working yesterday afternoon with two of his sons, Fred and Berchie. The Marion county coroner was called. Another son survives, Homer Ford of Ellensburg, Wash. 
Oregon Statesman 25 February 1933 2:4 

At the residence on route 1, Jefferson, February 24, Robert Sydney Ford, aged 63 years. Survived by sons, Fred and Berchie of Jefferson, and Homer of Ellensburg, Wash. Funeral services from the chapel of the Clough-Barrick company, Wednesday, March 1, at 2:30 p.m., with Rev. Weeks officiating. Interment I.O.O.F. cemetery. 
Oregon Statesman 1 March 1933 5:2
INSCRIPTION: 
No marker
SOURCES: 
OSBH DC (Marion County 1933) #156 
OS 25 February 1933 2:4 
OS 1 March 1933 5:2
CONTACTS: 
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