Ruth Phillips

Abt 1773 - Abt 1829  (~ 56 years)

• Name	Ruth Phillips  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1773  [2]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Abt 1829	Pike County, Kentucky   [2]
  Person ID	I34807	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	8 May 2021

  
  

  Family	Joseph Ford,   b. 1756, Frederick, Frederick, Maryland d. 18 Sep 1845, Ford's Branch, Pike, Kentucky (Age 89 years)
  Marriage	1791	Tennessee   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Joseph Ford,   b. Abt 1795, Kentucky d. 18 Sep 1868, Horse Branch, Ohio, Kentucky (Age ~ 73 years)
  Family ID	F20465	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 May 2021

  
  

• Notes

  From Floyd County, Kentucky Circuit Court Records 1808-1824, on familysearch.org Circuit Court Book C p. 309: 1819-July 21: Ruth Ford, wife of Joseph Ford. By evidence of several witnesses at an inquest held July 21, 1819 on the Public Square at Prestonburg: Ruth Ford is about 50 years of age and has been for about 15 years a lunatic which we supposed to have been occasioned by trouble from the case of two of her children and that she has very few lucid intervals and that she has from a fall from a horse been a cripple in one of her legs for the last three years--that she has no property real or personal...except that of her husband's land...property value not to exceed $20. He is upwards of 50 years old...and pays no attention to said Ruthe Forde his wife's support. Ruth Ford is allowed $25 per quarter for one year.

  
  

• Sources

  [S5608] Find a Grave page for Joseph Ford. [S3201] U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, on ancestry.com.