CS Con Ford, Samuel Howard - C.S. Delegate, KY

Samuel Howard Ford
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Born: February 19, 1819

Birthplace: London, England

Father: Rev. Thomas Howard Ford 1790 – 1849
(Buried: Richland Baptist Cemetery, Kingdom City, Missouri)​

1st​ Wife: Priscilla A. S. Clark 1826 – 1847
(Buried: Old Lorimier Cemetery, Cape Girardeau, Missouri)​

2nd​ Wife: Sallie Rochester 1828 – 1910
(Buried: Bellefontaine Cemetery, Saint Louis, Missouri)​

Married: March 6, 1855 in Scott County, Kentucky

Children:


William J. Ford 1847 – 1847​
(Buried: Old Lorimier Cemetery, Cape Girardeau, Missouri)​
Rochester Ford 1857 – 1903​
(Buried: Bellefontaine Cemetery, Saint Louis, Missouri)​
Samuel Ford 1873 – 1913​
(Buried: Bellefontaine Cemetery, Saint Louis, Missouri)​

Religion: Baptist

Political Party: Democratic Party

Occupation before War:


Brought to the United States by his father a Baptist Minister.​
1840: Became a licensed Baptist Preacher.​
1843: Ordained a Baptist Preacher.​
1844: Baptist Minister in Jefferson City, Missouri.​
1846: Baptist Minister in Saint Louis, Missouri.​
1846 – 1847: Baptist Minister in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.​
1847 – 1853: Baptist Minister in Memphis, Tennessee.​
Increased Baptist church membership in Memphis from 75 to 450.​

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While in Memphis he also constructed a church costing $75,000.00​
1853 – 1860: Baptist Minister East Baptist Church, Louisville, Kentucky.​
1854: Started Publishing Ford’s Christian Repository Newspaper.
His was wife was the author of five books and assisted her husband.​
1860: Editor of Missouri Baptist wrote Origins of Baptists.​

Civil War Career:

1861: Left Louisville Kentucky and aligned himself with Confederacy.​
1861: Baptist Minister in Memphis, Tennessee.​
1861 – 1862: Kentucky Delegate Confederate Provisional Congress.​
1861: Member of House Inauguration Committee.​
1861 – 1862: Opposed giving President use of local defense forces.​
1861–1862: Opposed giving governors use of the local militia officers.​
1861 – 1862: Supporter of strengthening Central authority.​
1862: Choose not to be a candidate for election to Congress.​
1863 – 1865: Baptist Minister in Mobile, Alabama.​

Occupation after War:

1865 – 1871: Baptist Minister in Memphis, Tennessee​
1865 – 1905: Publisher of Christian Repository Newspaper
1871 – 1905: Lived in Saint Louis, Missouri​
Author of many books especially on Baptist history.​

Died: July 5, 1905

Place of Death: Saint Louis, Missouri

Age at time of Death: 86 years old

Burial Place: Bellefontaine Cemetery, Saint Louis, Missouri
 
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