His mother was Sarah Alice Rains Ford who died about 1919 in Cocke County, Tennessee possibly during flu pandemic. James had an older sister Laura who was born in 1910 and died before 1915.
Family called him JimIke. James married Mary Ruth Kirk in Greene County, TN on June 7, 1944 and they lived in Cocke County. They moved to NJ to work at Seabrook Farms. Soon she was diagnosed with leukemia and went back to Greene County for the last three months of her life.
James and both of his wives were deaf. He had no children, but his second wife Lottie had two daughters by previous marriage.
Family Members
Parents
Lloyd Steven Ford
1886–1955
Spouses
Mary Ruth Kirk Ford
1917–1949 (m. 1944)
Lottie O. Butler Ford
1908–1983
Siblings
Gladys Ardell Ford
1915–1976
Opha Ford Elliott
1927–2001
Charles Wayne Ford
1929–1994
Delmar Eugene Ford
1943–1988
Sheridan Ray Ford
1945–1951
