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Cemetery:           Colonel John Williams Cemetery
Name:               William Gaston Fordham
Photo can be seen at:
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William Gaston Fordham was born August 16, 1864 in Onslow County, NC to John 
Ivey Fordham and Seena Thomas. William Gaston was one of 27 children (per 
Brown History book). He had a half sister Penelope Philopenia Fordham who 
married William Brown. He married Mary Elizabeth Taylor (Puss) and they had 10 
children: William Gaston, Jr., Delilah Elizabeth Fordham, John Ivey Fordham, 
Robert Taylor Fordham, Benjamin Oliver Fordham, Lott Branch (L.B.) Fordham, 
Little Annie Caroline Fordham, Virginia Ann Fordham, Carrie Mae Whitaker and 
James Albert Fordham. He died February 9, 1941 due to unemea, apoplexy and 
senility.
 
obit reads:
Rites Gaston Fordham
Held at 3 on Monday
Was Prominent Farmer
The funeral of William Gaston Fordham, 78, prominent Jones County farmer, who 
died at his home near Pleasant Hill Church at 9:15am Sunday after an illness 
of three days, was held from the church at 3pm Monday, with burial in Williams 
Cemetery, near Woodington.  Rev. G. H. Sullivan, of Wilson, and Rev. R. V. 
Hope, Washington, NC, officiated. Surviving with a widow, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth 
Fordham are six children: Mrs. London Humphrey, Kinston; Mrs. Kirby J. Smith, 
Duplin county; Robert Taylor Fordham and James A. Fordham, all of Jones 
County, and L.B. Fordham of Wilson; two half-brothers Johnny B. Morton, 
Beaufort, and Willie Davis, Onslow County; 26 grandchildren and three great-
grandchildren. Mr. Fordham was a Mason. Masons had charge at the grave.
 
Joint stone with wife
tombstone reads:
Williams Gaston Fordham
Aug. 16, 1864
Feb. 9, 1941
Forever honored. Forever remembered.

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