Lenoir County NcArchives Photo Tombstone.....Fordham, Mary Elizabeth Taylor ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Jeanette W. Corcoran annejeanette@earthlink.net February 22, 2008, 3:40 am Cemetery: Colonel John Williams Cemetery Name: Mary Elizabeth Taylor Fordham Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/lenoir/photos/tombstones/coloneljohnwilli/fordham197nph.jpg Image file size: 30.3 Kb The daughter of Caroline Williams and William Green Taylor and nicknamed "Puss," she was born Feb. 15, 1865. She married William Gaston Fordham 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. She died April 18, 1962 and was buried in the Colonel John Williams Cemetery. Obit reads: Mrs. Mary E. Fordham Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Taylor Fordham, 97, widow of W. G. Fordham of Jones County, died about 11:20pm Wednesday in a local nursing home. She was the daughter of the late W. G. and Caroline Williams Taylor of Lenoir County and a member of Pleasant Hill Christian Church. Funeral services will be held from Garner's Funeral Chapel at 3pm Friday. Rev. H. L. Harrell, Methodist of Pink Hill, and Rev. John A. Snyder, Presbyterian of Kinston, will officiate. Burial will follow in the Williams Cemetery near Woodington. Survivors include four sons, Robert T. of Kinston Route 3, B. O. and James A., both of Kinston, and L. B. Fordham of Jacksonville; two daughters, Mrs. Landon Humphrey of Kinston and Mrs. K. J. Smith of Albertson; 29 grandchildren; a number of great- grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews. Grandsons will serve as pallbearers. joint headstone with husband tombstone reads: Mary E. Taylor Fordham Feb. 15, 1865 April 18, 1962 Forever honored. Forever remembered. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/lenoir/photos/tombstones/coloneljohnwilli/fordham197nph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ncfiles/ File size: 2.4 Kb