Lenoir County NcArchives Photo Tombstone.....Fordham, Robert Taylor (Bob) ************************************************ 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 23, 2008, 3:53 am Cemetery: Colonel John William Cemetery Name: Robert Taylor (Bob) Fordham Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/lenoir/photos/tombstones/coloneljohnwilli/fordham200nph.jpg Image file size: 39.4 Kb A son of William Gaston Fordham and Mary Elizaeth (Puss) Taylor Fordham. Bob was born April 10, 1894 in Tuckahoe Township, Jones County. He married Beulah Glibert of Jones County on August 13, 1916 and they had four children: a stillborn infant son that is buried in the Fordham Cemerey, Eloise Fordham, Charlotte Fordham and one living sister. He died on June 15, 1977 and is buried in the Colonel John Williams Cemetery. tombstone reads: Joint headstone Fordham Robert T. Fordham April 10, 1894 June 15, 1977 Married Aug. 13, 1916 - Together forever Obit reads: Robert T. Fordham Robert Taylor (Bob) Fordham, 83, of Kinston Rt 3 died Wednesday at a local nursing home. Services will be held Friday at 2pm from Edwards Funeral Home. Rev. Burke Kerr will officiate. Burial will follow in the Williams family cemetery near Woodington. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Beulah Gilbert Fordham; three daughters, Mrs. Clayton White, Mrs. Garland Seymore, and one living daughter, all of Kinston; two sisters, Ms. Deliah Humphrey of Kinston and Mrs. Virginia Smith of Albertson; two brothers, B.O. Fordham of Kinston and Branch Fordham of Jacksonville; five grandchildren; and one great-grand child. The family will be at Edwards Funeral Home 7-9pm. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/lenoir/photos/tombstones/coloneljohnwilli/fordham200nph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ncfiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb