Culpeper County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Ford, Juda (nee Berry) [Mrs. Benton] July 19, 1884
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"The Jacksonville Republican"
Jacksonville, Calhoun Co., Alabama

NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, AUGUST 2, 1884


IN MEMORIAM OF MRS. JUDA FORD

Mrs. Juda Ford, relict of Benton Ford, quietly breathed her last at the 
resisence of her son A.G. Ford near Weaver's on July 19, 1884. Her maiden 
name was Berry and she was born in Culpepper county, Va., on Feb. 14, 1792 
and was at the time of her death ninety-two years, five months and five days 
old.

At the age of eight she moved with her father's family to Rutherford county, 
N.C. where she lived until twenty-four years of age, when she was united in 
marriage with Benton Ford when they settled in Chester county, S.C. and 
there lived until 1844 when with her husband and children she removed to 
Benton, now Calhoun county, Ala., where she continued to reside until her 
demise.

She united with the M.E. church when about sixteen and remained a consistent 
member of the same for about fifty-five years, when she went with her 
husband to the Primitive Baptist where several of her children had gone 
before. Here she remained until the time of her death, but never fully 
renounced the church of her choice in early life, in which she had spent the 
strength of her womanhood.

Hers was a life of exemplary virtue and piety, fully demonstrating that "the 
path of the just is a shining light that shineth more and more unto the 
perfect day." In her life and death we are made to say " let me die the 
death of the righteous and let my last end be like his." She died as she had 
lived, leaning upon the strong arm of her Savior, saying just before she 
breathed her last, "God has blessed me through life and He will not forsake 
me now."

The deceased leaves behind a large number of relatives, children and 
grandchildren, great grandchildren and many friends to mourn her departure. 
Her humbly pious life and triumphant death she points all to the Lamb of God 
that taketh away the sins of the world, and as a beacon light beckons us on 
to our Father's house where there are many mansions prepared for those that 
die with their trust in the Lord. W. M.E., July 29, 1884.

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