Greenbrier County, West Virginia         Biography of EDGAR S. FORD

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History of Greenbrier County 
J. R. Cole 
Lewisburg, WV 1917 
p. 180-181

EDGAR S. FORD.

A large family of ten children ten miles from Lewisburg, but now married and 
scattered over Greenbrier county, once surrounded the home circle of Frank 
and Martha (Rapp) Ford, people well and favorably known at one time to 
everybody in this part of the State. In 1902, the father died. He had a 
mechanical turn of mind and was a carpenter as well as an agriculturist, a 
trade that is being followed by several of his sons.

The names of the children were as follow: Samuel, Creigh, Joseph, Benjamin, 
Augustus, John, Edgar, Fannie, Mary Jane and Addie. The mother was born March 
17, 1833, at Falling Springs, and is now eighty-three years old. The home was 
a religious one. The members of the family were Methodists, the obligations 
and duties of that church having been taught to them from the hearthstone of 
their own home, and from childhood.

E. S. Ford was born April 27, 1876. He received his early education in the 
common schools and then learned the trade of a carpenter. On the seventeenth 
of May, 1890, he married Miss Nannie L., daughter of David Andrew Dwyer (see 
sketch), who, with her husband, went to houskeeping at Beckley. Later they 
moved to Mount Hope, Fayette county, but in 1903 they bought their property 
in Lewisburg, and then took up their permanent residence in that place. The 
original house has been displaced by a handsome residence, and erected as it 
is on a commanding site overlooking the little city, makes a beautiful home. 
In 1915 a fruit farm, consisting of six acres of ground covered with trees, 
was added to the original purchase.

To this union came two children. Gladys, born May 14, 1901, inherits a 
natural love for music, and is now an accomplished violinist, even in her 
youth. Andrew Marvin, the second child, was born August 30, 1912. The family 
worship in the Lewisburg Methodist Church, South.