This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Nelson, Ford, Jones, Smith, Merritt, Woodward, Hampton, Mowl, Williams, Ramsey, Ault, Queen, Free Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SFB.2ACI/4234.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: John C.D. Ford also used the name of John C. Dye Ford on some of the very few documents we find for him. He was in the War of 1812; joined in June 1812 and died in Jan. 1813; his widow was granted a 5 year pension. I've seen a lot of land transfers where the land is sold to another relation to keep it in the family - his name and his purchase of land from Frederick seem to be fairly good indicators that he belongs in this family. Of course, that doesn't place my John Ford yet. Maybe he is a son of Benjamin; There are no Benjamins in our line though that we have been able to identify. I have seen one researcher link Benjamin to a John Tipton Ford whose family migrated to Haywood NC (Benjamin's wife in this database is Rachel Tipton). Most researchers have nothing for him though.