ADA HALDEMAN FORD OF TAYLOR COUNTY:
TEACHER, WRITER, SUFFRAGETTE
Ada Haldeman Ford was born on 26 Jun 1883 in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Co., Minn., a daughter of Joseph Hanslip Haldeman and Olive V. DeMoss. (Ada’s name on a transcription of her birth record is Adah Enid Haldeman.)
According to information on the West Virginia & Regional History Collection site, she was raised in Thornton, Taylor County, W.Va. When she was 16, she received a teaching certificate from Fairmont Normal in Marion County, W.Va., (now Fairmont State University) and taught three or four years. She also worked as a secretary. In 1909 she married Gene Worth Ford. They had one son, Layne Haldeman Ford.
“In 1916, Mrs. Ford helped to organize the Women's Suffrage League in Taylor County, W.Va., serving as president, and became a recognized state leader in the campaign for ratification of the 19th amendment. After ratification she helped establish the first Democratic Women's Committee and was the first woman from Taylor County to be elected to the Democratic State Executive Committee, 1924-1936. Mrs. Ford was appointed the first Register of Vital Statistics in Taylor County.
“During World War I, Ada H. Ford was a ‘Four Minute Woman,’ a speaker for the purchase of Liberty Bonds. She sold $40,000 worth of bonds in one meeting. Other war contributions included 18 hand knit sweaters and numerous socks. Mrs. Ford was a published author of short stories and poems, and a reporter for several newspapers.”
She died on 22 Jan 1979, in Grafton, W.Va. (Month/year, SS Death Index; date DeMoss family tree.) She is buried in Bluemont Cemetery, Grafton, Taylor County, W.Va., along with her husband and son.
Her husband of 41 years, “…Gene Worth Ford (1878-1950), had a distinguished career in law, serving 2 terms as Prosecuting Attorney of Taylor County, attorney for the city of Grafton and for several banks. He was active in community service and he received the Selective Service Medal, awarded by Congress for his services as an appeal agent in the system.”
Her son, “Layne Haldeman Ford (1910-1988) was a well-known attorney. He held a number of state and federal positions in Charleston, Martinsburg, and Clarksburg. During World War II, Layne Ford served in the Army Signal Corp, mostly with the 12th Tactical Air Command. He was awarded five Battle Stars for involvement in campaigns from North Africa and Italy to Germany. He was attached to the French Army during the Alsace-Lorraine campaign under General LeClerc, as communications specialists and received a Personal Citation from the French Army…[Layne] tells of his memories as a six year old during Taylor County Suffragists' most active time of speeches, meetings, fund raising, and lobbying. He describes the campaign in the U.S. as 'non-violent,' working within the political system to change the law, contrasting it to England's suffrage movement which experienced confrontations with police.”
SOURCES: West Virginia & Regional History Collection online, Papers of Ada Haldeman Ford, Call number: A&M No.: 3537; Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014; Minnesota, Births and Christenings Index, 1840-1980, FHL Film Number: 1498811; DeMoss family tree on Ancestry; and Find A Grave Memorial# 60601153.
Research by Eva Smith-Carroll, West Virginia Memories.
TEACHER, WRITER, SUFFRAGETTE
Ada Haldeman Ford was born on 26 Jun 1883 in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Co., Minn., a daughter of Joseph Hanslip Haldeman and Olive V. DeMoss. (Ada’s name on a transcription of her birth record is Adah Enid Haldeman.)
According to information on the West Virginia & Regional History Collection site, she was raised in Thornton, Taylor County, W.Va. When she was 16, she received a teaching certificate from Fairmont Normal in Marion County, W.Va., (now Fairmont State University) and taught three or four years. She also worked as a secretary. In 1909 she married Gene Worth Ford. They had one son, Layne Haldeman Ford.
“In 1916, Mrs. Ford helped to organize the Women's Suffrage League in Taylor County, W.Va., serving as president, and became a recognized state leader in the campaign for ratification of the 19th amendment. After ratification she helped establish the first Democratic Women's Committee and was the first woman from Taylor County to be elected to the Democratic State Executive Committee, 1924-1936. Mrs. Ford was appointed the first Register of Vital Statistics in Taylor County.
“During World War I, Ada H. Ford was a ‘Four Minute Woman,’ a speaker for the purchase of Liberty Bonds. She sold $40,000 worth of bonds in one meeting. Other war contributions included 18 hand knit sweaters and numerous socks. Mrs. Ford was a published author of short stories and poems, and a reporter for several newspapers.”
She died on 22 Jan 1979, in Grafton, W.Va. (Month/year, SS Death Index; date DeMoss family tree.) She is buried in Bluemont Cemetery, Grafton, Taylor County, W.Va., along with her husband and son.
Her husband of 41 years, “…Gene Worth Ford (1878-1950), had a distinguished career in law, serving 2 terms as Prosecuting Attorney of Taylor County, attorney for the city of Grafton and for several banks. He was active in community service and he received the Selective Service Medal, awarded by Congress for his services as an appeal agent in the system.”
Her son, “Layne Haldeman Ford (1910-1988) was a well-known attorney. He held a number of state and federal positions in Charleston, Martinsburg, and Clarksburg. During World War II, Layne Ford served in the Army Signal Corp, mostly with the 12th Tactical Air Command. He was awarded five Battle Stars for involvement in campaigns from North Africa and Italy to Germany. He was attached to the French Army during the Alsace-Lorraine campaign under General LeClerc, as communications specialists and received a Personal Citation from the French Army…[Layne] tells of his memories as a six year old during Taylor County Suffragists' most active time of speeches, meetings, fund raising, and lobbying. He describes the campaign in the U.S. as 'non-violent,' working within the political system to change the law, contrasting it to England's suffrage movement which experienced confrontations with police.”
SOURCES: West Virginia & Regional History Collection online, Papers of Ada Haldeman Ford, Call number: A&M No.: 3537; Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014; Minnesota, Births and Christenings Index, 1840-1980, FHL Film Number: 1498811; DeMoss family tree on Ancestry; and Find A Grave Memorial# 60601153.
Research by Eva Smith-Carroll, West Virginia Memories.
ADA HALDEMAN FORD OF TAYLOR COUNTY:
TEACHER, WRITER, SUFFRAGETTE
Ada Haldeman Ford was born on 26 Jun 1883 in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Co., Minn., a daughter of Joseph Hanslip Haldeman and Olive V. DeMoss. (Ada’s name on a transcription of her birth record is Adah Enid Haldeman.)
According to information on the West Virginia & Regional History Collection site, she was raised in Thornton, Taylor County, W.Va. When she was 16, she received a teaching certificate from Fairmont Normal in Marion County, W.Va., (now Fairmont State University) and taught three or four years. She also worked as a secretary. In 1909 she married Gene Worth Ford. They had one son, Layne Haldeman Ford.
“In 1916, Mrs. Ford helped to organize the Women's Suffrage League in Taylor County, W.Va., serving as president, and became a recognized state leader in the campaign for ratification of the 19th amendment. After ratification she helped establish the first Democratic Women's Committee and was the first woman from Taylor County to be elected to the Democratic State Executive Committee, 1924-1936. Mrs. Ford was appointed the first Register of Vital Statistics in Taylor County.
“During World War I, Ada H. Ford was a ‘Four Minute Woman,’ a speaker for the purchase of Liberty Bonds. She sold $40,000 worth of bonds in one meeting. Other war contributions included 18 hand knit sweaters and numerous socks. Mrs. Ford was a published author of short stories and poems, and a reporter for several newspapers.”
She died on 22 Jan 1979, in Grafton, W.Va. (Month/year, SS Death Index; date DeMoss family tree.) She is buried in Bluemont Cemetery, Grafton, Taylor County, W.Va., along with her husband and son.
Her husband of 41 years, “…Gene Worth Ford (1878-1950), had a distinguished career in law, serving 2 terms as Prosecuting Attorney of Taylor County, attorney for the city of Grafton and for several banks. He was active in community service and he received the Selective Service Medal, awarded by Congress for his services as an appeal agent in the system.”
Her son, “Layne Haldeman Ford (1910-1988) was a well-known attorney. He held a number of state and federal positions in Charleston, Martinsburg, and Clarksburg. During World War II, Layne Ford served in the Army Signal Corp, mostly with the 12th Tactical Air Command. He was awarded five Battle Stars for involvement in campaigns from North Africa and Italy to Germany. He was attached to the French Army during the Alsace-Lorraine campaign under General LeClerc, as communications specialists and received a Personal Citation from the French Army…[Layne] tells of his memories as a six year old during Taylor County Suffragists' most active time of speeches, meetings, fund raising, and lobbying. He describes the campaign in the U.S. as 'non-violent,' working within the political system to change the law, contrasting it to England's suffrage movement which experienced confrontations with police.”
SOURCES: West Virginia & Regional History Collection online, Papers of Ada Haldeman Ford, Call number: A&M No.: 3537; Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014; Minnesota, Births and Christenings Index, 1840-1980, FHL Film Number: 1498811; DeMoss family tree on Ancestry; and Find A Grave Memorial# 60601153.
Research by Eva Smith-Carroll, West Virginia Memories.
TEACHER, WRITER, SUFFRAGETTE
Ada Haldeman Ford was born on 26 Jun 1883 in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Co., Minn., a daughter of Joseph Hanslip Haldeman and Olive V. DeMoss. (Ada’s name on a transcription of her birth record is Adah Enid Haldeman.)
According to information on the West Virginia & Regional History Collection site, she was raised in Thornton, Taylor County, W.Va. When she was 16, she received a teaching certificate from Fairmont Normal in Marion County, W.Va., (now Fairmont State University) and taught three or four years. She also worked as a secretary. In 1909 she married Gene Worth Ford. They had one son, Layne Haldeman Ford.
“In 1916, Mrs. Ford helped to organize the Women's Suffrage League in Taylor County, W.Va., serving as president, and became a recognized state leader in the campaign for ratification of the 19th amendment. After ratification she helped establish the first Democratic Women's Committee and was the first woman from Taylor County to be elected to the Democratic State Executive Committee, 1924-1936. Mrs. Ford was appointed the first Register of Vital Statistics in Taylor County.
“During World War I, Ada H. Ford was a ‘Four Minute Woman,’ a speaker for the purchase of Liberty Bonds. She sold $40,000 worth of bonds in one meeting. Other war contributions included 18 hand knit sweaters and numerous socks. Mrs. Ford was a published author of short stories and poems, and a reporter for several newspapers.”
She died on 22 Jan 1979, in Grafton, W.Va. (Month/year, SS Death Index; date DeMoss family tree.) She is buried in Bluemont Cemetery, Grafton, Taylor County, W.Va., along with her husband and son.
Her husband of 41 years, “…Gene Worth Ford (1878-1950), had a distinguished career in law, serving 2 terms as Prosecuting Attorney of Taylor County, attorney for the city of Grafton and for several banks. He was active in community service and he received the Selective Service Medal, awarded by Congress for his services as an appeal agent in the system.”
Her son, “Layne Haldeman Ford (1910-1988) was a well-known attorney. He held a number of state and federal positions in Charleston, Martinsburg, and Clarksburg. During World War II, Layne Ford served in the Army Signal Corp, mostly with the 12th Tactical Air Command. He was awarded five Battle Stars for involvement in campaigns from North Africa and Italy to Germany. He was attached to the French Army during the Alsace-Lorraine campaign under General LeClerc, as communications specialists and received a Personal Citation from the French Army…[Layne] tells of his memories as a six year old during Taylor County Suffragists' most active time of speeches, meetings, fund raising, and lobbying. He describes the campaign in the U.S. as 'non-violent,' working within the political system to change the law, contrasting it to England's suffrage movement which experienced confrontations with police.”
SOURCES: West Virginia & Regional History Collection online, Papers of Ada Haldeman Ford, Call number: A&M No.: 3537; Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014; Minnesota, Births and Christenings Index, 1840-1980, FHL Film Number: 1498811; DeMoss family tree on Ancestry; and Find A Grave Memorial# 60601153.
Research by Eva Smith-Carroll, West Virginia Memories.
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