(Unmarked Grave)

According to the book, "The Outlaws of Cave-In-Rock", she was the wife of a Mr. Frazer and they had three daughters. The book also states that Elizabeth, her husband, and their children were coming down the Ohio River in a flatboat and decided to stop and stay at the plantation home of James Ford and not long after Mr. Frazier died from a sudden illness. This Mr. Frazier was the owner of the Frazier Salt Works, at the Lower Lick Great Salt Springs, of the Illinois Salines in Gallatin County, Illinois, during the late 1820s. Not long after the death of her first husband, she married James Ford, who was a widower, a pillar of the community, and a notorious outlaw on January 15, 1829. Through his second marriage, to James Ford, Ford secured control of the Frazier Salt Works. Elizabeth and James had a son, named James N. Ford Jr. who was born around 1830 and later died in a steamboat explosion in 1844. Before he died, James Ford asked his wife, Elizabeth to have an inscription on his gravestone to protect his public reputation from being maligned by enemies. According to the book, "The Outlaws of Cave-In-Rock", Elizabeth is buried next to her husband, James but because of her sudden death in 1834, not long after the burial of James, they were buried in unmarked graves as no one got around to creating their gravestones and instead may have marked their gravesites with rocks, which are now long gone. Other sources indicate that it is not known if her grave was ever marked or could have had a grave marker like her husband, James Ford who may have originally had his grave marked with an elevated lid covered three-foot-high sandstone box grave. The two surviving large whole gravestones in the Ford Family Cemetery of Philip and William Ford are stone box graves with heavy, dressed stone slab covers that are six feet long and three feet wide and were originally placed on top of three-foot-high grave boxes. Stone box graves were many times used by prominent, well-to-do families in the early 19th century and were especially popular in the 1820s through the 1830s. According to the official historian of Marion and Crittenden County, Kentucky, Brenda Travis-Underdown, years later a local farmer who owned the cemetery land decided to use the large stone grave slabs to cover over holes in a nearby pasture but after his child and some of his cows died he thought the Ford gravestones were cursed. The farmer then removed the gravestones and haphazardly dumped them back in the cemetery making the identification and exact locations of the Ford family graves nearly impossible.

making the identification and exact location of their graves nearly impossible.