Bringing up a post I did a few months ago for this weeks Sepia Saturday. Since this weeks theme is a photo of a young girl, I thought Id let you all meet Young Stella with her beautiful long hair. I posted this on my blog and later got a response of someone who found my blog while googling stella and they also had a different photo of her.
From all research and census records with what I could come up with I didnt see Stella ever married or with children. She was living with her parents in her late 40s. Such a pretty girl but would have been considered a Spinster eh?
Cabinet Card Photo of a young girl. Says in pencil on back of photo says “Stella Ford”
Photographer H.F. Smith Photo Artist, Peabody, Kansas
From Genealogy research there is a family listed in the 1880 census
Parents Seldon and Mary Ford (Warner) who lived in Peabody, Marion, Kansas
They had a child
Stella Mae Ford born in 1873 in Illinois
Brother Frank Warner Ford born in 1876 in Illinois
(1930s info Frank married Mira / Myra Dodge, and had a child Stoddard Irving Ford born 1909, Pomona, Ca)
Brother Harry Ford born in 1884 in Illinois
The family ended up coming to Pomona, California in 1885
Census records 1920 show her living in Pomona, Ca, Ward 4, La County. 44-47 yrs old and living with her parents.
Please follow and read this link with further info on this family
“In 1885 Mr. Ford came to Pomona and bought twenty acres south of the town, which he planted to deciduous fruits and grapes; but in time he sold the ranch and bought an orange grove of fifteen acres, at the corner of East Holt Street and Central Avenue, and this property he still owns. There he grows both Navel and Valencia oranges, and such has been his good luck as the result of experience and application to the study of the problems involved, that the ten acres has at times produced 8,000 boxes. Through his output, in fact, Mr. Ford has come to be known as one of the successful orange growers of today.
At Odell, Ill., on December 4, 1871, Mr. Ford was married to Mary L. Warner, by whom he has had three children. Besides a daughter, Stella M., there is a son, Frank W., who is manager of the Claremont Citrus Association, and another son, Harry G., who is in charge of his father’s extensive ranch.”
Read all of this and more at
http://www.cagenweb.com/archives/Biography/LosAngelesCounty/FordSeldenI.htm
UPDATE: Another photo of Stella has been added. It appears 2 of us have found photos of her, this CDV came out of a shop in Rosamond, Ca and the buyer googled Stella and found my blog. Enjoy!
