A father's wish
My father, Grady Albert Ford died on Christmas Eve 2007. He had been sick for a long time and went to be with his loved ones. My father's one wish was never answered before his death and my sister and I would like to continue his never ending quest to find long lost family members. My father's parents Albert Grady Ford and Elsie Irene Jenkins were married and divorced. In that marriage there was my father and his sister Janet Ford. My grandfather, Albert Grady remarried, we do not know to whom or where. We do know that he was from Lousisiana and that my grandparents were married in Grant Parish LA. Apparently my grandfather had at least 2 other, possibly 3, children with his second wife. There was one son and one daughter we know of. These would have been my father's half siblings.
After my grandparents were divorced my father and his sister never had any more contact with his father. Though when he was stationed in LA. during his stint in the army he did meet some of his other family, an uncle and aunt, Langston Ford and his wife Lois. Langston was Albert Grady's brother. This is when my father found out about his half siblings, though they never met and he never had any contact with them.
My father's one wish was to one day make contact with more family, especially his brother and sister. This never happened and now my sister and I are looking for any information on this family branch. We did make a few connections several years ago and managed to get more genealogy information on my grandfather's family. But none of that helped my father or us connect to his siblings.
They may or may not now live in Louisiana. We do know that my uncle's name is William or Bill and would have been born after 1936. And my aunt's name is either Annice or Ann, again she would have been born after 1936. We have no idea what their mother's name was just the father Albert Grady Ford from Louisiana. Albert died in 1960 in Chicago Illinois if that helped any. His father's name was Albert Lemuel Ford and his mother was Nannie A. Coleman Ford. She was later remarried to a Charles Prentice or Prentiss.
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