MySource:MMatt/Grace Ford Testimony

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MySource Grace Ford Testimony
Author Grace Ford nee Atkinson
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Place Chickasaw, Mississippi, United States
Year range 1921 - 1976
Surname Smith
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Type Affidavit
Citation
Grace Ford nee Atkinson. Grace Ford Testimony.
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Description

This affidavit was drawn up by Grace Ford nee Atkinson the granddaughter of Sarah Ann Smith nee Hill and signed in front of a notary public on May 17, 1976. It documents the inaccuracy of the existing tombstone in Houston cemetery, as well as the dispute concerning the failure to correct the tombstone. This is also a first-hand account of the death providing a date and place of death.

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Grace Ford's signed testimony concerning her grandmother's tombstone

"I, Grace Atkinson Ford, of Houston, Mississippi do hereby swear that I was at the bed side of my grandmother, Sarah (Sally) Ann Hill Smith when she died March 17, 1921 at Calhoun City, Mississippi.

Columbus Marble Works of Columbus Miss. promised to correct her grave stone which they erected in the Houston, Miss. cemetery, but they failed to do it.

Signed: Grace Atkinson Ford

Subscribed and sworn before me this the 17th day of May, 1976.

[Signed:]Mary J. Hickman Notary Public

My Commission Expires: June 13, 1976"

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