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John W DeFord
29 May 1840 – 27 Apr 1916
| Birth | 29 May 1840 |
| Death | 27 Apr 1916 |
| Cemetery | Grandview Cemetery Carrollton , Carroll County , Ohio , USA |
| Added by | Richard Culler on 10 Apr 2014 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/87513090 |
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Obituary in the Free Press Standard, Carrollton, Ohio, Thursday, April 27, 1916. John W. DeFord died in the home of his son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. W. O. DeFord, this morning. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 10:30 Standard time in the Presbyterian church, Rev. K. J. Stewart and Rev. James H. Hawk officiating. Mr. DeFord was born May 29, 1840, on the farm now owned and occupied by Dr. J. M. Long, in Augusta Twp. He was married to Elvira Croxton, November 18, 1861, by the late Rev. Sheridan Baker in the Croxton homestead in Washington Twp. Mrs. DeFord and two sons, Judge Union C. DeFord, ex-probate judge of Carroll County, now a prominent attorney in Youngstown, and Walter O. DeFord, assistant secretary of the Cummings trust-co, and one brother, Nathan B. DeFord, of Bayard, survives. Mr. DeFord lived his entire life in Carroll County. He was one of the organizers of the J. P. Cummings Bank Company and the First National Bank, of Carrollton, one of the largest stockholders in the Cummings Trust Company, at Carrollton, and the Minerva Savings and trust company, in Minerva, a stockholder in the Carrollton electrical Company, and an extensive land owner in this county and also in the west. He was a natural mechanic, a musician in his younger days, and a great lover of birds and flowers. He was a man of excellent executive ability, honest and upright in his dealings and one of the most substantial members of the DeFord connection. He was a man who never sought the time light, but his advice was valuable in every instance. He was a thinker and a successful business man. His final illness covered a period of ten months, and during that time suffered untold pain from bone cancer of the upper jaw. He made but little complaint, but the ravage of the disease showed on his once-powerful frame. In the passing of John DeFord Carroll County loses one of its most powerful citizens. Information researched by Richard Paul Culler of Carrollton, Ohio. #46848597
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