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Relda Ford |
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Relda Ford was born in San Francisco, California, on December 8, 1888. She was the daughter of Tirey L. Ford, a former California state senator and attorney general. View her FamilySearch profile. Learn more about Relda Ford in Tirey Lafayette Ford by Gregory F. Henderson. |
| Important Facts |
| December 8, 1888 | Mary Relda Ford was born in San Francisco, California. She was the first child of Tirey L. Ford, a former California state senator and attorney general who also authored Dawn of the Dons, a history of the Monterey Peninsula, and Mary Emma Byington. | |
| 1893 | Byington's parents moved to San Francisco, because his father accepted a partnership with ex-Senator Charles W. Cross in the firm Cross, Ford, Hall & Kelly. | |
| June 8, 1900 | The US Census lists and F. L. Ford (42), Emma (37) Mary R. (11) and Byington (9) living in San Francisco, California. Source: US Federal Census. | |
| She attended high school in San Francisco and graduated from the San Francisco Girls’ High School. She was raised a Catholic. | ||
| June 1, 1908 | Relda she married Frederick Van Devender Stott, in San Francisco. Source:The San Francisco Chronicle, Tuesday, June 2, 1908. | |
| April 30, 1910 | Relda, age 27, was listed in the 1910 U.S. Census with her father, Tirey Ford (52), mother, Emma B. (47), and brother, Tirey L. Jr. (12). Source:1910 U.S. Census for Maple Street, San Francisco, California, Series: T624 Roll: 100 Page: 85. | |
| June 17, 1916 | Relda and Fred Stott divorced in San Francisco, California. Source:“T. L. Ford’s Daughter Will Seek Divorce,” The San Francisco Examiner, Nov 11, 1915, page 6. | |
| February 8, 1919 | Relda married Samuel F. B Morse - the great grandson and namesake of the inventor of the telegraph. Morse formed the Del Monte Properties Company and acquired those holdings, which included Del Monte Forestand the popular Hotel Del Monte (now the Naval Postgraduate Schoolin Monterey). The funding came from the Pacific Improvement Company. | |
| September 5, 1920 | Mary Relda Morse was born in San Francisco, California. |
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| April 11, 1920 | At the end of the polo season, Byington Ford along with Mr. and Mrs. Samuel F.B. Morse entertained at a dinner in Pebble Beach, near Del Monte Lodge. Source: The San Francisco Chronicle. | |
| November 17, 1920 | Relda attended the wedding of brother Byington Ford and Marion Boisot in Pebble Beach, California. Source: Chicago Daily Tribune; San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, California) Page: 45. |
November 17, 1920 |
| November 20, 1920 | Relda's husband, Samuel F. B. Morse gave a luncheon at the Del Monte golf clubhouse in honor of his brother-in-law, Byington Ford, and Miss Marion Boisot. Source: San Francisco Chronicle, Page: 14. | |
| January 26, 1921 | Relda and her husband, Samuel F. B. Morse entertained a party in the Palm Grill at the Hotel del Monte on Friday evening. Among those at dinner, with dancing were, Mr. and Mrs. Byington Ford. Source: The San Francisco Chronicle. | |
| June 12, 1921 | Relda's mother, Mrs. Emma Byington Ford died on June 10, 1921 at the family home at 2800 Jackson Street. Funeral services were at Byington Ford's home at 3860 Clay Street and proceed to St. Edwards's Church on California Street, between Walnut and Laurel Street. Source: San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, California) Page: 9. | |
| June 26, 1928 | Relda's father, Tirey L. Ford, died of a heart attack, in bed after he had ordered breakfast sent up to his room, at the Pacific Union Club in San Francisco. Source: S. F. Newspaper. |
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| November 2, 1951 | At age 63, Relda Ford died of a heart attack at her home in Pebble Beach, California, after returning from a week's trip to La Jolla. Funeral services were held in the chapel of The Paul Mortuary in Pacific Grove, California. She was survived by her husband, Samuel F. B. Morse, and daughter, Mary Relda Morse. Sources: The San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, California, November 3, 1951. Mary Shaw Obituary. |
