The information about Ralph Edwin Ford was optain from the following:
Journal and Courier Newspaper, 30 Sept 1997
Ralph E. Ford 87, Boswell- Ralph E. Ford, 87, of 210 Foster St.., died at 12:25 a.m. Monday, 29 Sept, in the Edgewood Manor in Oxford. Mr. ford farmed most of his life. Born in Vermilion County,. Ill, he lived in Warren and Benton counties most of his life and was a 1929 graduate of West Lebanon High School. He married Ruth Lucas in Attica on Dec. 31, 1939. She died Oct. 9, 1991 (.....).