Lenoir County NcArchives Photo Tombstone.....Fordham, Mary Elizabeth Taylor 
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Cemetery:           Colonel John Williams Cemetery
Name:               Mary Elizabeth Taylor Fordham
Photo can be seen at:
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The daughter of Caroline Williams and William Green Taylor and 
nicknamed "Puss," she was born Feb. 15, 1865. She married William Gaston 
Fordham and they had 10 children: William Gaston, Jr., Delilah Elizabeth 
Fordham, John Ivey Fordham, Robert Taylor Fordham, Benjamin Oliver Fordham, 
Lott Branch (L.B) Fordham, Little Annie Caroline Fordham, Virginia Ann 
Fordham, Carrie Mae Whitaker and James Albert Fordham. She died April 18, 1962 
and was buried in the Colonel John Williams Cemetery.
 
Obit reads:
Mrs. Mary E. Fordham
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Taylor Fordham, 97, widow of W. G. Fordham of Jones 
County, died about 11:20pm Wednesday in a local nursing home. She was the 
daughter of the late W. G. and Caroline Williams Taylor of Lenoir County and a 
member of Pleasant Hill Christian Church.  Funeral services will be held from 
Garner's Funeral Chapel at 3pm Friday. Rev. H. L. Harrell, Methodist of Pink 
Hill, and Rev. John A. Snyder, Presbyterian of Kinston, will officiate. Burial 
will follow in the Williams Cemetery near Woodington. Survivors include four 
sons, Robert T. of Kinston Route 3, B. O. and James A., both of Kinston, and 
L. B. Fordham of Jacksonville; two daughters, Mrs. Landon Humphrey of Kinston 
and Mrs. K. J. Smith of Albertson; 29 grandchildren; a number of great-
grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews. Grandsons will serve as 
pallbearers.
 
joint headstone with husband
tombstone reads:
Mary E. Taylor Fordham
Feb. 15, 1865
April 18, 1962
Forever honored. Forever remembered.



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