Frank Richards Ford III

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1. Named with husband as parents of bridegroom John Charles Cox in NYT 1979 wedding notice (Rock Port, Mo.).

   In the First Presbyterian Church in Greenwich, Conn., yesterday, Emily Van Orden Ford, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Richards Ford 3d of Greenwich, was married to John Charles Cox, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Henry Cox of Rock Port, Mo. ... Lucy Dewitt Jewett was maid of honor for her cousin. Maria Hope Ford, the bride's sister; Claire Frances Cox, the bridegroom's sister; ... were bridesmaids.

2. F. Richards (Dick) Ford III '50 died 10 Jan 2021 at longtime home in Greenwich; first wife and five children survive (with later wives Natashia Boissevain, Phoebe Ballard).

   Dick died Jan. 10, 2021, at his longtime home in Greenwich, Conn. ... Phoebe survives him, as does his first wife and their five children and eight grandchildren.

3. Married Frank Richards Ford Jr. in 1927; died 1980-01-02; named Cornelia Ward Burchell on husband's PAW memorial.

   Frank is survived by his children, F. Richards III '50, Cornelia Ford Gise, and Susan Ford Hammaker, nine grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren…

4. Named mother of F. Richards Ford IV (Rick Ford) on Maoyan celebrity biography.

   Rick Ford，F. Richards Ford IV was born and raised in Greenwich, CT on December 21, 1956 to parents Mary Hope Lewis of New York City and F. Richards Ford III of Southport, CT. His mother is a graduate of Wellesley College and his father a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Virginia Law School.

5. Wellesley graduate (NYT 1950 wedding headline; Rick Ford bio: 'His mother is a graduate of Wellesley College').

   WARWICK, N. Y., June 24- Miss Mary Hope Lewis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Madison H. Lewis of 12 East Seventy-third Street, New York, and Wyndhurst, Warwick, was married here this afternoon to Frank Richards Ford 3d, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ford Jr. 02 Driftway, Southport, Conn., and 530 East Eighty-sixth Street, New York, in the Dutch Reformed Church. ... Miss Joan Sanford Lewis, sister of the bride, and Miss Nancy Ellen Angell were maids of honor. The bridesmaids were the Misses Elizabeth Lewis, another sister of the bride; Cornelia Ford, sister of the bridegroom; ...

6. Mother (maiden Burchell) of F. Richards Ford III; named with husband Frank Richards Ford, Jr. on son's fetched Greenwich Time/Legacy 2021 obituary.

   Born June 12, 1928 in New York City to Frank Richards Ford, Jr. and Cornelia Ward Burchell, he attended Allen Stevenson School and was a member of The Knickerbocker Greys before his family moved to Southport, CT. … Dick is survived by his wife Phoebe, his younger sister Susan Hammaker. He is also survived by Mary Hope Lewis, his first wife and their five children: Emily Cox, Madison Ford, F. Richards "Rick" Ford IV, Christopher Ford, Mariah Brown and his eight grandchildren.

7. Named as father of bridegroom John Charles Cox of Rock Port/Rockport, Mo., in NYT engagement and wedding notices for Emily Van Orden Ford.

   Mr. and Mrs. Frank Richards Ford 3d of Greenwich, Conn., have announced the engagement of their daughter, Emily Van Orden Ford, to John Charles Cox of Oyster Bay, L.I., son of Mr. and Mrs. John Henry Cox of Rockport, Mo. Miss Ford, who was presented in New York in 1970, and her fiancé plan to be married June 23 in Greenwich.