Joseph S Ford's parents, George and Nazella Ford, are buried in Post Oak Cemetery, Montgomery County, TX. Her parents are buried there also. Father is on findagrave, mother's burial location from information on an ancestry tree.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/183258524https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/183258749/nazella-fordHis brother George died 29 Apr 1983, Montgomery County (exact date this time). He isn't on findagrave for Montgomery County. familysearch doesn't turn him up anywhere on findagrave.
His brother Johnnie died 13 November 1967 in Houston. (exact date this time). I don't see him at familysearch for findgrave either.
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http://www.countygenweb.com/txmontgomery/collins&johnson_funeral-Home.htm"The Collins & Johnson Funeral Home at 612 Avenue E in Conroe. The funeral home has served the community for more than a century.
"The oldest funeral home in Montgomery County still in operation today was established to provide Christian burial services for minority residents in a largely white community.
"The Collins & Johnson Funeral Home is located at 612 Avenue E in Conroe. For information, call 936-756-2311. For information on Conroe and Montgomery County history, visit
www.heritagemuseum.us or call 936-539-6873."
This is a page on the county genweb site. The sidebar offers links for research, the library, etc, which might help.
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Just in case: List of black owned funeral homes in Houston.
http://www.thehoustonblackpages.com/BusinessDirectory/houston-black-owned-funeral-homes-directory~5592---------
I provided the information on the funeral homes, because a lot of African Americans use/used a funeral program to provide obituary information. The program is passed out at the wake and funeral at the funeral home. This was because for the longest time the white owned newspapers would not carry obituaries or death notices for black people.
So, there might not be any obituaries to be found in the papers. If you talk to that funeral home in Montgomery Co, they might be helpful if you explain your connection and reason for interest. If they didn't conduct the funerals for the family, they probably know who did.
The cemetery, if you can track it down, might tell you who owned the grave, again if you ask nice and explain you are related and are looking for descendants of Joseph.
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By the way, try the same stragegy for Joseph S Ford himself. Where would he have been buried from, as a black man dying in San Pablo CA? and go from there.
Best I can figure right now,
Any info on Olive's birth year and where she was last seen?