Ada was the third of eight children born to Francis M. and Mary Jane (Lane) Kivett. She married James Lonnie Ferguson and they had four children: Mary, Huel Faye, James Ross and Martha J.
Greensboro Daily News, NC September 26, 1971
MRS. J. LONNIE FERGUSON
LIBERTY - Mrs. Ada Ferguson, 72, wife of J. Lonnie Ferguson, died Friday at home after a long illness. Funeral will be 3 p.m. today at Loflin Funeral Home Chapel here. Survivors in addition to husband are daughters, Mrs. S. J. Pattishaw and Mrs. Jane Hemphill, both of Liberty and Mrs. Ray Terry of Rt. 2; brother, Troy Kivett of Asheboro, Walter Kivett of Trinity, J. Cleve Kivett of Liberty and William Kivett of Rt. 1, Franklinville; sister, Mrs. Mae Stevenson of Rt. 1, Staley.
"North Carolina, Department of Archives and History, Index to Vital Records, 1800-2000," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPTW-MCQB : 13 November 2019), Ada Kivett Fergueson, 24 Sep 1971; citing Death, North Carolina State Archives, Division of Archives and History, Raleigh; FHL microfilm 102484004.
"North Carolina Deaths and Burials, 1898-1994", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:H4ZV-3WZM : 14 February 2020), Ada Kivett Ferguson, 1971.
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