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Richard was born on 22 December 1911 in Roaring Springs, Kentucky. He was the son of James Sidney Ledford Jr and Julia Grace (Dawson) Ledford.[1]
Richard died at the age of 84 on 20 June 1996 in Trigg County, KY.
Richard was buried in Green Hill Memorial Gardens, Hopkinsville, KY[2]
From Find A Grave: Memorial #40196335
- Birth: Dec. 22, 1911
- Roaring Spring
- Trigg County
- Kentucky, USA
- Death: Jun. 19, 1996
- Cadiz
- Trigg County
- Kentucky, USA
- KY New Era, 6/20/1996, RICHARD LEDFORD
- CADIZ, Ky. _ Richard A. "Dick" Ledford, 84, Roaring Springs community of Cadiz, died at 11:40 a.m. Wednesday at Trigg County Hospital.
- Services will be at 2:30 p.m. Friday at Goodwin Funeral Home, with the Rev. Billy Joe Nichols officiating. Burial will be in Green Hill Memorial Gardens, Christian County.
- Visitation will be from 4 to 8 tonight at the funeral home.
- A native of Trigg County, he was born Dec. 22, 1911, son of the late James Sidney Ledford II and his wife, the late Julia Dawson Ledford. He was a retired farmer, having owned his family's farm, whichwas more than 100 years old.
- He was a member of the Civilian Conservation Corps, a former Trigg County school board member, a Soil Conservation board member, a charter member of the Pennyroyal Farm Analysis and a member, deacon and elder of Roaring Springs Christian Church.
- Survivors include his wife, Mary Robertson Ledford; five sons, Richard A. Ledford, Union City, Tenn., and Carl Lee Ledford, James Ray Ledford, Robert Thomas Ledford and Steve Leonard Ledford, all of Cadiz; two daughters, Dean Ledford Duncan, Cadiz, and Mary Ann Ledford Krol, Frankfort; a sister, Julia Grace Maddox, Memphis, Tenn.; and 13 grandchildren, three step-grandchildren and great-grandchild.
- Expressions of sympathy may take the form of donations to Roaring Springs Christian Church.
- Family links:
- Parents:
- James Sidney Ledford (1864 - 1952)
- Julia Dawson Ledford (1875 - 1940)
- Spouse:
- Mary Robertson Ledford (1918 - 2011)*
- Burial:
- Green Hill Memorial Gardens
- Hopkinsville
- Christian County
- Kentucky, USA
- Created by: Julia Maddox Mortenson
- Record added: Aug 02, 2009
- Find A Grave Memorial# 40196335
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