Ford Ervin
A self-made farmer and enterprising citizen of Paint township, Fayette county, Ohio, is Ford Ervin, who has a fine farm of one hundred and twenty-five acres on the Ervin pike, about twelve miles north of Washington C. H. He was born July 2, 1874. in Madison county, Ohio, and is the son of William and Clara (Carr) Ervin. William Ervin was the son of Joel Ervin and was a native of this county. Ten children were born to William Ervin and wife, Ludema, who is married; Smith, deceased; Orpha, deceased, who was the wife of A. D. Lukens, and the mother of one son, Roy; Gertrude, who is married; Bethards, of Sedalia, Ohio; O. W.; A. O., a physician and surgeon of New Holland, Ohio; Ford, whose history is here presented; L. L., who is farming the old home place in Madison county; Addie, deceased, who was the wife of Mr. Duff, and left one daughter. Laurel; Clara, who is still at home.
Ford Ervin was educated in the district schools of Madison county and later attended the South Solon high school in the same county. He worked with his father on the home farm until he was married at the age of twenty-six, when he and his brother bought a farm of twenty acres and began to farm it in partnership. A few years later he disposed of his interest in this farm and bought his present farm of one hundred and twenty-five acres. He is a progressive young farmer and is deserving of much credit for the success which has come to him.
Mr. Ervin was married on Christmas day, 1900, to Inez M. Parrett, and to this union two daughters have been born, Louise, born May 8, 1904, and Martha, born March 31, 1906.
Politically, Mr. Ervin is a Republican, but has never been active in political matters. He and his wife are earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal church.
From History of Fayette County Ohio - Her People, Industries and Institutions by Frank M. Allen (1914, R. F. Bowen & Company, Inc.)