Elsie Fordham

Elsie's father was Charlie Edgar Fordham and her mother was Ida Waters.  Her paternal grandparents were Wiley Fordham and Lucretia Cannon. She had five brothers and three sisters, named Johnny "Buddy", Frank, Morgan, C. W., Grady Brooks, Bernice, Eva Lee and Maggie. She had three half-brothers and seven half-sisters, named Irvin Oscar, James Hendley, Wiley, Emma Louise, Anne Hassie, Lizzie Mae, Mary Ollie, Bertha, Myrtle Victoria and Willie.