Category Archives: Sandford

There are several detailed accounts of the Sandford family’s early roots in England and colonial America.  It is generally agreed that three Sandford brothers, Robert, Thomas, and Andrew sailed with their uncle Andrew Warner around 1634, landing in Cambridge and soon establishing themselves in the Hartford Colony which had begun to establish itself as anContinue reading “The Charter Oak Incident”

From the Joe Sandford Living History Interviews, 1973 This comes back to the days of the Ontario National Bank following the First World War, [me] being Vice-President of the Bank and so forth.  Mr. Bucknell (1) had owned a farm back in Burroughs, Michigan, and he owned property up here across the creek from <unclear>. Continue reading “The Bucknell Story”

I’m getting ready to do a sequence of articles on the Sandford branch of the family, from grandfather EJ (Joe) Sandford all the way back to the first Sandfords to come to America in 1634. There is a lot of material and it will take some time. To get things started, here is an accountContinue reading “Joe Sandford discusses his father ET Sandford”

Joe: We used to hike clear up to the top of Baldy, Ontario Peak. Q.  All the way to the top? Joe:  Oh, yes.  Margaret and I and two of our children were up there right after the Second World War was declared.  We were clear on the top.  It was a warm day, andContinue reading “Mount Baldy”

And my father and family moved out to Corona, California, a little community across the valley, about 1897.  I was a little boy then.  We lived in corona for some ten years, perhaps twelve years.  I went to grammar school there.  Incidentally, Mrs. Sandford and I took two lovely people that lived there at thatContinue reading “Joe Sandford Living History Interview, 1973”