Ford family

When Owen Ford, a writer and a poet (wrote The Life Book of Captain Jim), came to see the place that his grandmother grew up in (see The Schoolmaster's Bride or The House of Dreams), he stayed with Leslie Moore, who was forced to be married to her husband, who after returning from a sea voyage 12-years before, had lost all memory. They fell in love, but were prevented from marrying by Leslie Moore's so-called husband. Gilbert Blythe, the local doctor and husband of Anne Blythe (nee Shirley) said that an operation in Ontario could return his memory. After the procedure, it was found out that the man whom everyone thought Leslie Moore's husband was his cousin, George Moore, who had always looked remarkably like him, and who had come to Four Winds to tell Leslie that her husband had died of yellow fever. George Moore went to live with his relatives, and Leslie and Owen were married.

They had two children, Persis Ford and Kenneth Ford. The latter married Rilla Blythe, the main character of Rilla of Ingleside, and the couple had two children, Gilbert Ford and Rilla Ford.