Ward - William W. - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Wm. W. WARD, farmer, Mace, was born February 16, 1835, in Union township, Montgomery County, Indiana, and is a son of Uzal and Lydia ( LAFUSE ) Ward. His parents came from Union County, Indiana, to Montgomery County about 1834 and settled southeast of Crawfordsville, where they bought 160 acres of land. There they spent their remaining years. Mr. Ward was born in 1801, in Ohio, and died May 8, 1877, and Mrs. Ward was born 1802, in Union County, Indiana, and died July 7,1870. They were widely known, and did much toward developing the soil and increasing the prosperity of the County. They were earnest christian people, and members of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Ward was a democrat, then a republican. His elder brothers were in the War of 1812. In their family were eight children: James, Julia A., Samuel J., Wm. W. and Mary E., Alfred, John L. and Elizabeth deceased. William W. when nineteen years old began life for himself. For some years he farmed the home place. In 1857 he bought twenty-six and two-thirds acres of land adjoining his father's. He sold this and bought seventy acres near Shannondale. He then traded for the farm of eighty-two acres on which he now lives, and has added to his possessions until he now owns the W. 1/2 of S. W. 1/4 Sec. 6, and E. 1/2 of N. W. 1/4 Sec. 7, and W. 1/2 of N.W. 1/4 Sec. 33. He enlisted in August 1862, in Co. K, 86 Ind. Inf., under Col. George F. Dick. He was engaged at Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, all the battles in the Atlantic campaign; was at Franklin and Nashville, and was discharged in June 1865, when he returned to the quiet pursuit of farming. He was married December 31, 1857, to Mary A. LINN, daughter of William H. and Eliza Linn, early settlers of Montgomery County. They have two children: Lillia F. and Eliza J. Mr. and Mrs. Ward are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He has been a life-long and staunch republican, and is today one of the successful farmers of the County. -- kbz

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Source: Crawfordsville Daily JOurnal 26 April 1907 p 5

William W. Ward was born February 16, 1835, in Union township, Montgomery County, Indiana, and died Thursday evening, April 25, aged seventy-two years. he was a son of Usal Ward. His parents came from Union County, Indiana, to Montgomery County in 1834. W. W. Ward, when nineteen years old, began life for himself. For some years he farmed the home place. In 1857 he bought twenty-six acres of land adjoining his father's. He sold this and bought seventy acres near Shannondale. He then traded for the farm of eighty-two acres on which Homer Dice now lives. He enlisted in August, 1862, in Co. K, 86 th Ind. Inf., under Col. George F. Dick. He was engaged at Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, all the battles in the Atlantic campaign, was at Franklin and Nashville, and was discharged in June, 1865, when he returned home. He was married, December 31, 1857, to Mary A. Linn, daughter of William H. and Eliza Linn, early settlers of this County. They had two children, Lillia F., who married J. F. Dice, and Eliza J., who married J. H. Fletcher. Mr. and Mrs. Ward were members of the M. E. Church and will be greatly missed in this locality. He has been a lifelong and staunch Republican. The funeral occurred Saturday at the M. E. Church. - kbz