Ward - David G. - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

David G. Ward, son of Stephen and Mary Ward was born July 15, 1803, at Madisonville, Ohio:  died March 28, 1894, at Thorntown, Indiana, age 90 years, 8 months and 13 days.  The deceased, with his parents, moved to Indiana in 1818 and settled in Union county, near Liberty.  He was married December 13, 1826 to Elenor Lafuze.  Side by side with the companion of his youth they have trodden the pathway of life together for nearly 68 years.  She is left at the very sunset of life to linger for the summons.  To this union there were born nine sons and three daughters, of whom six sons and one daughter still survive him and were around the bier of their father.  In 1854, the deceased moved from the old farm in Liberty to Madison county, where he remained two years and then took up his abode in Montgomery county until 1864; just thirty years ago he became a citizen of Thorntown and has made this vicinity his home ever since.  This long life, reaching into every decade of the nineteenth century, was full, round and complete.  All the qualities that go to make a good citizen were his in an eminent degree.  As a neighbor and friend he was considerate, generous and kind; as the head of a family he was provident, exemplary and faithful; as a citizen, temperate, industrious and strictly honest in all his business transactions.  It can be truly said of him as the host of Israel said of Samuel:  Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken aught of any man's land."  In these days of fraud, embezzlement, chicanery, bribery, corruption and impurity, such an upright life shines forth as a brilliant beacon light to guide us into the onward and upward path.  In 1860 he connected himself with the Christian church, saying by this act to the world, that he wished to be identified with the people of God as well as to follow the teachings of the Master.  He has been faithful to the end.  The Golden Rule has been the guiding star of his life.  He has realized the rich blessing of the patriarch Job.  "Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in his season." - thanks to Kim H