The 1883 Jasper County history sketches four Ward households and never says how one is related to another, so each is kept apart here. John Ward, born in Perry County, Ohio, in 1810, cleared three farms in the Ohio woods, moved to Henry County, Missouri, in 1869, and then settled on forty acres in Jasper County, where his grandson Eugene L. Ward farmed with him. John P. Ward, born in Auglaize County, Ohio, in 1858, was the son of Daniel Ward, and his mother later married Jesse Heston, a Jasper County farmer. F. F. Ward, born in Weakley County, Tennessee, in 1846, came to the county in 1868 and was a partner in a mining firm sinking shafts on the Granby lands. Every fact below is cited to a public-domain Jasper County history.
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Ohio pioneer; grandfather of Eugene L. Ward
Farmer; grandson of John Ward
EUGENE L. WARD was born July 1, 1855, in Auglaize county, Ohio. He has lived with his grandfather, John Ward, almost all his life. His grandfather was born in Perry county, Ohio, April 5, 1810, and was one of the pioneers of Ohio. He has cleared up three farms in the big woods; has cut his'four cords of wood many a day, and then gone home and chopped until 9 or 10 o'clock at night. He moved to Henry county. Mo., in
1869, and lived there twenty-two months, and then moved to Jasper county and settled on his present farm of forty acres, well improved, with a good orchard. The subject of this sketch is now living with him and carrying on the farm. He was married to Ella A. Griffin Dec. 30, 1879. She died July 17, 1881. Mr. Ward bids fair to become a leading man.
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Farmer; Union officer
JAMES WARD was born Jan. 1, 1824, in Perry county, Ohio. His father was born in Yirginia, and reared in Ohio. His mother was born in Maryland. James was reared on a farm, and received a common school education. Mr. Ward has been married three times. He was married to Harriet Ward, Oct. 5, 1848, in Allen county, Ohio. By this marriage they have three children living, named William H., Martha J., and John A. Mrs. Ward died Aug. 14, 1858. March 31, 1859, Mr. Ward was married to Miss Dillon, who was born in 1842. Mr. Ward enlisted on May 12th,
1863, in Company D, One Hundred and Fifty-first Ohio Yolnnteer Infantry, as second lieutenant, enlisting for one hundred days. He was sent to "Washington City, D. C, and was there mustered out. In 1868 he moved to Henry county, Mo., farming two years, and then bought his present farm of eighty acres in 1869. Mr. Ward's children by his second wife are Sarah E., Mary M., and James L. Mrs. Ward died Aug. 29, 1869, and he was again married in September, 1879, to Elizabeth Henry. Mr. Ward, is a member of the Dunkard Church; is a pleasant, sociable gentleman and a good farmer.
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Father of John P. Ward
Store clerk and farmer, Jasper
JOHN P. WARD was born Jan. 20, 1858, in Auglaize county, Ohio, and is the son of Daniel Ward, who was born and reared in Ohio, and died in March, 1881. His mother was also a native of Ohio. She married Jessie Heston. He was born in Bucks county, Penn., and moved from Ohio to Jasper county, Mo., in 1870. Young John worked on the farm until twenty-two years of age, and during that time got a good common school education. In 1879 he engaged in a drug store as clerk for Mr. Lewis, in Jasper, one year, and then went to keeping hotel, but did not keep that quite a year, selling out to Mrs. McFarland. He engaged in threshing some time. Next engaged as clerk for Prichard & Thompson, and is still with them, enjoying the esteem and confidence of his employers. Mr. Ward has a fine farm of ninety-three acres.
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Miner on the Granby lands
F. F. WARD. The subject of this sketch was born Feb. 12, 1846, in Weakley county, Teun. He was reared in Green county. Mo., and came to
Jasper county in 1868. On May 20th, 1867, he married Martha Grots, of Pickens county, Texas, who was born in Hardin county, Teun., but raised in Arkansas. The names of their five children are Thomas, Rena, Frank, Walter, and Luther. Mrs. Ward is an exemplary member of the Baptist Church. He is one of the mining firm of Bodley, Downs & Ward, who are successfully and profitably sinking shafts on the Granby lands, where five or six tons are raised each week.
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