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Born 1855, Auglaize county
From The history of Jasper county, Missouri : including a condensed history of the state, a complete history of Carthage and Joplin, other towns and townships : together with numerous portraits of prominen (1883)
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.
As printed in The history of Jasper county, Missouri : including a condensed history of the state, a complete history of Carthage and Joplin, other towns and townships : together with numerous portraits of prominent (1883). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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