Family: Richard Ward / Elizabeth McLemore (F8483)

• Father | Male Richard Ward

  
  

  Born	Bef 1797	North Carolina
  Died	Apr 1850	Franklin County, North Carolina
  Buried
  Married	29 Dec 1816  [1]	Franklin County, North Carolina  [1]
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  Mother | Female Elizabeth McLemore

  
  

  Born	Abt 1797	North Carolina
  Died	Bef 1850
  Buried
  Father	Abraham McLemore | F8475 Group Sheet
  Mother	Mary "Polly" Nicholson | F8475 Group Sheet

  
  

• Notes

  Married: Martha Hunt emailed, in January 2012, that "I am a descendant of Seth Ward (b.1821), the son of Richard and Elizabeth McLemore Ward. They were married in Dec. 1816, Franklin Co., NC. Richard Ward died in April, 1850. They had the following children: Mary Ward Blacknall Wagstaff b. Oct. 1817, Seth Ward, b.1821, Benjamin Ward, Atkins Ward, Nathan P. Ward b. June 1833, Sarah A. "Sallie" Ward Gray b.1837, Presley Ward b. July 1839. They were all born in Franklin Co., NC. Benjamin Ward relocated to Harrison Co., Tx by 1859; Atkins Ward, Nathan, Presley and Sarah Ward relocated to Austin Co., Tx shortly before the Civil War. Mary Ward Wagstaff moved there also. Seth Ward remained in Franklin Co., NC. " Martha later emailed that "In 1859 Nathan Perry Ward, Atkin, Presley, and Sarah "Sallie" Ward relocated their households to the area around Justice Precinct 3 in Austin County, Texas. Mary Ward Blacknall had remariied. Her husband, Joseph J. Wagstaff, and her children moved to Austin County, Texas also. Sarah Ward married George C. Gray in Texas. They had one daughter, Elizabeth Gray (b. 1868)."

  
  

• Sources

  [S321] Freeman, Mark (mwfgenealogy@verizon.net) "Mostly Southern" http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=markfreeman ; Ver. 2008-09-19 17:51:13.