Moses Matheny Ward was one of about ten children of Timothy Ward and Rebecca Matheny, a couple who married Aug. 18, 1806 in Belmont Co., Ohio.
Moses married Matilda Moore, Aug. 18, 1838, in Monroe Co., Ohio. They lived in Ohio about ten years, then removed to Brown Co., Indiana in the late 1840s, and resided there for the next thirty years.
Matilda died in 1874, and Moses moved to Ellinwood, Kansas about 1878, along with a large contingent of relatives and neighbors from Indiana. They traveled overland, in covered wagons. Brown Co. (Indiana) had never been very productive farmland, with its steep hills and clay soil. By the late 1870s, the land was barren and stripped out, the forest clear-cut for the barrel stave industry, and the soil badly eroded. Fertile ground in Kansas beckoned in the west. Moses married 2nd to Cassinda (Joy) Ward (his brother Stephen's widow), on Jan. 10, 1879, in Barton Co., Kansas.
Moses and Matilda had nine children. In addition to the six linked here, there were also these three, none of whom were mentioned when Moses Ward composed his will in 1890:
1. Mary Jane Ward, born Feb. 20, 1846, Belmont Co., Ohio, last documented in Brown Co., Indiana on the 1860 census.
2. Rebecca A. Ward, born Jan. 3, 1852, Pike's Peak, Brown Co., Indiana, also last found on the 1860 census in Brown Co.
3. Albert Ewing Ward, born Feb. 7, 1589, Pike's Peak, Brown Co., Indiana. This Albert was last documented on the 1870 census in Brown Co. (He was NOT the Albert Ward living in Lake Co., Oregon, in 1880.)
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Great Bend Register
Great Bend, Kansas
Thursday, Aug. 10, 1893
Moses Ward, who was buried Thursday, was a brother of J.N. Ward and Mrs. Boomer, of this city.
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Siblings:
James N. Ward, #100855488
Nancy (Ward) Moore Boomer, #154708188
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POST SCRIP ERROR CORRECTION:
About 1992, this submitter composed a biographical sketch for Moses Ward for the Brown County (Indiana) Family Histories Book...wherein I reported his name as Moses MILLARD Ward. That was an egregious error, based my own misread of a deed record, which I later discovered said NO such thing; but it was already printed in the Brown County book, and there was no undoing that. The error has since been picked up by numerous other researchers and included in their family profiles. I humbly hope to correct the record here for all time: MOSES MATHENY WARD was his correct full name. Matheny was his mother's maiden name, a standard naming pattern. His full name (given as Moses Mathena Ward, viewable online) IS documented on one Bureau of Land records deed made in Brown Co., Indiana, Jan. 15, 1851, #22325, probably the only certain source. See BLM-GLO records.
PPS: Memorial submitter and FG member Donna Kuhlman has possession of the original tin-type images of Moses and Matilda Ward, likely the only copies in existence; and many more early Ward family photos. Always happy to share these images. Anyone wishing to have higher resolution copies may contact submitter directly through the edit tab or listed email.
Moses married Matilda Moore, Aug. 18, 1838, in Monroe Co., Ohio. They lived in Ohio about ten years, then removed to Brown Co., Indiana in the late 1840s, and resided there for the next thirty years.
Matilda died in 1874, and Moses moved to Ellinwood, Kansas about 1878, along with a large contingent of relatives and neighbors from Indiana. They traveled overland, in covered wagons. Brown Co. (Indiana) had never been very productive farmland, with its steep hills and clay soil. By the late 1870s, the land was barren and stripped out, the forest clear-cut for the barrel stave industry, and the soil badly eroded. Fertile ground in Kansas beckoned in the west. Moses married 2nd to Cassinda (Joy) Ward (his brother Stephen's widow), on Jan. 10, 1879, in Barton Co., Kansas.
Moses and Matilda had nine children. In addition to the six linked here, there were also these three, none of whom were mentioned when Moses Ward composed his will in 1890:
1. Mary Jane Ward, born Feb. 20, 1846, Belmont Co., Ohio, last documented in Brown Co., Indiana on the 1860 census.
2. Rebecca A. Ward, born Jan. 3, 1852, Pike's Peak, Brown Co., Indiana, also last found on the 1860 census in Brown Co.
3. Albert Ewing Ward, born Feb. 7, 1589, Pike's Peak, Brown Co., Indiana. This Albert was last documented on the 1870 census in Brown Co. (He was NOT the Albert Ward living in Lake Co., Oregon, in 1880.)
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Great Bend Register
Great Bend, Kansas
Thursday, Aug. 10, 1893
Moses Ward, who was buried Thursday, was a brother of J.N. Ward and Mrs. Boomer, of this city.
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Siblings:
James N. Ward, #100855488
Nancy (Ward) Moore Boomer, #154708188
*****
POST SCRIP ERROR CORRECTION:
About 1992, this submitter composed a biographical sketch for Moses Ward for the Brown County (Indiana) Family Histories Book...wherein I reported his name as Moses MILLARD Ward. That was an egregious error, based my own misread of a deed record, which I later discovered said NO such thing; but it was already printed in the Brown County book, and there was no undoing that. The error has since been picked up by numerous other researchers and included in their family profiles. I humbly hope to correct the record here for all time: MOSES MATHENY WARD was his correct full name. Matheny was his mother's maiden name, a standard naming pattern. His full name (given as Moses Mathena Ward, viewable online) IS documented on one Bureau of Land records deed made in Brown Co., Indiana, Jan. 15, 1851, #22325, probably the only certain source. See BLM-GLO records.
PPS: Memorial submitter and FG member Donna Kuhlman has possession of the original tin-type images of Moses and Matilda Ward, likely the only copies in existence; and many more early Ward family photos. Always happy to share these images. Anyone wishing to have higher resolution copies may contact submitter directly through the edit tab or listed email.
Moses Matheny Ward was one of about ten children of Timothy Ward and Rebecca Matheny, a couple who married Aug. 18, 1806 in Belmont Co., Ohio.
Moses married Matilda Moore, Aug. 18, 1838, in Monroe Co., Ohio. They lived in Ohio about ten years, then removed to Brown Co., Indiana in the late 1840s, and resided there for the next thirty years.
Matilda died in 1874, and Moses moved to Ellinwood, Kansas about 1878, along with a large contingent of relatives and neighbors from Indiana. They traveled overland, in covered wagons. Brown Co. (Indiana) had never been very productive farmland, with its steep hills and clay soil. By the late 1870s, the land was barren and stripped out, the forest clear-cut for the barrel stave industry, and the soil badly eroded. Fertile ground in Kansas beckoned in the west. Moses married 2nd to Cassinda (Joy) Ward (his brother Stephen's widow), on Jan. 10, 1879, in Barton Co., Kansas.
Moses and Matilda had nine children. In addition to the six linked here, there were also these three, none of whom were mentioned when Moses Ward composed his will in 1890:
1. Mary Jane Ward, born Feb. 20, 1846, Belmont Co., Ohio, last documented in Brown Co., Indiana on the 1860 census.
2. Rebecca A. Ward, born Jan. 3, 1852, Pike's Peak, Brown Co., Indiana, also last found on the 1860 census in Brown Co.
3. Albert Ewing Ward, born Feb. 7, 1589, Pike's Peak, Brown Co., Indiana. This Albert was last documented on the 1870 census in Brown Co. (He was NOT the Albert Ward living in Lake Co., Oregon, in 1880.)
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Great Bend Register
Great Bend, Kansas
Thursday, Aug. 10, 1893
Moses Ward, who was buried Thursday, was a brother of J.N. Ward and Mrs. Boomer, of this city.
*****
Siblings:
James N. Ward, #100855488
Nancy (Ward) Moore Boomer, #154708188
*****
POST SCRIP ERROR CORRECTION:
About 1992, this submitter composed a biographical sketch for Moses Ward for the Brown County (Indiana) Family Histories Book...wherein I reported his name as Moses MILLARD Ward. That was an egregious error, based my own misread of a deed record, which I later discovered said NO such thing; but it was already printed in the Brown County book, and there was no undoing that. The error has since been picked up by numerous other researchers and included in their family profiles. I humbly hope to correct the record here for all time: MOSES MATHENY WARD was his correct full name. Matheny was his mother's maiden name, a standard naming pattern. His full name (given as Moses Mathena Ward, viewable online) IS documented on one Bureau of Land records deed made in Brown Co., Indiana, Jan. 15, 1851, #22325, probably the only certain source. See BLM-GLO records.
PPS: Memorial submitter and FG member Donna Kuhlman has possession of the original tin-type images of Moses and Matilda Ward, likely the only copies in existence; and many more early Ward family photos. Always happy to share these images. Anyone wishing to have higher resolution copies may contact submitter directly through the edit tab or listed email.
Moses married Matilda Moore, Aug. 18, 1838, in Monroe Co., Ohio. They lived in Ohio about ten years, then removed to Brown Co., Indiana in the late 1840s, and resided there for the next thirty years.
Matilda died in 1874, and Moses moved to Ellinwood, Kansas about 1878, along with a large contingent of relatives and neighbors from Indiana. They traveled overland, in covered wagons. Brown Co. (Indiana) had never been very productive farmland, with its steep hills and clay soil. By the late 1870s, the land was barren and stripped out, the forest clear-cut for the barrel stave industry, and the soil badly eroded. Fertile ground in Kansas beckoned in the west. Moses married 2nd to Cassinda (Joy) Ward (his brother Stephen's widow), on Jan. 10, 1879, in Barton Co., Kansas.
Moses and Matilda had nine children. In addition to the six linked here, there were also these three, none of whom were mentioned when Moses Ward composed his will in 1890:
1. Mary Jane Ward, born Feb. 20, 1846, Belmont Co., Ohio, last documented in Brown Co., Indiana on the 1860 census.
2. Rebecca A. Ward, born Jan. 3, 1852, Pike's Peak, Brown Co., Indiana, also last found on the 1860 census in Brown Co.
3. Albert Ewing Ward, born Feb. 7, 1589, Pike's Peak, Brown Co., Indiana. This Albert was last documented on the 1870 census in Brown Co. (He was NOT the Albert Ward living in Lake Co., Oregon, in 1880.)
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Great Bend Register
Great Bend, Kansas
Thursday, Aug. 10, 1893
Moses Ward, who was buried Thursday, was a brother of J.N. Ward and Mrs. Boomer, of this city.
*****
Siblings:
James N. Ward, #100855488
Nancy (Ward) Moore Boomer, #154708188
*****
POST SCRIP ERROR CORRECTION:
About 1992, this submitter composed a biographical sketch for Moses Ward for the Brown County (Indiana) Family Histories Book...wherein I reported his name as Moses MILLARD Ward. That was an egregious error, based my own misread of a deed record, which I later discovered said NO such thing; but it was already printed in the Brown County book, and there was no undoing that. The error has since been picked up by numerous other researchers and included in their family profiles. I humbly hope to correct the record here for all time: MOSES MATHENY WARD was his correct full name. Matheny was his mother's maiden name, a standard naming pattern. His full name (given as Moses Mathena Ward, viewable online) IS documented on one Bureau of Land records deed made in Brown Co., Indiana, Jan. 15, 1851, #22325, probably the only certain source. See BLM-GLO records.
PPS: Memorial submitter and FG member Donna Kuhlman has possession of the original tin-type images of Moses and Matilda Ward, likely the only copies in existence; and many more early Ward family photos. Always happy to share these images. Anyone wishing to have higher resolution copies may contact submitter directly through the edit tab or listed email.
