Husband: Samuel Mathias WARD
Birthdate: 29 Mar 1835
Birth place: Memphis, Tennessee
Death date: 16 Jul 1903
Place of death: Nashville, Tennessee
Burial:
Father: William WARD
Mother: Sarah Saunders BLYTHE

Marriage date: 16 Jul 1861
Marriage place: Rusk County, Texas

Wife: Elizabeth Woods BROWN
Birthdate: 13 Oct 1844
Birth place: Buckingham County, Virginia
Death date: 04 Mar 1927
Place of death: Houston, Texas
Burial: Fort Worth, Texas
Father: John Garland BROWN
Mother: Frances RODES

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Fannie Garland WARD
Sex: F
Birthdate: 16 May 1862
Birth place: Rusk County, Texas
Death date: 28 Sep 1960
Place of death: Wheeling, West Virginia
Burial: Nashville, Tennessee
Marriage date: 08 Nov 1882
Marriage place: Jefferson, Texas
Spouse's name: Walter Marshall DAKE

Child No. 2: Sarah Blythe WARD
Sex: F
Birthdate: 15 Jan 1865
Birth place: Jefferson, Texas
Death date: 20 Jan 1951
Place of death: Nashville, Tennessee
Burial: Fort Worth, Texas
Marriage date: 22 Oct 1884
Marriage place: Jefferson, Texas
Spouse's name: John C. HARRISON

Child No. 3: William Blythe WARD
Sex: M
Birthdate: 14 Apr 1868
Birth place: Marion County, Texas
Death date: 17 May 1940
Place of death: Fort Worth, Texas
Burial: Fort Worth, Texas
Marriage date: 12 Aug 1914
Marriage place: New Jersey?
Spouse's name: Edna SANGUINETTE

Child No. 4: May WARD
Sex: F
Birthdate: 15 Apr 1872
Birth place: Marion County, Texas
Death date: Nov 1961
Place of death: Jacksonville, Florida
Burial:
Marriage date: 17 Dec 1895
Marriage place: Jefferson, Texas
Spouse's name: Alexis C. FORD

Child No. 5: Zue A. WARD
Sex: F
Birthdate: 19 Aug 1874
Birth place: Marion County, Texas
Death date: 16 May 1950
Place of death: Haverford, Pennsylvania
Marriage date: 27 Dec 1900
Burial: Nashville, Tennessee
Marriage place:
Spouse's name: Albert Harris WILSON

Child No. 6: Sammie T. WARD
Sex: F
Birthdate: 17 Jan 1879
Birth place: Marion County, Texas
Death date: Nov 1969
Place of death: Johnson City, Tennessee
Burial:
Marriage date: 08 Jun 1904
Marriage place:
Spouse's name: Frederick J. FULLER
 
 
Documentation:
1. Family Bible, diaries and notes of Fannie Ward Dake, the eldest daughter.
2. 1880 United States Census, Marion County, Texas.
3. Obituaries and state death records.

Notes:
4. Samuel and "Woodie" were married at her father's home "Thorn Hill" in Rusk County, Texas. Their first child was born there while Samuel was in the Confederate Army. In 1867 they lived with Samuel's widowed mother in Daingerfield, Texas. In late summer of that year, they moved to Marion County and lived in a log cabin while building "Woodland Home". Samuel was a professor of mathematics at Chapel Hill College in Daingerfield about 1865 and he established Paradise Academy near Jefferson in 1867. His daughters were educated at Ward Seminary in Nashville, Tennessee.