William Oscar Ward

Birth and Death
Birth 5 Jun 1865 Boscobel Grant County Wisconsin, USA
Death 1 Dec 1943 Crawford County Wisconsin, USA
Parents
Parent Edwin R Ward 27 Feb 1837 Vermont 30 Jun 1921 Wisconsin
Parent Eliza Ayres 1844 1876
Family
Spouse Easter Ellen Knause 25 Mar 1872 Richland Center Richland County Wisconsin 29 Apr 1931 Crawford County Wisconsin
Children Eliza Ann Ward 27 Sep 1889 Wisconsin 12 Aug 1968 Wisconsin

Notes

  • William Oscar "Will" Ward was the son of Edwin R. and Eliza (Ayers) Ward. His mother died when he was 11 and his father remarried to Elizabeth Agnes Ayers, his mother's younger sister. Will had a half sister from his father's first marriage to Martha Doty - Meritta Ann Schoville; two sisters Martha Townsend, Laura Albro and a brother, Aden John; then he had 11 half brothers and sisters, Florence, Charles, Josephine Daughenbaugh-Peavy, Mathias, Olive, Allen, Lorena Sheeves, Eunice "Annie" Smith, Homer Hollis and Gladys Schimming. Will was a farmer. He had a peg leg. His house was on Trout Creek in Crawford Co., WI.

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