Re: ANY MISSING Barber ancestors SE pre-1860
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Re: ANY MISSING Barber ancestors SE pre-1860
8/14/01
I am trying to find the wife of Major Henry Ward of Pittsylvania County who may have been Martha Barbour or Barber.
The "History of Pittsylvania County" by M.C. Clement records the following:
"...Major John Ward and his wife Anne Chiles Ward, whose home "The Mansion" lay across Staunton River in Campbell County.Major Ward's will proven in 1813 named following children:1.William Ward, born 1745, married Mildred Adams,2.Agatha Ward married Col. John Calloway.3. Anne Ward, married 1st Christopher Lynch, and 2nd Benjamin Dillard.4. Jeremiah Ward5.Thomas Ward married Mildred Walden.6. John Ward of "Sulphur Springs,"Pittsylvania.7.Henry Ward, married Martha Barbour."
From ADAMS BIOGRAPHICAL GENEALOGIES
by Thomas Tunstall Adams (1928) we have:
"Matilda Ward was the granddaughter of Major John Ward, who first settled at Reed Creek, Pittsylvania County, Va., about the year 1739, and married the beautiful Anne, daughter of Henry and Anne Harrelson Chiles, of Pittsylvania County. He later moved to Campbell County and built a second home, "The Mansion," east of the mouth of the Otto River, near its entrance into Staunton and only a few miles from where Altavista now stands. Here he lived and died in 1816 - 106 years old, was buried in the family graveyard nearby....He received title in 1778 as major of Bedford county militia, and office he resigned in 1781 on account of his great age. As early as 1769 he built mills at Sinkler's and Chile's Creeks; raised large yields of hemp on his lands. He surveyed the road leading to Lynchburg, which still bears his name. He had five children by his first wife, the most distinguished of whom, was Major Henry Ward, who entered the Revolution at the age of fourteen; he later was a commissary to the Catawba Indians from February 21st to April 20, 1780."
Other than these two sources, I have no leads whatsoever about Henry and Martha (Barbour/Barber) Ward. Any connections?
Their daughter, Matilda Ward, was most likely born 1800 and definitely died March 1881. She married in 1822 Thomas Tunstall Adams (b 1796/1798 d. 1855) also of Pittsylvania County and had a son Col. Henry Ward Adams (b. 1823), among others, who is well documented.
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Re: ANY MISSING Barber ancestors SE pre-1860
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