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Father: Samuel Ward Mother: Ann Jane MaWhinny. They came from Airdrie, Lanark County, Scotland to Shamokin, Pennsylvania in about 1871.
Extract from New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957: Name: William Ward Age: 22 Estimated birth year: 1849 Gender: male Place of origin: Scotland Ethnicity/race/nationality: Scottish Occupation: laborer Port of departure: Liverpool, England Destination: United States of America Ship name: Aleppo Arrival date: 23 May 1871 Port of arrival: New York Port arrival state: New York Port arrival country: United States Line: 38 Microfilm serial: m237 Microfilm roll: m237_343 List number: 440
Extract from the 1880 Census: Name: William Ward
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Father: Samuel Ward Mother: Ann Jane MaWhinny. They came from Airdrie, Lanark County, Scotland to Shamokin, Pennsylvania in about 1871.
Extract from New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957: Name: William Ward Age: 22 Estimated birth year: 1849 Gender: male Place of origin: Scotland Ethnicity/race/nationality: Scottish Occupation: laborer Port of departure: Liverpool, England Destination: United States of America Ship name: Aleppo Arrival date: 23 May 1871 Port of arrival: New York Port arrival state: New York Port arrival country: United States Line: 38 Microfilm serial: m237 Microfilm roll: m237_343 List number: 440
Extract from the 1880 Census: Name: William Ward Age: 31 Estimated birth year: 1849 Birthplace: Scotland Race: white Sex: male Relationship to head-of-household: head Home in 1880: Union, Mahaska, Iowa Marital status: married Father's birthplace: Scotland Mother's birthplace: Scotland Occupation: farmer Census place: Union, Mahaska, Iowa; Roll: T9_353; Family History Film: 1254353; Page: 221.4000; Enumeration District: 166; Image: 0447 Date: 3 Jun 1880
Extract from the 1900 Census: Name: William Ward Age at last birthday: 51 Date of birth: Sep 1849 Birthplace: Scotland Race: white Sex: male Home in 1900: Britt, Hancock, Iowa Relationship to head-of-house: head Marital status: married Number of years of marriage: 29 Able to read, write and speak English: yes Father's birthplace: Ireland Mother's birthplace: Ireland Year of immigration: 1871 Number of years in the United States: 19 Naturalization: yes Farm or home: farm Home owned or rented: owned Mortgage: yes Occupation: farmer Months not employed: 0 Census place: Britt, Hancock, Iowa; Roll: T623 434; Page: 20A; Enumeration District: 119 Date: 21 Jun 1900
Extract from the 1910 Census: Name: William Ward Age in 1910: 61 Estimated birth year: 1849 Birthplace: Scotland Race: white Sex: male Relation to head of house: head Home in 1910: Britt Township, Hancock, Iowa Marital status: married Number of years of present marriage: 39 Able to speak English: yes Able to read and write: yes Father's birthplace: Scotland Mother's birthplace: Scotland Year of immigration: 1870 Whether naturalized or alien: naturalized Farm or house: farm Home owned or rented: owned; has mortgage Occupation: farmer Type of industry: general farm Salary or wage worker: employer Census place: Britt, Hancock, Iowa; Roll: T624_393; Page: 15B; Enumeration District: 130; Image: 341 Date: 28 Apr 1910
Extract from the 1920 Census: Name: William Ward Age: 71 Estimated birth year: 1849 Birthplace: Scotland Race: white Sex: male Relation to head of house: head Home in 1920: Britt, Hancock, Iowa Address: Commercial Street Marital status: married Able to speak English: yes Able to read and write: yes Father's birthplace: Ireland Mother's birthplace: Ireland Year of immigration: 1870 Naturalized or alien: naturalized in 1881 Home owned or rented: owned; no mortgage Occupation: none Census place: Britt, Hancock, Iowa; Roll: T625_492; Page: 15B; Enumeration District: 143; Image: 118 Date: 15 Jan 1920
Extract from the 1925 Iowa State Census: Name: William Ward Age: 76 Estimated birth year: 1849 Birth location: Scotland Race: white Gender: male Residence county: Hancock Residence state: Iowa Locality: Britt Relation to head of house: head Marital status: married Highest grade completed: 4 Rent/home value: owns home; value $2500 Mortgage: 850 balance Home insurance: $1500 Naturalized: yes Years in U.S.: 54 Years in Iowa: 50 Father: Samuel Ward Father's age: not listed Father's birth location: Ireland Mother: Ann Jane McWhinney Mother's age: not listed Mother's birth location: Ireland Parents' marriage location: Scotland Religion: Protestant Census date: 1 Jan 1925 Roll: IA1925_1738 Line: 13
Extract from the 1930 Census: Name: William Ward Age: 81 Estimated birth year: 1849 Birthplace: Scotland Race: white Sex: male Relation to head-of-house: head Home in 1930: Britt, Hancock, Iowa Marital status: married Age at first marriage: 22 Education: able to speak English Education: able to read and write Father's birthplace: Scotland Mother's birthplace: Scotland Year of immigration: 1870 Military service: no Rent/home value: rents: $15 Owns a radio: no Occupation: none Census place: Britt, Hancock, Iowa; Roll: 657; Page: ; Enumeration District: 9; Image: 709.0 Date: 19 Apr 1930
Extract from the book "Recollections of Britt, Iowa" published 1978 by the Britt Centennial Committee, pp. 52-53: Maria Susannah and Ann Jane Ward were born in Shamokin, Pennsylvania in 1872 and 1873, respectively. The came with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Ward, to Mahaska County, Iowa, with a number of relatives. The men farmed and worked in the coal mines in the New Sharon and Oksaloosa vicinities. Mr. Ward was a shots firer in the mines. Mr. and Mrs. James L. Manuel, who had homesteaded west of Garner in 1881, had also come from Shamokin, and wanted some of their kinsmen to come to the new territory. They write that this was a wonderful country with soil so fertile all one had to do was to plant a pig's tail and it would grow. The made Hancock County sound so inviting with their stories that the southern Iowa relatives decided to give Hancock County a try. Farms were rented for each of the families that planned to move from Mahaska County. On the last day of February 1882, a caravan of five covered wagons set out for Hancock County. Those in the group included George Henry Boutilier, Sr. and his sons Alfred and Henry; the William Ward and Charles Boutilier families; Mrs. Peter Boutilier and children, and Albert Clements. This trip of two hundred miles took eleven days and ten nights over roads which were merely prairie trails. The only heat and light available on this late winter trip came from a lantern hung in the top of each wagon. Their supply of food gave out before their destination was reached, and all they were able to purchase in one town was a ten-cent box of crackers. A lady along the way befriended them and baked them a pan of biscuits, which was their last night's meal on the trail. Peter Boutilier accompanied the freight car, bringing the machinery and furniture for the group. Traveling via passenger train were Mrs. George Boutilier, Sr., Mrs. Albert Clements and children, and Joe Clements. Mr. and Mrs. Ward and five children made their home for three years on a farm in Avery Township, midway between Garner and Belmond at Upper Grove, a wayside station which consisted of a store and post office in one building. A grist mill, which was operated by water power, was four miles distant, located near where Goodell now stands. The only buildings on the newly occupied farm were a small shed with a straw roof, and a granary. In the latter building, the family made their home. Like all early settlers, they dug a cave for a shelter against tornadoes, and proceeded to put in their crops. Their only livestock consisted of a cow and two mules. In the fall, a prairie fire swept across the country, taking practically everything in its path. Mr. and Mrs. Ward were in Garner at the time, and the Ward children, assisted by an aunt and a neighbor boy, pulled buckets of water from the open well and wet the ground around the granary home in an effort to save it. The young willow grove, which had recently been started, was partially burned through, and the fire crossed a corner of the corn field. A year after the arrival of the Ward family in their new home, diphtheria claimed the first death in the family, that of Thomas Samuel, aged three years. Maria and Annie also suffered from the dread disease. The nearest doctor was in Garner, and there was a doctor in Belmond. Each doctor was about ten miles away. Early frost ruined the crop the first two years the Ward family lived in Hancock County. Following the crop losses, times were hard. Mr. Ward went to Streator, Illinois, to work in the coal mines during the winter months of 1883. Maria, then twelve years of age, began working as a hired girl in neighboring homes for one dollar per week. The stage ran between Belmond and Garner, carrying mail twice each week, but the rural families went to Upper Grove for their mail. The only means of transportation was by lumber wagons and mules. There were no telephones. Neighbors lived from one to three miles apart. The grain was cut with reapers on which two men rode and bound the grain into bundles. All grain in those days was stacked and later threshed with horse-powered machines. The Burlington-Northern Railroad, now the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, was built with horse-powered grading equipment. The Ward children witnessed bot operations. Indians often came to Upper Grove from Tama, and pestered the settlers for miles around, begging for anything and everything they saw. There was little variety in foodstuffs. The only fruits on the market were dried apples and prunes. There were no canned goods and no baked goods. Crackers were scarce, and corn meal was the only cereal. The early settlers took their own corn and went to the mail for grinding. Women churned their own butter and were fortunate if they owned a cow. The people went to the timber in the fall, where they gathered sour, wild, crab apples. These were put into the storm cave, where they turned a lighter color. They were then made into sauce for the table by cooking them with molasses. At the end of three years, in 1885, the family moved to the Dave Gilbert farm just east of Britt, which had just been vacated by the A. W. Dana family. This farm was later known as the Erickson farm, and is now occupied by the Ronald Eisenman family in section 26, Britt Township. The Ward children attended the Dickirson school, later known as the Schaper school, which had been built in 1885 by Chris Peterson and son. While living there, Mrs. Ward and her two daughters began sewing men's shirts and knitting and crocheting hoods to be sold in the Daylor store in Britt. One winter, they made eighty hoods and an endless number of shirts. In March 1890, the Ward family moved to the McDonald farm four and one-half miles southwest of Britt in the southeast quarter of section 17, Erin Township. In 1896 the William Wards purchased the Eagle Lake farm, now the James Hampe farm, where they lived until 1912, when they sold out and retired. In 1890, Maria married Henry A. Schaper and moved to the farm now occupied by the Verlin Balls, directly across the road from her girlhood home, east of Britt. Annie Ward married Frank Fillenwarth in 1897, and she, too, went back to the old Erin Township neighborhood to live for twenty-nine years.
Obituary from the "News-Tribune" of Britt, Iowa dated 15 Nov 1933: Aged Resident Dies from Stroke - - - William Ward 87, died Thurs- day Following Stroke ear- lier in Week - - - Came to Hancock County in 1882 and Family has resided in this Vicinity Since - - - Grandpa Ward, for many years a resident of this vicinity and or longtime owner of the farm on the West Bank of Eagle Lake, close to Eagle Lake State Park, is dead. His passing came last Thursday as the culmination of illness brought on by a stroke earlier in the week. He had reached his 87th birthday on September 7th. Mr. Ward was a man of quiet disposition and made friends with everyone he met. Hundreds of men remember him for kindly acts when they hunted at Eagle Lake as boys. Grandfather and Grandmother Ward had a great love for young folks and whenever a boat tipped over to drench some youthful hunter the Ward home was a place of refuge until clothes were dried. If at mealtime hunters frequented the Ward homestead, lunches were forthcoming. William Ward was born in Airdrie, Scotland. He was the oldest of eleven children. When twenty-four years old he came to America and a year later was united in marriage with Ms. Florence E. Boutilier at Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania. The family came to Malcolm, Ia., in 1875, and in 1882 moved to Hancock county, making the trip in a covered wagon. A farm was secured and here the family was born and grew up. Mr. and Mrs. Ward retired several years ago and Britt has since been their home with the exception of a year spent at Turner, Oregon - 1912 to 1913. Mr. and Mrs. Ward were the parents of nine children. Seven of these survive with their mother. They are Mrs. H. A. Schaper and Mrs. Frank Fillenwarth, Britt; Charles B. Ward of Detroit; Mrs. Herbert Redmond, of Choteau, Montana; Mrs. David Schultz, of Sevastopol, Cal.; Henry, of Klemme; William, jr., at home. There are 20 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren besides five sisters.
He married Florence Eliza Ellen Boutilier 25 Jun 1871 in Mount Carmel, Northumberland, Pennsylvania. |