Pioneers of St. Clair County, Michigan - Person Sheet
Pioneers of St. Clair County, Michigan - Person Sheet
Graduation16 Apr 1851, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw, Michigan3943 Age: 28
MemoMD, Univ. of Michigan
Death27 May 19003943 Age: 77
FatherNathan WARD (1786-1868)
MotherCharlotte BEECH (1791-1863)
Individual Notes
• 7th of 11 children.3294
• Being a stranger and unprotected [at school] I received some hard knocks from large ruffianly boys, and many slurs and low flings from the McQueen girls, Aunt Betsey’s nieces, Betsey and Kate, respectively sixteen and eighteen years of age who were now learning to read. Kate succeeded in a way, but Betsey never did. This was their first and last school attendance. Neither Uncle Sam nor Aunt Betsey could read or write, they claiming that they had gotten along better than those who were “eddecated,” and consequently “eddecations” was a damage which “Uncle Nate” and his family were afflicted with.1643, p 18
• The book I found and read was “The Autobiography of David Ward,” published privately in 1912 for his children; about 200 pages long. David Ward was the son of Nathan Ward and nephew of Samuel Ward and his wife Aunt Betsey. Much of this book consists of a diatribe against Samuel and Eber B. Ward, claiming a conspiracy by Eber B. to rewrite Samuel’s will and get the whole huge inheritance himself. But even before that evil moment, Samuel has been a terrible lying cheat of a relative, grasping and vindictive, and his lackies in Marine City join him in making life miserable for poor David and his parents and siblings. No Gallagher is ever mentioned, but they would have been among the lackies. The “Aunt Emily” of some fame is a monstrous bitch in this book, keeping up her evil ways on David his whole life through. If you haven’t read the book, you really should. It also has many many pages on the pine/lumber industry, where David Ward makes his fortune finally, by the shrewd buying and selling of acreage around the state in the 1850s and later.1506, p 3
• Being a stranger and unprotected [at school] I received some hard knocks from large ruffianly boys, and many slurs and low flings from the McQueen girls, Aunt Betsey’s nieces, Betsey and Kate, respectively sixteen and eighteen years of age who were now learning to read. Kate succeeded in a way, but Betsey never did. This was their first and last school attendance. Neither Uncle Sam nor Aunt Betsey could read or write, they claiming that they had gotten along better than those who were “eddecated,” and consequently “eddecations” was a damage which “Uncle Nate” and his family were afflicted with.1643, p 18
• The book I found and read was “The Autobiography of David Ward,” published privately in 1912 for his children; about 200 pages long. David Ward was the son of Nathan Ward and nephew of Samuel Ward and his wife Aunt Betsey. Much of this book consists of a diatribe against Samuel and Eber B. Ward, claiming a conspiracy by Eber B. to rewrite Samuel’s will and get the whole huge inheritance himself. But even before that evil moment, Samuel has been a terrible lying cheat of a relative, grasping and vindictive, and his lackies in Marine City join him in making life miserable for poor David and his parents and siblings. No Gallagher is ever mentioned, but they would have been among the lackies. The “Aunt Emily” of some fame is a monstrous bitch in this book, keeping up her evil ways on David his whole life through. If you haven’t read the book, you really should. It also has many many pages on the pine/lumber industry, where David Ward makes his fortune finally, by the shrewd buying and selling of acreage around the state in the 1850s and later.1506, p 3