William G. Ward

from Leaders and Leading Men

“Born November, 1847, in Panola county, I.T. north of Old Warren, Texas; is the son of Joseph Ward, a citizen of Newberry, and Elizabeth Thompson, daughter to Giles Thompson of Boggy Depot, I. T. Moving to Springtown, Parker county, Texas, in his youth, he remained there eleven years, where he received education at the public school. In 1865 he moved to Thompson’s Cow pen ( as it then called) in Blue county, where he lived until 1868, moving the same year to “Limestone Gap” where he married Eliza, daughter of Caleb McDaniell Beck, a Cherokee. During the war, while in Parker county, Mr. Ward joined the County Militia, at eighteen years of age, scouting all along the border until the close of the war. In 1870 and the two following years, he was employed tending his father’s stock, after which he moved to his present property, five miles from Caddo, where he has six hundred and forty acres in pasture and two hundred in cultivation. In 1889 he was elected representative for Blue county, and is now a candidate for re-election. In 1886 he join the Wheel and the second year became Territorial treasurer, and president of the subordinate Wheel of Blue county in 1890. Has eight children- four boys and four girls; the oldest being named Timothy, now twenty-one years of age.”