Zebulon Ward

Birth Date

1822-01-14

Death Date

1894-12-28

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Woodford County, planter and politician. Cynthiana, Kentucky, native. Married to Mary E. Worthen Ward. Father of William Ward, Adda Ward, Minnie Ward, and Zebulon Ward, Jr. Steamboat clerk on the Mississippi River. Gold prospector in California from 1849 to 1851. Sheriff of Kenton County, Kentucky, in 1853. Lessee of the Kentucky State Penitentiary from 1855 to 1859. Farmer in Woodford County in 1860. Owned twenty-seven enslaved people in Woodford County in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1860. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Woodford County from 1861 to 1863.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Woodford County, Unnamed District, p. 139; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Woodford County, Unnamed District, p. 72; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, 4th Ward City of Lexington, p. 53; Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, Ky.: Collins & Co., 1882), 764; "Ward-Hays House," National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination Form, Little Rock, Arkansas, PU3122, June 10, 1975; Find A Grave, "Zeb Ward, SR (1822-1894)," Memorial #90314020, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/90314020 (accessed November 21, 2017).

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