George Viley Ward

Birth Date

1832-04-25

Death Date

1921-01-15

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Scott County, Kentucky, and Washington County, Mississippi, farmer and planter. Scott County native. Son of Junius R. Ward and Matilda Viley Ward. Married to Maria Williams on September 27, 1857. Attended the Western Military Institute in Georgetown, Kentucky. Farmer in Scott County in 1860. Planter in Washington County.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No. 1, p. 109. Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi. Vol. II (Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1891), 984. Find A Grave, "George Viley Ward (1832-1921)," Memorial #103618369, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/103618369/george-viley-ward (accessed January 8, 2018).

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