John Quincy Ward

Birth Date

1838-08-29

Death Date

1899-06-26

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Scott County, Kentucky, and Harrison County, Kentucky, attorney and commonwealth’s attorney. Scott County native. Son of Cary Aldry Ward and Eliza Jane Risk Ward. Married to Mary E. Miller Ward in Harrison County, Kentucky, on November 30, 1865. Student in Scott County in 1850. Household owned five enslaved persons in Scott County in 1850. Graduated from Georgetown College in Georgetown in 1858. Law student in Scott County in 1860. Household owned six enslaved persons in Scott County in 1860. County attorney of Harrison County in 1862. Commonwealth’s attorney pro tem in Harrison County in 1863.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 1, p.421A .
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 1, p. 581.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 2, p. 810.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 2, p. 242B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort District 2, p. 337.
H. Levin, The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1897), 141-43.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Harrison County Marriages, 1862-1869, Film 000216898, p. 96-97.
“John Quincy Adams Ward (1838-1899)," Find A Grave, Memorial 83871978, accessed November 11, 2020, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/83871978.
KYR-0001-004-0388.

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