Civil War Governors of Kentucky · Civil War Governors of Kentucky

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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.

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Sex: Male
Race: White

Bibliography

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).

Citation

Ward, George Viley. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32196994 (November 12, 2026).

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Correspondence
George W. Johnson to Ann E. V. Johnson
1861-12-16

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