When Grace Carlotta Ward was born on 25 September 1879, in Adair, Iowa, United States, her father, Norman Ralph Ward, was 25 and her mother, Mary Emma Ewing, was 21. She married William Sanford Bennett on 25 December 1899, in Adair, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Clearfield, Juneau, Wisconsin, United States in 1930 and Fontanelle, Adair, Iowa, United States in 1940. She died on 23 August 1953, at the age of 73, and was buried in New Lisbon City Cemetery, New Lisbon, Juneau, Wisconsin, United States.
English: occupational name for a watchman or guard, from Middle English ward ‘watchman, guard’ (Old English weard, used as both an agent noun and an abstract noun).
English: occupational name from Middle English warde ‘armed guard’ (Old English weard ‘watching, guarding’), with the same meaning as 1 above.
Irish: shortened form of McWard, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Bhaird ‘son of the poet’. The surname occurs throughout Ireland, where three different branches of the family are known as professional poets.
As a nonprofit, we offer free help to those looking to learn the details of their family story.