Millard Hampton Ward

Male8 May 1868–30 January 1951

Brief Life History of Millard Hampton

When Millard Hampton Ward was born on 8 May 1868, in Cartecay, Gilmer, Georgia, United States, his father, Hampton Percival Ward, was 23 and his mother, Caroline Victoria Edwards, was 23. He married Minerva E. Fowler on 22 February 1891, in Gilmer, Georgia, United States. He lived in Fort Oglethorpe, Catoosa, Georgia, United States in 1930 and District 1109, Catoosa, Georgia, United States in 1940. He died on 30 January 1951, in Catoosa, Georgia, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Cohutta, Whitfield, Georgia, United States.

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Family Time Line

Millard Hampton Ward
1868–1951
Sarah Annie Dycus
1873–1934
Marriage: 3 April 1898
Benjamin Dycus
1889–
Logan Ward
1891–1932
Lon Ward
1896–
Cleo Bertha Ward
1899–1984
Robert Lee Ward
1902–
Nola May Ward
1904–1978
Fred Chester Ward
1909–1985
Millie Mae Ward
1914–

Sources (13)

  • Millard Ward in household of Garvin Thacker, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Millard Ward, "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950"
  • Millard H. Ward, "Find A Grave Index"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    3 April 1898Whitfield, Georgia, United States
  • Children (8)

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    Siblings (9)

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    World Events (8)

    1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

    Age 2

    Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

    1882

    Age 14

    Historical Boundaries: 1882: Whitfield, Georgia, United States

    1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

    Age 22

    This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.

    Name Meaning

    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.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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