When Columbus Ward was born on 12 February 1857, in Cass, Nebraska, United States, his father, Oliver Ward, was 32 and his mother, Sarah Jane Jenkins, was 28. He lived in Mills, Iowa, United States in 1860. He died on 1 August 1868, at the age of 11, and was buried in Louisville, Cass, Nebraska, United States.
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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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