When Leonard Truman Ward was born on 18 May 1912, in West Virginia, United States, his father, Hiram Lewis Ward Jr, was 42 and his mother, Sarah Francis Hughes, was 40. He married Tiny Lovejoy in 1942, in Kanawha, Red River, Texas, United States. He lived in Kanawha, West Virginia, United States in 1935 and Jefferson District, Kanawha, West Virginia, United States in 1940. He died on 29 December 1986, at the age of 74, and was buried in Scary, Putnam, West Virginia, 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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