James Henry Ware

James Henry Ware

• Father: Robert James Ware b. 25 April 1801, d. 1 November 1867
• Mother: Asenath Ann White b. 24 May 1810, d. 10 December 1893

• James Henry Ware was born on 4 July 1828 in Montgomery County, Alabama.
• He married Mary Stokes circa 1847.
• Robert James Ware and Asenath Ann White appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in Montgomery County, Alabama. Other members of the household included James Henry Ware, Robert Young Ware, Julia Amanda Molton, Ann Ware, Kate Ware, Mary Stokes, Ann S. Ware and Mary White Ware.
• On Sunday, 7 November 1852, Green Wood recorded in his plantation daily account book: "Mr Calhoun, two Mr Taits, Doctor Ware & James Ware all from Perry & Dallas Countys Alabama to Dinner to day & spent the night."
       Robert Middleton Tate was the husband of Robert Ware's first cousin Eliza Ware Coleman's daughter Eliza, and Charles was Robert's brother. Green sold his first Montgomery, Alabama, plantation to Robert Ware; James was Robert's son. Robert Ware's bother Young Stokes Ware was married to Green's niece Martha Mitchell, daughter of Green's sister Mary Wood Mitchell. Mr. Calhoun has yet to be identified.
• James Henry Ware died on 8 July 1867 at age 39 in Montgomery County, Alabama.
• A biographical sketch of the elder Dr. Ware appears in W. G. Robertson's 1892 Early Settlers::
       Dr. Robert J. Ware settled in the Fork about the year 1825. He was a rich, talented young bachelor, a practicing physician, a large planter, politician and prominent member of the Baptist church. Dr. Ware was a good citizen and neighbor, and was very charitable with his means; he never hesitated for a moment to extend a helping hand to the needy or distressed. He lived a bachelor for several years and then married a Miss White from Mobile. He built a splendid residence on one of these tables above the river, and was surrounded with every comfort and convenience for country live. He had a park, stocked with deer, the only one every seen by the writer. He belonged to the old Whig party, and was very popular. He was the second man from the Fork that represented Montgomery county in the Legislature. Dr. Ware had three children, two sons and one daughter. Robert Y., James and Mary were the names of the children. Robert married a Miss Molton, James married a Miss Stokes, the daughter married T. J. Molton, a young lowyer. The Dr. lived in the Fork a number of years and then moved to the city and had a fine brick residence there, where he lived the remaining years of his life.
       And from the sketch of Green Wood in the same book, "After remaining in the Fork for a number of years, [Green Wood] sold his plantation to Dr. Ware and bought a plantation on the Augusta ferry road. . .
       Recollections of the Early Settlers of Montgomery County and Their Families, by William G. Robertson. Montgomery, Alabama: Excelsior Printing Company, 1892. Reprinted Montgomery Alabama: Society of Pioneers of Montgomery, 1961.

• Last Edited: 14 Nov 2012