Ethredge Ward

Ethredge Ward

• Father: James Olander Ward b. 15 April 1855, d. 11 May 1940
• Mother: Charlotte Atchison b. 31 October 1859, d. 9 January 1952

• Ethredge Ward was born on 11 June 1894 in Texas.
• James Olander Ward and Charlotte Atchison appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Ellis County, Texas. Other members of the household included Ethredge Ward, Young Robert Ward, Roxie Ward, James Neal Ward, Carl Ward, Bessie Ward and Leslie Ward.
• James Olander Ward and Charlotte Atchison appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Jones County, Texas. Other members of the household included Ethredge Ward, Olen Ward, James Neal Ward, Carl Ward, Bessie Ward and Leslie Ward.
• He was attending school and working on the home farm, according to the 1910 census.
• He married Ethel Barbara Brown, daughter of S. E. Brown and Lydia Russell, circa 1916.
• Ethredge Ward registered for the draft on 5 June 1917 in Collingsworth County, Texas, while living with his wife and child in Wellington, self-employed there farming.
• Ethredge Ward and Ethel Barbara Brown appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Collingsworth County, Texas. Other members of the household included James Ellis Ward, Hiram Ervin Ward, Ethredge Ward Jr. and Alvin Earl Ward.
• He was employed weighing freight, according to the 1930 census.
• Ethredge Ward and Ethel Barbara Brown appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1940 in Deaf Smith County, Texas. Other members of the household included Hiram Ervin Ward, Ethredge Ward Jr. and Alvin Earl Ward. In 1935, the family was living in rural Collingsworth County.
• He was a farm laborer, according to the 1940 census.
• He officially witnessed the death of Ethel Barbara Brown on 25 March 1961 at Deaf Smith County Hospital in Hereford, Deaf Smith County, Texas.
• Ethredge Ward became a widower at the 25 March 1961 death of his wife Ethel Barbara Brown.
• The following appeared on 27 March 1961 in the Amarillo Globe Times: (Hereford, March 17) Funeral services for Mrs. Ethel Barbara Ward, 64, were held at 10 a.m. today at the First Baptist Church here, with the Rev. B. L. Davis, pastor, officiating.
       Burial in Rest Lawn Cemetery was under direction of Gililland Funeral Home.
       Mrs. Ward, a native of Eastland County, died Saturday afternoon at Deaf Smith County Hospital, following an illness of several months.
       A former resident of Borger, she had lived in Hereford since 1938.
       Survivors include her husband, E. Ward of the home; for sons, Ervin Ward of Hereford, James E. Ward of Westminster, Calif.: Ethredge Ward Jr. of Long Beach, Calif., and Alvin Earl Ward of Tucson, Ariz; two brothers, Ernest Brown of Duncan, Okla., and Claude Brown of Tulia; two sisters, Mrs. Lon Johnson of Dublin and Mrs. Dolly Mae Wilson of Wellington; her mother, Mrs. Lydia Brown of Wellington; and eight grandchildren.
• Ethredge Ward died on 27 June 1967 at age 73 in Hereford, Deaf Smith County, Texas, at 210 Short Street at his residence. . His death was officially witnessed by Alvin Earl Ward.
• He was interred at Rest Lawn Memorial Park, Hereford, Deaf Smith County, Texas.
• The following appeared on 13 April 1989 in The Wellington Leader: James Ellis Ward of Yarba Linda, Ca. died March 27, 1989. Mr. Ward was born February 23, 1917 in the Lillie Community but lived in Quail until 1940. He married Gladys Boutcher January 1, 1940 and moved to California where they lived until his death. He was a welder for a ship builder to the early years of 1940 and for the past 39 years was a dump truck owner/operator. He was preceded in death by his parents Ethredge and Ethel Ward, a brother, Ervin, all of Hereford; brother, Alvin of Fountain Valley, Ca. He was a nephew of Mrs. Dollie Mae Wilson and brother-in-law of Mrs. Etta Farmer of Wellington.

• Last Edited: 3 Nov 2012