Charles Edward Ward

Notes:

1930 census gives him as "motorman in coal mine".

According to a descendant, "After four kids, including my grandfather, he went out one day for cigarettes and never returned. The family story is that he went and started another family. I'm pretty sure the second family was with his first cousin Sarah N. White."

William married Sarah N. White after Oct 1927. Sarah (daughter of Alfred Franklin White and Mary Jane Freeman) was born on 8 Oct 1899 in Whitley County, Kentucky; died on 8 Jul 1988 in Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From the notes of Jeannette (White) Hayden: "Sarah b. 1899 ran off and married a Mayfield very young. One son: Paul (Mayfield) who called himself Paul White. A good fellow. He was raised by her parents and died in a car accident. He married June _____. [Their children were] Joyce b. 1940; Robt. b. 1944; Randy b. 1949; P. Gibb b. 1954; Carol b. 1957, died 1973 (car accident).

"Then she married a Ward. [Their children were] Billy Ward; Charles Ward; Edna Mae Ward; Francis Ward."

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The death records referenced here for Sarah N. White (Ohio deaths index; Social Security deaths index) are for a "Sarah N. Miller". Did she marry a third time, to a Miller? (We have no death date for her second husband, a Ward whom we believe to have been William Harrison Ward.) The Ohio deaths index gives her birth date as "1900" and the place as "Tennessee", but the Social Security death record (which gives the same SSN as the Ohio record) gives a birth date of 8 Oct 1899, matching our other records. The Social Security death record also notes that her SSN was issued in "Minnesota (Before 1951)."

PNH's mother Jeannette (White) Hayden notes that she and her family visited Sarah N. White in 1945 "in an awful mining town," presumably Jackhorn, Letcher, Kentucky, where she is recorded as living at the time of her son Charles's death in 1946. "Bill Ward" is also recorded as alive and living with her at that time, so if she went to Minnesota "before 1951" it has to have been after 16 June 1946. If our Sarah N. White is the Sarah N. Miller recorded in the death records referenced here, perhaps this 1946-1951 period is when he died and she married her hypothesized third husband named Miller.

Jeannette Hayden's notes, written in the mid-1980s, report Sarah N. as "in a nursing home in Southern Ohio." This does correlate with the Ohio death report, which says that Sarah N. Miller died in a long-term care facility in Dayton.

The Ohio report also gives her as "widowed", which means that none of her two or three husbands can have lived past 8 July 1988.

Notes:

From "familywest" on ancestry.com: "Thompson died due to a fight with Naomi when she was pregnant w/Ernest; son Charles shot him in the stomach and he died 3 days later."

Thompson married Naomi "Oma" White in 1887 in Wayne, Kentucky. Naomi (daughter of Jasper Newton "Newt" White and Susan Parker) was born on 7 Nov 1869 in Bell County, Kentucky; died on 30 Sep 1955 in Whitley County, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 22 Apr 1880, Williamsburg, Whitley, Kentucky

Notes:

Kentucky death records give his birthdate as 22 Apr; his tombstone says 14 Apr.

Records from Joan Van Syckle list his burial place as "Detheridge Cemetery", but note this, from Jeanette Hayden: "This informal hillside cemetery is listed as Detherage Cemetery, Knox County, near Kayjay, Kentucky. The road it is on is listed on Google as Deatheridge Cemetery Rd."

Alfred married Mary Jane Freeman on 4 Jan 1899 in Williamsburg, Whitley, Kentucky. Mary (daughter of John Freeman and Teresa "Tacy" Allen) was born on 27 Feb 1880 in Whitley County, Kentucky; died on 22 Oct 1932 in Kayjay, Knox, Kentucky; was buried on 23 Oct 1932 in Detherage Cemetery, Knox, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Some researchers say she was born in Elk Valley, Tennessee. The record of her marriage says she was born in Whitley County, Kentucky. She was a nurs, and died of the consequences of diabetes. Her son Everett was also diabetic, as are at least two of Everett's grandchildren.

Notes:

A family story has it that they eloped and married in Tennessee, where the age to marry without parental consent was (allegedly) lower. But the actual record of their marriage shows this to be untrue. They were married by the Rev. Henry Patrick in Williamsburg, Whitley County, Kentucky, on 4 Jan 1899. The record includes two laid-in notes handwritten on small pieces of ruled paper. One note reads "Jan the 4. 1899. We have no objection to Alfred White and Mary Freeman a mering [sic]. John Freeman, Stase Freeman". The other note is mostly illegible, but it's clearly signed "J. N. White".

Notes:

20 Aug 1861, mustered into 3rd (later renamed 7th) Regiment Kentucky Infantry, Company I. Recorded as "present" in the company muster rolls of 30 Apr and 31 Aug 1862.

Died in Lousiana of smallpox.

Thompson married Rebecca Williamson on 14 Jul 1856 in Pulaski, Kentucky. Rebecca was born on 10 Mar 1836 in Harlan, Kentucky; died on 16 Aug 1904 in Somerset, Pulaski, Kentucky; was buried in Massey Cemetery, Somerset, Pulaski, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Jun 1848, Whitley County, Kentucky

Notes:

Libby Freeman Spieth, quoted by "Dolores1630" on ancestry.com says that sometime soon after 1870, "my gr-grandfather John [Freeman] went to Elk Valley TN. He managed a lumber business for my other gr-grandfather Jasper Newton White (Newt) and that is also how he met my gr-grandmother Teresa Allen. They returned to Whitley." Of interest since both John Freeman and Jasper Newton White are among PNH's direct ancestors as well (great-great grandfathers, in his case).

Relationships between Jasper Newton White and John Freeman:

GG-grandfather Jasper Newton White (1848-1909):
* employed GG-grandfather John Freeman (1850-1931) as manager of his lumber mill
* married, as his third wife, Mary Ann Freeman (1855-1928), sister of John Freeman
* Jasper Newton White's son by his second wife, G-grandfather Alfred Franklin White (1880-1952), married John Freeman's daughter, G-grandmother Mary Jane Freeman (1880-1932)

Jasper married Susan Parker on 19 Sep 1867 in Whitley County, Kentucky. Susan (daughter of William Henderson Parker and Sarah "Sally" Patrick) was born on 19 Dec 1852; died in Sep 1879 in Whitley County, Kentucky; was buried in Concord Cemetery, Whitley, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died of dyspepsia; attending physician Parker (relative?).

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Jun 1848, Whitley County, Kentucky

Notes:

Libby Freeman Spieth, quoted by "Dolores1630" on ancestry.com says that sometime soon after 1870, "my gr-grandfather John [Freeman] went to Elk Valley TN. He managed a lumber business for my other gr-grandfather Jasper Newton White (Newt) and that is also how he met my gr-grandmother Teresa Allen. They returned to Whitley." Of interest since both John Freeman and Jasper Newton White are among PNH's direct ancestors as well (great-great grandfathers, in his case).

Relationships between Jasper Newton White and John Freeman:

GG-grandfather Jasper Newton White (1848-1909):
* employed GG-grandfather John Freeman (1850-1931) as manager of his lumber mill
* married, as his third wife, Mary Ann Freeman (1855-1928), sister of John Freeman
* Jasper Newton White's son by his second wife, G-grandfather Alfred Franklin White (1880-1952), married John Freeman's daughter, G-grandmother Mary Jane Freeman (1880-1932)

Jasper married Rutha Parker on 29 Jun 1880 in Scott County, Tennessee. Rutha (daughter of William Henderson Parker and Sarah "Sally" Patrick) was born on 19 Dec 1863 in Whitley County, Kentucky; died about 1895 in Whitley County, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Identical twin of Sarah Parker.

"Rutha died young, about 1895, or possibly earlier, whereupon her identical twin, Sarah, came to stay with the children for a while. Nancy Jonckheere says that the children were very distraught when Sarah left, because it was like losing their mother again." [Parker's Genealogy & History Establishment]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 18 May 1841
• Alternate death: 18 Jan 1928

Notes:

The birth and death dates of 18 May 1841 and 18 Jan 1931 are on his tombstone at Wofford, but this stone was erected well after his death; it was the opinion of both Joan Van Syckle and Nancy Jonckheere that both of these dates are wrong. Nonetheless, notwithstanding the sources that have him dying in 1928, he was recorded as alive and living with his family in the 1930 census, so we're going with the presumption that the death date on his tombstone is more correct than not.

(We also have a 1984 letter from Nancy Jonckheere to Jeannette Hayden claiming that John Freeman's actual birth year was 1857, but we think she revised her opinion since then.)

Libby Freeman Spieth, quoted by "Dolores1630" on ancestry.com, says that sometime soon after 1870, "my gr-grandfather John went to Elk Valley TN. He managed a lumber business for my other gr-grandfather Jasper Newton White (Newt) and that is also how he met my gr-grandmother Teresa Allen. They returned to Whitley." Of interest since both John Freeman and Jasper Newton White are among PNH's direct ancestors as well (great-great grandfathers, in his case).

Relationships between John Freeman and Jasper Newton White:

GG-grandfather John Freeman (1850-1931)
* managed a lumber mill for GG grandfather Jasper Newton White (1848-1909)
* Jasper Newton White married, as his third wife, Mary Ann Freeman (1855-1928), sister of John Freeman
* John Freeman's daughter, G-grandmother Mary Jane Freeman (1880-1932) married Jasper Newton White's son by his second wife, G-grandfather Alfred Franklin White (1880-1952)

It's also notable that John Freeman's brother William Freeman married Rachel Allen, sister of John Freeman's wife Teresa Allen. Libby Freeman Speith says that John Freeman met Teresa because he moved to Elk Valley to work for Jasper Newton White, which is entirely plausible since Teresa was born there, or in Campbell County at any rate. Possibly William Freeman also worked for Jasper Newton White, or just as possibly, he met his wife Rachel Allen through his brother's marriage to her sister Teresa Allen.

John married Teresa "Tacy" Allen in 1876 in Whitley County, Kentucky. Teresa (daughter of John Allen and Nancy Barnes) was born on 3 Jan 1857 in Campbell County, Tennessee; died on 15 Feb 1934 in Wofford, Whitley, Kentucky; was buried in Wofford Cemetery, Wofford, Whitley, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1858
• Alternate birth: Abt 1860, Tennessee
• Alternate birth: Abt 1862, Tennessee

Notes:

Widely said to have been born in Elk Valley, Campbell County, Tennessee. She was almost certainly born in Campbell County, as both the 1850 and 1860 Federal censuses show that as her parents' residence.

Her tombstone dates, transcribed by Joan Van Syckle, are 3 Jan 1857 and 15 Feb 1934. Her stone gives her name as "Tishia" Freeman. Some descendants report that she was also called "Tisha."

According to a family group record prepared by Joan Van Syckle, "Teresa's date of birth according to [the] 1900 census is Aug 1863." The same FGR gives Teresa's parents as "Joseph Allen (? 1/1/1838 - 5/24/1910)" and "Patricia Barnes". But Teresa Allen's sister Rachel's death certificate on ancestry.com shows her parents as John Allen and Nancy Barnes, both born in Tennessee.

Posted by user "Dolores1630" to ancestry.com:

Teresa was variously known as, Tasia, Tacia, and Tacey on census records. My father, Teresa's grandson, told me in the late 1970s that he remembered his grandmother being called "Tasia" or "Stasia" and wondered if this was a nickname for "Anastasia" which is my oldest daughter's name. From her death records and her tombstone it appears her given name was Teresa.

My father also remembered that Teresa was known for her herbal remedies and was always growing and preparing herbs. She would always quote from the Old Testament and loved to quote the verses about the revenge and punishment of God. "Hellfire and brimstone" verses he called them. He said he was none too pleased with this as a child as it frightened him a bit.