Jonas Ward (1873)

DEWEES, WARD

Posted By: JoAnne Walker
Date: 8/26/2009 at 13:17:29

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
January 8, 1874

JONAS WARD

To the editor of The Madisonian:

Your paper a couple of weeks since referred to the remains of a Mr. Ward being taken to Story county for burial. I suppose you did not know of his great age and the interesting incidents of his life. Jonas Ward was born in Hockingham county, Virginia, in 1790, and in 1798 removed with his parents to the Territory of Ohio and settled for time being at Marietta and afterwards, in 1805, removed to Licking county for a permanent location. He enlisted early in the war of 1812 as a private man in Captain Buckingham's company of Col. Lewis Cass' Regiment. He He (sic) was in, among other expeditions, the one that went to the relief of Ft. Meigs in the spring of 1813.

In 1874 (sic)(ca. 1814) he was joined in marriage to Elizabeth Dewees, with whom he lived until her death in February 1872, nearly fifty eight years. In 1820 he became a member of the Presbyterian church and continued in full membership until his death, fifty-three years - serving many years as an elder therein.

In 1848 he removed with his family from Ohio to Crawford county, Illinois, and in 1860 came from Illinois to Story county, Iowa, where he resided until the 10th day of October, just two months before his death, when he came to reside with his son Josiah S. Wood in this county.

What a span of the history of this country his life has reached over. Consider for a minute the growth of the State of Ohio since 1793, when he first entered it, and the vast population that has flowed West since that time and we can really see that he was one from the (not legible) past. E. W.

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