Ward, R. T.

WARD

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 4/3/2008 at 22:11:19

R. T. Ward

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.82. Boomer Twp.)
R. T. Ward, farmer, P. O. Council Bluffs, was born in England in 1847, in Suffolkshire; son of G. W. Ward. Mr. Ward's parents moved from England when he was about four years old, coming to Pottawattamie County in 1851; stayed here for one year, and then emigrated to Utah in 1852, and that was his home till 1872. He came back to Pottawattamie County and settled on his present farm in 1873. He bought open prairie, paying for the first land $10 per acre, and $12.50 for the remainder. His farm consists of 235 acres; about eight acres in cultivation; the remainder is in pasture and meadow land. His farming is raising corn, cattle and hogs. Mr. Ward was educated in Utah in common schools. He has always followed farming, and that was also his father's occupation most of his life. His mother died in 1860, and his father in August, 1882. Mr. Ward is one of eleven living children, one dead. He was married, in Utah, to Lizzie Saby. She was also born in England. She came to New York in 1862, and to Utah in 1863. They were married in 1867. Tehy have eight children, four boys and four girls. He is Republican in politics, but does not take much interest in politics. Is a member of the M. P. Society. His farm is well improved with good buildings, etc. Ezra T. Benton, a Mormon minister, came out from utah and preached that the Mormons should not remain here but go on. That is the reason Mr. Ward's parents moved on in 1852. They were stopping in Harris Grove at the time.