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- Indiana One Hundred and Fifty Years of American Development, Volume 5
By Charles Roll, A.M. The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
GEORGE W. WARD is one of the efficient and popular officials of his native county, where he is giving a characteristically loyal and effective administration as sheriff, with executive headquarters in the courthouse at Boonville, the vital little city that is the judicial center of Warrick County.
Mr. Ward was born on the parental home farm in Lane Township, this county, July 26, 1888, and is a son of George W. Ward, Sr., and Margaret Angeline (Bass) Ward, both likewise natives of Warrick County, where the respective families gained much of pioneer precedence. George W. Ward, Sr., who was familiarly known as "Wash" Ward, from an abbreviation of his second personal name, Washington, passed his entire life in Warrick County and was long numbered among its substantial farmers and popular and enterprising citizens, his political allegiance having been given to the Democratic party and he and his wife having been members of the Baptist Church. Of their eleven children eight are living, and all of the number attained to maturity. James W., who died at the age of thirty years, was a farmer by vocation and was survived by his wife and their two children. Clara A., who died at the age of forty years, was the wife of Thomas B. Taylor, who is still engaged in farm enterprise in Warrick County, his wife being survived by four children. Audie became the wife of Arlos Siebe, a farmer in this county, and was twenty-five years of age when she died, at the birth of her only child, which likewise died. Frank, eldest of the surviving children, is a progressive farmer in Gibson County. He married Ludie Welty and they have six children. Pervis, who is one of the enterprising farmers of Warrick County, married Sarah Oxley, who died in 1928 and who is survived by two children. Cardie is the wife of Norman Fisher, a farmer in Warrick County, and they have two children. Dora is the wife of James Williams, who is engaged in the blacksmith business at Madison, Illinois, and they have two children. Ida is the wife of Rudolph Ruble, who is engaged in the furniture business at Boonville, and they have one child. Minnie is the wife of Frederick Edwards, who is now engaged in ranch enterprise in Colorado, and they have two children. Jennie is the wife of Clifford Julian, of Boonville, and they have no children. George W., Jr., of this review, is the youngest of the children. His early education was acquired in the schools of his native township, where he continued to be associated with the work and management of the old home farm until he attained to his legal majority, when he there engaged in the same line of enterprise in an independent way.
Mr. Ward continued to give his active attention to the management of his farm until 1924, when he was; appointed deputy sheriff. He made an excellent record in this position and thus was recognized as the most eligible candidate for the office of sheriff in the election of 1926, when he was made the candidate on the Democratic ticket and was elected by a majority that attested his secure place in popular esteem in his native county. His administration as sheriff has fully justified this popular confidence. Sheriff Ward has been active and influential in the councils and campaigns of the Democratic party in Warrick County, he and his wife are members of the Baptist Church, and he has passed various official chairs in the local lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he is warden in 1929. He still retains ownership of valuable farm property in his native county. At Spurgeon, Pike County, on the 4th of June, 1910, Mr. Ward was united in marriage to Miss Emma Lance, and their one child is a daughter, Imogene, who was graduated in the Boonville High Schlool as a member of the class of 1929, her birth having occurred April 30, 1911.
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