William met Berthe Mae HANSEN and courted her. When she became pregnant he wanted to marry her but, her father, Neils Hansen, would not permit it. As the date of the birth of her child came due, they somehow convinced Neils Hansen (Berthe's father) to allow the marriage and they were married 08 Jul 1903, 3 months before the birth of their first child---Floyd Marines Ward. They would have two more children--Elsie Vivenia WARD O'Brien and Eugene Alvin Ward.
Berthe and William Ward had a large farm near Neola, Iowa.
In the spring of 1931 William was plowing the fields and a tractor flipped over and killed him. It is likely that Richard Trulock Ward, William Alvin Ward's father, gave his son the land for the initial farm. William Alvin and Floyd, his son, built a Sears home "The Hudson" on the Ward farm. William Alvin built a quite respectable farm with the help of his son, Floyd, but he died early from a tractor accident, leaving Floyd to try to manage the farm, which he in turn lost during the Depression in 1936.
William met Berthe Mae HANSEN and courted her. When she became pregnant he wanted to marry her but, her father, Neils Hansen, would not permit it. As the date of the birth of her child came due, they somehow convinced Neils Hansen (Berthe's father) to allow the marriage and they were married 08 Jul 1903, 3 months before the birth of their first child---Floyd Marines Ward. They would have two more children--Elsie Vivenia WARD O'Brien and Eugene Alvin Ward.
Berthe and William Ward had a large farm near Neola, Iowa.
In the spring of 1931 William was plowing the fields and a tractor flipped over and killed him. It is likely that Richard Trulock Ward, William Alvin Ward's father, gave his son the land for the initial farm. William Alvin and Floyd, his son, built a Sears home "The Hudson" on the Ward farm. William Alvin built a quite respectable farm with the help of his son, Floyd, but he died early from a tractor accident, leaving Floyd to try to manage the farm, which he in turn lost during the Depression in 1936.
Family Members
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Ann Trulock "Annie" Ward Page
1868–1952
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Walter Frederick "Fred" Ward
1870–1961
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Ada Almira Ward Peterson
1872–1961
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George Welton Ward
1873–1961
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Vida Viola Ward Jessen
1876–1955
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John Collins Ward
1878–1963
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Rose Amanda Ward
1882–1882
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Charles Moroni Ward
1884–1964
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Arthur Clement Ward
1886–1958
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Willard Richard Ward
1888–1940
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Orville Lloyd Ward
1895–1957
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