Frontiers along the upper Roanoke River, 1740-1776 : a story of first settlement 1964 J.P. Bell Company.
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a. John Ward, who had married Anne, the daughter of Colonel Henry Chiles of King William County.
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b. John and Ann Ward made their home south of the Roanoke River in Halifax County, near the mouth of Otter River, on land adjoining a brother, Paul Chiles, and their mother, Mrs. Anne Harrelson Chiles
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c. Mrs. Anne Chiles Ward was reared in eastern Virginia, where life was more gracious than on the frontier, and where the stores of the tobacco merchants were easily accessible, carrying newest
London goods and fashions. She was a woman of great beauty, which is a cherished tradition among her descendants today. Her family of five sons and twin daughters, Anne and Agatha, was complete before she came into the Roanoke Valley, her youngest son, Henry, being a small child at the time. But like other members of her family, Anne’s life was tragically short, and she did not live to enjoy the handsome home which her husband built for her with so much care and thought. She was buried in the garden graveyard at River View, the home plantation of her brother Paul Chiles, who had died in 1761 and where her mother was also laid to rest.
Children:
1. Agatha m. Major John Calaway
2. Lt John Ward
3. Capt. William Ward
4. Ann m. Benjamin Dillard and Christopher Lynch
5. Major Henry Ward
6. Jeremiah Ward
7. Col. Thomas Ward
(Bio content kindly provided by R Weeks [48532921])
Frontiers along the upper Roanoke River, 1740-1776 : a story of first settlement 1964 J.P. Bell Company.
Page 64
a. John Ward, who had married Anne, the daughter of Colonel Henry Chiles of King William County.
Page 65
b. John and Ann Ward made their home south of the Roanoke River in Halifax County, near the mouth of Otter River, on land adjoining a brother, Paul Chiles, and their mother, Mrs. Anne Harrelson Chiles
Page 66
c. Mrs. Anne Chiles Ward was reared in eastern Virginia, where life was more gracious than on the frontier, and where the stores of the tobacco merchants were easily accessible, carrying newest
London goods and fashions. She was a woman of great beauty, which is a cherished tradition among her descendants today. Her family of five sons and twin daughters, Anne and Agatha, was complete before she came into the Roanoke Valley, her youngest son, Henry, being a small child at the time. But like other members of her family, Anne’s life was tragically short, and she did not live to enjoy the handsome home which her husband built for her with so much care and thought. She was buried in the garden graveyard at River View, the home plantation of her brother Paul Chiles, who had died in 1761 and where her mother was also laid to rest.
Children:
1. Agatha m. Major John Calaway
2. Lt John Ward
3. Capt. William Ward
4. Ann m. Benjamin Dillard and Christopher Lynch
5. Major Henry Ward
6. Jeremiah Ward
7. Col. Thomas Ward
(Bio content kindly provided by R Weeks [48532921])
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