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Photographs & Documents
John T Ward
Born 1820-1897
Catherine Moss Ward
Born Free
William and his Wife Mary Ward
Wakeman Ward and his wife Nellie
Edgar Ward
Children of Wakeman Ward
Oliver Ward
My Grandfather Harold E Ward
Ascari Tshaka
James Eldon Ward
Lt Col Lott Carter
Upper right hand corner
Merry Makers Club
News Article
Melvin "Red" T Jackson
Simon Ward
Daisy Ward
News article 1984
Newspaper Ad
Company Trucks
Bluff Farms
Bluff Farms
John T Ward (In Buggy)
News article Ohio Journal 1904 reported "Remarkable Growth"
Wakeman Ward
Family took pictures of motorized vehicles at Franklin Park Columbus, Ohio. You can see the conservatory in the background.
1954 Fleet of motorized vehicles for the company. In the same spot at the old buggy shed.
My Uncle Elsdon inside the Business on E Main Street
Company Signage on
E Main Street, Columbus Ohio 43205
The calendars my family gave away to the community every year.
Company Documents
Company Documents
Slave Insurance Ad
Thank you note from Ohio Journal Newspaper for advertising contract in 1911
Revolutionary War fight at Wards Tavern
Ward Plantation Owners gravesite in Virginia
Enslaved Ward family gravesite on the the plantation
Certificate of Membership – American Colonization Society
Petitions from freedmen to return to slavery
Lt John Ward Will
Enslaved Ward family and their certificate numbers
1850 Census showing John T Ward still head of house with Mother and younger siblings in Clinton County Ohio
1844 Marriage record from Ross County Ohio
John T Ward & Catherine Moss Ward
(Civil War) 1863 Military records for John T Ward
Columbus, Ohio Sellers circus Black Band
John T Wards son John Ward Jr worked with circus
What happened to Jessie?
Zebulon Ward: The Architect of Incarceration for Profit
Ex Slave pension
John Mercer Langston
Charles Langston
Poet Langston Hughes Grandfather
David Jenkins
Bob the slave poisons slave owner with freed woman Lucy
James Poindexter
Newspaper article
James Poindexter and John T ward
John T Ward Honors Good friend David Jenkins
Manumission Will Of 1827
Manumission Will Of 1827
Manumission Will Of 1827
Samual Dillard Ward
Original Handwritten Will 1826
David Ward's Petition To Remain In The State In Virgina After He Was Manumitted
Fraudulent Documentation Of Transfer Of Property
1922 Freedmen's Pension Agent Letter to Confirm The Ward Family Has Entitlement to a debt owed.
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