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[56] Elizabeth Rachel (Clair) Ward came from a family of 3 girls and 2 boys.
Her father died when she was a young girl. She was a member of the United
Brethren Church.

[57] Click here for another photo of Elizabeth and Chandler Ward
Click here for a photo of Elizabeth and Chandler Ward with part of their family

[58] Chandler Ward, along with his wife, his father, Alcenas Ward, his brother
William Ward and his brothers-in-law Abner Flack, William Giddings and James
Ford all moved to Wesley, Iowa in Kossuth County and took up homesteads there
in June 1869. The trip from Jo Daviess county in NW Illinois to Wesley, in
Kossuth County, IA, was made by ox cart and took four weeks. Chandler
received one 80-acre plot of land by homestead and another 80 acres as a
veteran of the Civil War. The document granting one 80-acre plot, signed by US
Grant, is in possession of Clare E Wolf.
Circa 1845 an Andrew Ward published a genealogy of the Ward family. A
copy of that book is also in possession of Clare E Wolf. In 1926 an Artemas
Ward published an updated and more correct Ward Genealogy. A copy of that
work is in possession of Mrs Mina Bird, Woden, Iowa. Chandler Ward is
listed in that 1926 Ward Genealogy.
When the Wards first came to Wesley, Iowa, there was no railroad but within
a very few years the railroad came thru Wesley and prairie hay became a
saleable commodity that could be shipped by rail to Chicago. Chandler Ward
once cut a crop off of what is now the center of main street in Wesley.
Additional information about Chandler Ward can be found
under Bernard Ward, the uncle of Chandler A Ward.

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