Born 1840 in Shrewsbury, Elizabeth Ward (known as Bessie) became a caretaker of Ward family objects and history. She wrote the local history Old Times in Shrewsbury (1892). She never married, and died in1900 in Shrewsbury.
November 26, 1727 - Artemas was the sixth child born to Nahum and Martha Ward. At this time, the family was already prominent in the new community of Shrewsbury.