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.
Thomas Walter Ward II died heavily in debt, and the Worcester County Institution for Savings foreclosed on the Ward farm. Henry Galbraith Ward, a relative who had summered at the house as a child, bought the 135 acre farm and its buildings for $4500. He neither lived at the house nor planned to...
Served at Second and Third Continental Congress.
Thomas Walter Ward II died heavily in debt, and the Worcester County Institution for Savings foreclosed on the Ward farm. Henry Galbraith Ward, a relative who had summered at the house as a child, bought the 135 acre farm and its buildings for $4500. He neither lived at the house nor planned to...