Harriet Ward 1843
Born 1843 in Shrewsbury, Harriet Ward (Hattie) also did much to preserve family history. She never married but remained active in family circles. Harriet Ward was the last of the Ward family to live in the Artemas Ward House. Many objects in the collection were preserved and annotated by her. She died in 1909 in Shrewsbury.
A very small, saltbox style house was built, possibly for use by tenants on the Ward farm. The family lived across the street in a large two-story farmhouse.
The Henshaw farm, which was adjacent to the Ward farm, had been leased to tenants who paid the Wards with a share of the produce. In 1843 this arrangement ended and the main farm took over all agricultural production.
Henry Galbraith Ward sold the farm to his brother Artemas Ward (the grocer and advertiser) for $2043.