The Ware Genealogy
Charles P. Ware, 1928
... Dudley Ware was highly educated and his wife was of French descent. Their children,
- Henry,
- Rice, and
- Edmond and their two daughters,
- Mrs. Tubbs and
- Helen, were all born in Virginia.
... In 1797 Col. Dudley Ware, together with his wife, three sons, and daughter Helen in company with other Virginians loaded their possessions on horses and pack-saddle and came in by way of the Old Wilderness Road and Cumberland Gap, seeking new homes for themselves in the "Dark and Bloody Ground" beyond the Alleghenies. Finding the Indians less numerous and troublesome in what now comprises Pulaski County, Kentucky than they were in the Blue Grass regions he decided to make entry on abody of land lying just east of Pulaski Station, on the headwater's of Hyatt's Fork and Pittman Creeks. Where, with the assistance of his sons and some of his far off neighbors, he built himself a home near a fine spring, in what was, at that time, a dense and trackless forest, with people living miles apart and oft times he could hear the war whoop of the stealthy Indians and the howling of prowling wolves and other wild animals. Here, surrounded by the beauties of nature, this fine old Virginian gentleman, together with his brave and faithful wife, spent the sunset of their lives in this, their new earthly home and when at length they came to the end of life's journey, this good man and his noble help mate, who had borne her share of the trials and hardships that were the common lot of the women of the period, were laid to rest in this little cemetery belonging to the old homestead. It is something of a coincidence that this old land grant has always remained in the hands of the Ware family from that far distant to the present day, it having passed by purchase and inheritance down to Mr. Jonas Ware, now 84 years of age, a son of Edmond Ware and grandson of Col. Dudley Ware. He and other descendants of Edmond Ware live in and around Pulaski, Ky.
The other children of Edmond Ware to attain to the estate of manhood and womanhood were:
- Edmond Ware, Jr., who married Orpha Bishop. To them were born six children:
--- John, who died in his fifties,
--- Cornelius, who lives in Tenn., and
--- Amanda, who is dead and
--- Marie, who lives in the West.
All were married. Edmond ware, Jr. lived to a ripe old age.
