Person:Mary King (40)

From Anne Nelson

Mary Ann King was only 4'8" and Richard (uncle Dick) was very small as well. The other boys were not as small.

From A Twentieth Century History of Allegan County, Michigan, Chicago Lewis Pub. Co., 1907

F.M. Ward, station agent at Bravo, in Clyde township, on the Chicago division of the Pere Marquette Railway, has been in the employ of that company for ten years, five years of which service were put in as operator and agent at Buchanan, removing hence to Bravo, his present residence. Mr. Ward is one among the hundreds of progressive young men throughout the west who do not, in the sense of the world-famous Mr. Micawber, wait for "something to turn up," but who rather forestall that operation by turning it up themselves.

Our subject is a descendant of two old pioneer families that came to Michigan in 1836, his paternal grandfather, Caleb Ward, coming from New York State, and his mother's father, John King, immigrating from England. His is the son of Emmet and Mary A. (King) Ward, whose children numbered seven, the five following of whom are living: Myron, Frank M., Herbert, Ernest and May B. Frank M. Ward was born in Allegan county in 1870 and here received a thorough and liberal education. In 1893 he was united in the bonds of matrimony to Miss Vena, a daughter of A.H. and Martha Lovelace, who is the mother of one child, a son, whom they have named Rex.

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   Mary Jo Koelbl, Anne Nelson