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. ...
