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. ...
... Henry and Rice, the two older sons, lived at home for a few years and then removed to other parts. Rice going into the western part of Pulaski County and married into a prominent family and reared a number of sons and daughters and many of his descendants still live in Pulaski Co.
Among some of those that I may mention that are descended from my great uncle, Rice Ware, are
- Marion Ware, Georgetown, Ky.
- Jos. E. Ware, Danville, Ky.
- Atty. Ben V. Smith, Somerset, Ky.
- Mrs. Josiah Bishop, Danville, Ky.,
- Mrs. Perk Baker, Science, Ky.,
- Mrs. Dutton, Lexington, Ky.,
- J.H. Ware, Louisville & Nashville Railroad ticket agent, Pineville, Ky.
Besides others that reside in Marion County and many other places in the United States. ...
