Person:Mary Ward (186)

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Mary Ward
b.8 Mar 1773 Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
d.14 Aug 1866 Athol, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. 4 Oct 1772
  1. Mary Ward1773 - 1866
  2. Esther Ward1775 -
  3. Samuel Ward1777 -
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Josiah Fay (add)
  • W.  Mary Ward1773 - 1866
m. 18 Sep 1798
  1. James Sullivan Fay1808 - 1857
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Facts and Events
Name[5] Mary Ward
Gender Female
Birth[1][2] 8 Mar 1773 Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage 18 Sep 1798 Athol, Worcester, Massachusetts, United Statesto Josiah Fay (add)
Death[3][4] 14 Aug 1866 Athol, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
References
  1. ↑ Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Newton, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1905)
    p. 202.

    WARD, Mary, d. Jonathan and Mary, [born] Mar. 8, 1773.
    [Note: town copy with additions.]

  2. ↑ Orange (Massachusetts). Town Clerk. Births and deaths, 1770-1850. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1972)
    p. 16.

    Molly Ward Dau'r of Jonathan Ward & Mary his wife born at Newton March 8th 1773.

  3. ↑ Massachusetts, United States. Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915
    [1].

    Deaths Registered in the Town of Athol Mass. for the Year eighteen hundred and sixty-six.
    No.: 23
    Date of Death: Aug 14 1866
    Name: Molly (Ward) Fay
    Sex: Female
    Condition: Widow
    Age: 93 y. 5 m. 6 d. [birth calculates to about 8 Mar 1773]
    Cause: Old Age
    Place of Death: Athol
    Occupation: [blank]
    Place of Birth: Newton
    Parents: Jon'a & Margaret [sic] (Pond) Ward
    Birthplace of Parents: Newton

  4. ↑ Find A Grave: Silver Lake Cemetery, Athol, MA, in Find A Grave
    Molly Ward Fay.

    ERECTED IN MEMORY OF MY UNCLE
    JOSIAH FAY
    MAR. 16, 1774.
    MAR. 16, 1834.
    MOLLY WARD
    MAR. 8, 1773.
    AUG. 14, 1866.
    BY MRS. ABBIE MASON MORGAN
    THEIR NIECE AND ADOPTED DAUGHTER
    [Note: the memorial page misreports that date of death as 1888, age 115. It is an understandable misreading, but knowing the right answer from other sources, it becomes very clear that this actually says 1866.]

  5. ↑ Ward, Andrew Henshaw. Ward Family: Descendants of William Ward Who Settled in Sudbury, Massachusetts in 1639. (Boston: S.G. Drake, 1851)
    p. 58.

    Children of Jonathan Ward and Mary Pond: "1 Mary, b. March 8, 1773, m. Josiah Fay, of Athol, now [published 1851] deceased; she survives."

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