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• Name: Anne WARD
• Sex: F
• Birth: 10 Jul 1790 in Allegany Co, Maryland ^b
• Death: 3 Oct 1873 in Perry Co, Ohio ^d
• Burial: United Methodist Church Cemetery, Mt Perry, Perry Co, Ohio ^u


Parents:

• Father:
  
• Edward WARD Birth: 1 Aug 1757 in Charles Co, Maryland Death: 25 Aug 1840 in Madison Twp, Perry Co, Ohio
Mother:

• Lucy WILSON Birth: Abt 1760 Death: 27 May 1847 in Madison Twp, Perry Co, Ohio

Family:
Marriage:

• Joseph BURGESS on 19 Nov 1813 at Muskingum Co, Ohio .^m1
  
• Joseph BURGESS Birth: 4 Aug 1783 in Allegheny Co, Maryland Death: 13 Mar 1858 in Mt Perry, Perry Co, Ohio

Children:

1. Isaac Henry BURGESS Birth: 17 Oct 1813 in Ohio Death: After 1880 in Rolla Twp, Phelps Co, Missouri
2. Edward BURGESS Birth: 9 Mar 1815 Death: 23 May 1889
3. Elizabeth BURGESS Birth: 30 May 1816 Death: Before 1932 in Roseville, Ohio
4. Richard BURGESS Birth: 3 Oct 1817
5. Amos BURGESS Birth: 17 Sep 1819 in Guernsey Co, Ohio Death: 10 Apr 1900 in Mt Perry, Perry Co, Ohio
6. Alfred BURGESS Birth: 14 Jun 1821
7. James BURGESS Birth: 12 Jun 1824
8. Jeremiah BURGESS Birth: 12 Apr 1826 in Perry Co, Ohio Death: 3 Aug 1916 in Deepwater, Missouri
9. Thomas BURGESS Birth: 12 Sep 1828
10. Joseph Jr BURGESS Birth: 20 Jul 1830 in Perry Co, Ohio Death: 18 Jan 1924

Bibliography

Sources for birth and parent Information

date:

[Ref: Chris Bailey 11/14/2004, DAR #784356A853, Smith WARD-WesternMD p24]

1789 [Ref: DAR #23792, DAR #514566, DAR #92464]

abt 1789-90 [Ref: DAR #803616, DAR #803617]

abt 1790 [Ref: DAR #765798A855]

age under 10 in 1800 census [Ref: 1800 MD Allegany MurleyBranch 1],

place:

[Ref: DAR #784356A853, Smith WARD-WesternMD p24]

Maryland [Ref: DAR #514566, DAR #765798A855, DAR #803616, DAR #803617]

near Cumberland, Alleghany Co, Maryland [Ref: Chris Bailey 11/14/2004],

parents:

[Ref: Casanova RevWarAbs v23p104-Ward, Chris Bailey 11/14/2004, DAR #765798A855, DAR #784356A853, DAR #803616, DAR #803617, DAR #803943A858, NARA RevWarWidowPension WARD Lucy, NARA-M804 WARD Edward, Smith WARD-WesternMD p24, White RevPensionAbs WARD Edward],

father:

[Ref: DAR #23792, DAR #514566, DAR #92464, PerryCoOH Wills B-122],

mother:

Lucy WIGGINS [Ref: DAR #23792, DAR #514566, DAR #92464]

Sources for death Information

date:

[Ref: Chris Bailey 11/14/2004, DAR #784356A853]

after 1782 [Ref: DAR #803616, DAR #803617],

place:

[Ref: DAR #784356A853, DAR #803616, DAR #803617]

Sources with Inaccurate death Information

date:

1860 [Ref: DAR #514566],

place:

Maryland [Ref: DAR #514566]

Sources for burial Information

place:

[Ref: Chris Bailey 11/14/2004]

Sources with Information about marriage to Joseph BURGESS

date:

[Ref: DAR #803616, DAR #803617]

1817 [Ref: DAR #514566, DAR #784356A853],

place:

[Ref: DAR #803616, DAR #803617]

Perry Co, Ohio [Ref: DAR #784356A853],

names:

[Ref: DAR #803943A858, PerryCoOH Wills B-122]

___ BURGESS & Anna WARD [Ref: Casanova RevWarAbs v23p104-Ward, NARA-M804 WARD Edward, White RevPensionAbs WARD Edward],

child:

[Ref: Chris Bailey 11/14/2004, DAR #109122, DAR #23792, DAR #514566, DAR #784356A853, DAR #803616, DAR #803617, DAR #92464]

Sources with Inaccurate marriage information

date:

1817 [Ref: DAR #23792, DAR #92464]

Research Notes:
21 Sep 1872: applied for a pension as widow of a veteran of the War of 1812 [Ref: DAR Patriot File WARD Edward (ref 1812 Pension Application), NARA 1812-WidowPension BURGESS Anna]


War of 1812
Declaration of a Widow for Pension
State of Ohio
County of Muskingum
On this 21st day of September A.D., one thousand eight hundred and seventy two, personally appeared before me E.W. Allen, Clerk of the Common Please Court, a Court of Record in and for the County and State aforesaid, Anna Burgess, aged 82 years, a resident of Mt. Perry, County of Perry, State of Ohio, who, being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the wodow of Joseph Burgess, who served the full period of sixty days in the Military service of the United States in the war of 1812, and who was the identical person who was enrolled in Captain Jeffers Company, not known regiment, not known brigate, not known division at Muskingum Couty on or about the 1st day of February, 1813, and was honorably discharged at Mt Vernon on or about the 1st day of June 1813; that he served in Ohio as a private, that she was married under the name of Anna Ward to said Joseph Burgess on the 19th day of November A.D. 1813, by Thomas Nesbit at Muskingam Co, there being no legal barrier to such marriage; that her said husband died at West Perry on the 13th day of March 1854, and that she has not remarried since his death; that at no time during the late rebellion against the authority of the United States did she or her said husband adhere to the cause of the enemies of the Government, giving them aid or comfort, or exercise the functions of any office whatever, under any authority, or pretended authority, in hostility to the United States; that she will support the constitution of the United States; that she is not in receipt of a pension under any previous act; that she makes this declaration for the purpose of being place on the pension rolls of the United States, under the provisions of the act approved February 14, 1871, and hereby constitutes and appoints, with full power of substitution and revocation, L. J. Burgess, her true and lawful attorney to prosecute her claim, and obtain the pension certificate that may be issue; that her post office is at Mt Perry, county of Perry, State of Ohio; that her domicile or place of abode is Mt Perry.
Attest: Anna (X) Burgess, Applicant
Levi J Burgess
Amos Burgess
Also appeared Levi Burgess and Amos Burgess, residing in White Cottugh in Muskingam Co, and Mt Perry, in Perry Co, persons whom I certify to be respectable and entitled to credit, and who, being by me duly sworn, say; they were present and saw Anna Burgess the claimant sign her name (or make her mark) to the foregoing declaration; that they have every reason to believe, from the appearance of said claimant, and their acquaintance with her, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be, and at no time during the late rebellion against the authority of the United States, did she, or her said husband, adhere to the cause of the enemies of the Government; or give them aid or comfort; and that they have no interest in the prosecution of this claim. Signed: Levi J Burgess [Ref: NARA 1812-WidowPension BURGESS Anna]



Pedigree of Anne WARD
 /-----Edward WARD
Anne WARD
|         /-----Edward Sr WILSON
 \-----Lucy WILSON
          \-----Sarah (WILSON)



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