Etowah-Dekalb-Cherokee County AlArchives Biographies.....Ward, Obadiah 1817 - 1880
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

OBADIAH WARD was born near Spartanburg, S. C., December 14, 1817, and died at
Gadsden, April 21, 1880. He was reared on a farm, and at the old field schools
of his neighborhood acquired a limited education. To this, however, he
subsequently, by diligent application, added until he was possessed of more than
ordinary information.

  While quite a young man, he engaged in mercantile business in DeKalb County;
first as a clerk and soon afterward as proprietor. He inherited no fortune, but
through industry and the exercise of a sound business judgment, he built up an
ample income. He was married, in August, 1850, in Cherokee County, to Sarah
Sedberry, daughter of S. H. and Annie J. (Fletcher) Sedberry, of that county,
but natives of North Carolina. Mr. Ward remained in DeKalb County until 1868, at
which time he came into Gadsden, Here he engaged at the mercantile business, and
continued thereat until driven by ill health to a discontinuance of all labors,
some five or six years before his death.

  Mr. Ward was a strong uncompromising temperance man, a member of the Masonic
fraternity, and a consistent Christian, He was a member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, and was noted for his charity. He reared a family of five
children, to-wit: John, now of Nashville, Tenn.; Charlsie, wife of J. B. Martin;
Mary, deceased; Sallie, wife of James L. Tanner; and Charles.

  Mr. Ward's parents were Samuel and Susanna (Cannon) Ward. The senior Mr. Ward
was a planter in South Carolina, and was a soldier in the War of 1812. He reared
a family of four sons and four daughters, and, in about 1834, removed to
Alabama, and settled in Cherokee County; later on he removed to DeKalb County,
this State, and here spent the rest of his life. His wife died prior to his
leaving South Carolina.


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Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART IV.
MONOGRAPHS OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA,
TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MANY OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVE PEOPLE.


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