Butts County GaArchives Biographies.....Major Benj. F. Ward ca 1801 - October 1886
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Author: T. O. Jacob

The Late Major Ward

The End of a Remarkable and Honorable Career.

I have just heard of the death of one of Georgia's
oldest and best citizens, and as his intimate friend
for a nearly forty years, I wish to pay a tribute to
his memory through the columns of your paper.  That
Gentleman was Major Benj. F. Ward, who died at his
home a few days ago in Butts county, where he had
resided for more than a half century, at the
advanced age of eighty-five years.

He told me that when a boy he was a student of Wm.
H. Seward, afterwards Secretary of State, under
President Lincoln, who taught a country school in
Putnam county, Ga. Near his father's plantation on
the Oconee river.  He afterwards attended the State
University, and graduated there a few years after
the University was founded.  The law was his chosen
profession, and he began the practice at Monticello,
Ga., but it being unsuited to his taste he soon
renounced it and became a planter.

Major Ward purchased the McIntosh reserve in Butts
county, which was the home of General McIntosh,
chief of the Creek Indians, and which was sold
shortly after the treaty between them and the State
of Georgia in 1823, at the Indian Springs, when all
the lands west of the Ocmulgee river were ceded to
the State.  Major Ward was a gallant officer in the
Indian war, and afterwards for several sessions was
a member of both houses of the Georgia legislature. 
He was a life long democrat, and the people of his
county were ever ready to honor him with office
whenever he would accept it.  A pure Christian
gentleman, his character was as noble and grand as
any man who lived in his day and generation.

In his quiet country home he lived in ease and
elegance, with all the luxuries of life around him,
and he died as he had lived, retaining the love and
esteem of all who knew him.





Additional Comments:
October 19,1886
Middle Ga Argus



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