HABERSHAM COUNTY, GA - News Ward- Stanford grandson ***************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm *********************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Robert Calhoun The Augusta Chronicle Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia Sunday August 14, 1898 Master Stanford de Revere Ward, the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Ward, of Beaumont, Tex., who has recently come to visit his aunt, Mrs. Helen Stanford Barclay, is quite a link with Augusta's past. The young gentleman's great grandfather, John Kenan Montford Charlton, of Wilkes county, attended medical lectures in Philadelphia before the day of our own great Georgia college, but preferring literature, devoted much time to journalism, editing the Washington Gazette and having some connection with The Chronicle here. His maternal grandfather, Maj. John R. Stanford, of Governor MacDonald's staff, came to this city from West Chester, Penn., and made his Masonic and bachelor home in Augusta. An officer in the old Webb lodge, he was on the reception committee when the Masons entertained General Lafayette, and the beautiful Royal Arch apron he wore on that occasion is still preserved. He was a large-hearted man, and set up the old "Sentinel" twice, comforting himself for his loss with the remark, :I do not regret it; the proprietor was an honest man." Stanford Ward's name may never be known wherever the flag floats, like that of his cousin, Francis Scott Key, but he will have done nobly if he writes it beside the grandfather for whom he is called, and of whom it was written by men who knew him, " John R. Stanford and Honor are synonymous.