Stewart-Heard County GaArchives Biographies.....Ard, George W. 1833 - 1904
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Author: William Harden
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   GEORGE W. ARD, whose death in 1904 removed one of the best known and most
highly respected citizens of Stewart county, was a Confederate soldier and long
identified with the official life of his home county in Georgia.

   He was born in Dale county, Alabama, in 1833, was reared on an Alabama farm,
and in young manhood came to Georgia, where he was employed for several years as
a farm superintendent. At the outbreak of the war between the states he enlisted
in Company K of the Second Regiment of Georgian Volunteers, this regiment being
attached to Toombs' Brigade, and with that command went into Virginia. He fought
in all the battles in which his regiment was engaged, and at the crucial
conflict at Antietam, in 1863, he was severely wounded, one ball passing through
his elbow and another through his thigh, which caused the loss of his left leg.
After the battle he fell into the hands of the Federals, and a member of the
Ninth New York Infantry cared for him until he was exchanged. This strange
friendship between two soldiers of the opposite armies was continued by
correspondence until the death of the Federal soldier. After his exchange Mr.
Ard returned home and was soon afterwards elected tax collector of Stewart
county. He was continued in that office by reelection until his death in 1904.

   In 1867, Mr. Ard married Sarah Whitten, who was born in Heard county,
Georgia, a daughter of Reverend Arphax and Matilda (Bennett) Whitten. The
Reverend Whitten was born in the Spartansburg district of South Carolina, and
was the son of Rev. James Whitten, a missionary Baptist preacher, who carried
the gospel in the early days to the inhabitants of Harris and Muskogee counties,
and who died in Columbus, Georgia, about the beginning of the Civil war. Mrs.
Ard's father was also a Baptist preacher and held pastorates in both Georgia and
Alabama, and his death occurred at Smith Station in Lee county, Alabama. Mrs.
Ard's mother died in Heard county, Georgia. Mrs. Ard reared eight children,
namely: Annie, Clifford, Charles R., Sarah, Mary, Georgia, Arphax, and John.


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A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913

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