Sedgwick-Mitchell County KS Archives Biographies.....Forward, Edward 1839 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   Edward Forward, a well-known resident of Sedgwick county, Kansas, was born in
Cayuaga county, New York, on July 19, 1839. His parents were George and Sarah
(Cager) Forward, both natives of England, where the father was born in Sussex,
on October 30, 1806, and the mother on October 30, 1809. They were married on
June 22, 1828, and came to the United States in 1833, settling in Cayuaga
county, New York. They sailed on the Duke of Brunswick on May 4, 1833, and were
on the water seven weeks. They were the parents of twelve children, nine of whom
are living, viz.: George, born in England September 9, 1829, and now living in
Illinois, at the age of eighty-two; Charlotte, born June 22, 1832, deceased;
William, of Illinois, born September 5, 1834; Franklin, of Clinton county,
Michigan, born August 11, 1838; Edward, of Ninnescah township, Sedgwick county,
Kansas, born July 19,1839; Mrs. Fannie Bunker, of Delano township, Sedgwick
county, Kansas, born August 1, 1840; Charles N., of Goddard, Kan., born January
30,1843; Mrs. Mary Beard, of Delano township, Sedgwick county, Kansas, born
August 8, 1845; Lewis, of Mt. Hope, Kan., born November 13, 1852; Adelbert, of
Grand Rapids, Mich., born July 16, 1855; Sarah, deceased, born August 7,1847;
one child died in infancy. The father of this family died in Michigan on
September 15, 1881. The mother is living in Delano township, Sedgwick county,
Kansas, at the age of 102 years. Edward Forward remained at home until 1858,
when he went to Yorktown, Bureau county, Illinois, where he remained till 1861,
when he enlisted in Company B, First Battalion, Yates Sharpshooters, which in
1864 was veteranized and called the Sixty-fourth Illinois. Mr. Forward was in
thirty-three different engagements. At the battle of Corinth a minie ball seared
his right cheek. The same day three balls passed through his blouse and one tore
the heel off his shoe. The sharpshooters were in groups of four, and Mr. Forward
was the only one left out of his group, the other three being killed. He was
with Sherman on his march to the sea, and was discharged with a commission as
second lieutenant on July 18, 1865. After the war Mr. Forward returned to
Illinois and resumed work at his trade of mason and bricklayer, where he
remained until 1877, when he came to Kansas and located in Mitchell county, but
returned to Illinois. In 1878 he returned to Kansas and located three miles west
of Wichita, in Delano township, where he bought a farm and lived eighteen years.
He then sold his farm and bought a farm in Waco township near Bayneville, where
he lived until 1909, when he sold it and bought 220 acres in Section 21,
Ninnescah township. On March 1, 1873, Mr. Forward was married to Miss Margaret
A. Gramphin, who was born in Niles, Mich., on November 10, 1852, a daughter of
Watkins and Elizabeth (Granger) Cramphin, both natives of Cayuaga county, New
York; Mrs. Forward's father was born June 6, 1817, and her mother May 23, 1819.
Her father died June 21, 1890, and her mother September 3, 1897. Mr. and Mrs.
Forward have five children, viz.: Mrs. Alma Parsons, born July 26, 1876; Edward
W., born March 12, 1878; Mrs. Walter Brazill, born May 22, 1880; Mrs. Frank
Coulson, born August 21, 1883, and Mrs. Raymond Lucas, born September 14, 1885.
All the children live in Sedgwick county, Kansas. Mr. Forward has devoted his
entire attention to farming since coming to Kansas. He has held no political
positions except trustee of his school district, which he held for a number of
years. Fraternally, he is a member of Yorktown Lodge, No. 655, of Tampico, Ill.
He is a liberal in politics, always voting for the best men in local affairs,
but is a Republican in national affairs.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from 

History of Wichita and Sedgwick County: past and present, including an account
of the cities, towns and villages of the county

Editor in chief: O. H. Bentley
Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co. (1910)


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