Submitted by Jerry Ward

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Obituary from unknown newspaper...

Lander Ward, Polo, Passes Away Thursday

POLO-Lander Ward, 78, 107 North Barber, died yesterday morning in Dixon 
Public Hospital.
Ward was born Aug. 29, 1884, the son of John E. and Sallie Sessions Ward in 
Lilly, La.
He married Eva May Green, Nov. 20, 1929 in Sterling.
They farmed in the Coleta area up until four years ago, when they moved to 
their present address.
Surviving are his wife; two sons, Orval, East Detroit, Mich., Kenneth, 
Chicago; one daughter, Mrs. Max (Zula) Golden, Tulsa, Okla.; one brother, 
Frank, Monroe, La.; two sisters, Mrs. C. B. Jinks, Conroe, Tex., and Mrs. 
W. H. Jinks, Lilly, La.; six grandchildren and 16 great grandchildren;   
a number of nieces and nephews.  
Funeral services will be held Monday at 2 p.m. in the Brown-Seidel Funeral 
Home with the    Rev. Loyal Wilkinson, of the Sterling Congregational Church 
officiating.
Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. Sunday.
Obituary for Lander Ward, son of Sallie A. Ward (nee: Sessions) and 
John Elbert Ward.   

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Personal notes of Gerald (Jerry) Ray Ward:
My Great-Grandfather, Lander Ward was born in Lillie, Union Parish, Louisiana 
in 1884.
According to census records, he was married to Anna Bell Brown and  owned a 
barber shop in Texas in 1910...then he was married to Clara "Unknown" (this 
marriage was unknown to us until the census was found) and worked as a hotel 
barber Chicago, Cook County, Illinois in 1920.
He then married Eva May Green and had a dairy farm in the Coleta, Whiteside 
County, Illinois area (100 miles west of Chicago) from about 1929 to 1959.
He retired to a residential area nearby (Polo, Ogle County, Illinois), and 
passed away four years later in 1963.
He was buried in South Park Cemetery, north of Pearland, Texas (a suburb of 
Houston).
I have not seen the gravesite, so I do not know who else is buried in the plot 
with him (he had two, possibly three wives).
He may be buried with his first wife, Anna Bell Ward (nee: Brown)...

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