History of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade and Barton Counties, MO
Cedar County Biography Section

     Bart Ward, a prominent agriculturist and stock-raiser of 
Box Township, Cedar County, Mo., was born in Columbiana County,
Ohio, in 1839, and is the eleventh of fourteen children born 
to Charles and Letitia G. (Fury) Ward, natives of Ireland, 
where they were reared and married.  After coming to the 
United States they lived first in Ohio, and then in 1839 
moved to Livingston County, Mo., where they remained until 
about 1842, when they located in Cedar County, being among its
very first settlers.  The country was wild and unsettled, and 
wild animals of all kinds were numerous.  They improved a good
farm, and here Mrs. Ward died in 1865 and Mr. Ward one year 
later.  Both were members of the Catholic Church.  He was a 
farmer, and was a stone-mason by trade.  Of their large family
of children, only three are now living, viz.: Daniel, of 
Vernon County; Phares, of Cass County; and Bart, the subject 
of this sketch.  The latter has lived in Cedar County since 
three years of age, and never attended school a day in his 
life.  He began for himself at the age of twenty-three, and 
was married May 17, 1866, to Miss Zerelda Hawkins, daughter 
of David and Margaret Hawkins, natives of Tennessee, who moved
to Indiana and from there to Missouri, settling in Livingston 
County in 1840, and then moved to Cedar County in 1865.  
Here Mrs. Hawkins died in 1874, and Mr. Hawkins in 1880.  
By his marriage Mr. Ward became the father of four children, 
one son and three daughters. Since marriage he has lived in 
Box Township, and on his present farm since 1881.  He is the 
owner of 200 acres of land, 170 under cultivation, is one of 
the pioneers of the county, and endured many of the privations
incident to early times.  He is a Democrat, voting for Douglas
in 1860, and is a member of the I.O.O.F.  When twenty-one 
years of age Mr. Ward could not spell nor write his name, but 
since then he has learned to read, is a fair scholar, and is 
well informed on general issues.  From 1862 until the close 
of the war he was in the Government employ in New Mexico.  
Mrs. Ward belongs to the Christian Church. 

History of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade and Barton Counties,
Missouri, published by Goodspeed, 1889--Pages 785, 786 
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