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Goldsboro News Argus October 15, 1964
  Two hundred years from now how many descendants will you have?
  Medical authorities estimate that Col. and Mrs. Edward Ward, early settlers 
in Onslow County, have at least 5,000 descendants today, among them D. L. Ward 
of New Bern and his sister, Mrs. Byron Donaldson, of Goldsboro.
  Here is the inscription from the gravestone at the grave of Col. Ward, placed 
first at the Ward family burying ground near Brown's Inlet, Onslow County, but 
now removed to a place near the Camp Lejeuene entrance:

"Here lyeth the Body of Colonel Edward Ward. Esqr. Born March 22nd 1694 & died 
Sept. 18th 1766 Age 72 years, 5 months and 15 days. He was one of ye first 
settlers & was wounded in ye first of ye Indian wars. Yet he lived to have by 
his only wife, Elizabeth, 15 children, which 15 has already produced for him 86 
grandchildren & 14 Great Grand Children, in all 115. Cruel Relentless death has 
laid his head low in the Gloomy Mansions of the Dead, Where lie the Equally 
Mouldering in the Silent Grave. Still tho his Earthly Part in dust is laid, we 
hope his dearest soul to Heaven has fled".     

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