Multnomah County OR Archives Obituaries.....Ward, Samuel Green September 2, 1904 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/or/orfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sheron Faynor nitwittwin@hotmail.com April 9, 2008, 7:11 am Monring Oregonian September 3,1904 Olympia,Wash.,Sept 2,-(Special)- Samel Green Ward,for 50 years a resident of Olympia,died this afternoon after a long illness.Mr.Ward arrived in Olympia when 10 years old in company with his father,the late Ira Ward,who for a few years prior thereto had been a member of th eparty heade dby Colonel Michael Simmonds,that made the first settlement on Puget Sound at Tumwater. Samuel Ward was born in Toulon,Ill.,in 1843 ans was educated at the Oreon University at Salem. He was a member of the Legislature in 189 and for nearly 20 years was in the meploy of the Northern Pacific as express and ticket agent in Olympia.A wife and three sons survive him,to wit: George Frederick,Winfield W.,and Samuel G.Jr. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/or/multnomah/obits/w/ward3909gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/orfiles/ File size: 1.3 Kb