Jefferson Co., TX - Obits: Andrew Ward ***************************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb by: H. J. Dalton, Jr USGenWeb Archives. Copyright. All rights reserved http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************** Beaumont City Library 695 Pearl Street Beaumont, Texas 77701 Microfilm BEAUMONT ENTERPRISE September 20, 1945, Page 8 ANDREW WARD TO BE BURIED TODAY Funeral services for Andrew Ward, 85, of Vidor, pioneer resident of Beaumont, who died shortly before noon yesterday, following an illness of more than a year, will be held at 5 o'clock this afternoon in Pipkin and Brulin chapel. Rev. George F. Cameron, rector of St. Mark's Episcopal church, will officiate. Burial will be in Magnolia Cemetery. Pallbearers will be E. B. Kelso, Hugh Martin, Harry Jirou, Harvey Wier, George E. Bryant, Jr., and Kyle and Carroll Ward. Mr. Ward, who was postmaster of the Beaumont postoffice from 1885 to 1889, was a member of one of the oldest families in Beaumont, his family moving to Beaumont before the Civil War. Mr. Ward was at one time in the lumber business, being associated with his brother, the late John Ward, pioneer capitalist and lumberman. He served as justice of the peace at Vidor shortly after the end of World War I. Surviving are two sons, Stanford Ward of Vidor and Voltaire Ward of Washington, D.C., and sister, Mrs. R.H. Talley of Taylor, Texas.