Lee-Tazewell County Virginia USGenWeb Archives News.....Third Anniversary -- Long Ago London Visitor February 28, 1926
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He Laurel Sun, Volume 4, Number 1, London, Kentucky February 28, 1926
We believe one of the Sun's representatives has found the oldest or very nearly 
the oldest London visitor living.  He is L. D. WARD, 74 years of age, and a 
citizen of Dryden, Virginia.  In October 1875 Mr. WARD with his wife [sic 
Nicati Brown] started from Stickleyville, Lee County, Virginia in a two horse 
wagon for the northern part of Missouri.  They came through Pineville, 
Barbourville, and was in London for a few days.  He told our representative 
that all the present towns along the route he took, were at the that time, 
insignificant villages, some of them having not more than a dozen houses.  It 
required six weeks and one half day to make the journey from Virginia to 
Edensbury, Missouri.

Additional Comments:
Lexington Daniel "Leck" Ward was born, raised, and died in Lee County, 
Virginia.  He was the son of James Bradley Ward and Catherine "Katy" Roberts.  
He married 1st Nicati Martha Brown and 2nd Cyntha Gibson.  Leck and Nicati 
removed to Missouri for a brief period of time, moving then to western 
Tennessee, and then back to Dryden, Virginia.

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