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Ware's Picture Gallery 1900 - 1944 Compiled by Estella (Ware) Hall
Virgil
Ware and the Molloys are 3rd cousins 3 times removed. Their common
ancestors are Col. Dudley Ware and Mary (Polly) Rice.
   
   
The Ware Genealogy
As rewritten by Chas P. Ware 1928
The Wares are a very old family and of noble decent. Records are on
file in the countries, or shires, of Devon and Somerset, England
showing that families of our name have been living there since the
dawn of English History, shortly after the Roman invasion 55 years
B.C. And our ancestry can be traced back in a direct line, family by
family, to the year 1471 in the tenth year of the reign of King
Edward IV, many having seen military service and have honorable
mention in the many wars of the British Empire and later on in King
Phillip's war, the French and Indian War and in the artillery service
in the war of the American Revolution. The first one of our name to
emigrate to America was Robert Ware, known as "Robert Ware, of
Dedham". He and his wife came to Massachusetts in 1623, and
settled on the Ware river in what is now Hampshire County and from
all indications he was a very well educated man judging by his
handwriting. I have a copy of his signature to a will, made in 1642
and I am herewith attaching a facsimile of his signature as I copied
it. He was buried at Dedham, Mass. and there is a long line of
ancestry reaching on down from Massachusetts into Virginia and
Kentucky, through the 17th and 18th centuries. I, Chas. P. Ware,
being tenth in line of descent from Robert Ware, of Dedham. My
great-grandfather's name was Nathan Ware, and Nathan Ware's son, Col.
Dudley Ware, my great-grandfather was a native of Albemarle County,
Virginia and a near neighbor of Thomas Jefferson, the author of the
Declaration of Independence. Dudley Ware was highly educated and his
wife was of French descent. Their children, Henry, Rice and Edmond
and their two daughters, Mrs. Tubbs and Helen, were all born in Virginia.
In 1797 Col. Dudley Ware, together with his wife, three sons, and
daughter Helen in Company with other Virginians loaded their
possessions on horses and pack-sddle and came in by way of the old
wilderness road and Cumberland Gap, Seeking new homes for themselves
in the "Dark and Bloody Ground" beyond the Alleghenies.
Finding the Indians less numerous and troublesome in what now
comprises Pulaski County, Kentucky than they were in the Blue Grass
regions he decided to make entry on a body of land lying just east of
Pulaski station, on the headwaters of Hyatt's Fork and Pittman Creeks
. Where, with the assistance of his sons and some of his far off
neighbors, he built himself a home near a fine spring, in what was at
that time a dense and trackless forest, with people living miles
apart and oft times he could hear the war shoop of the stealthy
Indians and the howling of prowling wolves and other wild animals.
Here, surrounded by the beauties of nature, this fine old Virginia
gentleman, together with his brave and faithful wife, spent the
sunset of their lives in this, their new earthly home and when at
length they came to the end of life's journey, this good man an his
noble helpmate, who had borne her share of the trials and hardships
that were the common lot of the women of that period, were laid to
rest in this little cemetery belonging to the old homestead. It is
something of a coincidence that this old land grant has always
remained in the hands of the Ware family from that far distant to the
present day, it having passed by purchase and inheritance down to Mr.
Jonas Ware, now 84 years of age, a son of Edmond Ware and grandson of
Col. Dudley Ware. He and other descendants of Edmond Ware live in and
around Pulaski, Ky. the other children of Edmond Ware to attain to
the estate of manhood and womanhood were: Edmond Ware Jr. who married
Orpha Bishop. To them were born six children; John, who died in his
fifties, Cornelius, who lives in Tenn., and Amanda, who is dead and
Marie, who lives in the West all were married. Edmond Ware Jr. lived
to a ripe old age. Another son of Edmond Ware Sr. was Daniel who
lived on the old homestead until his death in 1916 at the good old
age of 75. He married Nancy Jane Yates early in life and to them was
born one child, Jonas E. Ware Jr. He died in 1927 at the age of 61
years. Edmond Ware Sr., had two daughters, Barbara Ann and Jane.
Barbara Ann and Jonas Sr. were never married.
Henry and Rice, the two older sons, lived at home for a few years and
then removed to other parts-Rice going into the western part of
Pulaski County and married into a prominent family and reared a
number of sons and daughters and many of his descendants still live
in this(Pulaski Co.). Among some of those that I may mention that are
descended from my great uncle, Rice Ware or Marion Ware, Georgetown
KY. Jos. E. Ware, Danville, Ky. Atty. Ben V. Smith. Somerset, Ky. Mrs
Josiah Bishop, Danville Ky. Mrs. Perk Baker, Science Ky. , Mrs
Dutton, Lexington, Ky., J.H. Ware, L.& N. ticket agent,
Pineville, Ky. Besides others that reside in Marion County and many
other places in the United States.
Henry Ware, eldest son of Col. Dudley Ware, and the writer's
grandfather, removed from Pulaski County, Kentucky. when quite a
young man located in Garrad County, Kentucky, northeast of Lancaster,
near the Richmond Pike and in time became one of the representative
citizens of his adopted county. He was born in Virginia May 19th 1782
and died in 1856. He and his wife, together with other members of his
family, are buried in the little cemetery on his old homestead. This
small plot being reserved for all time for burial purposes by Henry
Ware's family. Henry Ware was married to Miss Jane Newcome of
Rockcastle County, Kentucky in 1805. 8 children were born to them.
Nathan Ware the eldest, was born in 1806 and married into the
Sebastian family, of Garrad County. He removed shortly afterwards to
Trenton Mo. and reared a family of 9 sons and one daughter. All grew
up to be men and women and at the outbreak of the great Civil War 5
of Nathan Ware's sons entered the service of the Confederate army and
4 of them enlisted with the Union forces and all opposed each other
in many a hard fought battle of that conflict and lived to tell their
folks of their many narrow escapes. All of my uncle Nathan's children
are dead but many of their descendants are scattered over different
parts of the West. My uncle, John Ware, and his sister Elizabeth,
both died of typhoid fever when they were around 20 years of age. My
father, the third son of Henry Ware, was born November 30th 1819 and
lived till August 4, 1887. His name was Squire Lancaster Ware and he
was a school teacher and farmer. On January 8, 1846, he married my
mother, Miss Julia A. Stormes, daughter of Nathan Stormes of Garrad
County. My Mother was born Oct. 14, 1825 and lived till April 23,
1900. She and father are buried in Buffalo cemetery at Stanford, Ky.
My other uncle William Henry Ware was born in 1825 and married my
mother's sister Nancy Greenstreet Stormes and they removed to Vernon
County Mo. where Uncle William died in 1893. He and aunt Nancy are
buried in the cemetery at Moundsville Mo. All of their children are
dead except one son, James Ware, who lives at Hever Springs, Ark.
Grandfather Henry Ware had 4 daughters, Mrs. Martha Barnes and Mrs.
Theresa Jackson, of Anderson County. Mrs. Jane McMurray, of Mercer
County, besides aunt Elizabeth, mentioned above, who died unmarried.
My father, Squire Lancaster Ware raised a family of 4 sons and 3
daughters. My brothers are Henry Nathan, C. Jackson, J.M. and myself,
Chas. P. the daughters were: Emma, Belle and Rosa. I am the youngest
son and I have a son, Louis Ware, of South America. He has two sons:
Thomas and Louis Jr. I was born Feb. 19, 1863, right in the midst of
the great Civil War. My father, being a slave owner and in sympathy
with the "Lost Cause", gave me the name of Gen. Chas.
Pemberton, commander of the Southern or Confederate army at the siege
of Vicksburg in June and July 1863. I have always been proud of my
name. I feel that is should be a matter of pride to my children and
all others of the Ware Clan to be able to trace their ancestry, or
line of descent, back to the days of Julius Caesar, Emperor of Rome
and conqueror of the British Isles. There is a coat of arms of the
Ware Family, I have not yet secured the design but hope to at an
early date.
My grandfather, Henry Ware was an exceptionally liberal man,
especially so far as educational matters and other charitable acts
were concerned, and I have in my possession papers showing where he,
along with George Washington, Aaron Burr, Patrick Henry, Marquis De
Lafayette and others donated money to help endow Kentucky University
( now Transylvania University, Lexington Ky.) the first college to be
established west of the Allegheny Mountains. (Founded in 1780).}
The above article was copied word for word except for an occational
spell check correction, from a copy of Chas. P. Ware's 1928 account
of his family history. I have made no attempt to corraborate his
account, but I have no reason not to take it as fact untill shown
otherwise.It was probably accurate to the best of his ability in 1928.
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