This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: page,ward,vickers,gamble,oates,smith,peebles,balcom,curry,wilcoxen,parish Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YS.2ADI/3096.1.2.1.1 Message Board Post: joseph r.ward was married to mathilda wilcoxen,they are buried in the lawrenceville baptist church cemetery joseph r.ward-born-7/apr/1803-died-27/june/1859 his wife mathilda wilcoxen born-15/may/1801-south carolina died-5/july/1862-both buried lawrenceville baptist church cemetery,henry co.when they died the land they owned was left to their slaves and their decendants,jessie was one of them.i have pictures of both the cemetery and the land,the only things that are left are the water wheel and the barn,the house looked like it was gone.the land is just sitting there.the land is just down the road from the cemetery.joseph r.ward was brother to the christopher ward born between 1800-1810 in henry co.alabama.the one who married-martha davis was john jackson ward-i have a picture of their headstones also. james jackson ward son of james r.ward married-eliza oates they are buried in the abbeville city cemetery behind the baptist church,the cemetery used to belong to the church but now is in the hands of the city.joseph r.ward&mathilda wilcoxen were my ggggrandparents i,ll be just right honest with you and say i don,t know who those other ward,s are.all i can tell you is i decend down from christopher ward&catherine boles.they are supposed to be buried in the old stokes/ward cemetery on bertha road in henry county,but that cemetery is almost gone all that,s left are three graves,the cemetery has become real unstable.and the people who were buried in there died from typhoid,any handling of the bones would bring back the fever,to excavate the cemetery would mean the use of bio suits.old disease,s are just laying there dormant just waiting to be brought back. also bodies back in the old days were embalmed with arsenic anyone going to the cemeteries there have a real good chance of developing arsenic poisoning.everything having to do with the old days goes into the soil and even into the water.they were probably buried in wooden caskets.they didn,t have vaults back then either.hope this helps. kind regards,cj