The Independence Daily Reporter Montgomery County Thursday July 29, 1937 Hiram D. Ward. Hiram D. WARD, 66, resident of Coffeyville for 20 years before moving to Wichita to make his home five years ago, died in a hospital there Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Ward died in 1917. Surviving are a daughter and two sons. The body has been returned to Coffeyville for interment.