This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Ward Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WMB.2ACE/4914.1 Message Board Post: Ray, We have a Francis Ward on our family list. He was born Mar 19, 1909 Fredonia, Wilson Co., KS d Nov 23 1968 Moran, KS married to Leona Porter Feb 10, 1938. Does this appear to be the same Francis Ward? Our Francis is the son of John D. Ward (1871- 1937) who is the son of Mathias MacChessney Ward (1842-1897). I do not recognize any of the other Ward names you list. Perhaps yours is a completely different line. But our Francis had a brother Raymond. And closer to us Mathias' son by second wife was Charles Henry Ward (1881-1953) who had a son Ray Cecil Ward (1901-1992). Ray Cecil Ward is my uncle. Mathias, my great grandfather, was born in Osage Co., MO and died in Wilson Co. KS Rosemary M. Ward Matthews