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    1. Re: [NYMADISO] Ward--Brother's Keeper
    2. Thanks, Aaron. I really appreciate your response. I was certainly glad to see Delbert's acquittal. I thought the some of the pretrial claims of both the defense and prosecutors were pretty outrageous. But the defense attorney looked pretty reasonable and effective in the courtroom. I am an attorney and have done my share of trial work but have had little experience in criminal court. I followed the case from Florida but did not, at that time, have any reason to believe the Ward brothers were possibly my relatives. My great-great grandfather Wilmoth Ward was eccentric, he and his wife would not be photographed because they thought it violated the commandment against graven images and I was told by one of his grandsons that he and his wife were buried in unmarked graves somewhere near Augusta again because they thought tombstones violated the same commandment. He had no church other than his bible. He had one son who was "slow", but others were quite bright. My ancestor, his grandson Lester Ward, was something of a child prodigy and became a pharmacist in Allegany County. And Lester had lots of very, very smart descendants including one grandson who is currently a professor at Johns Hopkins Medical School and another who is a respected laser physicist. If the Ward brothers are my relatives, it would be very interesting to have some DNA testing done. But I have my doubts that Delbert, assuming he is still living, would want to have any part of it. As you can well imagine, I watched this documentary with great interest and I did think the Ward brothers looked more like members of my own family than the other Munnsville area residents. Jeff Ward

    09/23/2005 04:08:40