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/BkB.2ACE/910.1.1 Message Board Post: George Magnus WARD was born Dec. 1882 in Oklahoma, his parents lived in Pike Co. AR in 1880 but I have no records of IL. I have no information on Welma/Velma his wife. His parents were Redding/Redden G. WARD of AL and Nancy Carpenter of Alabama or Mississippi. He had a half sister named Eva WARD who married Jerome Covington and they lived in Red River TX in the 1900 Census. Other siblings of George were James J; Erma, who married men named Lavender and Simmons; and Mary Gertrude WARD (my direct line). She settled in Oklahoma and was married to Joseph Carl Edmonson. Do any of these names or places fit with your family? Thanks for your reply.