This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Ward, Boecher Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BkB.2ACE/910.1 Message Board Post: Do you know where George originally came from. My mother was a child of William Wallace Ward, from Chicago, IL. I have lived in Beaumont from 1955 and had heard of some Ward (s) that lived here but never knew if they were related.