Brenda, Here's mine: Daniel Ward & Anna Curtis Samuel L. Ward (born 1807) & Orpha Julie Bradley Samuel L. Ward (born 1836) & Sarah Frances J. "Fannie" Robinson Lucy Ellen Ward (born Lee Co, VA died Oklahoma) & Isaac Harrison Sage (They had 10 children, Isaac remarried twice after Lucy's death and fathered more children) Would this of interest to you? I found this in my researching. "ORPHA BRADLEY WARD, in the Lawson-Ward Cemetery. Unfortunately Daniel Ward's gravestone has been lost to a mowing machine and those of Samuel and Orpha Ward have also been badly damaged. Family tradition also states that Daniel Ward was buried near his slaves, however the Slave Schedules for Lee County indicate that the slaves belonged to his son, Samuel Ward. As a child and teenager, I personally visited this cemetery with my grandmother, Pearl Ward Castle. She shared this information with me and other family members who carry on this tradition. Some have placed Daniel's age at one hundred eleven years, others at one hundred eight. In June 1998 I placed three memorial gravestones in the Jonathan B. Ward Cemetery where Lexington Ward, James B. & Katie Ward, and other descendants of Daniel Ward are buried: one for Daniel Ward, one for Samuel Ward and one for his wife Orpha Bradley Ward, and one for Nicati Brown Ward, wife of Lexington Ward. This cemetery is located above Stickleyville. Let it be said that DANIEL WARD lived long and well and left many descendants who now live throughout the United States." Jean Brand HC 67 Box 468 Rattan, OK 74562 ----- Original Message ---- From: "BrendReed@aol.com" <BrendReed@aol.com> To: valee@rootsweb.com Sent: Friday, April 4, 2008 11:58:54 AM Subject: Re: [VALEE] DEATH RECORDS My line is from Daniel Ward & Anna Curtis to Samuel Ward & Orpha Bradley; to James Bradley Ward & Catherine Roberts; to Lexington Daniel "Lech" Ward & Nicati Martha Brown; to John Edward Ward & Eliza Barbara Chafin; to Pearl Ethel Ward & Bradley Castle; to my mother, Dorothy Castle. I grew up on my grandparents farm off the road just about a mile from the Stickleyville grade school, eventually moved to Kingsport; then married an Army officer who was KIA in Vietnam, ending up living most of my adult life in Oakland, CA. I come home periodically to see family and do my research and tend the cemeteries. I am the researcher who has compiled the line back to Henrico County, VA and my work is posted on Rootsweb as "bhreed." Several of my cousins & I purchased new gravestones for Daniel, Samuel, Orpha, and Nicati but couldn't get them up the hill into the old Ward Cemetery (now called the Lawson-Ward Cemetery) so placed them as memorial stones in the Big John Ward Cemetery above the late Curtis Lawson's homeplace. I also uncovered the errors in the compilations taken from the Lee County Death Register relative to Daniel Ward who died 18 September 1877 at Lee County. I maintain that Daniel Ward was born in NC and specifically in Ashe Co., NC as proven by the 1850, 1860, and 1870 census records for Lee County, VA and that all the census records from 1800 to 1870 indicate that he could not have been 108 years old when he died as his parents did not marry until 16 April 1774 as proven through Ward and Stewart family records from the period. It is more likely that Daniel Ward was born in 1776 at Ashe Co., NC and certainly not in Lee County, VA. Recently one of my male second cousins who is the nephew of my grandmother, Pearl Ward Castle, gave me his DNA for the Ward DNA study. We have a bit of a mystery going as his DNA should have been a much closer match to a descendant of Daniel Ward's brother, Benjamin Ward. My cousin did a 67 marker test compared to the other subject who did a 37 marker test & is now waiting on results from the 67 marker test upgrade. We had a difference of one point on 2 alleles. Some scientists believe this still proves both are descendants of Benjamin Ward and Selah/Celia Stewart of Ashe Co., NC; others question this assumption. The results are due in later this month. Meanwhile we are looking for other direct line male Ward descendants from Benjamin Ward of Ashe County to submit to doing a 67 marker yDNA test through FamilyTreeDNA.com which costs about $250 through the Ward DNA study on this site. Brenda H. Reed 6276 Acacia Avenue Oakland, CA 94618-1850 510 601-9837 www.mediate.com/brendareed www.bbonline.com/ca/acaciahouse www.weberiteheresy.com ************** Planning your summer road trip? Check out AOL Travel Guides. (http://travel.aol.com/travel-guide/united-states?ncid=aoltrv00030000000016) ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VALEE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Can someone please send the obit from the Kingsport Times for William "Dave" Lawson. I have read the announcement, but would really like to have the entire obit. It is in the 4/22/08 edition. Thanks, SueBee