Hi Irene, I recently found this website which is posting cemetery listings/photos online, and found headstones for Laura, Charles and Jared, and I thought of you. Thought you'd be interested: http://distantcousin.com/Cemetery/NJ/Essex/RoselandMethodist/ In the meantime, I went back into my database to add dates, and found this was a portion I have to rebuild, as I no longer had Laura's second marriage or her children from that marriage in my database - I swear FTM eats info. take care - Kathleen Pantano >From: coolturk <coolturk@bigfoot.com> >Reply-To: WARD-L@rootsweb.com >To: WARD-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: Laura J. WARD/WILLIAMS/NORWOOD; New Jersey; mid 1800s >Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 13:55:21 -0600 > >Hi Kathleen! > >What a wonderful surprise! I wasn't really expecting to get a >response on this and to get one so fast is terrific! It's so rare >that I find any info on the people connected to my elusive Norwood >line, I about fell out of my chair when I saw this. > >I don't really have much additional info as I haven't discovered yet >if this family connects into my line of not. I'm doing sort of a one >name study of the Norwoods in NJ and NYC trying to find all the >connections so just came across this info relating to a Ward family. >It's sort of funny, my Norwood also married a Ward (in 1887 instead of >1878) but it's in a different state. > >Here's what I can tell you. > >Laura's parent's names come from a copy of her marriage certificate to >Charles Norwood. Unfortunately, it doesn't list any more detailed >birth info for Laura or her parents than "America". There are two >witnesses listed, Phebe and Emma Osborn, that I don't recognize from >the Norwood side of the family so could be friends of the bride. > >I have the birth dates for Charles and Laura's three children: >Helen M. (Norwood) Lane April 17, 1879 >Charles H. Norwood May 11, 1880 >Edna J. Norwood Feb 12, 1886 > >I only have an approximate birth date for Laura's daughter from her >first marriage, Ida Williams, of 1875. > >I have the 1880 census for this family. You can find a listing of it >at http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~norwood/id64.htm under Henry Norwood >in Livingston, Essex Co, NJ. > >Charles died in 1908 and I have a signed affidavit from Laura dated >1909 but I haven't gotten around to looking up the 1900 and 1910 >census to see what's listed. I don't know when or where Laura died >but she's living in Newark, Essex Co, NJ in 1909. > >Laura's affidavit states that her first husband also fought in the >civil war, US army, Co C. 2, Reg D.C. Inf on Jan 31, 1862, discharged >June 27, 1865. She did collect his pension until she married Charles >so you may want to send for the civil war record for Jared Williams if >you don't already have it. > >Thanks for the death date of Jared and their daughter. I'll be adding >that to my database on this family. > >Hope this helps! > >Irene > > > >On Sat, 30 Sep 2000 15:46:32 GMT, you wrote: > > >Hi Irene and fellow Ward searchers, > > > >Thank you for poting this info to the Ward list. I have Laura J. Ward >and > >her first husband Jared V. Williams! Jared was the brother to one of my > >GGGgrandmothers, Mary Williams. I have the Williams ancestry if anyone >is > >interested, and would be happy to share it. Jared (d. 5/13/1875) and a >dau. > >Jennie (d. 4/30/1878 ae 6.7.16) are buried in the Roseland 1st Methodist > >Presbyterian cemetery in Roseland, NJ. Laura's name is on the tombstone > >without dates, so I'd guess she was buried with her second husband, >Charles > >Norwood. > > > >If you have additional information on her ancestry, her descendants or >where > >she is buried I'd appreciate it. I have a lot of Wards in that area, but >do > >not have John Ward or Mary Butler in my group. > > > >Thanks again, > >Kathleen Pantano > Kathleen Pantano _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.