This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JYVBAIB/1021.1.1 Message Board Post: Isham Ware was born 18 July 1793, died 25 Dec 1855, and is buried in Smyrna Cem in Warren Co TN. His wife Martha (Norton) was born 27 Dec 1799, died 21 Oct 1874, and is buried in Smyrna Cem in Warren Co TN (tombstones personally seen by me). Isham and Martha are NOT the parents of Absolem Ware (census entry follows): Dist. 14 Absolem CLARK 37 farmer TN Almira 33 Louisa 11 Arminda WARE 22 Absolem WARE 20 William WARE 18 Tempa WARE 16 Roland WARE 14 1850 Warren Co TN census entry for: District 4 Isham WARE 37 farmer TN Martha 51 Elizabeth 28 Allen 26 Delonamus 20 William W. 10 Mary 9 I am a double Ware descendant. First through the above Mary, age 9, who married Lawson Martin... and the following: Isham and Martha Ware's daughter, Jane married Eli Dodson and they lived next household to Isham in 1850 Warren Co TN: Ela Dodson 37 TN Jane 33 Latitia 12 Sarah A. 9 Laura M. 6 Miria E. 5 The Thomas Barnes (an early genealogist of Warren Co TN) Papers now in the TN State Library and Archives, in a "round about way", suggests that the Ware children (living with Absolem Clark) belonged to Wiley Ware and first wife Mary Clark. A marriage license was issued to Wiley and Lettie [Martin-Hayes] Argo on 30 Sept 1852 in Warren Co TN. Wiley Ware can be found in the Warren Co TN census years for at least 1830, 1840, 1860, 1870, and the last census Wiley is enumerated in follows: 1880 Wiley WARE 76 farmer Letta 64 wife Sarah 24 dau (Next household is Wiley and Lettie's daughter Vest Ware Martin and family.)