it's already been determined that Della Ward is NOT Della Sowle. Came out in earlier message. Della Sowle was a Roder per her cousin Gloria Sowle Heser. Diana ----- Original Message ----- From: <MAKtranscriber@yahoo.com> To: <WIMONROE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 11:08 PM Subject: [WIMONROE ] Re: WARD (Della M) 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/an/4EC.2ACE/154.168.2.1 Message Board Post: You can write for her SSN Record to verify info: DELLA M SOWLE SSN 394-22-3214 Residence: 54660 Tomah, Monroe, WI Born 5 Dec 1890 Died Jun 1992 Issued: WI Before 1951) Questions for you to ponder? When and where was Della M WARD born? Did she move with her family to EauClaireCoWI? If so, why/when would she move back? What happened to her family? Did her sisters marry and move back to MonroeCoWI? Where are her parents buried? Did you check the cemetery records to see if she had married and is buried in family plot with husband or died young? Wisconsin Marriages, 1835-1900 Name Spouse Marriage Date County State ESSELSTON, JOHN L. WARD, DELLA A. 18 Sep 1873 Grant WI Wisconsin Marriages, pre-1907 Name Marriage Date County Volume Page Della C Ward 23 Apr 1882 Dane 04 0184 Wisconsin Marriages, 1835-1900 Name Spouse Marriage Date County State SPRINGER, ISAAC ELIHA SOWLE, MARY A. 16 Mar 1860 Monroe WI BOYLE, PATRICK SOWLE, HELEN R. 19 Nov 1865 Monroe WI SOWLE, WESLEY V. WARREN, MARY 1 Jul 1866 Monroe WI SOWLE, HARVEY M. JACKSON, LOELLA M. 17 Oct 1869 Monroe WI WOOD, ELLIS L. SOWLE, MARY B. 28 Oct 1871 Monroe WI GIBBS, FRANK A. SOWLE, ALMA A. 2 Feb 1873 Monroe WI WALKER, CHARLES SOWLE, ABBIE 27 Jun 1874 Monroe WI GREENWOOD, JOHN SOWLE, MAHALA J. 4 Jul 1874 Monroe WI KELSEY, DEJY SOWLE, CORA 12 Apr 1882 Monroe WI SOWLE, ORLANDO T. ONAN, ELLA 28 Nov 1889 Monroe WI SOWLE, EDWIN HANCOCK, LAURA 25 Oct 1890 Monroe SOWLE, CLAUDE RAYMOND SCOTT, LUETTA BELLE 31 Dec 1890 Monroe WI SOWLE, AMOS BIGELOW, ISABELLE 20 Jul 1892 Monroe WI DROWATZKY, FRANK SOWLE, MYRTLE L. 4 Jul 1893 Monroe WI SOWLE, WILLIAM GILLETT, LEONA BELL 18 Nov 1893 Monroe WI Wisconsin Marriages, 1835-1900 Name Spouse Marriage Date County State WARD, CHAPMAN FRENCH, HATTIE L. 15 Feb 1863 Monroe WI COLEMAN, WILLIAM WARD, MARY 10 Oct 1887 Monroe WI MONAGHAN, JOSEPH WARD, ELIZABETH 10 Oct 1892 Monroe WI GALAGHER, WILLIAM WARD, SARAH 10 Oct 1892 Monroe WI McAVAY, JAMES WARD, MARGARET 27 Jan 1897 Monroe WI CROSS, MILO R. WARD, LILLIAN 22 Aug 1899 Monroe WI WARD, WILLIAM E. BARTELS, ELLA 12 Jun 1900 Monroe WI FINCH, EDWIN C. WARD, FLORENCE 21 Oct 1900 Monroe WI Wisconsin Births, 1820-1907 Hulda C Ward Birth Date: 31 Aug 1896 County: Eau Claire Reel: 0062 Record: 001186 Wisconsin Deaths, 1820-1907 Freedie Bell Ward Death Date: 18 Feb 1898 County: Monroe Volume: 01 Page: 0132 Reel: 100 I am not related to nor have any additional information on these surnames. R/S MAK http://www.rootsweb.com/~wimonroe