Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 1885,
Muhlenberg Co.

CAPT. WILLIAM FLAM WARD, Muhlenburgh [sic] County, Ky., was born in that 
county January 22, 1835.  His father died in Natchez, Miss., during the 
cholera scourge of 1851, while under the care of Dr. L. T. Blackburn, late 
governor of Kentucky.  The mother died in 1853, leaving six daughters and 
one son, William F., who was then about fourteen years of age.  He continued 
to reside on the farm, where he worked during the summer season, and in 
winter flat-boated on the river between Rochester, Ky., and New Orleans, La.  
At the beginning of the civil war in 1861, he recruited a company and joined 
the Eleventh Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, in which he held the rank of 
lieutenant; after the engagement at Stone River, he was made captain, which 
he held until he was discharged at the close of his term of service, 
December 16, 1864.  He was engaged in the battles of Shiloh, Stone River, 
seige of Knoxville, Atlanta and all other engagements in which his regiment 
participated.  While in the United States service he received two severe 
wounds, one in the right side at the battle of Stone River, the left thigh, 
and received at an engagement near Knoxville, Tenn., on November 15, 1863.  
After the close of the war he returned home and resumed farming, which he 
has continued with extraordinary success up to the present time.  He owns 
1,700 acres of land in Muhlenburgh County, a large portion of it is fenced 
and in cultivation, and improved with good houses, barns and other modern 
conveniences, also an orchard of 400 trees in good bearing condition.  The 
Captain's strong point is stock farming.  He commenced life for himself 
with only $100, and has arrived at his present state of comfortable 
independence through his own labor and judicious management.  He attributes 
much of his success to the assistance and encouragement of his wife, Minnie 
J. Nourse, to whom he was married on January 28, 1863; she is a native of 
Butler County; to them have been born four children: Farrell A. P., Atlanta 
Beatrice, Oma Lincoln and James Garfield.  Mrs. Ward is a member of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church.  Capt. Ward is not a member of any church and 
his religious views are founded on the principles of justice and fair 
dealing.  He is a Master Mason, and a member of Rochester Lodge No. 270; 
he is a Republican, and takes a lively interest in the political questions 
of the day, more especially those that pertain to the interests of his own 
county.  Flam Ward, his grandfather, was a native of Ireland and immigrated 
to Virginia, where he married Mary Reilly; at an early day came to Kentucky 
and settled on Gaspar River, in Warren County.  He was killed by an ambushed 
assassin near Russellville in 1818.  The maternal grandfather, David Kimmel, 
was of German descent, and a native of Pennsylvania; he died in 1878, aged 
upward of 100 years.

Ward Blackburn Nourse Reilly Kimmel
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MS Butler Ireland VA Warren PA

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