Deacon Levi WARD

1745 - 1839  (93 years)

• Name	Levi WARD  [1, 2, 3]
  	"In the year 1807 Deacon Levi Ward accompanied his sons, John and levi, Jr., M.D., with a few neighbors to Western New York, then called 'Genesee Woods,' purposing to share with them the privations of pioneer life. These brave hearted and truly Christian men carried with them, as they left New England, their ancestral, heroic, puritan piety, of which they were never for an hour ashamed. When stopping for the night at a tavern or farm house they would, with permission cheerfully given, spend an evening hour in singing sacred songs, the sound of their voices calling together settlers by the score. 'Deacon Ward,' the title he ever bore, would then give a brief, earnest, practical exhortation, when all would bow in social worship. It was a strange event to many of these emigrants, who, alas, had in too many instances practically forgotten the religious usages of early life. Reaching their place of destination, the father and sons purchased adjoining lands, reclaimed them from native wildness, and secured homes of comfort, if not of luxury, for themselves and their families. The father was less in public life than were the sons, but, without an hour's abatement, held a large place in the reverence and affection of all who were favored with his acquaintance and friendship," --From Biographical Sketch by Rev. F.DeW. Ward D.D. The following excerpt from a Bergen, Genesee county, newspaper sufficiently indicates the esteem in which he was held by the community; "Died at Bergen, Deacon Levi Ward, aged 92 years, 10 months and 22 days. Three children, twenty-three grandchildren and sixty-five grand children survive him; twenty-two grandchildren and great-grandchildren had preceded him to the grave; making the whole number of his descendants, at the time of his death, one hundred and thirteen. He had survived his own and a large part of the succeeding generation of his friends and neighbors. As a citizen, a friend, a husband and a parent he had performed his public and social duties with integrity, fidelity and faithfulness. His death was calm, peaceful and triumphant, an appropriate close to such a life." [1]
  Prefix	Deacon
  Birth	26 Nov 1745	Killingsworth, Middlesex County, Connecticut   [1, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	28 Feb 1839	Guilford, New Haven County,Connecticut   [1]
  Person ID	I59174	Main Tree
  Last Modified	25 Oct 2020

  
  

  Father	Peter WARD,   b. 11 Oct 1709, Killingsworth, Middlesex County, Connecticut d. 23 Dec 1755, Killingsworth, Middlesex County, Connecticut (Age 46 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Deborah BUELL,   b. 16 Feb 1715, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA d. 07 May 1750, Killingsworth, Middlesex County, Connecticut (Age 35 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Marriage	13 Apr 1733	Killingworth, Connecticut   [1, 4]
  Family ID	F16661	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Mary MEIGS,   b. 08 Jan 1736/7, Guilford, New Haven County,Connecticut d. 06 Nov 1806, Guilford, New Haven County,Connecticut (Age 69 years)
  Marriage	08 Jun 1762	Guilford, New Haven County,Connecticut   [2, 4]
  Family ID	F16656	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	13 Aug 2021

  
  

  Family 2	Jemima HUBBARD,   b. 1754   d. 4 Oct 1846 (Age 92 years)
  Family ID	F38807	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Sep 2018

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 26 Nov 1745 - Killingsworth, Middlesex County, Connecticut Marriage - 08 Jun 1762 - Guilford, New Haven County,Connecticut Death - 28 Feb 1839 - Guilford, New Haven County,Connecticut  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S9806] George K. Ward, A.M., Andrew Warde and His Descendants 1597-1910 . [S03444] Professor Reynold Webb Wilcox, The Descendants of William Wilcoxson, Vincent Meigs, and Richard Webb, (Name: Name: New York - T.A. Wright, Publisher and Printer 1893;;). [S00059] Alvan Talcott, "Families of Early Guilford, Connecticut" Vol. I, (Name: Name: Clearfield Company, Inc.;;). [S03416] The Barbour Collection Of Connecticut Town Vital Records: Killingworth, Ledyard and Lisbon.