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Lucretia (Rudolph) Garfield

First Lady of President James Garfield

Obadiah Ward

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Lucretia (Rudolph) Garfield — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 60 
  • Father:
  • Richard Ward 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Moore   
  • Birth Date:
  • 19 Apr 1663 
  • Birth Location:
  • Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 5 Jan 1717/1718 
  • Death Location:
  • Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Johannah Mixer
  • Marriage Date:
  • 20 Dec 1693 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Daniel Ward (Ahnentafel No:30 )

  • Notes: 

  • Some published sources confuse Obadiah Ward with his uncle of the same name when referring to the marriage of Obadiah Ward and Joanna (Mixer) Harrington.

• Sources for Obadiah Ward

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Sudbury, Vol. 1, p. 147, Birth record for son Danil Ward.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Sudbury, Vol. 1, p. 281, Marriage record for Obadiah Ward and Joanna Harrington.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Sudbury, Vol. 1, p. 148, Birth record for Obadiah Ward.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Marlborough, Vol. 1, p. 396, Death record for Obadiah Ward.
  • ⁵ Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Vol. 3, p. 1593, Marriage record for Obadiah Ward and Joanna (Mixer) Harrington.
  • ⁶ Bartlett, Joseph Gardner, Gregory Stone Genealogy: Ancestry and Descendants of Dea. Gregory Stone of Cambridge, Mass. 1320-1917, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Murray Printing Company (1918), 87.
  • ⁷ Greene, Major-General George Sears and Mrs. Louise Brownell Clarke, The Greenes of Rhode Island, New York: The Knickerbocker Press (1903), 255.
  • ⁸ Torry, Clarence, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 345, 779.
  • ⁹ Ward, Andrew Henshaw, Ward Family: Descendants of William Ward, Who Settled in Sudbury, Mass., in 1639, Boston: Samuel G. Drake (1851), 13.
  • ¹⁰ Weis, Frederick Lewis, Early Generations of the Family of Robert Harrington of Watertown, Massachusetts, 1634, and Some of His Descendants, Worcester, Massachusetts: Privately printed (1958), 18.