Elizabeth unknown

Female, #730, (9 December 1613 - 9 December 1700)
Gravestone of Elizabeth Ward
     Elizabeth unknown was born on 9 December 1613 in England.1 About 1638 in England Elizabeth married Deacon William Ward, son of Edward Ward. Elizabeth being his second wife.2,3 Elizabeth unknown and Deacon William Ward immigrated about 1638 to Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, probably during the Spring.2,3,4 Elizabeth unknown and Deacon William Ward lived in 1661 in Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.2,5,3 On 6 April 1686 in Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Elizabeth unknown was mentioned in the will of Deacon William Ward.6,7,8,9 Elizabeth unknown died on Thursday, 9 December 1700 in Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, at age 87 years.6,10,11,2,3,12 Elizabeth's gravestone inscription in Spring Hill Cemetery, Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, reads:

Here lyes
the body of
Elizabeth Ward,
the servant of the Lord
deceased in
87 year of her age,
Dec. ye 9,
in the year of our Lord 1700
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Children of Elizabeth unknown and Deacon William Ward

Citations

  1. Ancestral File. Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, 1994.
  2. Hudson, Alfred Sereno. The History of Sudbury, Massachusetts 1638-1889. 1889. Reprint Sudbury, Massachusetts: The Sudbury Press, 1968.
  3. Martyn, Charles. The William Ward Genealogy - The History of the Descendants of William Ward of Sudbury, Mass. 1638-1925. New York: Artemas Ward, 1925.
  4. Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May 1692 on the Basis of Farmer's Register. volume IV. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1862).
  5. Crane, Ellery Bicknell. Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts. New York: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1907.
  6. Pope, Charles Henry. The Pioneers of Massachusetts. 1900. Reprint Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1981.
  7. Ward, Andrew Henshaw. History of the Town of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts From Its Settlement in 1717 to 1829, with Other Matter Relating thereto Not Before Published, Including an Extensive Family Register. 1847. Reprint Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, 1989.
  8. Ward, Andrew Henshaw. Ward Family: Descendants of William Ward. Boston: Samuel G. Drake, 1851.
  9. Ward, Andrew Henshaw. Genealogical History of the Rice Family: Descendants of Deacon Edmund Rice. Boston: C. Benjamin Richardson, 1858.
  10. Paige, Lucius R. History of Cambridge, Massachusetts 1630-1877 with a Genealogical Register. 1877. Reprint Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, 1986.
  11. Gozzaldi, Mary Isabella. History of Cambridge, Massachusetts 1630-1877 with a Genealogical Register - Supplement and Index. 1930. Reprint Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, 1986.
  12. Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts from its First Settlement in 1657 to 1861 with a Brief Sketch of the Town of Northborough. Boston: T.R. Marvin & Son, 1862.
  13. Ward, Andrew Henshaw. "Sudbury Records", The New England Historical and Genealogical Register volume XVII (1863).
  14. Pulsifer, David. "Early Records of Boston", The New England Historical and Genealogical Register volume VI (1852).
  15. Bullard, Edgar J. Bullard and Allied Families. Detroit: Private Publisher, 1930.
  16. Lawson, Stephen M.. Parmenter - Leavens - Woods. http://sml.simplenet.com/ancestries/leavenst.htm: manuscript, 22 March 1998.