Margaret Ann Carrya (Bond) Ward (1875 - 1963)

Born 5 Aug 1875 in Haynesville, Claiborne, Louisiana

Ancestors

Wife of William Wesley Ward — married 10 Sep 1899 in Corcord, Union, Arkansas

Descendants

Died 15 Dec 1963 at age 88 in Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas

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Margaret Ann Carrya Bond disliked the name Margaret and turned her name around to be Carrya Ann Margaret Bond. Eventually she just used the name Carrya Margaret Bond and was known to her friends and family as "Carrie".

Obituary: Little Rock, Arkansas Gazette, Monday, 16 December 1963, page 8B, column 6: "Mrs Margaret Ward, Widow of Dr Ward. Mrs Margaret Carrya Bond Ward, 88, of 1000 High Street, widow of Dr W W Ward, died Sunday at a Little Rock hospital. Mrs Ward was born at Haynesville, La; the daughter of the late Rev W D Bond and Elizabeth Mayfield. She taught school in Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas, and was postmaster at Alexander for many years. She was a Methodist and a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Survivors include two daughters, Mrs J B Drake of Corpus Christi, Tex. and Mrs Kermit Toombs of Little Rock; a stepson, C A Ward of Little Rock; four grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Ruebel Funeral Home."

Sources

• United States Government, Census Records. Arkansas, Union County, 1900, population schedule, Lapile Township, National Archives Series T623, roll 78, page 195B.

• United Daughters of the Confederacy application papers: Ward, Carrya Margaret Bond (Memorial Chapter, Little Rock, Arkansas).

• Death Certificate. Mrs Margaret Ward, State of Arkansas, Registration District 63, number 018523, certified copy.

• Bible Records. Bond Family. (This handwritten copy of the Bond Family Bible Records was copied from the Bond family Bible in 1930 by Margaret Ann Carrya Bond. The Bond family Bible was in her possession at that time).

• Obituary. Mrs Margaret Ward, Arkansas Gazette, Monday, 16 December 1963, page 8B, column 6.

• Personal Knowledge. Helen Taft Ward Carter Drake, now deceased.

• Cemetery Picture. Tombstone: Roselawn Cemetery, Junction City, Union County, Arkansas, of Carya Bond (her name Carrya is misspelled).

• Yarbrough, Kathryn Morey and Lillian Stevenson McGowen, Cemetery Records: Roselawn Cemetery, Junction City, Union County, Arkansas (The Arkansas Family Historian, Arkansas Genealogical Society, Volume IX, No 2, Apr-May-June, 1971). Page 55.

• Find A Grave, Carya Margaret Bond Ward <https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/29494086/carya-margaret-ward> as viewed 05 August 2019.