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Lafayette Ward (1824 - 1882)

Lafayette Ward
Born in Ohio, USAmap
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Died at age 58 in Florida, United Statesmap
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Biography

Lafayette Ward. [1][2][3][4]

Born 22 Feb 1824. Ohio, USA. [5][6][7][8]

Died 14 Apr 1882. [9]

Buried Eustis, Lake County, Florida, USA. [10]

Residence 1880 Elyria, Lorain, Ohio, USA. [11] Post Office: Elyria. 1870 Elyria, Lorain, Ohio, USA. [12] 1860 Avon, Lorain, Ohio, USA. [13]

Lafayette was the inventor of the mail-bag catcher which was "in use on many thousands of miles of railroads in the United States.[14] This machine is used to enable postal-cars to catch, while at full speed, mail-bags at offices and stations at which it is not desirable that such cars should stop; thereby aiding in the rapid transmission of the mails."[15][16]

Lafayette died 14 Apr 1882 in Jacksonville, Florida, and was buried at Greenwood Cemetery, Eustis, Florida.[17]

Sources

  1. ↑ Source: #S-2045872329 Year: 1860; Census Place: Avon, Lorain, Ohio; Roll: M653_1001; Page: 33; Image: 71; Family History Library Film: 805001
  2. ↑ Source: #S-2055028992 Year: 1870; Census Place: Elyria, Lorain, Ohio; Roll: M593_1235; Page: 462B; Image: 186704; Family History Library Film: 552734
  3. ↑ Source: #S-2047785952 Year: 1880; Census Place: Elyria, Lorain, Ohio; Roll: 1042; Family History Film: 1255042; Page: 490B; Enumeration District: 171; Image: 0330
  4. ↑ Source: #S-913888762
  5. ↑ Source: #S-2045872329 Year: 1860; Census Place: Avon, Lorain, Ohio; Roll: M653_1001; Page: 33; Image: 71; Family History Library Film: 805001
  6. ↑ Source: #S-2055028992 Year: 1870; Census Place: Elyria, Lorain, Ohio; Roll: M593_1235; Page: 462B; Image: 186704; Family History Library Film: 552734
  7. ↑ Source: #S-2047785952 Year: 1880; Census Place: Elyria, Lorain, Ohio; Roll: 1042; Family History Film: 1255042; Page: 490B; Enumeration District: 171; Image: 0330
  8. ↑ Source: #S-913888762
  9. ↑ Source: #S-913888762
  10. ↑ Source: #S-913888762
  11. ↑ Source: #S-2047785952 Year: 1880; Census Place: Elyria, Lorain, Ohio; Roll: 1042; Family History Film: 1255042; Page: 490B; Enumeration District: 171; Image: 0330
  12. ↑ Source: #S-2055028992 Year: 1870; Census Place: Elyria, Lorain, Ohio; Roll: M593_1235; Page: 462B; Image: 186704; Family History Library Film: 552734
  13. ↑ Source: #S-2045872329 Year: 1860; Census Place: Avon, Lorain, Ohio; Roll: M653_1001; Page: 33; Image: 71; Family History Library Film: 805001
  14. ↑ Methodist Episcopal Church, North Ohio Conference. Official Minutes of the Sixty-Fifth Annual Session of the North Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Cincinatti: Western Methodist Book Concern Press, 1904, pp. 74-75; image copy, Google Books ([1] : accessed 4 Sep 2021).
  15. ↑ U.S. House. Committee on Claims. Lafayette Ward. (43 H. Rpt. 222). Washington: US Government Printing Office, 1874; image copy, Google Books ([2] : accessed 12 Sep 2021).
  16. ↑ Brickhouse Partners Ltd. Ward Mail-Bag Catcher; online catalog listing ([3] : accessed 18 Sep 2021).
  17. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images ([4] : accessed 12 September 2021), memorial page for Lafayette Ward (22 Feb 1824–14 Apr 1882), Find A Grave: Memorial #70746778, citing Greenwood Cemetery, Eustis, Lake County, Florida, USA ; Maintained by kinglsat (contributor 47492995).
  • Source: S-2045872329 Repository: #R-2138058344 1860 United States Federal Census Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - 1860 U.S. census, population schedule. NARA microfilm publication M653, 1,438 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Note:
  • Repository: R-2138058344 Ancestry.com Note:
  • Source: S-2047785952 Repository: #R-2138058344 1880 United States Federal Census Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. 1880 U.S. Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints © Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. All use is subject to the limited Note:
  • Source: S-2055028992 Repository: #R-2138058344 1870 United States Federal Census Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - 1870 U.S. census, population schedules. NARA microfilm publication M593, 1,761 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Record Note:
  • Source: S-913888762 Repository: #R-2138058344 U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.




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