Edwin Oswald Ware Sr (1853 - 1933)

Born 29 Oct 1853 in Westbend, Ky.

Descendants

Died 6 Dec 1933 at age 80 in Alexandria, LA

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Biography

WARE, Edwin Oswald, clergyman, educator. Born, West Berea, Powell County, Ky., October 29, 1853. Education: local schools; the University of Kentucky; the Southern Baptist Seminary at Louisville, Ky. Licensed to the Baptist ministry in 1880; removed to Louisiana in 1888 locating at Cheneyville. Married 1890, Blanche Fortson of Keatchie, De Soto Parish, La. Children: Marguerite, Clayton, Winsome, Elizabeth, Blanche, Ruth, Edwin O., Jr., Philip, James. Active in various Southern Baptist ministries: pastor of churches at Pineville, LeCompte, Boyce, and Alexandria; executive secretary of the State [Baptist] Mission Board, 1892-1906 and 1910-1912; general missionary of the State Mission Board, 1919-1933; president, Louisiana Baptist Convention, 1892, 1922, 1923; owner and editor of the Baptist Chronicle, 1912-1919, forerunner of the Baptist Message, the Louisiana Baptist organ. Regarded as the principal founder of Louisiana College, Pineville, Louisiana, offering a resolution at the Louisiana Baptist Convention in 1893 that ultimately resulted in establishing Louisiana College in 1906; served as financial agent for the college, 1906-1907, and was its first president, 1908-1909. Died, Alexandria, December 6, 1933. T.H. Sources: John Pinckney Durham and John S. Ramond, Baptist Builders in Louisiana (1934); Glen Lee Greene, House Upon a Rock (1973); Edwin O. Ware, III, to the author, March 28, 1983; Alexandria Daily Town Talk, January 1, 1913. ^[1]

Edwin O Ware Head M 48 Mississippi Blanche Ware Wife F 35 Mississippi Viola C Ware Daughter F 8 Mississippi Margurite Ware Daughter F 7 Mississippi Ruth Ware Daughter F 5 Louisiana Edwin O Ware Son M 2 Louisiana Winsom Ware Daughter F 1 Louisiana Lucilla Ware Mother F 72 Mississippi Robert Ware Brother M 37 Mississippi

Sources

1. ↑ "Ware, Edwin O.". A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography by Louisiana Historical Association. 1988. p. 825. Retrieved May 26, 2015.

• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MS5B-RFW : 20 January 2015), Edwin O Ware, Ward 1 (excl. Alexandria town), Rapides, Louisiana, United States; citing sheet 15A, family 270, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,240,577.