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Harriet Rebecca (BERRY) WARD

Page last updated 21 August 2022.

Kacie's Photography, 2015

Birth:  10 September 1849 in Charles County, Maryland
Death:  2 October 1942 in Washington, D.C.
Burial:  6 October 1942 at Providence United Methodist Church Cemetery, Friendly, Prince George’s County, Maryland, Plot C-4
Headstone Text: HARRIET / R / WARD / SEPT 10 1849 / OCT 2 1942 / WE WILL MEET / AGAIN; TOP: MOTHER
 
Parents:  George H. BERRY and Susan Matilda BERRY (m. SHERIFF)
Parents' Children:

• John Thomas BERRY
• Elizabeth Jane BERRY
• Susan M. BERRY
• Samuel T. BERRY
• George Walter BERRY
• Lemuel Brooke BERRY
• Harriet Rebecca WARD (m. BERRY)
• Violetta Ann BERRY
• Sarah Catherine THORNE (m. BERRY)
• Hannah BERRY
• Charles Hebron BERRY
• Jennie M. BERRY
• Ida M. YORIS (m. BERRY, h1. PADGETT)

 
Spouse:  Samuel Eldridge WARD
Marriage:  25 November 1874 in Washington, D.C.
Children:

• Presley Harrison WARD
• Ella Ann SMITH (m. WARD)
• Eldridge Brook WARD
• Ellsworth WARD
• Josie WARD
• Mary Elizabeth KEETON (m. WARD)
• Grover Cleveland WARD
• Jane C. WARD

[Samuel and Harriet possibly later adopted their son’s foster/adopted child, Gorman.]
 
Close Family also in the Same Cemetery:  Samuel and Harriet have separate headstones in Plots C-3 and C-4. Also buried in this cemetery are: their sons and daughter-in-law -- Presley, Ellsworth, Gertrude; their grandchildren -- Dorothy, Richard, Fulton, Marion; Harriet’s sister and brother-in-law -- Sarah and Cornelius.
 
Family Information Compiled From:  FindAGrave website (#33211704), FamilySearch website (#L6J4-BVK), GenealogyBank, and family records.
Prince George’s County Genealogical Society [Sargent, Jean A. editor]. (1984). Stones and Bones: Cemetery Records of Prince George's County Maryland.
Prince George’s County Genealogical Society. (2012). Murray Funeral Home Records, Washington, DC, volumes 1-5, 1890-1945.
Daughters of the American Revolution Toaping Castle Chapter. (1955).
​m = maiden name