Children of James Ware I and Their Families
Researched and written by © Judith C. Ware
July 2009

A7  Children of:

   Edmund Ware                and           Susannah Brasfield  
   B. April 25, 1753                                                                B. 1757 
   D. 1814                                                                              D. 1793         

1. Nathaniel Ware                               +                           Ann G. Scott           
    B. 1777                            April 11, 1836                     B. 1792
    D. March 22, 1848                                                     D. April 23, 1858

2.  Nancy Ware                                  +                            Rueben Samuel                       
     B. 1781                             1802                                B.  
     D. 1808                                                                     D.

3. Agnes Ware                                    +                         Ambrose Jeffries      
    B. 1783                                                                      B.
    D. 1811                                                                      D.

4.  Susan Ware                          +                                    William Samuel
     B. 1785                     December 24, 1806                  B. 1777
     D.  1850                                                                    D. March 22, 1864

5. James Ware                        +                            Joannah Thompson Parish              
    B. September 18, 1787        June 6, 1810                    B.
    D. November 11, 1861                                                 D.
                                              Also married            Margaret Allen Smith Hunter
                                                                                        B.
                                                                                       D.

6. Sallie Ware                                  +                    Benjamin Stephens
     B. January 20, 1792                                                    B.
     D. 1821                                                                       D.

7. Catherine “Kitty” Ware                 +                      Lyman Martin                                      
     B. 1797                                                                       B. May 12, 1793 
     D.  1779                                                                      D. August 23, 1864

8.  Edmund Jasper Ware                  +                       Louisa V. Anderson              
     B. July 27, 1798                   1824                                B. 1800
     D. December 14, 1852                                                D.  1850

Edmund Ware was born on April 25, 1753; the youngest child of James & Agnes Ware.  He was nearing forty years of age when he and his whole family moved from Caroline County, Virginia to Kentucky in 1791.  He and Susannah had been married for several years before the move, so some of his children were born in Virginia and some were born in Kentucky.

(1)  Nathaniel Ware was born in 1777.  He married Ann G. Scott on April 11, 1836, and by all accounts, they decided to stay in Virginia.   He died there on March 22, 1848.

(2)  Nancy Ware was born in 1781 and married Ruben Samuel in 1802.

(3)  Agnes Ware was born in 1783 and married Ambrose Jeffries

(4)  Susan Ware was born in 1785 and married William Samuel on December 24, 1806 

(5)  James Ware was born 0n September 18, 1787, and he married twice.  His first wife was Joanna Thompson Parrish and they were married on June 6, 1810.  They had the following children: (1) Thompson Parrish Ware (born in 1811) who married Julia Winchester Shelby on February 24, 1839 and also Sallie Bullus Smith in April of 1854, (2) Edmund Ware (born December 1812), (3) James Ware (born December 1814), (4) Helen M. Ware (born August 1817) who married William R. Chew, (5) William Wallace Ware (born June 1819) who married Mary Elizabeth Buckner, (6) Susan E. Ware (born February 1824) who married William Samuel (7) Walter C. Ware (born October 1826), (8) Sarah Ann Ware (born June 1828) who married Richard Johnson Davis, (9) Harvey Richard Ware (born February 1830) who married Mary Stewart, and (10) Robert William Ware (born September 1831) who married Letitia Lander.  ** Two of their sons, Thompson and brother Harvey R. Ware moved to Mississippi.  Thompson served as an Attorney General of Mississippi and Harvey was commissioned a Major during the civil war.   He worked with the Mississippi House of Representatives and later the South Claims Commission.” (ref. # 877)

James later married his second wife, Margaret Allen Smith Hunter.  She had previously been married two times, once to Joseph M. Smith and another time to David M. Hunter.  The daughter that Margaret had with her first husband (named Sallie Bullus Smith) was the 2^nd wife of James’ first son, Thompson Parrish Ware.   It was actually during a trip that Margaret made to visit her daughter and son-in-law in 1857 that she met James Ware who was also visiting from Hopkinsville, Kentucky.  They were married on February 10, 1858.  “James was an architect and was building a home for his family when he died in 1861.” (ref. 877)

(6)  Sallie Ware was born on January 20, 1792 and married Benjamin Stephens.

(7)  Catherine Ware was called “Kitty” and was born in 1797.  She married Lyman Martin.

(8)  Edmund Jasper Ware was born on July 27, 1798.  He was married in 1824 to Louisa V. Anderson.  They had the following children: (1) Sarah J. Ware who married (Runyon), (2) Charles William Ware who married Elizabeth Garth on October 9, 1861, (3) Mary A. who married (Edmunds), (4) Jasper A. Ware, (5) Susan B. Ware who married (Runyon), (6) Martha G. Ware who married (Dickinson), (7) Nicholas M. Ware, and (8) Louisa E. Ware who married (Garth).(ref. 878)

** Charles William Ware (2) was born November 16, 1826.  He moved from Christian County, Kentucky to Todd County.   In an article written about him in 1884, it was stated that, “Charles was reared to the mercantile business, but for the last twenty-five years has pursued the vocation of a farmer, in which he has been very successful, owning at present 800 acres of very valuable and productive land, well improved.  His residence, which is near the Trenton depot, is doubtless one of the very best in Todd County.  In religion, Mr. Ware is a Baptist, and in politics was formerly an Old Line Whig, but at present acts with the Democratic Party.  He has been often urged by the people of his county to represent them in the Legislature, but never consented to offer his service.”  (ref. 878)

References

1. The Ware Family Bible – This is kept in my home and has dates and names recorded in it that date all the way back to the 1700’s. 

818. Cheesman/Ware/Dreisbach/Jorgenson Family Tree – Genealogical charts & research done by Vicki Cheesman.

830. Ware Family History: Descendants from Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Kings and Queens, and Presidents of the United States  By Wanda Ware DeGidio Edition: illustrated Published by Xlibris Corp, 2003 ISBN 1401099300, 9781401099305 

878.  History of Todd County, Kentucky edited by J. H. Battle, 1884, F.A. Battey Publishing Co., 1884 

879  Stowers and Glascock families, an American Saga: Ancestry of James Evans by Kay Freilich, Ann Fleming, and Rudena K. Mallory 

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