Researched and
written by Judith Cumbea Ware
April 2009
B5 Children of:
Charles
Ware and Frances
Whiting
B. August 19,
1775 November
29, 1803 B.
When James II
& Caty Ware moved from Virginia to Kentucky with their family in 1791, Charles was
only 16 years old. He obviously stayed with
his parents for about two years and then went back to Virginia to live with his older
brother, James III, for a while. He mentioned
in a letter to his niece that “I did not go to live with him
(James) until the fall of 1793. We then
continued together almost until I married in 1803.”
When Charles and Frances married, they decided
to settle in Versailles, Kentucky and put down their roots for good. They never had any children. They did prosper well, however, for his father
wrote back to James (in Virginia) in 1819 that “The horses
held out well & the colt performed well. I
have them now in Charles Ware’s stables; up to their eyes in the best of feed
etc.” He went on to say that “Charles Ware has got a horse
that is . . . nearly 16 hands high. He will fit a wagon to a tea. He intends to send him to you if he has an
opportunity. Charles Ware made almost 3 tons
of hemp last year and has sold it. Charles has
got the greatest prospect this year. He will
make, I suppose, 4 or 5 tons of it, if it comes in well.
His corn is also very fine.”
Charles died in Kentucky in July of 1839. |
