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Tradition says the Ware ancestors came from Ireland. I know nothing of the
when, and how, and who, of any of them beyond Robert Ware of Rutherford County, N.C., who
died about 1830, as well as I can figure it out. My Father, Robert Ware, was his oldest
son, married Miss Harriet Fortune, and moved to Catoosa County Georgia, in 1838, after the
Indians were removed. My Father and Mother were blessed with nine children, as follows,
Mary, Jane, Williamson, Clarinda, Louis, Julius, Robert, Sallie, and Scott, which is
myself. Mary married John Wade, Jane married John Clark, Williamson and Clerinda, died in
childhood, Louis, volunteered to the Southern Army, fought through the Civil War, and died
in 1867. Julius had to enter the Southern Army, at 18 years of age, and was killed in
battle, at Jonesborro Georgia, Robert, is now 90 years old and lives at Mayo, Florida. He
married Miss Dosia Martin, in 1882. Sallie, married Samuel Adams, in 1876, and died at 40
years of age. Scott, married Miss Kate McCalla, in 1881, who died in 1925; then he married
Mrs. Frances Haralson, in 1928, of Winder Georgia, where we reside in summer, and
Gainsville, Florida, in Winter. The Giver of all life, gave my first wife and I, eleven
children: Lowell, Arlie, Pearl, Calla, Broadus, Ruby, Conner, Russie, Jule, Loraine, an
infant, who died at birth. Calla, died at nine, Conner at five, Lowell at forty, the
infant at birth; the other seven are yet living, and doing well.
G.W.S.Ware.
Winder Ga., July,15, 1938.
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