Henry Pendleton Ward |
| Posted 2019-06-23 by Pat R |
| Hassayampa Miner (Wickenburg, Arizona) Thursday, August 9, 1917, p. 1 H. P. Ward Passes away Henry P. Ward, age thirty-three, former Town Clerk of Wickenburg, died at the Mercy Hospital in Prescott, burial being made at Prescott. He was born in Bardstown, Kentucky, April 23, 1884, and while still an infant his family moved to Birmingham, Alabama, where they lived for eight years. From there they went to Greenville, Texas, the latter being the place where Mr. Ward received his education. After finishing school he went to work for the M. K. & T. railroad, being connected with the auditing department. He held different railroad positions in Galveston, Beaumont and Waco, and went to Prescott in 1904, securing a position with the office force of S. F., P. & P. railway, which he held for some two and a half years. Later he was with the Castle Hot Springs Hotel for two and a half years, and went from there to Bouse. From Bouse he went on a ranch near Merced, California, in the spring of 1912, and it was while on that ranch his health began to fail, and on the advice of a physician he returned to Arizona, hoping to regain his lost strength. He spent one winter at Christmas, Arizona, and then settled in Wickenburg, as he thought the climate at the latter place the best he could find. The sudden coming of the hot weather in June so exhausted him that he was never able to recuperate. After spending four weeks at Stanton he went to Prescott. His physician put him in Mercy Hospital, where he was for seventeen days, when the end came at 10:15 o'clock on the morning of the 31st of July. He was laid to rest the following afternoon in Mountain View Cemetery. Mr. Ward made a gallant, cheerful struggle to live, but the odds were too great. He is survived by a brother, Benj. C. Ward of Prescott, and two sisters, Mrs. H. W. Heath of Divide, Wyoming, and Miss Nora Ward of Dallas Texas. Mr. Ward made many warm friends in this community and they join with the Miner in expressing their heartfelt sympathy to his family in this hour of their great loss. See Also: Find A Grave |
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