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Ward Cemetery - Burial Records
Ward, White Pine County, Nevada

GPS: 39.076917, -114.847763

Ward Mine Road
Ward, NV 89301

Date published: February 28, 2002
Total records: 7

Ward Cemetery is owned by the Bureau of Land Management.

History

Drive south from Ely on US 50 5.6 miles. Area is accessible with two-wheel drive. Well maintained gravel road goes to Ward Charcoal Ovens State Park. Exit right (west) on gravel road for 7 miles. Exit right (North) and follow for three miles to Ward.

Not much remains at Ward today. Ruins scattered throughout a large area. A good road, built by Silver King Mines in the 1960s, goes past the main cemetery and some of the ruins and is not the original road through the town. Several buildings were demolished to put this road in. The mine at the end of this road is fenced, with a locked gate and is private property, marked as such. A large section of old foundations are across the ravine from the main cemetery.

The first school in Ward was organized in the fall of 1876 with 50 students in attendance. A post office was established Jan 02, 1877 and the town of Ward grew to a population of 1,500 that year. Ward Post Office continued in operation until Sep 07, 1887 when Ely became the postal designation for it's patrons.

The first know death in the Ward district was Charles H. Becker. Becker was not well known in the Ward District. Ironically, on the day of his death, Deputy Assessor Comins had ascertained his name, age and nativity for census records or nothing would have been known.

Cemetery Records

Contributed by Donna Frederick, Feb 28, 2002 [wpnative@yahoo.com].

Becker, Charles H., d. 18 Aug 1875, Ref. White Pine News, 28 Aug 1875yr
Campton, Jennie, d. 25 Aug 1878, age: 29yr, Wife of Nathaniel Luse,
Campton, Sadie, d. 11 Jul 1878, age: 22yr, Campton & Ragsdale share a common marker with names inscribed around. Individual stones with their initial's mark the graves
Gleeson, Martin, b. Native of Queens Co. Ireland, d. 28 Apr 1877 Mineral City, Nevada, age: 37yr, Requiescat in pace, Killed by John Roche, Ref. Ward Semi-weekly Reflex - Apr 29, 1877yr
Liddle, (?)osep, b. 26 Nov 1839, d. 18 May 1886, age: 46 yrs, 5 mo. 22 days, 'Sleep father, sleep, Thy toils are over, Sweet be thy rest so oft longed for before. We love thee, but God loved thee more, He has called thee home to that happy shore
Ragsdale, John, no dates, age: 70yr
Ragsdale, Lucinda, d. 1885, age: 66yr
Sampson, A. Hiram, b. Niles Mich, d. Feb 1880, age: 29y, 12d, 'God is Love', Son of E.M. & M.A. Sampson