UPSHUR COUNTY (WARD FAMILY)

1. Chilton Cemetery, on south side of Old Quitman Road (FM2211), about a mile northwest of the center of Big Sandy. Probable final resting place of Morris Ward, Sr. and his wife, Elizabeth Ann Wilson Ward. Morris Ward, Jr.'s wife, Mary Ann Lowry Ward, may be buried here too. Graves unmarked. Mark Lowry's son, Charles Monroe Lowry (1856-1911) is buried here. Grave has upright marker. Charles' brother, John Elliott Lowry (1851-1911), and John's wife, Mary Dell Reed Lowry, are buried here too, also with upright and flat markers. Their daughter, Irma Lowry (1899-1907), is likewise buried here with an upright marker, as well as their son, John Reed Lowry (1904-1931), and another daughter, Lucy Dell Lowry Gorman (1895-1981), with husband William Boyd Gorman.
2. Morris Ward, Sr.'s original 162-acre, 1860, State of Texas land grant on the Sabine River (inherited by Morris Ward, Jr. and enlarged by land purchase), just under 3 miles south of Big Sandy. The Ward family may actually have been living here as early as 1857. They were my earliest ancestors to live in Texas. If any place can be considered our ancestral home in Texas, this is it!
3. THC Walter's Bluff Ferry historical marker.

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