The Carthage Republican
Carthage, Illinois
Wednesday
February 24, 1886
Page 5
Column 5Mark Ward and Miss Anna L. Thurber, of this township, were married at the residence of Mrs. Tull, in this city, Monday, by Esq. Jones.
The Memphis Democrat
Memphis, Missouri
Thursday
February 10, 1944
Page 1
Column 1M. WARD DIES TUESDAY
IS INJURED IN CAR WRECK ENROUTE HOME FROM MEMPHIS
Mark Ward, Scotland county farmer, died in a Kirksville hospital about three hours after he was injured in a car wreck on highway 15 southwest of Memphis Tuesday afternoon about five o'clock.
Mr. Ward had been in Memphis shopping and was enroute home. About a hundred yards south of the junction of highways 15 and 4, southwest of Memphis, his car turned directly at right angles and plunged down the steep embankment on the west side of the road. The car did not turn over but struck the opposite bank head on.
Mr. Ward was not unconscious at the time he was removed from the car, but seemed to be badly injured. He was rushed to a Kirksville hospital in an ambulance where he died at 8:15 Tuesday night.
The front end of the car was badly damaged and the steering wheel was bent, indicating that his body struck it with considerable force. There was no broken glass in the car, although one window glass was cracked.
W. A. Forrester, who was following a short distance behind Mr. Ward, and Junior Neese were among the first at the scene of the accident. Alfred Hays came along shortly afterwards and he and Forrester went down in the ditch and helped to get Mr. Ward out of the car, while Junior Neese drove to the Boley service station from where an ambulance was called.
Everett Roush, who works for John Sanders, was in the field west of the highway and although he did not see Mr. Ward drive off the highway, heard the noise and joined the other men in helping remove him from the car.
According to Dennis Boley, Mr. Ward pulled up on the shoulder of the road in front of his station and blew his horn, but hesitated only a moment, then drove on before Boley could get to his car. He did not know whether or not Mr. Ward had intentionally blown the horn or whether he had struck the horn button with his arm.
His car tracks indicated that as he turned the corner to go south, he made a wide turn going onto the shoulder of the road on the west side, drove on the shoulder for a short distance, and then the tracks indicated he had righted the car onto the highway again, only to turn almost at right angles and drive off the road into the deep ditch.
Mrs. Faye Christ, his daughter and only child, who teaches at Bevier, was called and she reached the hospital at Kirksville about the same time the ambulance arrived.
Mr. Ward, after he was put in the ambulance, was brought to the office of Dr. C. M. Browning, who gave him a hurried examination in the ambulance and advised taking him on to the hospital. He suffered a deep cut directly under the chin and a crushed chest.
The Memphis Democrat
Memphis, Missouri
Thursday
February 17, 1944
Page 1
Column 7M. WARD FUNERAL SUNDAY
Died Following Automobile Accident West of Memphis
Funeral services for Mark Ward, who died at a Kirksville hospital Tuesday night of last week, following an automobile accident southwest of Memphis, were held at the Payne chapel in Memphis Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment was in the Memphis cemetery.
Services were conducted by Rev. James L. Stone, pastor of the Christian church. Pall bearers were Chas. D. Miller, Hugh Miller, Chas. J. Williams, Frank Israel, J. E. McKee and S. J. Onken.
A quartette, composed of H. M. Jayne, Dr. A. M. Keethler, Dr. C. M. Browning and Leo F. Paul, sang.
Mark Ward was a son of Zebediah and Arizilla Ward. He was born in Hancock county, Illinois, June 16, 1860. He was the youngest member of the family and the last to pass to the Great Beyond. He died in Grim-Smith hospital as the result of an auto accident Feb. 8, 1944, aged 83 years.
He spent his early life in Illinois and was married there Feb. 22, 1886, to Anna L. Thurber. They came to Missouri about 1890 and in 1892, moved to the farm southwest of Memphis, which was their home for many years. Mrs. Ward died May 13, 1927.
Mr. Ward was a successful farmer. He was an intelligent industrious citizen, a good father, friend and neighbor. He was keenly aware of all issues of the present day.
He is survived by his daughter, Mrs. Faye Crist, a teacher at Bevier, and by his granddaughter, Mrs. Dorothy Giblin, and her sons, Billie Don and Mark, of San Miguel, Calif.
Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Giblin and sons, Billie Don and Mark, of San Miguel, Calif., were called here by the death of Mr. Ward, arriving here Sunday for the funeral.
Supt. and Mrs. Claude Dye and seven members of the Junior class of the Bevier high school; Miss Crystal Robinson and Mrs. Emma Wood of Kirksville, and Mrs. Laura Roasa of Granger, were among those from out of town to attend the funeral services.
