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 . . . Grandmother very well, I was eleven
or twelve when she died. I stood in
great awe of her - thought her very severe.
She was a very strong character and deeply religious. When the War Between the States had
impoverished the family as it did all southerners, she never lessened her
contribution to the church and continued her subscription of the Southern
Churchman. Father said he didn’t
know how she ever did it. I am sure
her life and teachings were the direct cause of Father and Uncle Jo entering the
ministry. I have been told by
members of the family that Father was on the way to being a rich man if he had
continued in business in Indianapolis.
Uncle Tousey had no son and he was anxious for Father to carry on the
business.
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As
I knew Grandmother, she was a very stout old lady, her only claims to beauty
being her tiny hands and feet and her lovely white curls, which she combed back
of her ears. Her sons waited on her
hand and foot and adored her.
Even Josiah’s son, Charles Ware, jokingly
wrote, “my half-brother Jack . . .told his mother
[Edmonia] that she was the cause of
their being so homely – for Pa’s children by his first wife were not.”
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She
had many rules of conduct or us -
“children should be seen and not heard”, “little ladies never, oh never cross
their legs and sit on the edge of their chair” (though I’m sure she would never
be so crude as to say legs, but modestly say limbs.” “I don’t see why they (meaning
us) aren’t willing to sit quietly in the shade and talk to each other.” We were
probably racing around yelling like little Indians.
35.
I
will now try and tell you something about the children of JOSIAH WILLIAM WARE and FRANCES TOY GLASSELL
WARE,
his first wife.
Josiah William Ware – photo owned by James & Judy Ware
36.
JAMES
ALEXANDER WARE was born in 1832, educated at the University of Virginia,
graduated there in law and went to Texas before the war. He was a very brilliant man,
practiced law at Corpus Christi, entered the Confederate Army as Captain of the
Mounted Rangers. In 1865 he left the
country and went to Mexico, where he was appointed Military Engineer under
Maximillian, returned to Texas in 1872 and was appointed Judge. He married Jane Morton Smith in 1856
and they left three children:
Frances Glassell, who married Joel F. Elliott
Somerville who married Lena. He died in 1921.
Eudora, who married John Dean. She died in
1905.
James Alexander Ware - Photo owned by James and Judy C.
Ware
James graduated from
the University of Virginia in 1851. He moved to Texas in 1855/1856 and
practiced law in Corpus Christi. He
and Jane Morton Smith wed on Nov. 26, 1856. When the Civil War broke out, James
stayed in Corpus Christi serving as an officer in Yager's regiment - fighting for the
Confederacy. He was Captain of the Mounted Rangers at the siege of Corpus
Christi and at Sabine Pass. He also served in Louisiana -
"repelling the invasions of General Banks."
[Ref. 222]
Envelope addressed to James Alexander Ware
owned by James and Judy C. Ware
James had already established his legal
business in the Nueces County of Texas well before the war started. His wife, Jane, (also born in
Virginia) had moved to Texas with her family in 1856, when her parents (George
Andrew Smith and Julia Somerville Smith) “chartered
a vessel to take the family and a large number of slaves by sea, via Norfolk.”
(Ref. 6)
The 1860 census for Galveston shows James A. Ware (along with his
wife and one child) living in the area at that time.
With fighting in Texas an important component
of the Civil War, “Mat Nolan, sheriff of
Nueces County, was authorized to raise a company of cavalry. Nolan’s Mounted
Rangers, 98 strong, mustered at Banquete. They volunteered to serve six months,
long enough, they thought, to win the war. Other companies mustered at Corpus
Christi included W.S. Shaw’s Light Infantry, James Morgan’s Infantry Company,
John Graham’s Mounted Coast Guards, James A. Ware’s Partisan Rangers, and
the Corpus Christi Artillery Company.”
According to author, John Salmon Ford,
“a company of federal cavalry took
possession of Captain [Richard] King’s ranch of Santa Gertrudis and made William
Gregory a prisoner. In order to
protect this exposed portion of Texas, [Rip] Ford forwarded companies to the
Nueces as fast as they were mustered into service. This happened about January 1, 1864. Capt. James A. Ware and, afterwards,
Maj. Mat Nolan controlled things in that quarter. . . Captain James A. Ware
was officially placed in charge of all the troops at or near
San Patricio intended for service in the expeditionary forces.”
(Ref. 1006)
Although James participated in many battles during the war and served
as Commander of Fort Duncan in Eagle Pass, perhaps one his defining moments came
at the Battle of Corpus Christi. In
1862, there was an effort made to invade Texas by way of entering Corpus Christi
Bay. Union officer, Lt. Kittredge,
led the bombardment. “The Federal ships returned on
August 18th, landing sailors and a howitzer north of the confederate
battery. The sailors dragged the
howitzer within range of the battery and began firing.
Confederate infantry, led by Major A. M. Hobby, charged the federal
position.
Captain James A. Ware’s Cavalry
joined the assault, forcing the Federals to withdraw.”
(Taken from the Civil War Historic Marker in Corpus Christi)
The following report came from Maj. E. F. Geat and Capt. John Ireland:
 This
next report was sent to Headquarters by Major Mat Nolan:
One of the soldiers serving with James was an
Ordnance Sergeant named D. R. Gamble
(although his artwork shows his name spelled ‘Gambel’) who was a remarkable artist.
He drew several paintings of the activities going on in Corpus Christi at
the time, and his work is highly significant because it comes from firsthand
observations. The following two
pieces were done by him – one titled The Defense of Corpus Christi and the other The Boat Fight in
Corpus Christi Channel. Both of these original pieces are the
property of James H. Ware, the great grandson of Capt. James Alexander Ware.
In the right hand corner, the artist wrote: “The Battery and Ware’s Cavalry” –
the man on the horse is a depiction of Capt. James A. Ware
In this painting there is a list of soldiers on the right hand side and a poem about
the battle on the left hand side.
When the war ended, James was still serving in remote Texas. News was very slow in getting that
far south. Not knowing what the
amnesty terms were going to be, James (along with many other high ranking
officers) went to Mexico where he
was appointed ‘Military Engineer’ for the railroad in the army of Maximilian.
By not applying for parole papers which required him to swear an
oath to ‘not bear arms against the country,’
he became what (was then) known as an
"unreconstructed Rebel." He later returned to Texas and his love of law; where
his practice extended from San Antonio to the Rio Grande River. He was appointed as a District Judge
by Governor Coke.
Maximilian of Austria was a European nobleman invited to Mexico in the aftermath
of the disastrous wars and conflicts of the mid-nineteenth century. It was
thought that the establishment of a monarchy, with a tried and true European
bloodline, could bring some much-needed stability to the strife-torn nation. He
arrived in 1864 and was accepted by the people as Emperor of Mexico. His rule
did not last very long, however, as liberal forces under the command of Benito
Juarez destabilized Maximilian’s rule. Captured by Juarez’ men, he was executed
in 1867.
James Ware’s work in the legal field
“gave him such prominence as a lawyer that in 1873, he was elected judge of the
district court embracing the counties from Atascosa on the east to Maverick on
the Rio Grande. As a District Judge,
he was painstaking, just, and impartial.
He served his term of four years with distinction as a profound and able
jurist. After his judicial career
was ended he located at and resumed the practice of law at Eagle Pass in
Maverick County, where he continued to reside up to the time he was stricken
with paralysis.”
(Ref. Obituary)
Docket Book for Judge J.A. Ware
Owned by James & Judy C. Ware
James eventually moved to Austin where he spent his last years living in the
Old Confederate Home there. Although
his family memorialized his death on a gravestone in Berryville, Virginia, James
is actually buried in the Confederate section of the Texas State Cemetery.
[Ref. 8, 40]
Old
Confederate Home in Austin, Texas
The Honorable James Alexander Ware
Photo owned by James and Judy C. Ware
Texas
State Cemetery
Grave in Austin,Texas
Marker in Berryville, Virginia
Jane Morton Smith Ware
Photo
owned by James & Judy C. Ware
Jane Morton Smith was actually a cousin of the Wares who had attended The
Patapsco Female Institute in Maryland - founded in 1837 as an elegant finishing
school for young women. Jane spent
the early part of her marriage with James in the Galveston area of Texas, but
like so many other soldier’s families, she moved away from the coast during the
Civil War. With Galveston serving as
such a major port for southern shipping, it was always a hotbed of fighting. This danger only magnified when
yellow fever struck with a vengence.
George and Julia Smith had wisely decided to move further inland to Waco, and it
was only prudent that Jane and the children go to live closer to them. It would be in this central part of
Texas that Jane Morton Smith Ware would spend the rest of her life.
Jane became a well-known citizen in Belton, Texas – home of
Mary Hardin Baylor College - now a University.
Her picture appears in several of the old yearbooks. She was very active in the UDC
(United Daughters of the Confederacy) and was considered their “patron saint.” The following is a poem that was
dedicated to her in the 1908-1909 edition of The Blue Bonnet – the yearbook for
Baylor College.
News clipping of a birthday reception held in her honor.
Jane lived with her daughter, Frances Glassell Elliott,
before her death, and she is buried in
the Belton, Cemetery. She died at
the age of 84 on January 26, 1916.
Jane Morton
Smith Ware
THE CHILDREN OF JAMES ALEXANDER WARE AND JANE
Frances Glassell, who married Joel F. Elliott
Somerville who married Lena. He died in 1921.
Eudora, who married John Dean.
She died in 1905.
Frances Ware
Somerville Ware
Eudora
Ware
JAMES A. WARE died in 1896.
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There were three children born to Frances Ware and Joel Elliott – Robert
Ray who died in 1821, F. Glassell, who now lives in Waco, Texas, and J. Wallace,
who lives in Columbus, Mississippi.
The last named visited us once and we liked him so much, he was in Washington on
a special job with the Department of Agriculture and we teased him about being
one of Roosevelt’s “Brain-Trusters.”
Fanny Glassell Ware married
Joel Francis Elliott on October 15, 1879.
They settled in Belton, Texas to raise their family of three children:
Robert Ray Elliott (born 1884), Frank Glassell Elliott (born 1887) who was
always known as ‘Glassell’, and
Joel Wallace Elliott (born 1892). Robert died in 1921 of tuberculosis.
Grave for Robert Ray Elliott in Belton, Texas
Frank (usually just called ‘Glassell’) married
Anna May Herring on December 22, 1910, and the couple had two sons – Frank
(known as Glassell, Jr.) and William.
Joel died on June 23, 1954.
Joel Wallace Elliott married Susie Louise Sanders in 1922. The couple had a son named Joel Ware
Elliott, and they lived for a while in Mississippi. J. Wallace Elliott died in 1972.
The Joel F. Elliott home in Belton, Texas
Fanny and Joel
Elliott spent many years in Belton where Joel was part of the firm of Ray &
Elliott. The following obituary
appeared in the Belton newspaper after his death.
Belton, May 18,-The remains of Joel F. ELLIOTT, pioneer Belton business man who died
yesterday morning in El Paso will reach Temple tomorrow at noon and will be
brought to this city, where, at the First Christian church, tomorrow afternoon
at 4:30 o'clock, the services will be held. In the passing of Joel F. ELLIOTT,
Belton lost one of its most honored citizens and a man in whom the public had
the highest confidence-a man whom everybody honored and a man whom no one ever
criticized. The active pallbearers will be employees of the firm of RAY &
ELLIOTT, of which the deceased was a member. They will be C.E. ROBINSON, Doyle
PERKINS, Ray COOPER, John LUSK, Don FORREST and Frank CARDEN. Honorary: Thomas
YARRELL Sr., W.M. GARRISON, J.A. FERGUSON, John A. WALLACE, Dr. S.L. MAYO,
George W. COLE, A.D. POTTS and S.W. MILLER.
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Somerville
left three children – Lt. Col. Charles, Sarah Frances, and James.
Lena, their mother, was here this summer.
She was in Virginia settling up Aunt Key’s estate and her daughter,
Sarah, and two daughters-in-law and Charles’ twelve year old son, Sommy, were
with her. Both boys still overseas. She told me so much I had never known
about the Texas Wares. We had a
grand time talking. They live in San
Antonio - Sarah teaches school there.
Both boys made splendid records in the war – Charles in the
European theater and James, a flyer in the Pacific. Charles’ wife is Nora and James’,
Elizabeth – both lovely girls.
**
Somerville Ware married Ora Lena Rogers
(who was called Lena) on December 19, 1901.
There was an 17 year age difference between them.
(Ref. 355)
Somerville
worked in the Murray & Ware
book trade in Belton, Texas - where he was in partnership with his cousin,
Andrew Murray.
[Ref. 79, 80] He later worked for many
years as agent for the Santa Fe railroad in Killeen. He was working for the
railroad in Santa Anna when he died suddenly of a heart attack in 1921. He was 60 years old at the time of
his death, and Lena was 43.
Marriage record
Lena Rogers Ware
Somerville and Lena Ware
CORRECTION: There were
actually four children born to Somerville and Lena Ware, but their son named
William Rogers Ware died in 1913, at age six.
Photo of William Rogers Ware (born in 1907) before his death
at age six
Sarah
Frances Ware (age 11) James Nathan Ware (4 months)
Charles Somerville Ware (age 13)
Lena died in 1970
Sarah Ware - James N. Ware -
Charles S. Ware
Colonel
[Charles] Ware was a decorated veteran
of World War II. He served with the U.S. Army in Korea. He died of other causes
in Korea on April 2, 1952. For his leadership and valor, Colonel Ware was
awarded the Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Korean
Service Medal, the United Nations Service Medal, the National Defense Service
Medal, the Korean Presidential Unit Citation, the Republic of Korea War Service
Medal and the World War II Victory Medal.
**
It was during World War II, when Lena Ware, her daughter (Sarah) and her two
daughters-in-law (Nora and Elizabeth) “traveled to Virginia to settle the estate
of Elizabeth Alexander Ware (Aunt Key).”
James Alexander Ware, the father of Somerville and father-in-law of Lena,
was the eldest son of Josiah Ware and the oldest brother of Elizabeth. Since Elizabeth had no surviving
children, her other brother (Charles) had never married, and her sister (Lucy)
had predeceased her, she bequeathed the majority of her estate to her favorite
neice, Lucie Ware Lewis McCormick. Elizabeth
had passed away in 1925, and it was in 1944 that Lucie McCormick died - -
so it was actually the estate of Lucie that was being
settled in 1945. Lucie had
safe-guarded many things that her Aunt Key, however, had wished to be given to
the children and grandchildren of her brother, James. Even poor Lucie died with no
descendants to inherit the items from her grandparents (Josiah and Fanny) since
her two children had pre-deceased her.
It was during this trip back to Virginia, that several pieces of
furniture and many other treasured
items that had originated at Springfield found their way to Texas and Louisiana.
39.
Eudora Ware Dean left two sons: James S. and Charles. They both live in Sacremento,
California. Charles is City manager. From what Lena told me about them, it made me anxious to know them.
Eudora Murray Ware Dean
– photo owned by James and Judy C. Ware
** Eudora, who was named after a sister of Jane’s
was born on August 20, 1864 in Dickinson’s Bayou, Texas – which was in Galveston
County. She married John A. Dean on
November 15, 1882 at the age of 18. Somehow, she and John ended up living
in the Santiago
Papasquiaro region of Mexico – a valley located close to Durango. From the family letters we have, it
would seem that her health was frail, and she
died at the young age of 41.
The
children of Eudora and John were Charles F. and James S. Dean. Both sons moved to California and
became well-known in the field of architecture.
They established the firm of Dean & Dean Architects, but in 1929, James
left the firm to take the post of Sacramento City Manager.
Sierra 2 Community Center is eligible for designation as a local Sacramento
Landmark, as well as for listing on the National Register of Historic Places and
the California Register of Historical Resources under Criterion C as an
excellent example of its architectural style (Spanish/Mediterranean Revival) and
as the work of Charles and James Dean (Dean and Dean) significant, if
not the most significant, architectural firm in the Sacramento area in the 1920s
and 30s. The Dean and Dean
Firm practiced in Sacramento and the adjacent region from its founding in 1922
until Charles' death in 1956. Although James left the firm in 1929 to become
City Manager, the double names continued to be used. Among their most
important downtown Mediterranean buildings are the Memorial Auditorium, the
Sutter Club, the Westminster Presbyterian Church, and the Breuner's Furniture
Store.
CHARLES F. DEAN —
Sacramento County has good
reason to be proud of its professional men, among whom is numbered Mr. Charles
F. Dean, of the well-known firm of architects, Messrs. Dean & Dean, of
Sacramento. He was born at Belton,
Texas on February 1, 1884, and is now associated with his brother, James S.,
whose life story is given elsewhere in this work.
As he began life with the best home advantages, it is not surprising that
in his pursuit of one of the noblest and most honored of professions, he should
do much to elevate the minds, and beautify the lives of others.
Charles F. Dean enjoyed both the ordinary grammar school and the high school
courses of instruction, and then spent three years at the Agricultural and
Mechanical College at Bryan, Texas, where he took a civil engineer’s course,
with special work in drawing. The next two years he spent in San Antonio, Texas,
and after that, seven years in Chicago, following his profession; and then in
1908, he came out to California, and entered the state service as chief designer
of the state architect’s office – a position of peculiar responsibility and some
opportunity, which he filled with eminent satisfaction until 1922, when he
resigned.
Mr. Dean then
joined his brother, and they have since expanded more and more as practical
architects equipped to undertake very pretentious work and being more and more
encouraged by increasing demands for their services.
In 1913, Mr. Dean
and Miss Alvina Laue, of Sacramento, were married at Sacramento.
Source:
Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento
County, California With Biographical Sketches, Historic Record Company, Los
Angeles, CA. 1923.
JAMES S. DEAN -
For more than a decade James S. Dean has been numbered among Sacramento's
successful architects and during this period he has been intimately associated
with building operations in the city. He was born in Belton, Bell County, Texas,
December 27, 1885, a son of John A. and Eudora M. (Ware) Dean, both now
deceased. After completing his high school course, he entered the Agricultural
and Mechanical College of Texas, from which he was graduated in 1906 with a
degree of Bachelor of Science in architecture, and the next three years were
spent in the study of architectural design in the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology at Boston. He then became instructor in architecture and drawing at
his alma mater in Texas, filling that position for four years and on the
expiration of that period went to Waco, Texas, where he opened an office,
remaining at that place for a year.
In 1912 Mr. Dean
came to California, locating in Sacramento, and for two years he acted as
assistant designer in the bureau of architecture in the state department of
engineering. In 1914 he was made assistant state architect, serving in that
capacity for six years, and from 1920 until 1922 he was chief deputy for the
firm of Hemmings, Peterson, Hudnutt, Inc. They were architects for Sacramento's
new schools and Mr. Dean had entire charge of the work of planning, designing
and construction, which was accomplished in a most efficient and satisfactory
manner. He is now practicing independently and, owing to the prestige which he
had previously won, his professional services are now in constant demand.
Mr. Dean married
Miss Ruth Cook, of Iowa, and they now have a daughter, Charlotte Eudora. He is a
member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon college fraternity, and in Masonry he has
attained the thirty-second degree. He is fond of outdoor sports and is president
of the Sutter Lawn Tennis Club. Whatever touches the welfare of his city is to
him a matter of deep concern, and his professional colleagues, bear testimony as
to his character and pronounced skill.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of
Sacramento County, California With Biographical Sketches, Historic Record
Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
In 1937, Charlotte Eudora Dean married Robert Dollar.
Eudora Murray Ware Dean is buried in Belton, Texas
Somerville Ware
Photo owned by James & Judy C. Ware
Somerville Ware worked in the railroad business; starting out as a
telegraph operator. Due to the
financial climate of the 1920s, the United States was suffering through a post
World War I depression. Jobs were
very hard to come by and often required that the ‘bread winner’ of the family be
willing to take employment in a town away from his loved ones. Such was the case with Somerville,
which is why he was in Santa Anna when he died.
Lena and the children were living in Temple - about 130 miles away from
where he worked. He was buried in
the family plot in Belton, Texas.
Obituary for Somerville Ware who died in 1921 at age 60.
With the death of Sommerville, poor Fanny Glassell Ware Elliott had lost
her husband on May 17th, her brother on June 10th, and
would soon lose her son, Ray, on June 14th of 1921.
Lena Ware received a lovely letter from one of her nephews which read, in part:
Dear Aunt
Lena,
The mere expression of the sympathy we all feel for you in a time like
this seems so futile as to be entirely useless.
But being so far away it is all we can do, and it may soften things for
you a little bit to know how much others feel with you.
The
telegram came the night it was sent, and most of the rest of the night was spent
by me in reviewing the days of my life that “Uncle Somie” was so near and dear
to me, and was in fact more of a father to me than my own was.
Only three
days before, I had heard from Aunt Fanny, telling of Uncle Elliott’s death, and
the taking away of both those men so near together was quite a shock. I realize that time has gone by
faster than it seems possible, and that I should not have put off so long my
self promised trip back to see my relatives and friends.
I cannot realize now that I will never see the two men who have meant more to me
than any others in this life.
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