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Show 13 SONS IN THE ARMY AND 17 DAUGHTERS ' . IN WAR WORK . - . ! ! John, Ward, a nesro. of Goldsboro, ' North Carolina, has thirteen of his eighteen rods iu the Ninth and Tenth United States Cavalry, " while , . his seventeen, daughters are busy with war work. The facta are vouched for by . S'hcrat tt. v IH. Edwards, of Wayne County, dl which Goldsboro is the county sep.t. Word also prob- ably holds the record for quadruplet's, says Sheriff Ed- P wards, who gives the record " thus; , , Ward was born April 21, 1836, ' at Goldsboro. He was ' married three timen and his lat wife is now living. Ills first wife bore h'-m fifteen children, four at one time twice, three at one time twice, one at a time once His sec- ond wife bore him two at one time twice, three at one time once and five one at a time, f His present wife has ; borne him eight, one at a time. His first wife lived six years and three weeks after marriage, his second wife, eight years and six months - |