George Ward

1787 - 1863  (76 years)

• Name	George Ward  [1, 2]
  Birth	17 Mar 1787	Georgia, USA
  	Cherokee Nation East
  Gender	Male
  Migration	1837  [3]
  	Trail of Tears
  Military Service	Jul 1861  [2]
  	First Cherokee Mounted Volunteers CSA (Watie's Regiment, Cherokee Mounted Volunteers; 2d Regiment, Cherokee Mounted Rifles, Arkansas; 1st Regiment, Cherokee Mounted Rifles or Riflemen)
  Death	17 Mar 1863  [4]
  	Cause: Killed in Action - Civil War
  	assasinated by the Pin Indians
  Burial	Ward Cemetery, Sycamore, Delaware, Oklahoma, USA   [4]
  		Burial-WARD George George Ward - Ward Cemetery, Sycamore OK + https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5060894/
  Person ID	I11151	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

  Father	John Jackson Ward,   b. 1756, Antrim County, Northern Ireland d. 15 Aug 1815, Georgia, USA (Age 59 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Catherine L 'Katie' McDaniel,   b. Abt 1763, Tennessee, USA d. 9 Feb 1823, USA (Age 60 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	1780	Cherokee County, Alabama, USA
  Family ID	F9352	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Lucy Ann Mayes,   b. 5 Mar 1789, Dalton, Whitfield, Georgia, USA d. 11 Nov 1867, USA (Age 78 years)
  Marriage	15 Dec 1805	White County, Tennessee, USA
  	Cherokee Nation East
  Children	1. Nancy 'Nannie' Ward,   b. 1820, Georgia, USA d. 11 Nov 1867 (Age 47 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F4031	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 17 Mar 1787 - Georgia, USA Marriage - 15 Dec 1805 - White County, Tennessee, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Arms Icons & Insignia

  Seal-Cherokee Nation Seal of the Cherokee Nation September 6, 1839

  
  

  Burials

  Burial-WARD George George Ward - Ward Cemetery, Sycamore OK + https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5060894/

  
  

• Sources

  [S54] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT : Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Ancestry Family Trees. [S1090] Ancestry.com, U.S., Confederate Service Records, 1861-1865, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT ; Date: 2007;). U.S., Confederate Service Records, 1861-1865 [S2957] Wikipedia: Trail of Tears, (Name: Wikipedia;), Trail of Tears. The Trail of Tears was part of a series of forced displacements of approximately 60,000 Native Americans between 1830 and 1850 by the United States government known as the Indian removal. Members of the Cherokee, Muscogee (Creek), Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw nations (including thousands of their black slaves) were forcibly removed from their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States to areas to the west of the Mississippi River that had been designated 'Indian Territory'. The forced relocations were carried out by government authorities after the passage of the Indian Removal Act in 1830. The Cherokee removal in 1838 (the last forced removal east of the Mississippi) was brought on by the discovery of gold near Dahlonega, Georgia in 1828, resulting in the Georgia Gold Rush. The relocated peoples suffered from exposure, disease, and starvation while en route to their newly designated reserve. Thousands died before reaching their destinations or shortly after from disease https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_of_Tears [S10457] Find a Grave (Killed in Action - Civil War), WARD George - Cherokee Volunteer Confederate Army - 1787-1863 (Veteran) (KILLED IN ACTION). BIRTH: 17 Mar 1787 Monroe County, Tennessee DEATH: 1863 (aged 75–76) BURIAL: Ward Cemetery, Jay, Delaware County, Oklahoma PLOT 64, SEE Tyner's Plat Map in "Our People And Where They Rest," Vol. 3 MEMORIAL ID: 5060894 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5060894/george-ward Burial-WARD George George Ward - Ward Cemetery, Sycamore OK + https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5060894/