Seventh Generation

5271. Marion Grace Coffey was born on 5 July 1878 in Appleton, Outagamie Co., WI.⁶⁵³⁶ She lived with her parents in Burlington, Coffey Co., KS on 14 June 1880. She lived with her parents in Eden, LaSalle Co., IL on 1 June 1900.

Marion Grace Coffey and Ralph Waldo Bayley were married on 30 August 1905 in Springfield, Sangamon Co., IL.¹⁷³⁵⁵ Ralph Waldo Bayley, son of William Benjamin Bayley and Sarah Jeanette Potter, was born in June 1878 in Tonica, La Salle Co., IL. He lived with his parents in Vermillion, LaSalle Co., IL on 1 June 1900. Ralph died in Tonica, La Salle Co., IL on 31 August 1908.¹⁷³⁵⁶

Marion Grace Coffey and Clifton Trask Ward were married on 25 June 1913 in Chicago, Cook Co., IL.¹⁷³⁵⁷ They¹⁷³⁵⁷ appeared in the census on 10 January 1920 in Vermillion, LaSalle Co., IL.¹⁷³⁵⁸ They¹⁷³⁵⁸ appeared in the census on 7 April 1930 in Vermillion, LaSalle Co., IL.¹⁷³⁵⁹ Marion and Clifton¹⁷³⁵⁹ appeared in the census on 19 April 1940 in Vermillion, LaSalle Co., IL.¹⁷³⁶⁰ Clifton Trask Ward, son of Ashmund S. Ward and Frances Trask, was born on 15 December 1869 in Shelburne Falls, Franklin Co., MA.¹⁷³⁶¹

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"Clifton T. Ward, engaged in the railway mail service between Chicago and Omaha on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, has local interests in Lowell, where he makes his home, being a stockholder in the Lowell Pottery Company.

"A native of Massachusetts, he was born at Shelburne Falls in Franklin county, on the 15th of December, 1869, and is a son of Ashmun S. and Fannie E. (Trask) Ward, who came to Illinois in 1876 after residing for five years at Farm Ridge took up their abode in Lowell in 1881. The father was born in Massachusetts, April 20, 1832 and is descended from ancestors who went to that state in 1636.

"The family is of Welsh lineage. In the maternal line Ashmun S. Ward is a representative of the Perkins and Brackett families of English descent and his mother was a direct descendant of John Quincy Adams, white the Ward family is descended from Samuel Adams. The great-grandfather of Ashmun Ward, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war and was wounded in battle. His wife lived to be over one hundred years of age. The representatives of the family are eligible to membership with the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution.

"Mr. Ward conducted a general store at Lowell for fifteen years, being one of the enterprising merchant of the town, and has been connected with the pottery since 1896. In 1903 he was called upon to mourn the loss of his wife, who died on the 2d of March of that year at the age of fifty-nine.

"Unto Mr. and Mrs. Ashmun Ward were born three children: Fayette F., who married Lucy Huss, by whom he has four children and who follows farming in Vermillion township; Clifton T., of this review; and Mamie E., the wife of Dr. Albert C. Rhiel. of Lowell.

"The father has always been a democrat in his political views and has served as a member of the democratic township committee. He is a man of considerable local influence, taking an active interest in public affairs and doing all in his power to promote general progress and advancement.

"Clifton T. Ward was reared under the parental roof and educated in the public schools and the Northwestern University. He is a graduate of the law department of the class of 1900 and was admitted to the bar but has never engaged actively in practice. For the past fourteen years he has been in the mail service and is now upon the run between Chicago and Omaha over the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad. He is also interested as a stockholder in the Lowell Pottery Company.

"The enterprise was established by Hiram E. Leach and Albert R. Stoffer under the firm style of Leach & Stoffer about 1885 and the business was conducted by them for several years. Clifton Ward purchased the plant from them in 1896 and incorporated the business in 1903 under its present name. He has been connected with the Lowell Pottery Company, however, since 1896 and has made this one of the important productive industries of this part of the county.

"The capacity of the plant is about three hundred and seventy thousand gallons per annum. The plant produces crockery, general stone ware, all kinds of flower pots, etc., and employment is furnished to about seventeen workmen, most of whom are skilled laborers.

"Mr. Ward socially is a Mason, belonging to the blue lodge at Tonica and to the Modern Woodmen camp at that place. He attends the Methodist Episcopal church and is well known in Lowell and this part of the county as an enterprising, progressive business man, who manifests in his life the spirit of the times." He lived with his parents in Farm Ridge, LaSalle Co., IL on 11 June 1880. He lived with his parents in LaSallle Co., IL on 1 June 1900. Clifton lived with his father in Vermillion, LaSalle Co., IL on 21 May 1910.

Marion Grace Coffey and Clifton Trask Ward had the following children: