Added by: Wanda Ware DeGidio

“Died on the 6th inst. at his residence near this place, aged, 67. The eulogy of the departed good, is but a just tribute to their merit. In some degree, it soothes the feelings of friends, and excites to emulation and virtue. Those who knew Mr. Ware will always venerate his memory. Animated by ardent patriotism he early embarked in defence of the liberties of his country. He endured every hardship, and encountered every peril, with fortitude and heroism. In numerous excursions against the tories, at the battle of the Cowpens and at the siege of Augusta, he performed services which ought to embalm his name in the hearts of his countrymen. During most of his life, he was an inhabitant of the county of Lincoln in the State of Georgia; and for many years, as a member of the Legislature and a judge of the county court was distinguished for his sound judgment and inflexible integrity. As a member of the Baptist church, for nearly forty years he exhibited an example to the Christian, in piety to God and good will to man. In his general intercourse with society upright and honorable, in his domestic relations kind and affectionate, in his private habits temperate and industrious, few men more fully performed the various duties for which it has pleased the Deity to place in this world, in order to qualify us to enjoy that state of happiness which he has reserved only for the righteous. We trust he has gone to meet his redeemer, and receive the welcome. ‘Well done, thou good and faithful servant. enter thou into the joy of thy Lord”

Source:  Alabama Journal, Montgomery, Ala., May 17, 1827.

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