”William Ware.
Mustered in, August 7, 1862.
Mustered out, 1865.
Born in Oakham, March 28, 1828, son of James B. and Betsy (Capen) Ware, and brother of Henry H. Ware of the 25th Mass.
William Ware enlisted at the age of thirty-four, for the town of Paxton, in Co. K, 36th Mass. He was transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps, from which he was mustered out at the close of the war.
After his return he lived in Brookfield, where he was married to Miss Flagg of that town, by whom he had one daughter. Mr. Ware died many years ago.”
Source: Soldiers of Oakham, Massachusetts, by Henry Parks Wright, The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 1914, page 224