“Thomas E. “Salt” Ware lived in Greenville, SC and married Lucy Foote. He worked at Ware & Pickle, Dealers in General Merchandise & Plantation Supplies, Horses, Mules, & c. Thomas E. was the last Ware to live at Ware Place, but he sold it shortly before he died in 1904.”
Source: Special Collections and Archives, James B. Duke Library 3300 Poinsett Highway • Greenville, SC 29613
Information courtesy of Tracy Hildebrand, member
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