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Note: Valverda AP Vare married Mary Belinda Green May 29 1860 Miss Green was a daughter of Gilbert Green one of the early settlers of Franklin county Ohio. A Centennial Biographical History of the City of Columbus and Franklin, PG. 891 Belinda Green, daug'hter of Gilbert and Susan (Taylor) Green and wife of Valverda A. P. Ware, received her early education in the district schools of Franklin county, Ohio, in log school houses with puncheon floors, split-oiit slabs for seats and slab desks supported on pins driven into auger holes into the walls. The school house where she attended school most was three-quarters of a mile from her father's house and she has a distinct remem- brance that during the winter months the walking along the wood road which led from the one to the other was anything but good. She finished her studies at the college at Reynoldsburg, Ohio, where she was a student for a year. After leaving school she taught school in Franklin county, "boarding around" with the parents of her pupils and receiving two dollars a week in addition to her meals and lodging, and as a teacher she wasi often compelled to walk further than was necessary when she was a pupil. She has proved herself a model wife and mother and has watched the development of the county from a primitive condition to its present admirable state of cultivation and advancemient. Valverda A. P. and Belinda (Green) Ware have had eight 892 CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. sons and one daughter, named as followa in the order of their birth : Gilbert Green, Prescott Barron, Vinton Taylor, Eliza Catharine, Valverda A., one son who died in infancy, William E., Oliver Morton and Charles Homer. Their eldest son, Gilbert Green, married a Miss Alice Mock, of St. Louis, ]\\Iissouri, and they have children named Alice Eliza and Harold Homer, (j. G. Ware is a shoe-manufacturer of Chicago, Illinois. Prescott Barron, a farmer of Truro townsihip, Franklin county, married Zella Hanson, a daughter of Parson Hanson, and they have two children named Hugh Pearl and Blanche Elizabeth. Vinton Taylor, who is a farmer in Madison township, Franklin county, married Ella Stubbs, a native of Delaware and a daughter of Frank Stubbs, who was also born in that state. Eliza Catharine married John C. Oldham, a druggist at Reynoldsburg, Ohio. Valverda A. assists his father in the management of the homestead. �E William E. is' acquiring a knowledge of the drug business under the instruction of his brother-in-law at Reynolds- burg, Ohio. Oliver Morton and Charles Homer are members of their father's household. Mr. Ware came to Ohio in 1858 and after his marriage, in i860, went back to Maryland, where he remained two years. In 1862 he returned to Truro township, Franklin county, where he worked rented land until 1888. He had early learned the carpenter's trade and he divided his time between the occupations of carpenter and farmer and was' employed much of the time during the Civil war in building bridges for the United States government. In 1 888 he moved with his family to the old homestead of Gilbert Green, Mrs. AVare's father, which has been improved until it is one of the most productive and valuable farms in the township, its acreage considered. Mr. Ware, while not a practical politician, has very decid'ed views on all political questions' and is not without influence in his party. He hasi believed that the citizen who helps himself best helps his neigttors, and has devoted himself to his business rather than to office-seeking. He is deeply interested in public edu- cation, has) always done his share toward the maintenance of religious worship and has in many other ways demonstrated that he is a man of public spirit.
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