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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Jacob S. (Civil War, 17th VA) Wiard: Birth: MAY 1831 in Loudoun Co., VA. Death: AFT 1900 in Of Jersey City, Hudson Co., NJ

  2. Sgt. William C. “Will” (Civil War Casualty, 80th OVI) Wiard: Birth: ABT 1835 in probably Lovettsville, Loudoun Co., VA. Death: 13 NOV 1862 in Paducah, KY (of wounds received at the Battle of Corinth)

  3. Cpl. Lewis William (Civil War, 80th OVI) * Wiard: Birth: 4 JUL 1840 in Lovettsville, Loudoun Co., VA. Death: 30 JUN 1918 in Carrollton, Carroll Co., OH (angina pectoris, arteriosclerosis)

  4. Mary Wiard: Birth: ABT 1841 in Virginia. Death: AFT 1880 in Of Lovettsville, Loudoun Co., VA

  5. Leah L. Wiard: Birth: ABT 1846 in Virginia. Death: in Of Baltimore, Baltimore Co., MD


Sources
1. Title:   Wiard Elderton Family Tree
Author:   Laurence Overmire
Publication:   RootsWeb World Connect Project, © 2004-2019
Text:   Wiard Elderton Family Tree, by Laurence Overmire, RootsWeb World Connect Project, © 2004-2019

Notes
a. Note:   N13 aka Michael Jacob
  GENTLEMAN JUSTICE, LOUDOUN COUNTY COURT, 1865
  "Jacob and Mary were the parents of Michael Wiard (was listed as Jacob in the 1850 census). However Michael Wiard's tombstone only reads as Michael and don't know if Michael's real name was Michael Jacob or Jacob Michael. Michael is buried at the New Jerusalem Lutheran Church Cemetery in Lovettsville." --Bob Harrington
  Jacob and his family appear in the 1860 census living next door to 50-year-old Jonas Potterfield and 47 year-old Chas. Potterfield (probably brothers of Mary). Michael was reportedly a stone mason. Are Jacob and Michael the same person or different? Interestingly, the immigrant Robert Wiard of Warwickshire, England, from whom this family is believed to be descended was also a mason.
  The 1860 census:
 Jacob Wiard b. abt 1796 VA
 Mary abt 1802 VA
 Eliz A. abt 1830 VA
 Wm. C. abt 1833 VA
 Mary abt 1836 VA
 Lewis W abt 1838 VA
 Leah L abt 1846 VA
  1870 census:
 Michael Wiard abt 1797 VA, farmer
 Mary abt 1843 VA
 Lewis abt 1845 VA
 Drucilla abt 1847 VA
  1880 census:
 Michael Wiard, abt 1797 VA, Stone Mason (shows father b. VA, mother in MD)
 Mary abt 1841 VA, daughter
 May Smith, abt 1865, VA granddaughter, domestic servant
  The 1880 census of Lovettsville, VA shows Michael Wiard (b. abt 1797) as head of household. His daughter Mary and his granddaughter May Smith are living with him. He is listed as married, not widowed. His parents were born in Virginia.
  MICHAEL ELECTED GENTLEMAN JUSTICE
 "Several writers of Loudoun history have commented on Brigadier General Thomas Devin and his Federal Brigade that: occupied the Lovettsville area around Christmas, 1864. During the winter of 1864-65. Devin's troops occupied all sections of Loudoun County. In spite of all the strain and hatred that was usually shown occupation forces. Devin's troops seem to have had fairly good relations with the people of the County. There are indications that this officer demonstrated to those who were to be the future officers of the County how to show and attitude of compassion to a defeated people.
 When Devin left Loudoun on February 24, 1865, the County had been occupied by Federal troops exactly three years to a day. General John W. Geary's forces had entered Loudoun on February 24, 1862.
 The election of County officers was held on June 1, 1865 and the first post-war County Court was held July 10, 1865. The gentlemen justices who had been elected and commissioned by the Governor of Virginia, and who met at the Court House on that: July day, were George Abel, R. M. Bentley, Francis M. Carter, John Compher, Thomas Cost, John D. Deny, Enoch Fenton, Herod Frasier, Fenton Furr, Henry Gaver, John Grubb, Charles Manitin, Asbury M. Nixon, Basil Shoemalcer, John L. Stout, Mahlon Thomas. Lott Tavenner, Henry S. Taylor, Michael Wiard, John Woolford, Thomas Burr Williams, James M. Wallace and William H. Gray." --The History of Loudoun County, Virginia
  Sources:
 1) LDS Ancestral File of MARY MILLICENT RIDLEY, 1754 SAWYER WAY
 COLORADO SPRINGS CO USA 80915 Microfilm: 1394336 Submission: AF83-080940 (shows Michael b. abt 1813)
 2) 1880 census, Lovettsville, Loudoun, Virginia, Family History Library Film 1255376, NA Film Number T9-1376, Page Number 606C
 3) The History of Loudoun County, Virginia, Website 2004
 http://www.waterfordva-wca.org/history/loudoun-cw-road-back.htm
 4) Jacob and Emma Snoots WIARD, Loudoun Co., VA, (shows family of Jacob Wiard and Emma Snoots, relation, if any, unknown, TEXT: "Jacob was the son of Jonathan and Maria WIARD and seems to have died by 1880. Emma may have been the daughter of John Snoots and Susan Cordell, though I have no solid proof of that. Emma was born in 1834 and died April 12, 1911. She is buried at Union Cemetery in Lovettsville, Loudoun Co., VA.")
 http://genforum.genealogy.com/wiard/messages/28.html
 5) LDS Ancestral File of unknown submitter
 6) 1860 census, Loudoun, Virginia; Roll: M653_1359; Page: 510; Image: 193.
 7) 1870 census, Northern Division, Loudoun, Virginia; Roll: M593_1659; Page: 104; Image: 209.
 8) Family Data Collection, Ancestry.com (shows Michael and Mary Potterfield as parents of Lewis)
 9) Email from Bob Harrington, 27 Nov 2006, harringr_AT_yahoo.com (confirms parentage of Michael and gives birthdate 13 May 1797 and death date 22 Dec 1889)


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