The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1881-03-26
SAMUEL RAYARD lOARD.
DEAR OF A PROMINENT CITIZEN
A Sketch of til= history OF an Oh an Rep
feSea,ative Cecil County i91:n!,..

7eSeatatiVe Cecil County rGu:..'.
Death is rapidly dec,natin~ the ranks OF
distinction Of age dignity as The fathers and
mothers of this community. Under the pres
Snre of accumulateti years, these human links
that bind he present and the past snap nm
expecirdly ;,sunder. The number nf those
who by reason OF strength have reached
inur>rorr, is indeed small, Will, c"mpara-
lively few even survive. whose lives can he
measured by the Scriptural limit OF three
score and ten years. The record OF Samuel
i. Fu,r,l's life has JUST closed. 70 his t;mi-
" and to his friends alike its termination is
us unwrcume as ii was unexpected.
On Sunday evening, the l3th instant, MIR.
Fnard WAS attacked with what al the time
seemed an ordinary case of Understanding.
On Monday his inaispoSitiun seemed scarce
~ 10 warrant the calling of i physician
Dr. Mitchell, however Visited him ON that
day by request, his condition not exciting
either his OF tn. apprehension of his family.
On Tuesday, suggestive symptoms "f pneu-
mona appeared, but not of an alarming
character. Scarcely Jwenty-fonr hours had
elapsed. however. before that dreaded dis
ease had fuily developed its presence, and
which, by Thursday, haitied human skill.
On Friday evening, while the ma iority of
the citizens of the town were ignorant even
of his Illness the end came. His remains
Il, N,,,... = Ii.
wife, in Forrest Church Cemetery, near Mid
dlc.own, Del. on Tuesday, DR.. X. {. Mack
all, Arthur W. Mitchell, James 4. MrCul-
Tough, John Partridge, Samuel Mcln!irr,
and William c. Grow acting As plli-h",irerS.
Samuel BAyard Foard was one Of he most
esteemed representatives OF an cid AMI re-
spectacle Cecil county family. He was the
oldest Sony.,r,l the second child Of Il family
of tour, the children of Levi George Foar'i
of Bohemia Manor. He WAS born on the
at ST. Augustine, sill in the occupancy of
the family of his deceased h:oiher, iii, late
Richard i. FoarI. His only sister, Ann
Maria Foard, WAS the first born of the chill
dreu of Levi George Foar,i, the date OF her
birth being Feb. ), 1895. She married Lam
bert H. Nowllnd, of this coanty, their only
child. Dr. Edward J.. Rowland, now being
a practiring physician 1T Mililetown. Del.
Mrs Rowland. after the tiecease of her htiS-
band III Chesapeake City. where he WAS u
Justice of the peace At the time of his death.
removed ~ Elkton, where she resided with
her brother Samuel until her death. July
!, 1869 The next younger brother of Sam
ue d. Fnard, was Richard James Foard,
born April s, 1911. He married Miss Susan
Jefferson, of New Castle county, Del, q
most es;imable lady, who still survives him
ut ST. Augustine. Richard James Fnard
left :, family Of seven chiliren--SamUel y.
Foa-d: Jefferson i Foard, now proni-
nent business man at Middletown, Del:
Mrs. Annie Il. Bean, wife of Lucirn Bean,
formerly of Georgia, now Of Massey'>, Kent
county, Nd; Mrs. Ella \. Il. Pratt, wife of
Frank Pratt, of Chestertown, Md: VI. Ad-
die Foarl, Richard J. Foard, and Susan
Foard.
Richard j. Foard inherited the ati.lbility
and genial manner of his family, and was \
popular Democrat of his day. He was Il
corIal-iiearted and bright-wiitrh man.-
Personally, he WAS exceedingly popular.
He was honored by several public positions.
having been in succession County Commits
sioner III 1915, judge of the Orphans Court
in 1913, and Il member of the State Legi>l;l-
turein lSl9and again in 1854, Hiram McCul-
lorsh representing this cnunty;n The Senate
in the former and John NJ. Miller in the
latter year. He died in September, 1851
Edward Levi Foard, the third and young
est sou OF Levi George Fuard, was born
March %, 1873. He was, rs young man,
handsome in person and pleasing in his adj
dress. Like his brother Richard, he pos
full politician. They We're on opposite sides
in politics, Edward J.. Foard being an ar
dent Wing. After u memorable contest, he
WAS elected by the Wings to the sheritfalty
of the county in 1912. He married Miss
Henry, of Delaware City, to whom four
children were born, all of whom are living
Ann Blyard Maxwell, wife of Captain
George Maxwell, of Delaware City; Jose
Prime, Louisa, and Richard II. Foard, the
latter now resident in Ekton.
Levi George Toard, the father of Samuel
Is. Foar,l, was popularity called Captain dur
ing his lifetime, from the fact that he had
recruited and commanded Il company Of
cavalry on Bohemia Manor during the war
of lSl2-l4. lie was genial man of easy
business habits, and was born at the Foard
homestead, the residence Of his father
Richard f. Foard about three miles south
of EIkron on Jan. Ii, 1779. He had one
other brother, James Foarl and one sister,
Mary Foard, the first wife of Nathan Boul.
den, of New Castle county, Del. Mr.. Boul-
den survived his first wife many years, long
enough ut least to marry five other wives,
six in all making his matrimonial compile
ment. One helpmate, his sixth wife, al Inst
ouIlived him, Mrs. Van Nranklin, wife Of
DIR. Van Nranklin, of Rutgers College, New
Jersey, being still living.
Captain Levi &. Foar'l married Ann Bay
ard-atrer whose family his son, Samuel f..
Fnard, WAS named-on April y, 1901. Mrs.
Ann Bayard Foari was Il daughter of Il
prominent citizen and extensive landholder
OF Bohemia Nlanor-Samuel BayarG. who
died May 10, 1906. He was one of the nu-
mrrouS descendants of Colonel Augustine
Herman, the original proprietor of i.olr
MIA Manor, and whose posterity now so
numerous il; that, and the adjoining sec
tons of Delaware, embrace so many per-
picking degrees of family relationship No
family WIS ever blessed with Il more de-
voted or exemplary mother than Ann Bay
ard Foard proved herself 1t is no refirc-
ton upon her husband to say that She wits
Il woman of much more force OF character
than he WAS as a man, which her devotion
10 her children and her Christian example
amply testified. There are numbers living
who plcasurahy recall the beneficial intlu-
r1lce her piety eNerted in her vicinity, and
the rare exhibition of Christian forritut,c
and resignation shown by her at her death
which occurred Al ST. Augustine while
ander the RectorShip OF the Rev. John
Wiley, of 81. stephens Church, III ;SaSSa-
ifds -Ntck- MIS-. Ann laNafu fOari had
two sisters, Francna and Sarah Havard
The former married Samuel Writ. father of
Doctor John w. Writ, of Bohemia Manor.
the second husband of Mrs. Margaret
Mitchell, widow of the late Rev. II. T.
Mitchell, now residing in Elkton, and
mother of tie late lanented Henry B. Writ.
Mrs. Samuel Writ, after the death Of her
first husband, marricd--about the wear