Connecticut western news., 1884-03-26
OBITUARY.
NATHANIEL c. WARD,

The shadow of death has truly fallen upon this community. Last Monday we followed to their last resting place the remains of the lamented young friend, whose death we have elsewhere noticed. Tomorrow the grave will close over all that is mortal of Nathaniel c. Ward.
 He is stricken down in the very prime of his manhood and usefulness. The loss of such man, when we consider his high character, his noble example, and the relations he bore to the commu- nity in which he lived, cannot be meas ured by private grief; it is a public calamity, and is deserving of more than passing notice.
 MT Ward was first confined to his bed week ago last Saturday, by what was not considered at the time very serious illness, but his constitution, which was never robust, could not withstand the ravage of the disease, and he fingered along between alternating hope and fears, until last Sunday, when, about two o'clock in the afternoon, he quietly and peacefully passed away-and with him passed away a good man. The places that once knew him, will know him no more forever, but his memory will ever be cherished in many sorrow stricken hearts
 He was born in the town of Salisbury on the 22d day of June 1887, and was therefore in his 47th year at the time of his death.
 His father was the late John R. Ward, who was for many years respected and prominent citizen in this section of the state. His mother, we believe, was sister of the late Leman Church of this place, and of Chief Justice Samuel Church of Salisbury.
 MT Ward spent the most of his boy hood on his fathers farm and received the ordinary advantages of New Eng land farmers boy except that he en- joyed course of instruction at a private school ill Sharon, and afterwards at Amenia seminary. He, however, &C., quired an excellent business education, and was man ofa good deal of practical information
 When he became of age he became convinced that he would never possess the physical qualifications to make successful farmer, and with the genuine Yankee instinct which was with him, an inheritance and an inspiration, he sought fresh fields and pastures new.
 He was offered by his cousin, the late Ensign Church, position in the office of the Forbes Iron company. This was about 1859. He remained with this company until it was merged into the Barnum Richardson company in 1864, when he became the general manager of the branch of their business at East Canaan, which position he retained until his death, and he was also director in the company, and had an interest in its business. He had thus grown up with the business and was thoroughly &C., quainted with its every detail, and his death leaves a void which it will be difficult to fill. He possessed exec utive ability of a high order and like most good executive officers he never made much noise or fuss.
 February 4, 1869 Mir Ward married Miss Eliza Campbell of North East, Duchess county, N. Y, who died Feb. 15, 1877, leaving three children, one an infant son who only survived his mother three months.
 Only a year and few months ago Mir Ward was again married to Mrs Mary W. Franklin. She with his two orphan l ed children survive to mourn their ire parable loss. The sympathies of a sorrowing community go out to them in their terrible bereavement.
 The loss of MT Ward will be felt not only by his family and relatives, but by the whole community. He was one of those men, somewhat rare in this day and generation, who do not live for themselves alone, and who exemplify in their daily walk and conversation the golden rule. Nothing that concerned the general good was foreign to him, but he never made public proclamation of his charity. There is nothing that he dreaded so much as notoriety, espec- ially newspaper notoriety, and knowing him as we did we feel some restraint in writing these lines, because we know that if he could speak to us he would say. please omit my name from that
 He was modest and retiring in his natural disposition, amounting almost to diffdence, ,and this perhaps, as is not in- frequently the case, gave him the ap- pearance sometimes of cold ness and reserve but he was. one of the kindest and most genial of men. He loved quiet chat and enjoyed good joke.
 Mir Ward, unlike most men, had nc hankerin8 for office. He could scarcely ever be induced to accept one. Indeed we believe the only public office he ever held, he represented this town one year, l 1865) in the General Assembly. He