Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-11-03
stuffed and placed in a front hall room

stuffed and placed in front hall room
on the second floor This is the only
particular in which the interior aspect
of the house was changed from the ex-
act condition in which Mr.. Ward. or
"Mr. Harry as Miss Partridge would
call him in speaking of him to his old
servants, left it.
For many years she continued her soli-
taTy visits and wandered through the
house which had SO many tender mem
cries for her-for she herself had lived
there until the death Of her lovers
mother, but with the lapse of years,
doubtless owing to the fact that not a
ray of sun could find its way through
the tightly closed shutters, the house be-
came musty, and the books, the papers,
the stuffed birds and the many pictures
and objects of taste began to show
signs OF decay
Then Miss Partridge took a step which
must have given her heart great
wrench Except for the caretaker' S
quarters, she had the entire interior of
the house stripped and everything taken
to her residence, and from that time her
visits TO the house have ceased, but even
when the house was being stripped the
shutters were not opened, and it is
fact that for 2S years they have re-
manned tightly closed.
Henry Hall Ward, to whom Miss
Partridge has remained so faithful for
SO many years, was oneof the leaders Of
the New York society of his day and in
which the Ward family is still repre-
sented by his cousins-GeneralW William
G. Ward, who was an officer in the
United States volunteer service during
the civil war, and Mr.. Charles H.
Ward; Mr.. Francis E. Ward, the lat.
ter's son, is secretary of the Seabright
Golf club and another son, Henry
Ward, is with Troop A in Porto Rico
Henry Hall Ward was president of
the New York club in its early days,
when it had delightful quarters in the
old Haight house, at Fifth avenue and
Fifteenth street. He was also promi-
nent member of the Union club and of
the Society of the Cincinnati, of which
he was also treasurer. The Ward family
owes it's membership in this society to
Colonel Samuel Ward, an officer of the
Revolutionary army, who was Henry
Hall Ward s grandfather. The portrait
of another ancestor, Governor Richard
Ward of Rhode Island, is now the prop
erty of Mr.. Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Henry Hall Wards father was
- al
Samuel, was the Sam Ward, famous as
a wit, scholar and bon vivant. Other
cousins of Henry Hall Ward were Mrs.
Julia Ward Howe and Mrs Crawford,
the wife of the sculptor and the mother
of F. Marion Crawford. It seems a won
der that the novelist should not have
woven this romance, which he found
ready to hand in his own family, into a
novel,
Henry Hall Wards social position
may be judged from the fact that among
the pallbearers at his funeral in Grace
church were John Jacob Astor, Walter
L. Cutting, Johnston Livingston and
James Francis Ruggles
Eliza Ann Partridge's S relationship to
Henry Hall Ward arose from the fact
that their mothers were sisters. They
were members Of the Hall family Of
Pomfret, Conn., J. Prescott Hall, her
uncle, was William M. Evart's first law
partner. Those who knew Miss Par
fridge as girl, SO many years ago, de-
scribe her as charming. She was of
medium height, had brown eyes and an
abundance of strikingly dark hair. She
is said, even now, at the age of "a, to
preserve much Of her youthful beauty.
When Henry Hall Ward died, one of
his friends penned these lines in his
memory:
Honored and loved, he passed away
AS sinks a summers day to rest;
The brightest when the radiant clouds
OF silent evening gem the west.
Does the woman who still treasures
his memory think of these lines as she
gazes into the sunset?-New York Her
aid.