784            kISTORY OF HENDERSON COUNTY, KY.

    Robert Agnew raised eleven children, seven males and four fe-
males. The males were: John married Miss Asbby, of Hopkins
County; Wiley married Miss Armstrong; Andrew married Elizabeth
Walker; Whitfield married Elizabeth H. Nunn, all of Henderson
County. The father of our subject was Whitefield Agnew, who died
in 1845, at the age of thirty-seven years, leaving his son, R W. Ag.
new, a youth of nine years, with his mother and five sisters dependent
upon their own exertions for a livelihood. His early privations pre-
vented his education, yet he applied himself at leisure times, and by
this means gained a knowledge that has proved of incalculable benefit
to him, At the age of twenty-five years, Mr. Agnew married Mrs. M.
J. Tillotson, widow of Marshall Tillotson, and daughter of John and
Nancy Reeder, and unto them have been born five children, Robert
L., Dora, Edna E., and William W. all living. By his industry and
economy, Mr. Agnew has accumulated a snug little estate, and al-
though a hard worker, enjoys his pleasures. In politics he is a strong
Democrat and worker, whose influence is felt in times of excited elec-
tions. He and his entire family are members of the Baptist Church.
Dr. R. L. Agnew, a promising physician of Sebree, is his eldest son
and child.
    THOMAS E. WARD was born in Hardin County, Kentucky,
on the fifteenth day of July, 1844.  His great-grandfather settled in
Maryland prior to the Revolution, and he and four of his sons were
members of the famous Maryland line during the struggle for. inde-
pendence. After the war, his grandfather, Edward Ward, married
Miss Elizabeth Soaper, and, in 1789, removed to Kentucky and finally
settled in Ohio County, where he died in January, 1856, at the
advanced age of ninety-seven years, having raised a large family. His
eighth child, the Rev. Ezra Ward, the father of the subject of our
sketch, was born in Ohio County, February 8th, 1808, and, when about
eighteen years old, joined the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, was
soon after licensed to preach, and, until his death, July 10th, 1864,
no man was more widely or favorably known in connection with the
ministry of that church.
    Mr. Ward's great-grandfather on the maternal side, Captain
Thomas McCoy, had held the rank of Captain in the Bri ish Army,
and had participated in the French and Indian wars prior to the
Revolution. At the close of those wars, he sold his commission and
settled in South Carolina. He, also, was from Ireland. When the
Revolutionary War broke out, he joined the patriots, raised a company
and served under General Marion, and was sent by that officer with