Mrs. Josephine Ware, wife of Dr. James Ware, Surgeon of Calcasieu
Camp, Lake Charles, La., died on the 27th of February, at the age of
seventy-six years. She was born in Maryland and of Scotch-Catholic stock, her
parents having emigrated to this country at the time of religious persecution
in Scotland. She was married to Dr. Ware in 1865, and had been a resident of
Louisiana, and of Lake Charles since 1887.
Mrs. Ware was a woman of remarkable strength of character,
and she lived and died an ideal wife, mother, and friend. Her husband was
surgeon of the 16th Louisiana Regiment. Gibson's Brigade. As a member of the U.
D. C. Chapter of Lake Charles. she was actively interested in its good work,
and the pallbearers at her funeral were all Confederate Veterans. Her husband
and two sons survive her.
SOURCE: Confederate
Veteran, Volume 15, No. 4, April 1907, p. 183
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