About ricardoamware
When I retired from my job in January, 2013 I had no idea what I was going to do with all my free time. Raised in New Orleans by my paternal grandparents (my mother died when I was 7 and my father was in the US Navy), I was always curious about my family background). It was a year ago that I discovered Ancestry.com and from that point I was hooked. With a lot of patience and free time, I was able to trace my family background in Louisiana to 1838. I also found records showing William Ware and his wife, Henrietta, as slaves arriving in the port of New Orleans from Charleston, SC on the slave ship Katherine Jackson. Further I discover revealed that William Ware served and was killed as a Confederate solider. According to legal Documents he is buried in Mobile National Cemetery. He was my 2nd great grandfather.
William Ware was born about 1820 in Maryland. Records show that William was purchase as a slave by the Jesuits of Georgetown. He worked on their plantation which is now Georgetown University in Alexandria, Va. In return the Jesuits converted … Continue reading →
