”At one time the Wares were large landholders of this section. Captain Robert Ware had a then elegant residence near Woodlawn, say four hundred yards distant, on an eminence, perhaps the highest in this section, where he must have lived in ease and elegance if not in luxury. Large orchards, brick walks, a distillery and other evidences of wealth and prosperity, were noticeable not many years ago. This family, the males of it at least, have died out and none here now bear the name.”

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History of Edgefield County (SC), by John Abney Chapman, 1897, page 109