Joseph
Warder, Sr.
(December
5, 1752 —
1832)
Esther
Ford
(April
13, 1773 —
March 11, 1816)
| Parents: |
William
Warder and Mary Fairfax
Thomas
Ford and Jane Milstead |
| Son: |
Henry
Warder
|
Joseph
Warder, Sr. was born on
December 5, 1752
in Charles County, Maryland. Charles
County
is on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, just across the Potomac River
from Quantico,
Virginia
and abutting the southern part of what is now the District of Columbia. Esther Ford was born a little over
two years later on April 13, 1755
somewhere in Maryland.
They
married in Charles County, Maryland on June 18, 1773. They had the following children,
all born in nearby Fauquier County,
Virginia:
|
Name
|
Birth
date
|
|
John
Warder
|
1774
|
|
Mary
Molly Warder
|
January 18, 1777
|
|
Nancy
Warder
|
October 19, 1780
|
|
Joseph
Warder
|
October 17, 1781
|
|
Elizabeth
Warder
|
February 1, 1784
|
|
William
Warder
|
1786
|
|
Walter
Henry Warder
|
December 13, 1787
|
|
|
1792
|
|
Henry
Warder
|
December 28, 1796
|
|
Esther
Warder
|
March 10, 1798
|
|
Mary
Judith D. Warder
|
April
1844
|
|
Tax
records in 1799 showed that he was still in Fauquier
County.
The
1810 census shows him in Barren County,
Kentucky
as the head of a household consisting of one male between ten and fifteen
(Henry), another between sixteen and twenty-five, another forty-five or over
(Joseph). In addition, there were
two females between ten and fifteen and another forty-five or over.
The next person listed was his son Walter Warder.
Two more people down, Joseph, Jr. was listed.
She
died on March 11, 1816
in Glasgow, Barren County,
Kentucky.
He
died in 1832 in Glasgow, Barren County,
Kentucky. An 1832 will abstract shows he
owned three slaves when he died. They
were named Rachel, Mahaly and Harry.
