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T. T. Ward. One of the best known members of the Arkansas press, is Mr. Ward, who edits the Jackson County Herald. He was born in Bertie County, N. C., on February 8, 1843, and is a son of T. W. and Frances E. (Bentley) Ward, of the same State. The father died while on the way with his family to the State of Tennessee, and is buried at Glade Spring, Va. The other members of the family came on to Tennessee and located at Brownsville, where they remained until 1852, when they moved to Batesville, Ark. Young Ward was reared and educated in Batesville, and at the age of thirteen years was apprenticed to the printer’s trade, which he had thoroughly learned at the end of his term. At the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted in Company E, Seventh Arkansas regiment, and served until the surrender, taking part in the battles of Shiloh, Mufreesboro, Chickamauga, Franklin, and in fact all the greater engagements. His war record is one that will never be tarnished by time nor die out of the recollection of his old comrades, and no man ever fought more gallantly for the cause he undertook than did Private Ward. On December 16, 1864, he was severely wounded by a rifle ball in the right wrist, but after his recovery continued to serve until the surrender. After the war was over he returned to his trade, and in 1879 purchased the Herald, which, under his management, advanced to a larger circulation than it had ever attained before. In 1882 he moved the paper to Newport, and has since then issued it from that city. Mr. Ward was married in 1871 to Miss Belle Harbison, by whom he has had two children: Allie and May, and has one of the brightest homes in Northeast Arkansas. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity.