Father-in-law of Dr. Belt; Administrator Governor Gaines estate.
Married and divorced Mary Ann Bennett

1850 MO CENSUS - Thompson Ward, age 64, occupation Justice County Court, b. Kentucky, is enumerated with wife Sarah, age 61, b. Pennsylvania.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH (submitted by Dave Johnson of Columbus, Ohio):
Thompson Ward was born in Bourbon County, Kentucky on April 6, 1786.  He later moved to Fleming, Kentucky where he married Sarah Kountz.  She was born April 28, 1789.  In addition to being a soldier, Ward was also a farmer, lawyer and legislator.  He practiced before the Greenup Bar from 1815-1830 and served as a State Representative from Greenup County in 1815, 1818 and 1830 and State Senator in 1820 and 1826.  He was at one point a member of the Electoral College for the state of Kentucky.
During the War of 1812, Ward served as a Captain in Lt. Col. Pogues regiment and built Fort Amanda (Auglaize County, Ohio) in 1812.    Ward emigrated from Kentucky to Missouri in 1842 where continued practicing law.  The 1850 census lists his address as Weston, Platte County, Missouri and his occupation as “Judge of the Court.”  In 1854 moved again, this time to Salem Oregon.   Sarah died two years later on July 26, 1856.   The 1860 Oregon census lists Thompson as living with the John Bell family and his occupation as “lawyer.”  Bell was probably a son-in-law.  Thompson Ward died August 2, 1860, 3 days after the census was taken.



BIOGRAPHICAL:
ANOTHER BOARDER WAR
General Thompson Ward, commander of "the 15th Division Missouri Militia, near Lower Lake, Platte county," following the example of his political compeers, has determined to get up a war on his own responsibility. It seems, from the explanations of the editor of the Platte Argus, that a band of Fox Indians are roaming at large in the counties of Gentry and Harrison, committing depredations on the property of citizens, and frequently insulting and terrifying women and children, being excited thereto from the effects of liquor, which is furnished them by whiskey traders, who "follow in their wake."It is furthermore said, that he has been induced to order the immediate removal of these Indians out of the State, by the representation of men of high character and standing, residing in the immediate neighborhood of the "scene of action" - the "infected region." All this sounds well enough, but we should like to know where this militia general gets his authority to commence such acts of hostility against these Indians, or any body else. Would it not be quite3 as well for the general to employ himself in finding out the punishing the scoundrels who sell whiskey to the Indians, thereby causing them to insult the women and children, instead of taking upon himself to call out the militia and punish the Indians? We had supposed that the Governor might have something to say in matters of this kind, but it seems that Gen. Ward considers himself quite competent to originate and carry on the war without any consultation with him. We shall note its progress.
{Missouri Republican
Headquarters of the 15th Division Mo. Militia
Near Lower Lake, Platte Co., Mo., Jan. 19, 1847}
CAPTAIN MOSES H. SIMMONDS, commandant of a company of Mounted Volunteers  in the 29th Regiment, in the 2d Brigade of the 15th Division Missouri Militia:
SIR: You are hereby commanded that you, with your company of one hundred men, take immediate and requisite steps to cause to be removed from beyond the bounds of this State the Fox Indians, or any others who may be found lurking about or encamped within the counties of Gentry and Harrison, or any other counties in the northern frontier of the State of Missouri. You will cause said Indians to be passed over the River Missouri, at or near the town of St. Joseph, and you will pursue as gentle means as possible with said Indians, so as to be enabled to consummate this order.
Given under my hand the day and year first above written.
THOMPSON WAR
Maj. Gen. Comd't 15th Div. Mo. Militia.
Daily National Intelligencer (Washington D.C.) 22 Feb 1847, pg 4