Ward, Walter G.

Walter G. Ward, one of six children of Joseph and Martha Speight Ward, attended school in Wilson, where his mother operated Ward's Hotel. Prior to attending Eastman Business College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., in 1898, Ward worked as an accountant in Spring Hope, N.C. After leaving Eastman Business College, Ward was a bank cashier in Greenville, N.C. He returned to Spring Hope in 1907, and married Margarette Morton Dillard the following year. In 1925, Ward and his family settled in Greenville, where he operated a mercantile business and ginned cotton.