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John C. Ware is associated with Mr. Williams in the general mercantile business in Washington, and since their establishment was opened in 1890, they have done well. They carry a large, well-selected stock of goods valued at $10,000, and are well known throughout Hempstead as well as the surrounding counties. Mr. Ware was born in what was known formerly as Sevier County, but now Little River County, Ark., in 1853, his parents, Dr. U. H. and N. L. (Nunneley) Ware, having been born in Virginia and Tennessee, respectively. They were married in Sevier County, and when the subject of this sketch was a boy they removed to Clarksville, Tex., where Dr. Ware had lived from boyhood, and where he died in 1878. His widow is now living in Nashville, a worthy Christian lady. The Doctor graduated from a medical college of New Orleans, under the celebrated Dr. Stone, and practiced for some time in a hospital there, and during the war was surgeon in the Confederate army in Ganot’s brigade of a Texas regiment. He was a Master Mason. His father, Dr. John Ware, was a Virginian, who, in 1842, removed to what is now Red River County, Tex. (it then being a Territory), being one of the first settlers of that region, and there spent the remainder of his days, dying in 1864, having also been a successful physician. He was of Scotch-Irish descent. The maternal grandfather, John Nunneley, was a Tennessean, who married in his native State, and about 1844 came to Sevier (now Little River) County, Ark., where he died in 1850, a wealthy planter. John C. Ware is the second of three children, and received his education in the male college of Columbia, Tenn., and after clerking in Clarksville, Tex., for some time he removed to Ultima Thule, Ark., and was there in the mercantile business until 1878, when he came to Washington, and for five years was book-keeper for Stewart & Holman. In 1883 he embarked in business on his own account, and has since been considered one of the successful merchants of the place. Florence, the daughter of Alfred O. and Sarah Stuart, became his wife in 1882, her birth having occurred in Washington. Her father and mother were born in Hempstead County, and died in Washington in 1883 and 1878, respectively. The father was a wealthy planter until 1878, but afterward followed merchandising until his death. His father was Monroe Stewart. Mr. Ware is a Democrat, his first presidential vote being cast for Tilden, in 1876, and since twenty-one years of age he has been a member of the A. F. & A. M., and also belongs to the K. of H., being chief of Washington Lodge.