Ward, West Virginia

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Ward is an unincorporated community and coal town in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States. Its post office{{gnis|1742460}} is closed. Ward is approximately {{convert|3|mi|km}} northeast of Cedar Grove, along Kellys Creek.[http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/ The National Map], accessed 2013-11-29

Some people say the community was named after Ward Hudnall.{{cite book|last=Kenny|first=Hamill|title=West Virginia Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning, Including the Nomenclature of the Streams and Mountains|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015009099824;view=1up;seq=681;size=125|year=1945|publisher=The Place Name Press|location=Piedmont, WV|page=657}}

Earlier accounts say the community was named after David Ward. The town of Ward was built on property owned by David Ward, who resided in Michigan.{{cite book|last=Ward|first=David|title=The Autobiography of David Ward|url=https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=lhbum&fileName=10306/lhbum10306.db&recNum=167&itemLink=r?ammem/lhbum:@field(DOCID+@lit(lhbum10306div5))%2310306168&linkText=1;view=1up;seq=681;size=125|year=1912|publisher=Privately Printed|location=New York, NY|page=168}} The property was leased to the Kelly's Creek Colliery Company. The Black Diamond, a coal periodical published by the National Coal Exchange in Chicago, Illinois, reported in Volume 32, Number 21, dated May 21, 1904, that the town of Ward was built by the Kelly's Creek Colliery Company in four months. Ward's son Charles Willis Ward was the Vice President of Kelly's Creek Colliery Company and the majority of the property is still owned by the estate of David Ward.{{cite book|title=The Black Diamond, Volume 32 Number 21|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3ehZAAAAYAAJ&q=Dr.%20David%20Ward%20Black%20Diamond%20Coal&pg=PA1127|year=1904|publisher=National Coal Exchange|location=Chicago, IL|pages=1127–1129}}