Charles William Ward, the eighth of fourteen children, was born April 16, 1880 at the family home in Woodruff, Oneida County Idaho, to George Ward and Eunice Alice Nicholas.
He grew up in Woodruff and attended school and church there. He was of a studious nature and loved to read good books. He was a talented singer and was popular with the young people of that area.
There was plenty of work to do on the farm, helping with the household chores, feeding, milking, planting, and harvesting of grain, and hay, caring for cattle and sheep on the range. He was a good horseman and loved to ride.
The year 1900 finds him enrolled at Brigham Young College at Logan, Utah where he continued his education. He served his Church as a Missionary from Feb. 1903 to August 1905 in the Northern States Mission. Upon his release he returned to the family home at Woodruff and set about getting a farm of his own.
He was active in the Woodruff Ward and as a Stake Home Missionary in the Malad Stake. That is how he met his future wife Sarah Sophia Jones, daughter of Bishop Lewis D. Jones of the Pleasant View Ward. They were married November 14, 1906 in the Logan Temple, at Logan, Utah. And moved to Woodruff, Idaho. Two children were born there, Beatrice Sarah , November 16, 1907 and Owen Daniel , July 18, 1910. The family then moved to Malad, Idaho where three more children were born to them, William George, May 6, 1912, Alice Mabel , June 9, 1914, and Olive May , June 22, 1916.
At Malad he was active in Church and civic affairs. He served as Probate Judge. He served in the M.I.A. , as the Superintendent of Sunday School, the Superintendency of Stake Religion Class, a Stake Home Missionary, and as Secretary of the seventies Quorum of tube Malad Stake.
He died March 19, 1919. He was loved and respected by all who knew him. Three children , Daniel, Mabel , and Olive preceded him in death. His wife Sarah died at Cody, Wyoming May 26, 1957 and was buried at Malad, Idaho, June 1 1957. Funeral services were held at Malad.