Thomas Walter Ward died in 1890. Thomas Walter Ward Jr. was a Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, farmer, merchant and magistrate. He taught school and worked as a Boston clerk before opening a store in 1824 and moving to Connecticut. He married Harriet Grosvenor in 1825 and returned to Shrewsbury in 1829 to manage the family house and farm. He shifted production toward dairying as the local economy changed and took part in temperance and antislavery movements. Harvard’s Ward House preserves his history. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.