David married MADDEN, Rosemary [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. WARD, Kevin Paul
2. WARD, David Michael

Aubrey married SCHUL, Anita Pauline on 29 Jun 1946 in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY. Anita (daughter of SCHUL, August Ludwig and LAUR, Flora Katherina) was born on 25 Dec 1923 in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY; died on 4 Jan 2023 in Lockport, Niagara County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Anita P. Ward, age 100, of Newfane, passed away peacefully on January 4, 2023, at Niagara Hospice. Anita was born in Niagara Falls, NY on December 25, 1923, a daughter of the late August L. and Flora (Laur) Schul. Anita was a member of the Living Water Community Church and participated in many activities. She was a 1942 graduate of LaSalle High School and had worked for 10 years until 1979 at Hillers Fruit and Vegetable stand. Anita attended the Newfane and Barker Senior Citizens. She was married June 29, 1946, to Aubrey Ward who predeceased her in July of 1983.

Anita was predeceased by son Donald, grandson Derek Ward and 7 siblings. She is survived by her children Daniel (Darlene) Ward of Friendship, NY, David (Rosemary) Ward of Middleport, NY, Diane House of Keystone Heights, FL, and Denise (Anthony) Rodrigues of Tracy, CA: 18 grandchildren, several great-grandchildren and 2 great-great-grandchildren; several nieces, nephews and friends in the community.

Anita’s life will be celebrated at the Living Water Community Church 2569 Main Street Newfane, NY 14108 on Saturday January 13, at 11:00 followed by a luncheon at the church. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Living Water Community Church or Niagara Hospice 4675 Sunset Dr Lockport, NY 14094.

Anita’s arrangements have been entrusted to Kenneth H. Sherrie Funeral Home 4521 Main St. Gasport, NY 14067.

To share a special memory of Anita, please visit: mitchellfamilyfuneralhomes.com
.

Notes:

Niagara Gazette - 7/27/1946

MARRIED HERE - Mr. and
Mrs. Aubrey Ward, whose marriage
took place in the Church of
Christ. Mrs. Ward is the former
Miss Anita Schul, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. August Schul, Lockport
road. The bridegroom is the
son of Mrs. Ola Ward, Buffalo
avenue.

ALSO

Niagara Gazette

Mr. and. Mrs. August Schul,
Lockport road, announce the marriage
of their two daughters, Miss
Ruth E. Schul and Miss Anita
Schul.
Miss Ruth E. Schul became the
bride of Mr. Roger Reedy, son of
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Reedy, 110 Royal
avenue, Rockford, Ill., In a ceremony
performed recently In Rockford,
while Miss Anita Schul and
Mr. Aubrey Ward, son of Mrs. Ola
Ward, of Buffalo avenue, were married
June 29 in the Church of
Christ by the Rev. William P. Saye.
At the Rockford wedding, Miss
Ruth E. Schul wore a gown of white
satin, fashioned with a high neckline
long sleeves and a full skirt
Which fell in a short train. Her
fingertip veil fell from a net halo
and she carried a bouquet of mixed
white flowers centered with in or-
chid.
Her only attendant was Miss Dar-
lene Obermeyer, Riverside, Calif,
who wore a pink gown, fashioned
with a taffeta bodice, and net skirt
Her Dutch cap was of matching net
and she carried a bouquet of
flowers. Mr. Gerald Brophy was the
best man.
A reception for members of the
Immediate families and a
friends followed the ceremony,
Mr. Reedy is a veteran of three
years service, part of which was
spent in Africa, and received his
discharge with the rank of technical
sergeant. The couple met
whDe the,bride was Uvlng in Cailfornla
and Mr. Reedy was station-
ed there after his return from overseas.
The couple is how residing in
Rockford, Ill.
At the Falls wedding, Miss Anita
Schul, who was given in marriage
by her father wore a gown fashioned
with a white satin bodice with
long sleeves and a full net skirt
which fell into a train.. Her fingertip
veil of Illusion fell from a beeded
crown and she carried a cascade
bouquet of white roses.
Mrs. Doris O'Connor, sister of
the.bride, was matron or honor
wearing a gown-of pink net over
taffeta with a matching shoulder
length veil, held by a tiara of flowers.
Her bouquet was of pink carnations.

Mr. William O'Flaherty, this city
was the best man.
Mrs. Grace Banks was organist
for the ceremony and Miss Patricia
Gerber sang. "I Love You Truly
and "Because."
.. The bride's mother wore a green
print dress with matching accessories,
while the bridegroom's mother
wore a blue, dress with matching
accessories. Both had corsages of
rose buds with mixed flowers.
A wedding dinner for the immediate
families followed at the home
of the bride, which was decorated
with garden flowers. A four-tier
wedding cake centered the brides
table.
The couple left on a wedding trip
to Northern Canada, Mrs. Ward
traveling in a brown and white
checked suit with matching accessories
and a corsage of white rosebuds.
They will return to reside
In this city.

Notes:

Niagara Gazette - 5/9/1970

August Schul

Funeral Set

On Monday

Funeral services .will be held

Monday for August L. Schul, 85,

of 5913 Ward Road, Sanborn,

who died Thursday (May 7,

1970) in Memorial Medical Center.

Born in Elmwood, Ont., Mr.

Schul moved, to Niagara County

with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Charles Schul, in 1897 and had

resided here'ever since.

He was a thresher and a .former

superintendent of.highways

in the Town of Niagara. He was

a 1rti«nber of hte First Baptist

Church in Sanborn.

He is survived by his widow,

Lily Schul; there sons, Gordon;

Raymond and Paul Schul, all of

Niagara Falls; five daughters,

Mrs. George (Esther) Shepherd,

Niagara Falls; Mrs, John

(Doris) O'Connor, North Tonawanda;

Mrs. Robert (Miriam)

Bower, Sanborn; Mrs. Roger

(Ruth) Reedy, Rockford, 111.,

and Mrs. Aubrey (Anita) Ward,

Burt; two brothers, Ernest

Schul, Town of Niagara, and

William Schul, Niagara Falls;

25 grandchildren, 21 greatgrandchildren

and s e v e r al

niece sand nephews.

His wife, Flora Laur Schul,

died in 1949.

Funeral services will be held

Monday at 11 a.m. at the

Grimes Funeral Home with the

Rev. James P. Kenyon of First

Baptist Church, Sanborn, officiating.

Burial will be in Memorial

Park Cemetery.

Contributions may be made to

the Memorial Fund at First

Baptist Church.

Friends may call at the funeral

home today and Sunday from

2 to 9 p.m.

August married LAUR, Flora Katherina on 8 Feb 1912 in Town of Niagara, Niagara County, NY. Flora (daughter of LAUR, Andrew Russ and WITMER, Esther Nancy) was born on 24 Jan 1891 in Town of Niagara, Niagara County, NY; died on 12 Dec 1949 in Town of Niagara, Niagara County, NY; was buried in Memorial Park Cemetery, Town of Lewiston, Niagara County, NY - Left Center. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Charles married HILDEBRANDT, Mary on 8 Feb 1880 in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Mary was born on 28 Feb 1857 in Heidelberg, Ontario, Canada; died on 6 Oct 1929 in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY; was buried in Memorial Park Cemetery, Town of Lewiston, Niagara County, NY - Far Left. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Gazette Death notice
SCHUL—Died in this city, Oct 6, 1929, Mary Schul, age 72, beloved wife of Charles, mother of Henry August. Mrs. Christ Laur, Mrs. Pauline Becker, Charles, Jr., Ernest and William Schul, all of this city. sister of John Hildebrandt of Model City, Mrs. Philip Neubauer of Canada.
Funeral services from family home, 1819 Ontario avenue, Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock and 2:30 from St. Paul's Evangelical church, 18th street and Cleveland avenue, Rev. Edward Nemeschy officiating. Burial in Memorial Park cemetery.

Notes:

Town of Niagara Supervisor, Election Commissioner. Lived and farmed Joseph Witmer's homestead.
Baptism indicates he was born in 1867

ALSO

Niagara Gazette - 1/15/1943

IN MEMORIAM
A Tribute to the Late Andrew Laur
By EDWARD T. WILLIAMS
Niagara Historian

The dictionaries define a pioneer
as "one who goes before, as into the
wilderness, preparing a way for
others to follow," and that descrip-
tion exactly portrays Niagara
county's earliest settlers. Except
John Stedman and his brothers, at
Schlosser in 1760 there were few
residents of Niagara county, other
then the Red Man, before 1800.
Stedman left for Canada in 1796
after the evacuation of Fort Nia-
gara, and early settlers began to
arrive. The primary pioneer settlers
of Niagara county have been defined
as those who settled here or were
born here previous to the War of
1812. By the same token the secondary
pioneers were those who
wre residents previous to 1940. The
latter date is over 100 years in the
past. the Niagara County Pioneers
Association was organized 57 years
ago next September, and the title
of pioneer has in that time been
extended to embrace not only the
first few settlers but the subsequent
many.
Into this latter class falls Andrew
R. Laur. native and resident for
j more than three-quarters of a ceni
tury. With the rapid increase In
population there are not a large
number of persons in the class of
Mr. Laur, native and resident for
more than three-quarters of a cen-
tury. We are speaking in the sense
of time rather than regarding
character and attainments, but An-
drew R. Laur was an unusual person
in both respects. Vitus Laur, his
father, whose memory old residents
respect was born 100 years ago and
settled in the town of Niagara in
1866. Mrs. Laur, who recently pre-
deceased Mr. Laur was a descend-
ant of a primary pioneer family of
Niagara county. The Wltmer and
Young families. Mrs. Laur was a
Wltmer. were among the earliest
settlers of the Niagara Frontier, in
the locality where their descendants
have ever since lived. Both
the Witmer and Young families
came by wagon and horses from
Lancaster. Pa., In 1810. and were
credited with being the earliest permanent settlers in the town of
Niagara remote from the river. Both
families removed to Livingston
county at the time of the devasta
tion of the Niagara Frontier in
1813. and remained there until after
the ending of the War of 1913,
men coming back during the sum-
mer months to attend to their
farming interests, and going away
again after the harvest.
About the first employment that
Andrew R. Laur had was as a bell
hop in the Monteagle Hotel, the
picturesque hostelry that was con-
temporary with the John A. Roeb-
ling suspension bridge.
One of the enterprises of the
Bellevue Land Company, which was
organized in 1845 by Col. John Fisk,
a prominent railroad man of Roch-
ester; General Charles B. Stuary,
a prominent civil engineer of
Schenectady; J. V. Vedder of
Geneva, and Roswell G. Benedict,
of Saratoga, which bought most of
the land that was the site of the
village of Bellevue was the
construction of the Monteagle Hotel
which WAS first in charge of General
Stuart, who secured the capital to
build ft. Of course, it was some
time afterwards that.Andrew R
Laur, in the 70's, was employed At
the hotel as a bell hop.
Previous to the establishment of
the Niagara Reservation In 1885,
when Prospect Park along the American rapids was lined with various
buildings housing manufacturing
and business enterprises Mr. Laur
was employed in one of these mills
He has related to the writer
boyhood experiences of the real vil-
lage of 60 and more years ago. He
has witnessed a great transforma-
tlon in the Industrial Niagara Falls
of today.
The details of his long and in-
terestlng life have been related.
Some incidents could be emphased.
Only recently one of these was
called by the sale of the car
which he had owned .for years in
which President McKinley rode on his
visit to Niagara Falls Just prior
to his assassination at the Pan-Am-
erican Exposition in Buffalo in
September. 1901. The coach in
which President McKinley rode,
which was recently sold by
Laur to Sanford Morden, Jr,|
engaged in the transportation t
ness, was one of those owned by
the Miller & Brundage Coach Co-
pany. Frank H. Zeiger, for many
years connected with the
Brundage Coach Company and
successor, the Niagara
Company, headed by John C. I
says that this coach was one of
about a dozen purchased by the
former company of a manufactur-
ing company In Connecticut, the
coaches were very substantial
character and cost about $1300
apiece. They were used exclusively
for weddings, funerals and for spe-
cial occasions like the visit of
President McKinley.
On the occasion of the
entertainment of Mr. and Mrs.
of Philadelphia, the winners
of the Niagara honey mooner's
test, conducted by the Niagara Falls
Chamber of Commerce, they were
driven around the Niagara Reserva-
tion and to the center of the
Rainbow Bridge by Mr. Laur and
photographed. Later Mr. and Mrs.
Laur, Mr. and Mrs. C. F.
Reichert, Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Ford, and Mr. and Mrs. Michael
McGray, 50 year Niagara Falls
honeymooners, with Mr. and Mrs.
David Edwards, longest married of
all of the party, attended the re-
ception to Mr. and Mrs. Fraul
the Hotel Niagara. Now both Mr.
and Mrs. Fraul and Mr. and Mrs.
Laur have crossed the river.
Andrew R. Laur took a deep in-
terest in the history of the ??
Niagara county of which he and his
family were worth citizens and
was president of the Niagara County
Pioneers Association in 1938, he
an active interest in the organization
for years before and has been
actively as a member of the execu-
tive committee since.

Andrew married WITMER, Esther Nancy on 1 May 1890 in Town of Niagara, Niagara County, NY. Esther (daughter of WITMER, Joseph and KAUFFMAN, Catharine) was born on 5 Mar 1863 in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY; died on 5 Sep 1942 in Town of Niagara, Niagara County, NY; was buried in Memorial Park Cemetery, Town of Lewiston, Niagara County, NY - Left Center. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lived all her life on father's homestead which was on Lockport Road, Town of Niagara, Niagara County, NY

Niagara Gazette

Notes:

Niagara Gazette - 5/2/1940

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew H. Laur, descendants
ol pioneer residents of
Niagara county, yesterday observed
their fiftieth wedding anniversary
at their home in the Lockport
road, four miles east of this city.
Few persons are better known
throughout Niagara county than
Mr. Laur, A farmer since he--was
14 years old, he has served the
town of Niagara and the county in
several official capacities. He has
been a justice of the peace and an
assessor in the town .of Niagara.
For 10 years be was a member .of
the Board of Supervisors. Since
January l he has been a member of
the two-man bi-partisan Board of
Elections. •
Mrs. Laur is a daughter of one of
Niagara county's first settlers. Fifty
years ago today she married Mr.
Laur in the old Witmer homestead,
where she was bom and where she
has always resided. As Esther Witmer
and later as Mrs. Laur, she
has never resided in any- other
home.
'Andy" Laur is widely known for
his ready wit, his ability to relate
a humorous story and his knack
with-wood-turning tools. He has
made and presented to several city
and —county officials the gavels
which have rapped for order in
many a town, city and county
meeting.
To Mr, and Mrs. Laur were bom
four daughters, Mrs. August Schul
and Mrs. Alan Hewitt, of Niagara
Falls, Mrs. Ralph Kenneda, of the
Upper Mountain road, town of
Cambria, and Mrs. Russell Depew,
of tbe Slayton Settlement road,
town of Lockport, all of whom are
living, There are 19 grandchildren
and four great grandchildren.
A reception was held yesterday
afternoon end evening at the home
of Mr. and Mrs, Laur for friends
and relatives.

Niagara Gazette - 4/30/1935

Supervisor and Mrs. Andrew R.
Laur, of the Town of Niagara, will
quietly observe their forty-fifth wedding
anniversary tomorrow on their
farm, where they were married and
have since lived.
No special celebration Is planned
but during the day friends will stop
in and offer congratulations. Mr.
Laur expects to put in his usual 14
hours, which he says is the average
working day of a farmer.
Mrs. Laur. formerly Miss Esther
Witmer. was born on the farm where
she new lives and Mr. Laur was born
in the town nearby. Both are members
of the Church of Christ, this city.
Supervisor Laur is completing his
third term on the Board of Supervsors.
Before that he was justice
of the peace and assessor In the
town.
There are four daughters. 19 grandchildren
and one great grandchild.
The daughters are Mrs. August Schul
of this city: Mrs. Alan Hewitt, of
Lewiston; Mrs. Russell S. Depew. of
the Town of Lockport, and Mrs.
Ralph Kennedy (sic), of Orangeport