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Ward Brothers of Stockbridge Defy Public Judgment
A long feature recounts Delbert Roscoe and Lyman Ward, four brothers raised in poverty on Hog sback Ridge. Once accused in a murder case their town rallied for them, their farm shrank, and decades later they remain homebound with memories of hardship. Friends, neighbors, and longtime confidant Harry Thurston illuminate a life shaped by stigma, loyalty, and survival.
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William J. Ward
New York State
Tropers
Delbert
Stockbridge
Bill
Cooperstown
Lyman
Roscoe R. Ward
Hogsback Ridge
May
Harold
Ike
Hoss
Thurston
Marciano
Rocky
Veterans Administration
Syracuse
Ward Boys
Maury Povich
Elsme
Roscoe
Weston
America
Smithfield
Fryer Memorial Museum
Mannsville
Emma
George
May E. Ward
Delbert Ward
Ley
Michelle Gabel Saaif Phomagn
Lyman Ward
Mogsback Ridge