Marriage and Family
In 1889, Ward married Frank Bush. The couple had two daughters, Rosamund and Maria. After Ward and Bush divorced around 1895, Ward supported her daughters and her then-aged Aunt Maria.
Ward married again about 1916 to Anthony Banks, a Pullman porter. Her first daughter Rosamund married and died young, in 1929.
Read more about this topic: Olivia Ward Bush
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