Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1878 — Extraordinary Coincidence. [ARTICLE]

Extraordinary Coincidence.

Perhaps the most remarkable coincidence ever known has taken place in Allentown, Pa.,- where live Mr. and Mrs. Barney Ward, who have been man and wife since 1867. On the 4th of July, 1870, their first child was bom; a second was born July 4, 1871, and a third was born July 4, 1872. Every succeeding 4th of July has been celebrated by Mrs. Ward’s presenting to her husband a fine, healthy child, and now the Ward family contains eight childr?n, born within as many years, and all on the 4th of July.