Julia Rush Cutler Ward

Julia Rush Cutler Ward (January 5, 1796November 9, 1824) was an American occasional poet. One of her poems is preserved in Rufus Wilmot Griswold's Female Poets of America (1878). Early life Julia Rush Cutler was born in Boston, January 5, 1796. She was the daughter of Benjamin Clark Cutler (b. 1756), of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. Her mother, Sarah Marion Mitchell Hyrne Cutler, was the daughter of Thomas Mitchell and Esther (or Hester) Marion. Julia was the third child in the family. Her siblings included: Mary Ann, Mary Eliza, Rev. Benjamin Clark (of St. Ann's Church, Brooklyn; brother-in-law of General Sir Roger Hale Sheaffe), Charlotte, and Francis Marion. Julia's maternal ancestors were of South Carolina, and her grandmother was the only sister of the partisan leader, General Francis Marion.