Eugene F. Ware - Fort Scott National Cemetery - Fort Scott, Kansas - Dead Poets' Society Memorials on Waymarking.com

Eugene Fitch Ware is buried in the Fort Scott National Cemetery under a red sandstone boulder right as the road forks. Eugene Fitch was a Captain in the 7th Iowa Cavalry. The text of his headstone reads:

Eugene F. Ware
Captain
7th Iowa Cavalry
May 29, 1841
July 1, 1911

Jeannette
Huntington
His Wife
1849-1915

Eugene F. Ware, a soldier of Iowa, a lawyer and public man of Kansas, and an author both of that state and Missouri, was born at Hartford, Connecticut, May 29, 1841. His parents moved to Burlington, Iowa, in his childhood and he was educated in the public schools of that place. During the Civil war he reached the rank of captain in the Fourth Iowa Cavalry. He took a section of land in Cherokee County, Kansas, in 1867, studied law and was admitted to the bar at Fort Scott and to the United States Supreme Court; entered the law firm of McComas & McKeighan at Fort Scott; in 1874 married Miss Jeanette P. Huntington of Rochester, New York, and was for many years editor of the Fort Scott Monitor. His political career consisted of two terms in the Kansas Legislature, 1879 to 1883, and three years as United States pension commissioner– 1902 to 1905. He was prominent in the republican party; was a delegate to two of its national conventions; was a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, the Bar Association, the Loyal Legion and the Society of the Mayflower Descendants. His home for some years was at Topeka, from which place he moved to Kansas City, Kansas, about 1909 where he practiced law in partnership with his son until the spring of 1911 when both retired to the Ware farm in Cherokee County. Mr. Ware died on July 1, 1911, at Cascade, Colorado. He was the author of “The Rise and Fall of the Saloon,” 1900; “The Lyon Campaign and History of the First Iowa Infantry,” 1907; “The Indian Campaign of 1864,” 1908; “Rhymes of Ironquill” (13th edition), 1908; “Ithuriel,” 1909; “From Court to Court” (4th edition), 1909; was the translator of Castaneda’s account of Coronado’s March, from the French of Ternaux Compans, 1895; Roman Water Law from the Latin of Justinian, 1905; and was a contributor to a number of legal and literary publications.

His poetry ranged from the serious to the humorous. One of his first widely known poems, "The Washerwoman's Song," may have even damaged his political career because it revealed him as a Freethinker and agnostic. Other poems were catchy and light-hearted, such as one about Admiral George Dewey in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War.

It reads:

O dewey was the morning
Upon the first of May.
And Dewey was the Admiral
Down in Manilla Bay.
And dewey were the Regent's eyes,
"Them" orbs of royal blue!
And do we feel discouraged?
I Dew not think we Dew.

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