Matthew and sister, Nelly would often join in as Annie played and eventually they developed extremely tight and intricate harmonies. Matthew's older sister, Annie was a self-styled (and self-taught) singer and song writer who wrote and played her songs around the family piano. The Ward siblings all decided that Matthew's older sister, Annie, and her new husband Buck Herring should take in the two younger Ward siblings. In 1968 his mother, Elizabeth Ward, died of a two years later his father, Walter, died of leukemia leaving him and his youngest sister, Nelly orphaned. Early history Matthew's music and ministry was in no small part forged from personal family tragedy.
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