LADD BIOGRAPHIES

JOSHUA LADD

JOSHUA LADD was born December 1, 1812 in Christian County, Kentucky. He was
the 3rd child and 2nd son of BENJAMIN LADD AND ELIZABETH CUSHMAN of South
Carolina.
On January 15, 1846 he married his 2nd wife EMMERETTA MESSEMORE who was the
daughter of Jacob and Charlotte Messemore.
EMMERETTA was born February 16, 1824 in Christian County, Kentucky. To this
union were blessed eleven children.

Melinda Elizabeth born January 15, 1847 died February 22, 1857
Armilda Ann born May 30, 1848 died April 14, 1922
Melinda Enoch born August 3, 1851 died November 2, 1857
Rachel Minerva born September 15, 1853 died June 11, 1885
Polly Ann born December 17, 1854 died October 31, 1857
Martha Jane born February 19, 1857 died December 16, 1881
Margaret Josephine born January 6, 1859 died September 14, 1884
Misaniah born April 17, 1861 died April 22, 1886
Wiley Jacob born June 7, 1863 died May 3, 1940
George Elison born March 20, 1865 died July 3, 1885
daughter born June 15, 1867 died June 15, 1867

You will note that by JOSHUA'S second wife, EMMERETTA, he had 9 girls and 2
boys. By his first wife, MELINDA KEYES, he had 10 sons, only 5 lived to
maturity and have descendants. Tuberculosis and typhoid fever was the cause
of most of the deaths.
JOSHUA was a farmer and owned 130 acres of land located 9.6 miles N.W. on
Dawson Road, which was left to his son WILEY JACOB LADD.
On this land there is a LADD FAMILY graveyard and five of the children by
MELINDA KEYS and all of his children by EMMERETTA are buried there. JOSHUA
died March 11, 1886 and EMMERETTA died July 18, 1906.

�SOURCE: FAMILY HISTORIES 1797 CHRISTIAN COUNTY KENTUCKY 1986
Turner Publishing Co. Paducah, Kentucky 42001

SUBMITTED�BY: Honore' Olson
Feb 4,�1998

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WILEY J. LADD

WILEY JACOB LADD was born June 7, 1863 in Christian County, Kentucky. He was
the 9th child and 1st son of JOSHUA LADD and his 2nd wife, EMMERETTA
MESSEMORRE also of Christian County Kentucky.
On November 4, 1884 WILEY JACOB, better known as JAKE LADD, married SARA
ELLEN SIMPSON, the 4th child and 4th daughter of HOSEA B. SIMPSON and LOUISA
MARIAH FERRELL. SARA ELLEN was born November 30, 1865 in Christian County.
To this union nine children were born. The first child only lived one day.
The other eight children are:
Evie Lee (married Donnie E. Moreland) born Aug. 13, 1887, died Aug. 28,
1973. Evie is buried at Riverside Cemetery, Hopkinsville, Kentucky.
Richard Clifton (married Cora Keller) born Aug. 25, 1889 died Jan. 1, 1922
Richard is buried at Ladd Family graveyard.
Luther Esley (married Eunice Gayle) born May 8, 1890, died Apr. 28, 1934
Luther is buried at Roselawn Cemetery, Pueblo, Colorado.
Ludie Myrtle born Mar. 7, 1893 and died January 6, 1920 Ludie is buried at
Ladd Family graveyard
Docia Ellen (married Wm. M. Vaughn) born June 9, 1895 died Dec. 1, 1953
Docia is buried at Valhala Cemetery, Pueblo, Colorado
Effie Beatrice (married Luther Cornelius) b. Jan. 4, 1889: died Jan. 28,
1981 Effie is buried at Cornelius Family graveyard.
Archie Wiley (married Clarice Rogers) born Feb. 4, 1900 died Feb 9, 1956
Archie is buried at Hamby Cemetery
Alger Otis (married Ruth Farmer) born March 27, 1903. He is still living.

Tobacco farming was JAKE LADD'S occupation.............

JAKE was blind the last seven years of his life.......

WILEY JACOB DIED MAY 3, 1940 and SARA ELLEN died September 11, 1936. Both
are buried at the LADD FAMILY GRAVEYARD, 9.5 miles N.W. on Dawson Road, left
side of the road in back of the house.

SOURCE: FAMILY HISTORIES 1797 CHRISTIAN COUNTY KENTUCKY 1986
Turner Publishing Co. Paducah, Kentucky 42001

SUBMITTED�BY: Honore' Olson
Feb 4,�1998

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LUTHER ESLEY LADD

LUTHER ESLEY LADD was born in Christian County, Kentucky, on May 8, 1890. He
was the 2nd son and 4th child of WILEY JACOB LADD and SARA ELLEN SIMPSON also of Christian County, Kentucky.
LUTHER LADD attended Wesley KENTUCKY STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, Bowling Green Kentucky and received a shcolarship to Draughon's Business College in
Nashville, Tennessee. LUTHER taught schoolin the Christian County area from
1911 through 1916, schools were Mt. Carmel, Boyd, Moreland and Consolation.
He was also co-owner of a grocery store in Dawson Springs, Kentucky for one
year.
On November 15, 1915 he married EUNICE GAYLE GLOVER, who was born December 7,
1895 and was the 8th child and 3rd daughter of JOHN FRANKLIN (BUD) GLOVER and
MARTHA ELIZABETH ARMSTRONG, also of Christian County, Kentucky. When LUTHER and EUNICE were married they went in a horse and buggy to Justice of peace
J.V. Hamby on the Dawson Road and he performed the ceremony while they were
sitting in the buggy.
To this union they were blessed with four children. A son, WILEY GLOVER,
born July 19, 1917, twin daughers, RUTH HALLIE and RUBY HATCHER, born November 23, 1925 in Pueblo, Colorado.
While living in Christian County, LUTHER was a memaber of the Universalist
Church, however, he did attend Mt. Carmel Church with his wife. At Mt. Carmel
he was in charge of Childrens Day, every June. At Era (which is no longer in
existence) he was a Master Mason in the Masonic Lodge and Patron of Eastern
Star. In Colorado he was also a member of the Masonic Lodge, and held the
highest office in the Moose Lodge and Moose Legion.
Due to his wife's health, after the birth of their son and twin daughters,
they moved to Pueblo, Colorado in 1920. He was the bookkeeper for Grover
Packing Company. When a flood destroyed the packing company in 1920 he went
to work for the Colorado Laundry until his death April 28, 1934. He is buried
in Roselawn Cemetery, Pueblo, Colorado. His wife Eunice re-married in 1937
and is still alive as of this writing and is 90 years old.

SOURCE: FAMILY HISTORIES 1797 CHRISTIAN COUNTY KENTUCKY 1986
Turner Publishing Co. Paducah, Kentucky 42001

SUBMITTED�BY: Honore' Olson
Feb 4,�1998

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Family tradition says that Crocket came to Oklahoma, Indian Territory, while tracking horse thieves. When this was asked of Jim Ladd, the grandson that grew up near his grandfather, he related the following story: "Grand-dad showed me the ruins of an old rock house and told me that he had danced all night there when he first came to the Territory. The next morning he went to where the two horse thieves were known to be. He approached them, in a public place, identified himself, and informed them that they were under arrest and that they could go back to Arkansas either sitting upright or slung across their saddles, that it did not matter to him which; they chose to go upright in their saddles."

In l952 or '53, Jim met an old man in Durant who had been a witness to the arrest. He told Jim his version of the arrest and ended his story with the comment that, "Crocket Ladd was the meanest little left handed man that he had ever known."

According to family stories, Crocket was very impressed with the country around Atoka and that he moved his family there not too long after the arrest of the horse thieves. He and his wife Mary had twelve children, four of which died as infants. Their youngest child, Lora, remembers her mother as "the best cook that ever set foot in a kitchen" and her father as a good man but one whose word was the law and gospel. In October l985, the youngest of these twelve children wrote: "Lora M. Ladd Winters, youngest child of David Crocket Ladd and Mary Carol Hankins Ladd. Dad birth date, Feb. 26, l860. Mother's, December 30, l859, both born in Arkansas. As far as I know; Jim, Walter, Ed and Roy all borned before they came to Oklahoma. I was born at Silo, Oklahoma. We were farmers, always had stock. Raised most of our living on the farm; went to town twice a year for things we didn't have on the farm. We butchered plenty of pork to do from one winter until time for hog killing time, had plenty of milk and butter from our cows and had lots of chickens. Canned and dried our fruit and vegetables. Always had plenty of good food and Molly as Papa called her was the best cook that ever went into a kitchen. No modern conveniences; did the work the hard way.

"We lived in Bryan County until I was about ten years old and then moved back to Atoka County. We still farmed on the big scale. Dad dealt in cattle, we family did most of the farming. When court was in session my dad was always on jury duty. We kids was like most, didn't keep the work up and Mama would say Crocket will be mad and if we don't have all the things done he had laid out for us. So, before he come in we would work real hard because Dad was very strict, his word was his hand, a good provider. When we quit farming he still had cattle. Larkin my brother leased a place in Bryan County and Papa and Mama moved down there, taking his cattle, and Larkin had cattle too, during the year. Their house and all their belongings burned there. They sold their cows and moved to where Ray lived, five miles east of Atoka. They used the money from the sale of the cows and built a house and there they lived for the rest of their lives. Mama lived for four months after Papa was gone. My sister Annie came and stayed with her."

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THE INDIAN CITIZEN DEMOCRAT
ATOKA, OKLAHOMA

Note date of paper ? Year 1941

PIONEEER PASSES AWAY

Mr. D.C. Ladd passed away Wednesday evening Sept. 30 at 11:55. He was born in Polk county Arkansas in 1860 and was 81 years old at the time of his death. Buried in Atoka cemetery on Friday. � D.C. Ladd married Mary Hankins in 1881 and they lived together until the time of his death. They moved to Atoka which was then Indian Territory in the early part of 1894. He is survived by a brother George Ladd of Oklahoma City, a sister Mrs Rebecca Drake of Heavener, six sons, two daughters, 39 grandchildren and other relatives. The sons and daughters are Jim Ladd of Lubbock, Texas, Walter Ladd of Blanchard, Edd Ladd of Shawnee, Roy Ladd of Anadarko, Ray Ladd of Atoka, Mrs Anna Stanford of Fort Smith, Larkin Ladd of Durant and Mrs Lora Winters of Fittstown.

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THE INDIAN CITIZEN DEMOCRAT �
� THURSDAY JAN. 29, 1942
ATOKA, OKLAHOMA

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MARY CARROLL LADD
Mary Carroll Ladd was born in Sevier county Arkansas, Dec. 30, 1859; died in
Atoka Jan. 26, 1942 at the age of 82 years and 27 days.
She came to Atoka 45 years ago and has lived in Atoka county 20 years. Mrs
Ladd was a life-long member of the Baptist Church.
Survivors are her children J.M. Ladd, Lubbock, Texas; Walter Ladd, Blanchard,
Okla.; Ed Ladd, Shawnee, Okla.; Roy Ladd, Anadarko, Okla; Mrs Annie Stanford,
Fort Smith, Ark.; Ray Ladd, Atoka, L.L. Ladd, Durant, Okla.; Lora Winters,
Fittstown, Okla., and two other brothers, Edd and Boney Nations of Blossom,
Texas.
Services were held January 28 in the Chapel of the Atoka Funeral home with
Rev. Justice and Eld. Paul Thompson officating.
Internment was in Atoka cemetery with Atoka Funeral Home in Charge.

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"Things I Remember About Grandpa Ladd"
By David Crocket Winters
Written 12-21-92
My 75th Birthday

He was not a large man, about 140 pounds. Not very tall either, I don't know
how tall he was.
There was no foolishness about him. He was highly respected by all, whether
they liked him or not. He, nearly always, had a * hired man to do his work,
he did a small amount of farming. He had a few cattle and hogs.
When we were pretty small, he gave Cliff and I pocket books, we would call
them coin purses. He advised us that we should have money in them. Later
when Cliff and I got older he gave us pocket knives and tried to show us how
to keep from cutting our fingers. When we would cut ourselves he would laugh
a little bit. When we were always wanting something he would tell us the
fable of the "Old Woman Who Wanted Too Much." I think it was in the "First
Reader."
Nobody doubted Crocket Ladd's honesty. Always during "Election Time" he
would have a campaign poster of his favorite candidate on the front of his
house. Nobody would dare argue with him about "his" man. I remember in one
campaign he had a poster of Calvin Coolidge or Harding one, I can't remember
which.
One story, was about a young woman in the neighborhood, whom Grandpa and
Grandma thought a lot of, got married to a young man who Grandpa didn't like.
At the reception, a little drinking was going on, outside of the house, of
course. Grandpa remarked several times to the Groom about what a fine girl he
married. The young man got a little irritated and said, "Well, Mr. Ladd what
do you think of me?" Grandpa said, "You are a sorry, no good, low down son of
a so & so. The groom hit Grandpa a few times. The old man said, "Well you
whipped me but I told you the truth."
He always had a "Smoke House" where he cured his hog meat. He would feed his
hogs on a floored pen, so he could throw a bucket of water on it and wash it
off. When they got fat enough and the weather got cold enough he would kill
them and process the meat for the smoking process. He used hickory wood and
put red & black pepper on it. He usually had enough, hams, shoulders, side
meat, jowls, spare ribs & back bone to do until the next fall. Of course the
ribs & backbone were eaten first as fresh meat.
He wore an "Odd Fellows" pin on the lapel of his dress jacket but he never
mentioned his lodge. He would wear a Black straight brim hat, black dress
jacket with an "Odd Fellows" three link chain lapel pin made of gold. His
pants were dark with stripes worn with suspenders. His shoes were black,
soft, old folks type.
Grandpa had a good horse and a pair of mules, Kit & Tobe. They never had a
lot to do. He had enough cattle running on the open range of southeast
Oklahoma, that he rode to see about them. When he had a long road trip he
would ride ole Kit, the mule. She had a nice smooth gait. He looked like a
circuit riding Parson, sitting on that little mule. Grandpa held his back
straight as an arrow when riding that mule. I get a thrill writing about him.
END

David Crocket Winters is the son of Sam George and Lora (Ladd) Winters. He
was born at Crystal, in Atoka county, Oklahoma and was the twin brother of
George Clifford. The twin brothers were named after the fathers of the
parents. Thanks to Crocket for this story.
When my dad, Mark Ladd, heard this story, it reminded him of the time when
Crocket Ladd bought a new straw hat, with a green transparent sun shade built
into the hat brim. Crocket was wearing the hat and when he got on his horse,
it threw him off. Crocket picked himself up, brushing the dust off his
clothes, said; "danged horse don't know me with this new hat on."

David Crockett, Jr., better known as Crocket has, been described as 5'-8"
tall, left-handed, and never weighed over l40-l45 pounds. He is said to have
been mean and ornery in his younger days and very likely left Arkansas for two
years, in l893, because of problems with the law. He was a man of his word
and fully expected others to do the same.
Crocket Ladd and Mary C. Hankins were married July 22, l88l. Their first son
James Marion was born in DeQueen, Arkansas in l882. Mary was the daughter of
Marion Hankins, who died, in l859, shortly before she was born. Elizabeth,
mother of Mary, married a Nations' and they had two sons, Edwin and Bony.
Edwin and Bony Nations lived for many years in Lamar County Texas, near Paris.
Mary, wife of Crocket, is said to have been very close to her half brothers
and this is very likely who Crocket went to live near when he left Arkansas
for two years in l883.
Mary was very likely related to the prominent Hankins family of Sevier
County. This family was most notably represented by Doctor Harrison Hankins,
the father of Capt. John S. Hankins. Capt. Hankins served one campaign with
Walker in Nicaragua and then in the Civil War, and may have been David
Crockett Ladd's (Crocket's father) company commander during most of that war.
John Hankins was sheriff of Sevier County, l880-l882. He may have been the
one to persuade Crocket to return to Arkansas and instrumental in having him
appointed Deputy Sheriff upon his return. Crocket is said to have been a
deputy United States Marshall. In order for him to have the authority to go
into the Indian Territory and arrest horse thieves this would be true.
According to an article in The Goodspeed Biographical and Historical Memories
of southern Arkansas, which was written in about l890, Crocket had business
interest in Antimony City, Nashville and Silver City, Arkansas. I have always
had the view that Crocket got taken in on these business ventures. He was
probably cheated by some business men who in the end re-paid Crocket with some
of their blood and a lot of skin. In 1974 I talked to a Mr. Riley, of King,
Arkansas, who said that some of the law-men of Seiver county warned David's
brothers to get him out of the state or they would have to arrest him. This
is most likely when he moved to Texas for "health reasons."
The day before Thanksgiving day of 1997 the last surviving child of this
family passed on to her reward. Lora Marie (Ladd) Winters was the youngest
child of Crocket & Mary Carol (Hankins) Ladd. Without her input this story
would not have been possible. Aunt Lora lived a life that was an ideal
example for everyone who knew her to follow. She was instrumental in the
organizing the "Ladd & Lassie" organization and she served as it's President
until her death.
She will be missed "for awhile" but I know that I know that I will see her
again, in a while.

Submitted�by: Charles Ladd.

Feb 11, 1998

ELIJAH LADD was born on the farm where he now resides March 10, 1857; he
is the eldest child and only son in a family of four children born to
W. H. and Jemima (Guthrie) Ladd; the parents are both natives of this
county; the father was born on this farm in 1826; he died here in 1881;
the mother was born in 1827, and now resides on the home farm. Our
subject owns 360 acres of land which was formerly a part of his father's
farm; about 200 acres of his land is well improved. He was married,
March 8, 1883, to Miss Celia Mitchell, a native of Trigg County, Ky.

SOURCE: History of Trigg County, Historical and Biographical, ed. W.H. Perrin, F.A.
Battey Pub. Co., Chicago, 1884. p. 275. [Cerulean Springs Precinct]

SUBMITTED BY: Misty Flannigan
Feb 13, 1998

N. W. LADD was born in Oldham County, June 30, 1863, the fifth of a family
of six children. His father, John M. Ladd, of Oldham County, was born andreared in Henry County, a son of John H., who was born in Clark County.
Our subject was educated in the county schools, and in 1884 graduated at
the Southern Business College College, at Louisville. He began life as a
clerk in Pleasureville, and was also clerk in the bank at New Castle,
Henry County, for about a year. In 1886 he entered the LaGrange woolen
mills as bookkeeper, and in March, 1887, he became a member of a firm at
LaGrange, who are engaged in the manufacture of woolen goods and the
handling of building material.

SOURCE: Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 6th ed., 1887,
Oldham Co.

SUBMITTED BY: Misty Flannigan
Feb 13, 1998

SOURCE: .History of Trigg County, Historical and Biographical, ed. W.H. Perrin, F.A.
Battey Pub. Co., Chicago, 1884. p. 275. [Cerulean Springs Precinct]

SUBMITTED BY: Misty Flannigan
Feb 13, 1998

Alan Ladd�s early life was anything but easy. His mother, Ina Raleigh, was an English immigrant and his father, Alan Ladd Sr., was an accountant used to traveling frequently. When Alan was four, his father died, leaving him and his mother alone and economically insecure. Dreaming of a better life, Ina and Alan moved to Oklahoma City where Ina re-married.

Soon after, the family decided to move to California in search of employment opportunities. Once they reached California, an undernourished and undersized Alan, faced difficulties in school. High school was better for Alan. He became involved in sports and participated in school productions.

However, Ladd was still a long ways away from entering the world of Hollywood film-making. Before becoming an actor, Ladd worked a number of odd jobs including gas station attendant, hot dog vendor, and lifeguard.

Before he became a star, Ladd played small parts in radio shows and local theatre productions. For two years, he also worked as a grip on the Warners lot.

At the beginning of his career, Ladd played mostly minor parts, such as the role of a reporter in Orson Welles� Citizen Kane (1914). In October 1936, Ladd married Marjorie Jane Harrold, and in 1937, Alan Ladd Jr. was born.

Despite Ladd�s initial troubles getting noticed in the Hollywood community, the persistence of Ladd�s agent, former screen actress, Sue Carol, helped the actor get more important roles in films. Carol became Ladd�s second wife in 1942. That same year the actor got his big break with Paramount�s This Gun for Hire, in which Ladd played a paid killer.

The response to the film was so favorable that Ladd instantly became a star. His co-star in the film, Veronica Lake, matched Ladd�s icy eyes and blond stolid look so well that the studio teamed them for several other productions that were extremely popular among movie-goers. Among them were The Glass Key, The Blue Dahlia, and Saigon.

Through the mid 50s, Ladd remained with Paramount, making a number of films where he played dynamic, action-packed roles. The western Shane gave Ladd the opportunity to play an honest character troubled by conflicting emotions. Ladd�s magnetism and his beautiful portrayal of the character made the movie one of Ladd�s "classics."

After Shane, Ladd continued making films until his death at age 51. Ladd�s blond good looks, charisma, and stoic presence were apparent in all the movies that he made. It is this magnetism that will keep him in the memory of the audiences who loved him.

SUBMITTED BY: Misty Flannigan
Feb 13, 1998

J. S. LADD is now living retired in Judsonia & no history of the town would be complete without extended reference to him, for through 35 years he was closely associated with its mercantile interests & with development & progress of the city arising therefrom. His birth occurred near Franklin, in Williamson county, Tenn., April 9, 1848, his parents being T. G. & Mary Jane (SMITHSON) LADD, both of whom were natives of Middle Tenn. & representatives of old families of that state. The grandfather in the paternal line was Noble LADD, who was born in Tenn. & belonged to one of the pioneer families of the
south. He followed farming & owned slaves to the time of his death, which occurred during the Civil War period. The grandfather of J. S. LADD on the distaff side was Samuel SMITHSON, who was likewise a native of Tenn., where his ancestors settled during the Revolutionary War period. He spent most of his life in his native state.

T. G. LADD, father of J. S. LADD, was a school teacher, following the profession for 45 years. A man of liberal education, he held to high ideals in the work of the schoolroom & contributed much to the intellectual progress of the community in which he lived. He afterward engaged in merchandising in Memphis from 1862-1865 & he departed this life at the ripe old age of 74
years, while his wife died in White Co., Ark., at the age of 79. His political support was originally given to the Whig party & on the dissolution of that party he joined hteh ranks of the Democrats. He was a mason & his wife was connected to the Order of
the Eastern Star, while both held membership in the Methodist Episcopal church, south. In their family were 8 children, 4 of whom are living, Minerva Ann, Samuel N., & Mary M., having all departed this life, as has Martha E. These were the 3 eldest
& the 5th member of the family. Those who survive are: J. S.; Eliza J., living in Louisville, Kentucky; T. G., of Memphis, Tenn.; and W. F., a resident of Covington, Tenn.

J. S. LADD was educated in western Tenn., where he attended the subscription schools, being largely under the instruction of his father. The year 1869 witnessed his arrival in White Co., Ark., at which time he purchased bottom land & engaged in general farming. A little later he removed to Judsonia, where he established a confectionary store but later developed it into a
general merchandise house, which he conducted under his own name. He remained an active factor in the merchantile circles of the city for 35 years ere he retired from business in 1915 to enjoy in well earned rest the fruits of his former toil. On the 8th of May, 1870, Mr. LADD was married to Miss Mollie VANDAL, a native of Tenn., who died in 1885. They had
a family of 7 children, 2 of whom died in infancy, while Sarah J. has also departed this life. Lula is the widow of Dr. W. J. MILLER, who was a practicing physician of Griffithville & she now makes her home at Little Rock; Pearl is the widow of Eugene WINSOTT, who was a liveryman of Judsonia; Walker is engaged in the garage buisness at Newport & at Judsonia;
and the youngest child died in infancy. The mother was a consistant member of the Baptist Church. For his second wife Mr. LADD chose Miss Hal KEY, a native of Ark., and to them were born 10 children, 7 of whom are living: Clifton, who is a
graduate of the Memphis Dental College & is now practicing dentisty in Marvell, Phillips Co., Ark.; Frances, the wife of Carl GARMS, a contractor of Little Rock; Mary, the wife of Thomas WELLS of Searcy; Catherine, the wife of J. K. JEMERSON, manager of a garage at Judsonia; Ester, the wife of Irvin WINN, a banker of Bald Knob; 2 children who died in
infancy; Johnnie, who died at the age of 4 years; and Henry & Elizabeth, at home. The mother of this family belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church, South. Politically Mr. LADD is a democrat and for 2 terms served as Postmaster to Judsonia
under Pres. Cleveland. He was also elected constable, being chosen to that office at one time when he was the only democrat elected in the county, a fact indicative of his personal popularity & the confidence reposed in him. He was opposed by a populist. His had been a usefull & well spent life & the sterling worth of his character is attested by all with whom he has come
into contact. As a merchant he conrtributed in large measure to the business development of Judsonia & while he has now retired from mercantile pursuits he is still interested in a garage, the company being the authorized Ford agent at Judsonia, hadling the Ford supplies & accessories and also the Fordson tractor. Throughout his career Mr. LADD has beencharactorized by a progressive spirit & his derermined purpose has enabled him ulimately to �reach his objective. His career, morever, proves that success & an honored name may be won simutaneously & his example is well worthy of emulation.

SOURCE: (From "A Centennial History of Arkansas", edited by Dallas T. Herndon, the Director of the Dept. of Archives & History,
published by The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago-Little Rock, 1922.)

SUBMITTED BY: Misty Flannigan
Feb 13, 1998

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George Washington Terrell Ladd
of
Ladds Cove, Tennessee
by Joyce Taylor
1991

I will write what I know about George Washington Terrill Ladd. Most of what
I know about him was told to me by my grandmother Leitha Jane (Ladd) Tate and
her sister, my great Aunt Jennie - Virginia L. (Ladd) Tate.
Aunt Jennie was young when G.W.T. died and Leitha was not yet born, but they
have heard about "Turl" (as it was pronounced by family members) all of their
lives. He seems to have quite a reputation, as being ornery and hard to get
along with. The first time I ever heard of "Turl" was when I was about 13
years old. I was visiting my cousin and she was fussing with her younger
brother and she called him "Turl." He got really mad about being called that
name, and I didn't understand why. I didn't find out about "Turl" until I
started working on my family tree.
Granny and Aunt Jennie told me that Ladd's Cove in Marion County is named
for G.W. Terrill Ladd, because he owned all of it at one time. They believe
he owned land all the way down to Hargis Cove which is below Martin Springs.
They say he worked very hard. They also say they have heard that sometime he
was mean to his wife and his slaves. They have heard that sometimes he would
get on the "warpath" and his wife Sarah, would hide in a cave near their home
and stay there til he cooled off. The slaves would bring food to her. They
say she stayed there one time til she got sick and they had to carry her home.
Of course all of this is hearsay - so it may be blown out of proportion.
Granny & Aunt Jennie told me that Terrill's son Balis was a real likeable man
and was always loaning items and signing notes with people. Several times he
ended up paying off the notes for them. Terrill could not understand why
Balis kept signing notes - so he offered to pay Balis a sum of money if he
would promise not to sign anymore notes. Balis replied, "No, Shoo dern it! I
will not sell my liberty to no man! So he kept signing notes and loaning his
property. Granny said he (Bailis) bought himself a new spring wagon and he
vowed that he's let no one borrow it. Next thing you know, a neighbor asked
to borrow his wagon. He said "well, be sure to grease it good!"
Granny and Aunt Jennie said that Terrill Ladd lived in a log house in Ladd's
Cove. In my lifetime Aunt Jennie lived in this house and it is still
standing. Aunt Jennie's granddaughter lives in it now. Her name is Donna
Cardin White. Aunt Jennie said Terrill bought the house from Jim Jackson. It
is a two story log house with a chimney in the center. At one time, they say
it had no windows, but windows were cut in later years and wooden siding added
to the outside. Terrill lived there in his old age and died there in the
living room. He lived there alone and one day a relative went to check on him
and found him down - he could not get up and had difficulty speaking (stroke).
This person ran down the road and brought Elisha Tate (my great great
granddaddy) to see about him. Elisha was a home doctor. He managed to
communicate to Elizha, that he wanted to be buried in the suit he had on and
that the money in his pocket was to be used for the burial. Elisha told him
he would see to it. G.W. Terrill was buried in the Ladd cemetery near Sarah,
his first wife. I noticed the inscription on his tombstone says "A Loving
Husband, A father dear, is buried here." I don't know how the transaction
took place, but at sometime he Turl Ladd's property became the property of
Elisha Tate. Perhaps he sold it to Lish before he died. Lish lived only a
short piece down the road. Before Elisha died, he divided his property among
his children - one of which was David Tate who married Jennie Ladd.
The Terrill Ladd homeplace was given to Dave and Aunt Jennie (Ladd) Tate.
Aunt Jennie owned it til she died. it now belongs to her daughter Irene (I
believe). They say some of the logs used in building the house are huge and
you can see some of the logs in the bedroom closets. I've been in that house
many times, growing up, but never paid any attention to its construction
because I did not know the history of it at the time.
It was rumored that Terrill Ladd had a lot of money hidden somewhere in that
house but no one has ever found any,. Aunt Jennie said that some man
(relative) stayed there for a while one time and took up the fireplace hearth
looking for the money but as far as she knows, he never found it. I don't
think Aunt Jennie believed there was any money.
Aunt Jennie and Leitha say they have heard that Terrill married a 2nd time,
but they could not remember the lady's name. They say Terrill and his 2nd
wife moved across the Tennessee river and lived for a while but his 2nd wife
left him and he moved back to Ladd's Cove. They believe his 2nd wife probably
left him because he was so hard to get along with.
Aunt Jennie told me one time that she didn't want people to know how mean
Terrill was. Aunt Jennie was Terrill's great granddaughter and she was a very
fine person. She worked hard and always helped her neighbors when she could.
That is about all the personal recollection I have about Terrill. I think it
is very interesting and makes an ancestor much more real if you can get
something about them besides statistics. I try to record any personal
recollections that I can get about my ancestors.
They say that Balis Ladd - son of G.W.T. Ladd was very easygoing, likeable
and neighborly. His byword was "Shoo dern it" Granddaddy Isaac Evans told me
Balis used to walk down Ladd's Cove on Sunday mornings and stop by Elisha
Tates house. Then the two of them would walk down to the Episcopal Mission
house and go to church. Granddaddy said you could always hear him coming down
the road, because he would be picking up rocks and throwing them out into the
creek. They say when he went to Monteagle, he would take a hoe with him and
dredge out the ditches on the side of the road. They say he was a real hard
worker.

Submitted�by: Charles Ladd.

Feb 19, 1998

G.W.T. Ladd was the son of Amos & Anna (Stone) Ladd of South Carolina and
Tennessee.

Elizabeth Ladd gave birth to their only child in 1833 and � named him Thomas. according to the 1850 census of Yadkin County, Thomas who was then 17, lived with his parents, William and Elizabeth, and helped them tend their small farm. Two years later Thomas married Elizabeth Burgess of Hamptonville, and they set up residency near Thomas' parents close to the Old Bell School. Thomas later received a deferment from Civil War duty by Dr. John Hampton due to a foot injury. Thomas and Betty, as she was called, gave birth to three children; Sarah, Emily, and William A. Ladd. According to the 1870 census, William and Emma lived with their parents, Thomas and Betty, while Sarah, who was 17 by this time, had already moved away or had died at an early age.

Emily Ladd, who was called Emma by her friends, married Ike Long who was called "Deaf" Ike to distinguish him from another Ike Long who lived about a mile away at the South Deep Creek Bridge. He was called "Bridge" Ike. Emma and Deaf Ike had a large farm near the South Deep Creek and also built wagons for sale long before the Nisson Wagon Company in Winston-Salem was formed. Ike was able to build these fine wagons by the aid of one of his slaves who was a highly skilled blacksmith. Just a short time before the Emancipation Proclamation, Ike was offered $1,000.00 for his slave. ~ $1000.00 at that time would be equivalent to about $250,000 dollars today. By the time the Gay Nineties rolled around, Emma's little brother Will Ladd had grown up and married Mary Alice Royal whose brother was Dr. Miles Royal. Dr. Royal was a highly successful Physician who was credited with performing the first appendectomy in North Carolina in 1894. After Will's parents and grandparents died, he took Alice and their four small children Marvin, Frank, Myrtle, and Leona to Stateville where he worked in a furniture factory. Will and Alice's son, Frank Ladd, was Zack Ladd's father, and Frank who was born January 19, 1894, once told Zack that he could remember living in Satesville when he was a youngster and that there were only two automobiles in the entire town around 1902. When Frank Ladd's mother, Alice, died in January of 1905, his Aunt Emma and Uncle Ike (Deaf Ike) got Frank to move back to Yadkin County to help them tend their farm because their only child, Flora had died at an early age. Because of Emma and Ike's love for Frank, he became almost like a son to them and Frank worked hard to help pay the taxes on the farm and to help his Aunt Emma and Uncle Ike in any way he could.

It has been proven that the Ladds' of North Carolina came from Virginia and I think that when we get the Mecklenburg, Virginia Ladds sorted out that Zack's family will prove to have come from there. The Ladds of Mecklenburg county, migrated to Mecklenburg from Charles City, Virginia county about 1760 when the Quaker family of William and Ursula (Ellyson) Ladd moved there. William was the Son of William and Huldah (Binford) Ladd of Charles City county. William, who married Huldah Binford, was the son of John Ladd who came to Virginia from England in 1653. See also, Amos Ladd of Wilkes county, NC. Amos is said to have been born 1797 in Virginia and died 18 April, 1881. Amos is buried at Hamptonville, North Carolina.

The Ladds' of Virginia appear to have, first, went to Guliford county, North Carolina. A search of the Quaker records in Guliford county may prove beneficial. These records are available, by appointment, at the Guliford College.

March 27, 1998
Submittied By: Misty Flannigan
Source: ??????

CHRISTINE LADD-FRANKLIN
March 27, 1998
Submittied By: Misty Flannigan

John Ladd is currently Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Brown University, where he has been on the faculty since 1950.

He received his education at Harvard University, from which he has an AB(1937), AM(1941) and a Ph.D.(1948). He also has an MA from the University of Virginia(1941) and an MA ad eundem from Brown University.

In addition to Brown University, Professor Ladd has held teaching appointments at Harvard University, at the University of Goettingen (Germany) and at Smith College. In 1958-9, he had a Guggenheim Fellowship, which was spent at Oxford.

Among his writings are The Structure of a Moral Code (Harvard University Press, 1956), a translation of Kant's Rechtslehre, the Metaphysical Elements of Justice (1965), collections of articles on Ethical Relativism (1973, 1985) and on Ethical Issues Relating to Life and Death (1979), and over sixty major articles on moral, political and legal philosophy, medical ethics, engineering ethics, and business ethics.

Of special note are a series of articles on the concept of moral responsibility as it relates to health care, to the professions in general, to engineering, to corporations and to the use of computers.

For many years Professor Ladd was active in the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, of which he was Secretary-Treasurer for 13 years and subsequently President. He was the first chairman of the Committee on Philosophy and Medicine of the American Philosophical Association and also served on the Executive Committee and the Committee on Computers of that organization. He served as member of the AAAS Committee for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility, 1989-95.

At Brown, he was one of the founders and subsequently Director of the Program in Biomedical Ethics. Since its inception in 1974, he has taught courses in that program and continues to teach courses in medical ethics after retirement. Upon retirement in 1987, he helped to establish the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown and then served for four years as its Acting Director. He continues to be actively engaged in the activities of the Center.

At the present time, Professor Ladd is working on computer ethics, on collective violence, industrial responsibility and on Kant's political philosophy as well as editing a book of his selected articles. Currently, he is also engaged in researching ethical issues relating to race and racism, a subject that he has lectured on at meetings and has discussed in informal papers.

March 27, 1998
Submittied By: Misty Flannigan
Source: ??????

(1938)

Legendary defensive tackle Ernie Ladd was born in Orange, Texas and starred at Grambling
before beginning a stormy eight year career in the AFL. Ladd played for the San Diego Chargers
from 1961 to 1965, during which time which he played in three AFL championship games and was
twice named All-AFL. Ladd spent the 1966 season playing for the Houston Oilers before moving
to the Kansas City Chiefs for two years in 1967.

Ladd combined wrestling with his football career and was immensely strong and agile, with a
fearsome temper. He fought with management over his salary and with the league office over his
right to wear a beard. At 6'9" and 315 pounds, Ladd was the biggest player throughout the 1960s.
With Buck Buchanan of Kansas City, a former Grambling teammate, he formed what was
probably the biggest defensive tackle combination in history. (Buchanan was 6'7" and weighed
275 pounds.)

Ladd's appetite, it would seem, is in proportion to his weight. At a charity pancake-eating contest
in 1965, he ate 124 pancakes topped with 6 containers of syrup. That Ladd didn't win was
probably due to the fact that he was competing alone against two-man teams. Ladd claimed he
started late and was "only four pancakes behind at the end."

Submitted By: Misty Flannigan

Newspaper article submitted by: Donald Ladd March 11, 1999

LADD, Carl Edwin

LADD, Carl Edwin: 25 Feb 1888-23 Jul 1943; Agricultural educator; born
McLean, Tompkins Co. NY., at the farm of his parents, Arnold D. & Mary E.
[MINEAH] LADD. He was their second son and the youngest of three children.
Both parents were native of Tompkins Co.; his father was descended from Daniel
LADD, who came from England to Massachusetts in 1634. Carl attended local
schools and at fifteen entered the Cortland Normal School , nearby, from which
he graduated in 1907. After a year as school principal in South Otselic, NY,
he enrolled in the College of Agriculture at Cornell University. He received
a B.S. degree in 1912 but stayed on for graduate study in the department of
farm management, specializing in cost accounting under the direction of Prof.
George F. WARREN, whose econimic ideas he was to share during the agricultral
crisis of the early 1930's. He received the Ph.D. in 1915.
That year LADD became director of the New York State School of
Agriculture at Delhi, one of six regional schools recently established to
provide a two-year program in applied agriculture. In 1917 he assumed overall
direction of the six schools as specialist in agricultural education in the
State Education Department at Albany. Two years later, he became director of
the State School of Agriculture at Alfred, NY. LADD returned to Cornell in
1920 as extension professor of farm management. He was made director of
extension work for the College of Agriculture and the College of Home
Economics at Cornell in 1924.
Carl LADD's career was built upon identification with the interests of
New Your agriculture. He regarded the extension service as a vehicle for
transmitting the needs of the farmer to the college and as an agency for
formulating research programs to meet those needs. As director of extension
he worked closely with the state's Farm Bureau Federation, using its county
units as local bases of operation for the College of Agriculture; through this
structure extension specialist were made available to individual farmers for
consultation. Under LADD, Cornell also continued its policy of aiding farmer
cooperatives such as the Dairymen's League.
In 1932 LADD became dean of the colleges of agriculture and of home
economics and director of the agricultural experiment station at Cornell.
A skilled administrator and mediator, he set up meetings at the college
between farmers and the businessmen who supplied their needs. Recognizing the
trend toward specialization in agriculture, he altered the focus of extension
work from general farming to particular commodities. He also kept Cornell in
the forefront of agricultural research, concentrating on such problems as
better food packaging, dehydration, and the artificial breeding of livestock.
He set up a special interdepartmental research and extension project designed
to expand the market for potatoes, an important state product, and encouraged
the development of the frozenfood industry in New York state.
LADD's influence in agricultural matters extended beyound the campus. He
had become widely known to the farming public at large through the columns of
the American Agriculturist, edited by his close friend Edward R. EASTMAN.
Sensitive to the techniques of public relations, he maintained contacts at
Albany and Washington and with the newspaper publisher Frank GANNETT. LADD
served as secretary of the State Agricultural Advisory Commission under Gov.
Franklin D. ROOSEVELT, and later as chairman; he became chairman of the New
York State Planning Council in 1936; and was the director of the Federal Land
Bank at Springfield, MA, a major source of credit for Northeastern farmers.
LADD's reaction to the agricultural program of the New Deal was
ambivalent. He supported the Agricultural Adjustment Act as a temporary
expedient and reconized the need for government assistance, but objected to
the degree of central planning envisaged by the Roosevelt administration. As
new federal agencies concerned with the farmer were created, LADD sought with
considerable success to have them administered by the existing network of
county agents that made up the extension service of the various land-grant
colleges. The matter was formalized at a conference in 1938 between
representatives of the colleges and the federal Department of Agriculture at
which a compromise [the Mount Weather Agreement] was worked out by LADD.
LADD was gregarious and outgoing. He had a romantic view of America's
rural past, yet it was his conviction that farms should be managed like
businesses and their performance measured by business standards. He found
relaxation on his own farm near Freeville, NY. On 09 Mar 1912, LADD married
Camilla Marie COX of South Otselic, NY, by whom he had one daughter, Elizabeth
Marie. Following the death of his first wife in 1917, he married Lucy Frances
CLARK of Brandford, VT, on 16 July 1918; they had two sons, Carl Edson and
Robert Daniel. In religion, LADD was a Presbyterian. While still active as
dean, he died of a coronary attack at Freeville at the age of fifty-five and
was buried at McLean, NY.

[With Edward R. EASTMAN, LADD wrote a romanticized account of farm boyhood,
Growing Up in the Horse and Buggy Days (1943). Biographical sources: Gould
P. COLMAN, Education & Agriculture: A Hist. of the NY State College of
Agriculture at Cornell Univ. (1963); Ruby Green SMITH, The People's Colleges
(1949); Nat. Cyc. Am. Biog., XXXIV, 148; Who Was Who in America,
vol II (1950); New York Times opbituary, 24 July 1943. LADD's administrative
files as director of extension and dean are in the Cornell Univ. Archives.]
G.P. COLMAN
Dictionary of American Biography; Sup #3, 1947
submitted by: Donald L. LADD

#446 James Ladd

James Ladd came to Arkansas as a youth from Ladd Cove, near Monteagle, Tennessee where he was born about 1835. His father, Terrill Ladd went to Tennessee from Alabama, descended from Amos Ladd III, who moved to Alabama from North Carolina. Amos Ladd, Jr. went to North Carolina from Virginia, the birthplace of Amos Ladd, Sr. The father of Amos, Sr. was John Ladd who moved to Norfork County, Virginia from England in 1673.

James Ladd married Artnecia Miller in Yell County, Arkansas. They settled in Martin Township in Pope County, Arkansas prior to the Civil War. After service in the Confederate Army, he owned 90 acres of land in Martin Township that became known as Ladd Community and where the Ladd School was located. Six children were born to James and Artnecia Ladd. They were Sarah, Amanda, Anna Frances, Emeline, George Washington, and James Franklin.

James Ladd was a successful farmer and land owner according to the Courthouse records of his will of January 14, 1877, and the appraisement of this personal property dated February 26, 1877, following his death. His death was caused by exposure on a bear hunt and followed the death of his wife Artnecia. They are buried at the Old Lake Cemetery near Dover.

James and Artnecia Ladd, left, along with four older daughters, two small sons, George and Jim who were born in the early 1870's. Jim died as a young adult near Dallas, Texas. George lived with an aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Sloan, in Yell County, until he was 12 years old. He then lived with his sisters and brothers-in-law, Sarah and Dave George in Yell County and Amanda and George Ragsdale in Pope County until he was an adult. His education was made possible with the help of Steele Hays, a Pope County teacher and lawyer who became his mentor and life-long friend. He married Nora Ann Howard, daughter of Joseph and Frances Howard, who came to Arkansas from Georgia, served in the Confederate Army and also
served in the Arkansas Legislature in the late 1890's.

George Ladd also became a successful farmer and businessman and served two terms as Sheriff of Johnson County. As a person, he was regarded as a sensitive and generous man. George and Nora Howard Ladd, along with their two sons, Norried who died in infancy and Raymond who died as a young adult, are buried at Annies Chapel Cemetery in Johnson County.

In 1978 James and Artnecia Ladd have four living grandchildren. These are: Eunice Ladd Page, daughter of George and Nora Howard Ladd; Ernest and Willard Ragsdale of Dover, and John Ragsdale of Oklahoma, all sons of Amanda Ladd and George Ragsdale. (By John M. Page)

[In James' will he states that his sister Francis Ladd would have sole control of his son James Franklin Ladd until he was of legal age. JN]

submitted by:Janet Newell
June 20, 1998�

Addenda page lxi

LADD, HERBERT WARREN, soldier, merchant, governor, was born Oct. 15, 1843, in New Bedford, Mass. He served �through the civil war. He is the president of The H. W. Ladd Company dry goods merchants of Providence, R. I. He �founded the Commercial club. In 1890-92 he was governor of Rhode Island.
Submitted By: Misty Flannigan
June 24, 1998

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Addenda �page lxi
LADD, SCOTT M., lawyer, jurist, was born June 22, 1855, in Sharon, Wis. Since 1897 he has been judge of the supreme �court of Iowa.
Submitted By: Misty Flannigan
June 24, 1998

page 147

BRIDGMAN, JOHN LADD, farmer, public official, was born Nov. 26, 1817, in Hanover, N. H. He has been sheriff, �county commissioner, vice-president and director of the National bank, and trustee of the Saving bank of his native city; and for twenty-seven years was chairman of the Board of Selectmen. He is a successful farmer, and has been a prominent �factor in the public affairs in his city, county and state for more than half a century.
Submitted By: Misty Flannigan
June 24, 1998

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Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century.
Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography

page 566

LADD, MRS. CATHERINE, educator, writer, poet, was born Oct. 28, 1809, in Richmond, Va. She is the oldest living writer and teacher in South Carolina; and for half a century has contributed both prose and verse to the periodical press.
Submitted By: Misty Flannigan
June 24, 1998

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Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century.

Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography

page 566

LADD, GEORGE TRUMBULL, educator, clergyman, author, was born Jan. 19, 1842, in Painesville, Ohio. He is a congregational clergyman of prominence; and professor of philosophy at Yale university since 1881. He is the author of Principles of Church Polity; The Doctrine of Sacred Scripture; Philosophy of Mind; A Primer of Psychology; Psychology, Descriptive and Explanatory; Outlines of Psychological Psychology; Elements of Psychological Psychology; Introduction to Philosophy; and What is the Bible? He has translated Lotze's Philosophical Outlines, from the German.
Submitted By: Misty Flannigan
June 24, 1998

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Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century.

Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography

page 566

LADD, GEORGE W., merchant, congressman, was born Sept. 28, 1818, in Augusta, Maine. He was elected a representative from Maine to the forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses as a democrat.
Submitted By: Misty Flannigan
June 24, 1998

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Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century.

Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography

page 566

LADD. HORATIO OLIVER, educator, clergyman, college president, author, was born Aug. 31, 1839, in Hallowell, Maine. He has held various positions as an educator and clergyman; was pastor and professor in the Olivet college, Mich.; principal of the State Normal school of New Hampshire; president of the First Incorporated university of New Mexico; and rector of Grace church, Jamaica, .N. Y. As an educator he was prominent in founding Indian schools in the southwest, supported by the United States government. He is the author of three books on American History�The War With Mexico; The Story of New Mexico; and The Founding of the Episcopal Church in Dutchess County, N. Y. He has been an editorial writer on The Churchman, and has contributed extensively to current literature.
Submitted By: Misty Flannigan
June 24, 1998

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Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century.

Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography

page 566

LADD, JOSEPH BROWN, poet,, was born in 1764 in Newport, R. I. He published Poems of Aronet, and his poetry, �with some of his prose writings, was collected into a volume, containing also a memoir of the author, by his sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Haskins. He died Nov. 2, 1786, in Charleston, S. C.
Submitted By: Misty Flannigan
June 24, 1998The Danbury Reporter and The Stokes Record
P.O. Drawer 127
Danbury, North Carolina 27016

Thursday, August 31, 1978

LADD, FARMER, HELPED ESTABLISH COUNTY GOVERNMENT
By Robert Carroll

Constantine Ladd was a very prominent farmer, soldier and
politician who played a great part in establishing the county
government at Germantown when Stokes County was first created.
He was born in January 1753, son of Noble and Judith Dameron
Ladd. His first wife was named Elizabeth (maiden name unknown) and
they were the parents of two daughters, Judith and Bethenia. After
the death of his first wife, he married Mary McAnnally, daughter of
another prominent justice-of-the-peace, Charles McAnnally. Three
children were born to this union, Milton, Newton, and Mary R.
He served throughout the Revolutionary War as an active fighting
man and also as clerk for Captain Richard Goode's company.
In 1775, Constantine Ladd obtained a land grant from the State,
where the Indian Trail, later known as the Great Wagon Road, crossed
the Dan River. This area was also the home of Noble Ladd, Joseph
Ladd, William Ladd and Amos Ladd, all members of the same family. The
Dan River crossing was known as Ladd's Ford for many years until it
was permanently changed to Pine Hall. There was a Captain Ladd's
district, which later became Belews Creek tax district, and one of the
above named men, it could have been Constantine, was the captain in
charge of the military training.
He qualified as a justice of the peace at Richmond Courthouse
Feb. 4, 1788 and served as a member of the Court of Pleas and Quarters
eleven times during this year and again eleven times in 1789.
At the first official meeting in Stokes County held in the home
of Gray Bynum in Germanton in March 1790, he was named by Governor
Alexander Martin as one of the original J.P.s to keep the peace in
Stokes County. There were fourteen of these men who laid the
groundwork for a government in Stokes. The second day of this court
he was unanimously elected by the court as the first sheriff of the
county. He was reelected in 1791 and again for one term only in 1797.
In 1792, after serving two years as sheriff, he was a member of
the County Court two times, in 1793 chairman three times and member
five, 1794 chairman two and member ten, 1795 chairman two and member
two. Also during the years 1793, 94 and 95 he was the tax lister, a
very important job, in Capt. Banner's district. This district was
discontinued in 1797 but it was in the general area of Germanton. He
served as treasurer of the county from March 1796 to June 1797.
Judith Ladd, his oldest daughter, married John Banner and they
had two sons, Constantine L. and Charles L. Both of these men became
J.P.s and very active in county politics, Constantine L. serving as
sheriff in two separate terms, 1817 and again 1826 to 1829. The other
daughter by his first wife, Bethenia, married Benjamin Forsyth, a hero
of the War of 1812. Forsyth County was named for him.
He moved from his large farm on the Dan River after being elected
sheriff in 1790 to Germanton where he spent most of the remainder of
his life. He bought lots 25 and 26 in the town, one and one-quarter
acres just outside town and a small tract on the Salem Road leading
into town.
He died in 1801.

Submitted by Janet Newell, 1998.

I have these pages 891 thru 894 that were copied 
from a document/book, presumedly on the History of Fairfield Co. and 
is listing some prominant families of the area.  To wit:

                                     JACOB LADD

          The Ladd name is found among those emigrants living in the 
vicinity of "The Clifts" in Calvert Co., Md., in 1675.  In 1689, Richard 
Ladd signed a declaration choosing a Representative to the General  
Assembly.  Later records show them living on the Chowan River*  in   
in Va., and in the Quaker stronghold in North Carolina.  They were 
related by early marriages to the Moorman, Johnson, Crew and 
Barrett Families, all Quakers, who later migrated to Ohio.  
[* by my maps of NC and VA, the Chowan River carries that name  
ony in NC, the northerly branches in VA carry other names.  Maybe  
This river was at one time known as the Chowan in VA also].  
          Gerrard**, grandson of Richard Ladd, married Margaret Moorman**  
In the spring of 1808, the Ladds set out for the Quaker settlement in 
Highland Co.  They traveled by way of Chillicothe in Ross Co.  When  
they reached that town, the journey was halted because Gerrard Ladd  
became fatally ill.  He passed away and was buried by kindly people who  
grieved with the sorrowing family.  Margaret (Moorman) Ladd with her seven  
daughters, their husbands and families**, and one son, continued their trip.  
They settled on Hardin's Creek in the area now knows as Bridges.  Although 
they were Quakers, several members of the Ladd and Moorman families  
fought in the Revolution.  They were issued a land grant for their services in
the struggle for liberty.
[**as you will probably note this is contrary to what, at least in my file, is
found elsewhere. ie.  The Hinshaw Vol for the Henrico MM in Va.  Some 
daughters married in Ohio and there is no indication that all the daughters  
went to Ohio, ie: Sarah, who married in NC and Ursula, who married in 
Dinwiddie Co. after the short stay in NC.  It is noted in the Henrico MM, that
Gerrard applied for a certificate for himself and three daughters; Pricilla
(II),
Lydia and Esther...no mention of a wife.  Jacob granted a certificate for 
himself and his family].
         Sarah, born in 1769, daughter of James "Governor" Johnson, married  
Jonathan***, brother of Gerrard Ladd.  Sarah (Johnson) Ladd's brother,  
John Johnson, married Dorothy Crew.  Joseph Crew, grandfather of Dorothy 
Crew, had married Massie, daughter of John and Lucretia (Massie***) 
Johnson in 1725.  [***Is this as new to you as to me?  I have a daughter of  
Noble Ladd and Mary Burton, Mary Ladd who married Isaac MASSEY,  
could this be of the same family as MASSIE?]      
          Joseph [Crew], grandson of Joseph Crew, emigrated to Highland Co. 
about the time it was formed. [before 1810]  Another family member of the 
family, "Squire" Johnson married Agatha Crew, also emigrated to Ohio.  

          Gerrard and Margeret (Moorman) Ladd were the parents of eight
children who reached maturity.  The children were:
          1 - Hulda (Sears)
          2 - Elizabeth (Patterson).  Her husband was a noted Quaker minister
          3 - Ursulah (Mrs Samuel Butler)   
          4 - Agatha (Elzy)  [[Wm ELLZEY]  
          5 - Priscilla (Griffin)  [this is 2nd Priscilla, 1st died @ age 2
1/2 yrs]
          6 - Esther (Mrs Nathan Butler)  [my file indicates: Wm BUTLER]  
          7 - Lydia (Oren).  Her husband was a member of the influential 
                                    Oren family of Clinton Co. 
          8 - Lemuel, eldest son, died in his youth and was buried on the old 
                           farm on the banks of the Chowan River in North
Caolina.  
                           [this child I do not have listed, I do have Gerrard
Jr, born  
                           02 Jun 1773, died 23 Jan 1800 @ 16yr 7m 21da.  But 
                           not as the eldest son.  Jacob was born 13 July
1767. I  
                           have no other sons for this family.]  
          9 - Jacob, born 1767, was the early ancestor of the family who bore 
                          the name Ladd in pioneer days.  

          Jacob Ladd married Rebecca Moorman**** who died after their first 
child was born.  His second wife, Elizabeth Reams, accompanied her 
husband and his family to Ohio.  Born in 1773, [23 Jul 1774] she died 
at the family home two miles north of Leesburg, Sept. 14 1843.  Jacob 
survived until 1850.  They were buried in the Quaker Cemetery near Leesburg.
[****My record have Jacob married, 21 Nov 1792, to Marium MARIMOON,  
with issue of Tabitha LADD, b. 07 Oct 1793, d. 07 Nov 1793.  Mirium,  
b. 13 Sep 1774, d. 23 Oct 1793; the d/o Peter MARIMOON (b. 09 Jun 1737  
or 06 Sep 1737,m. 08 Apr or 04 Aug 1759 to Obedience REAMS (b. 04 Jan
or 01 Apr 1742) of Rich Square MM, [NC], m. 08 Apr or 04 Aug 1759.    
Obedience d/o Wm REAMS and ___?___ of Dinwiddie Co..
Jacob married, 03 Jan 1795, Elizabeth REAMS, d/o Jeremiah REAMS, 
(Jeremiah, b. 06 Nov 1746, d. 11 Mar 1789), s/o William REAMS, 
m. 25 Feb 1761, to Margaret MERRYMOON (note spelling)  Jeremiah and Obedience
were siblings?)
Margaret, d/o of John MERRYMOON and Hannah __?__ of Amelia Co.]
          Jacob and Elizabeth (Reams) Ladd were the parents of 12 children:
1. Asa, 1795; 2. Jeremiah, 1797; 3. Anna, 1799 (Mrs Ellis BARRETT)  
4. Sarah, 1800 (Mrs John S. Roberts); 5. Jordan, 1802; 6. Gerrard, 1803;  
7. Edna, 1805, [not in my records]; 8. Rebecca, 1806 (Mrs Levi Hutton of IL)  
9. Margaret, 1807 - 1858, unmarried [ my records indicate a Margaret LADD  
married to Joseph BINFORD, with issue of Mary Ladd BINFORD, b. 13 Dec  
1837, Columbiana Co OH.  Same or different Margaret???]; 10. Jacob Jr,  
1809; 11 Denson, 1811; 12 Elizabeth, 1813 (Mrs Thomas Daulton) [ I have 
found him listed also as Thomas DUTTON/DALTON and DAULTON]
[Then I have a child listed, Michael LADD, b. 16 Jan 1817, OH, d. 25 Oct 1840]
.  
          The family lived in the vincinity of Leesburg.  [I am going to stop
for now and let everone digest this information and then hopefully will post any 
thing that colaborates or refutes either the printed matter or my records.  
Either way will be fine with me.  I just want to set the records streight and 
maybe discover who this Richard LADD is.  Thanks for you time, everyone.

Donald L. LADD
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Found at:  http://www.webkeeper.com/cato/bios.html   -
From which Noble LADD does T. G. spring and what do T. G. and J. S. stand for?

J. S. LADD

J. S. LADD is now living retired in Judsonia & no history of the town
would be complete without extended reference to him, for through 35
years he was closely associated with its mercantile interests & with
development & progress of the city arising therefrom. His birth occurred 
near Franklin, in Williamson county, Tenn., April 9, 1848, his parents 
being T. G. & Mary Jane (SMITHSON) LADD, both of whom were natives of
Middle Tenn. & representatives of old families of that state. The
grandfather in the paternal line was Noble LADD, who was born in Tenn. &
belonged to one of the pioneer families of the south. He followed
farming & owned slaves to the time of his death, which occurred during 
the Civil War period. The grandfather of J. S. LADD on the distaff side 
was Samuel SMITHSON, who was likewise a native of Tenn., where his
ancestors settled during the Revolutionary War period. He spent most of 
his life in his native state.
T. G. LADD, father of J. S. LADD, was a school teacher, following the
profession for 45 years. A man of liberal education, he held to high
ideals in the work of the schoolroom & contributed much to the
intellectual progress of the community in which he lived. He afterward 
engaged in merchandising in Memphis from 1862-1865 & he departed this
life at the ripe old age of 74 years, while his wife died in White Co., 
Ark., at the age of 79. His political support was originally given to
the Whig party & on the dissolution of that party he joined hteh ranks 
of the Democrats. He was a mason & his wife was connected to the Order 
of the Eastern Star, while both held membership in the Methodist
Episcopal church, south. In their family were 8 children, 4 of whom are 
living, Minerva Ann, Samuel N., & Mary M., having all departed this
life, as has Martha E. These were the 3 eldest & the 5th member of the 
family. Those who survive are: J. S.; Eliza J., living in Louisville,
Kentucky; T. G., of Memphis, Tenn.; and W. F., a resident of Covington, 
Tenn.
J. S. LADD was educated in western Tenn., where he attended the
subscription schools, being largely under the instruction of his father. 
The year 1869 witnessed his arrival in White Co., Ark., at which time he 
purchased bottom land & engaged in general farming. A little later he
removed to Judsonia, where he established a confectionary store but
later developed it into a general merchandise house, which he conducted 
under his own name. He remained an active factor in the merchantile
circles of the city for 35 years ere he retired from business in 1915 to 
enjoy in well earned rest the fruits of his former toil.
On the 8th of May, 1870, Mr. LADD was married to Miss Mollie VANDAL, a 
native of Tenn., who died in 1885. They had a family of 7 children, 2 of 
whom died in infancy, while Sarah J. has also departed this life. Lula 

is the widow of Dr. W. J. MILLER, who was a practicing physician of
Griffithville & she now makes her home at Little Rock; Pearl is the
widow of Eugene WINSOTT, who was a liveryman of Judsonia; Walker is
engaged in the garage buisness at Newport & at Judsonia; and the
youngest child died in infancy. The mother was a consistant member of
the Baptist Church. For his second wife Mr. LADD chose Miss Hal KEY, a 
native of Ark., and to them were born 10 children, 7 of whom are living: 
Clifton, who is a graduate of the Memphis Dental College & is now
practicing dentisty in Marvell, Phillips Co., Ark.; Frances, the wife of 
Carl GARMS, a contractor of Little Rock; Mary, the wife of Thomas WELLS 
of Searcy; Catherine, the wife of J. K. JEMERSON, manager of a garage at 
Judsonia; Ester, the wife of Irvin WINN, a banker of Bald Knob; 2
children who died in infancy; Johnnie, who died at the age of 4 years; 
and Henry & Elizabeth, at home. The mother of this family belongs to the 
Methodist Episcopal church, South. Politically Mr. LADD is a democrat
and for 2 terms served as Postmaster to Judsonia under Pres. Cleveland. 
He was also elected constable, being chosen to that office at one time 
when he was the only democrat elected in the county, a fact indicative 
of his personal popularity & the confidence reposed in him. He was
opposed by a populist. His had been a usefull & well spent life & the
sterling worth of his character is attested by all with whom he has come 
into contact. As a merchant he conrtributed in large measure to the
business development of Judsonia & while he has now retired from
mercantile pursuits he is still interested in a garage, the company
being the authorized Ford agent at Judsonia, hadling the Ford supplies &
accessories and also the Fordson tractor. Throughout his career Mr. LADD 
has been charactorized by a progressive spirit & his derermined purpose 
has enabled him ulimately to reach his objective. His career, morever, 
proves that success & an honored name may be won simutaneously & his
example is well worthy of emulation. (From "A Centennial History of
Arkansas", edited by Dallas T. Herndon, the Director of the Dept. of
Archives & History, published by The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co.,
Chicago-Little Rock, 1922.


Life goes on -
JIM CHRISTIAN
CHATTANOOGA, TN
[email protected]
June 11, 1999


Jacob Shrader SMITH 3201, Henry Co. 

Surname: Smith, Shrader, Ladd

Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 6th ed., 1887, Henry Co.

HON. JACOB SHRADER SMITH is of German-English descent, was born December 14, 1825, in Oldham 
County, and is the fourth of a family of six sons and two daughters born to Abraham and Mary 
(Shrader) Smith. His father was a native of Shenandoah County, Va., came to Kentucky in 1811, 
and settled in Oldham County on a farm near Brownsboro, but remained only five years, when he 
removed to Henry County, near New Castle, where he remained until his death in 1865. He enlisted 
in the war of 1812, but on account of a severe accident returned home at the expiration of three 
months. Mrs. Mary Smith was a native of Oldham County, Ky., born about 1799. She was a member of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church for many years, and died in 1856. Jacob S. Smith's paternal grand=
father, Isaac Smith, was a native of Shenandoah County, Virginia, and an early settler in Oldham 
County, where he died about 1842. His maternal grandfather, Jacob Shrader, was a native of 
Germany. He came to America when but a youth, and finally settled in Oldham County, Ky., where 
he died in 1836, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His widow, Susan Shrader, also a 
native of Germany, died about 1841. The early life of Jacob S. Smith was devoted to the farm 
until his twenty-first year, when he engaged in farming where he now resides near New Castle, 
Henry County. He was united in marriage, November 8, 1848, with Susanna Smith, of Henry County, 
who died October 9, 1851, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. His marriage, the 
second time, August 11, 1853, was to Mary E. Ladd, of Henry County, and the birth of seven sons 
and three daughters followed their union: Laura M., born May 18, 1854, died September 16, 1855; 
Leslie K., born October 30, 1855; Abram S., born December 30, 1858, died December 22, 1859; 
Edwin H., born October 13, 1860; Lulie L., born September 11, 1863, died June 19, 1864; Lillie 
M., born March 9, 1865; Clement V., born August 3, 1866; Newton, born October 6, 1868, died 
February 16, 1869; Jacob S., born November 9, 1875, and an infant who died unnamed. Mr. Smith 
has been a life-long Democrat; was elected county judge of Henry County in 1875 for three years, 
and re-elected in 1878. He was one of the prime factors of the New Castle and Carrollton Turnpike, 
and has been its efficient president for several terms. He has a well cultivated farm where he 
resides, of over 600 acres, 1,597 acres in Stafford County, Kas.; is also director in a ranch in 
Stafford, Rice and Reno Counties, of 58,000 acres; also owns valuable property in Kansas City, 
Mo.; has been a director in the National Bank of New Castle since its organization; is a 
consistent member of the Primitive Baptist Church, and one of Henry County's highly honored and 
respected citizens.



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