William Howard LADELY

  General Notes:

1850 CENSUS, Ohio, Muskingum County, Washington Township, District 114 ("William," age 31, "Farmer," born Pennsylvania) (wife "Caroline," age 20) (wife's name should have been recorded Cornelia)

1860 CENSUS, Ohio, Muskingum County, Washington Township, P. O. Zanesville ("William," age 40, "Farmer," born Ohio) (wife "Cornelia," age 30) ("Ladley" on census)

1870 CENSUS, Iowa, Iowa County, Dayton Township, Millersburg ("William," age 51, "Farmer") (born Ohio) (wife "Cornelia," age 40)

1880 CENSUS, Iowa, Iowa County, Dayton Township ("William," age 61, "Farmer") (born Pennsylvania) (wife "Cornelia," age 51)

1900 CENSUS, Iowa, Iowa County, Dayton Township ("William," age 81, "Farmer") (born Pennsylvania) (wife "Cornelia," age 71) (Cornelia is shown as the mother of 10 children, 9 children living in the year 1900; she and her husband William had been married 52 years)

1902 DEATH, William Howard Ladely, at 82 years 11 months 21 days

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1910 CENSUS, Iowa, Iowa County, Dayton Township ("Cornelia," age 80, widow, is "mother" in the household of Joseph Ladely) (Contrary to information in the 1900 census stating Cornelia had given birth to 10 children, the 1910 census documents her as having had 9 children, all 9 children living in the year 1910)

1917 DEATH of wife, Cornelia (Slack) Ladely, at 87 years 7 months 0 days




BOOK: HISTORY OF POWESHIEK COUNTY, IOWA, Union Historical Company, Birdsall, Williams & Co., Des Moines, Iowa, 1880, page 746:

DEEP RIVER TOWNSHIP


SLACK, Mrs. JOHN -- Section 25, P.O. Deep River. Her maiden name was Mary Griffin, and her ancestors were Franco-English. She was born in New Castle county, Delaware, December 18, 1809, and raised and educated there. She was married to John Slack, in Muskingum county, Ohio, January 29, 1829, with the following result: Cornelia (born January 19, 1830; married Wm. Ladely), Lydia (born May 3, 1832; married Michael Straub), Ira (born December 12, 1835; married Elizabeth Hill), Susan (born October 30, 1837; she was married January 17, 1867, in Zanesville, Ohio, to A.J. Pollock, to whom she bore: Hattie, born September 17, 1867; died May 8, 1868, and Frances May, born September 24, 1869; died January 29, 1870; her husband was a soldier; died from disease contracted in the federal army, December 31, 1869, in consequence of which she receives a pension), John H. (born December 28, 1839; died December 24, 1841), Charlotte (born October 18, 1842; married to G.H. Marshall, and died December 3, 1874), Mary E. (born December 17, 1844), Sarah J. (born November 18, 1849; married) and Philip Henry (born February 4, 1852). Mr. Slack's grandfather emigrated from Holland to America during the colonial days and settled in Virginia. Was a fifer in the Revolutionary War, and died in April, 1838. He was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, June 23, 1806, and was raised and educated on a farm in his native county. He entered a homestead in this county in 1853, but continued to work in a boiler manufactory at Zanesville, Ohio, until his death, July 23, 1865. He left an estate of 160 acres of unimproved prairie in this county and a large house and lot in Zanesville, to the disposition of his widow. After his death the house and lot were sold, and the family emigrated to and improved the land, eighty acres of which has been deeded to the son Henry. The estate is in good condition and out of debt.




BOOK: COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY, REMINISCENCE & BIOGRAPHY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA, Alden Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1912, page 677:


GEORGE W. LADELY

George W. Ladely, an influential and popular citizen of Cherry county, Nebraska, holds his enviable position in the community by force of character, industrious habits and unquestioned integrity. His home is in section 15, township 29, range 35. and here he has displayed those peculiar qualities that have made him so markedly successful in life's struggles.

Mr. Ladely was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, November 29, 1850, where he was reared to a rural life. His father, William Ladely, a farmer all his life, married Cornelia Slack, the mother of the subject of this personal history, and both were natives of the state of Pennsylvania, the former of Holland ancestry and the latter of German stock. They had a family of nine children, George W. being their second child, he remaining at home until he was twenty-one years of age, then started in life for himself, obtaining employment on farms in Iowa. In 1888 he came to Cherry county, where he took up a pre-emption claim, proved up and sold it. For two years he worked on the Gillaspie ranch, then settled on the place which he now occupies as a homestead. He has gone through hard times since locating here, and has put in many years of hard work, but has met with good success, now owning a ranch of two thousand one hundred and twenty acres known as the H. L. ranch, which is stocked with one thousand head of cattle and one hundred and fifty horses. He has good buildings on his place, his house costing one thousand four hundred dollars, and barn one thousand one hundred dollars, together with other farm buildings which are among the best to be found in this region. Mr. Ladely built his present house in 1906. Up to that time he had lived in a sod house, which was a very comfortable dwelling that he erected in 1882. The new residence is unusually large for a ranch house and is furnished in keeping with the exterior. Running water is supplied by one of the four flowing wells on his farm, which range in depth from fifty to three hundred and sixty feet, this making his ranch one of the best and most valuable in the county.

Mr. Ladely was married May 1, 1890, to Miss Elizabeth Kime, born in Iowa in 1858, daughter of Levi N. Kime, of German descent, and a native of Ohio. Her mother, Nancy Layport, before her marriage, was also a native of Ohio, of French-English descent. Mrs. Ladely's father and her husband were the first settlers on this part of Gordon creek, and have both lived here continuously since locating. They have been very successful, and the latter is satisfied that he has done much better than had he remained in Iowa, as the opportunities for acquiring land are far ahead of that state, and the climate and conditions better in every way. A view of the family home and surroundings will be found elsewhere in this volume.

Mr. Ladely is a Republican in political sentiment.

William married Cornelia SLACK, daughter of John SLACK and Mary GRIFFIN, about 1848. (Cornelia SLACK was born on January 19, 1830 in Ohio, died on August 19, 1917 in Iowa and was buried in Goldenrod Cemetery, Deep River, Poweshiek County, Iowa.)