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