TEXAS LADD BIOGRAPHIES
HISTORY OF GRAYSON COUNTY TEXAS
LADD, HEZEKIAH
by Mrs. J. Hall Sheppard
680
Hezikiah Ladd, born February 1838, Christian County, Kentucky, and
died 16
January 1837, Minter, Lamar County, Texas, buried Minter Cemetery. His
father
was Joshua Ladd and his Mother was Melinda Keys Ladd, both natives of
Christian County, Kentucky.
Hezekiah Ladd came to Lamar County Texas about 1855. He married 24 February
1859, Lamar County, Texas, Levina Mason Chisum, (born 24 May 1831), Marion
County, Alabama and died 16 November 1863, Blossom Prairie, Lamar County,
Texas, buried East of Sherman, Burleson Family Cemetery, now known as
Providence. She was daughter of Ralph W. Mason and Margaret "Peggy"
Burleson
Mason.) Levina Mason Chisum was a widow when she reached Lamar County in
late
1857 or early 1858. She had married 1 September 1849, Itawamba County,
Mississippi, Thomas Epperson Chisum. He became Ill and died in 1857, at
Crosses, Madison County, Arkansas, as their family was moving from
Mississippi
to Texas. At the same time, Levina M. Chisum was expecting her fifth child
and she remained with Chisum relatives nearby until after the birth of a
son.
She then resumed her journey to Texas. Children of Thomas Epperson Chisum
and
Levina Mason Chisum: William Henry Chisum, born 3 September 1850, John
Wesley
Chisum. born 16 February 1852, Margaret Ann Chisum, born 27 March
SOURCE: HISTORY OF GRAYSON COUNTY TEXAS PG 680
SUBMITTED BY: Charles
Ladd.
Jan 30, 1998
Pioneers Of Grayson County
1836 - 1869
Ladd, Hezekiah b. Ky. ca. 1828 - Conf. Service ... m. Louisa b. Ala. ca.
1823
(1st husband was Charles E. Chisholm d. 1857) .... Ch. Malinda b. Tex. ca.
1858, J.A. ..... land cert. for 4,900 acres given him for Mex.
War service ch. of Charles E. Chisholm: William H., John W. b. Miss. ca.
1852,
Margaret b. Miss. ca. 1853, Thomas R. b. Miss. 1856 .... also Mary E. Mason
b.
Ala. 1846, Jones Mason b. Ala. ca. 1849.
Buck Barry
Texas Ranger
Edited by
James K. Greer
Pg. 61
Soon after this occured, the other man, William Ladd, from Arkansas,
who also
had corn for sale, had a family row with his mother-in- law. As her tongue
was her only availabe weapon, she turned it loose and shelled all the woods
in
range. She reminded him of his criminality in Arkansas and bitterly accused
him of having tried to burn my corn so he could get two prices for his. He
asked me if I believed that he had tried to burn my corn crib. I answered
that it was hard for me to believe a thing I knew nothing about. He got mad
and told me in the presence of several othes that he would make me say it
or
he would dance over my liver. I told him in a good humored tone that if he
did, not to have any friends help him dance.....
It was eighteen miles from Corsicana to my house and fifteen to his........
My Notes:
This was written by Buck Barry who was elected Sheriff of Navarro County
1849
- 1850. He says that William Ladd was always in trouble with the Law and
campaigned against Barry for sheriff. Barry served several writs on Ladd.
During the campaign William Ladd sold his farm and moved to Corsicana. "The
last act of his life (William Ladd) was to spit in his wife's face. His
last
words were, "I'd give fifty dollars for a good breath," and with the last
word, went his last breath. My brother, Bryant was an eywitness at this
scene
at Waco, where they both lived at that time."
SUBMITTED BY: Charles
Ladd.
Jan 30, 1998
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