Union Township (part 7 of 7)

Ladd, James R., Alexandria, Ohio, was bom in ^ Niagara county, New York, June 21, 1835, j resided with his parents until the sixteenth year of I his age, at which time he began to serve an apprenticeship with George W. Meader, of Union village, Washington county, New York, serving three years in that capacity. The remaining time, until he came to Ohio (in the fall of 1856), was spent in following his trade in different parts of the State. He enlisted as private in the United States service August 20, 1862, for three years, with M. M. Munson, of Granville, Ohio, and upon the completion of the company, it was assigned to the One Hundred and Thirteenth regiment Ohio volunteers, organizing at Camp Qiase, Ohio, and ranked as letter D. The regiment was assigned to General Rosecrans' command, and accompanied him to Nashville, from thence to Chattanooga. At that point the regiment was assigned to General Granger's reserve corps. At the battle of Chickamauga he was in command of his company, whose loss was twenty-three out of forty six, who participated in the fight. Under an order from Governor Tod, of Ohio, to send home one man from each company in every regiment of Ohio troops for the purpose of recruiting their decimaated ranks, and those so selected were to be soldiers, who by meritorious conduct, would be entitled to a leave of absence, he was detailed for that duty and left camp near Chattanooga, October 20, 1863, and arrived in Ohio November 2d, and remained until the following April, and rejoined his regiment at Rossville, Georgia. During Sherman's campaign against Atlanta, he participated in the following battles: Resaca, Peach Tree

Creek, Rome, Kenesaw Mountain, Buzzard's Roost, and Jonesborough, besides several other minor engagements. He accompanied Sherman from Atlanta to the sea, participated in the battle of Bentonville, North Carolina, besides several skirmishes en route. He tfas promoted* second lieutenant August 25, 1863; promoted first lieutenant June 14, 1864; promoted adjutant September 1, 1864, and promoted to captain May 8, 1865, and assigned to duty as captain and inspector general upon the staff of General John G. Mitchell, commanding second brigade, second division of the Fourteenth army corps, in which position he served until mustered out of service at Columbus, Ohio, July 10, 1865. May 17, 1866, he married Mary E. Van Buskirk, daughter of John Van Buskirk, sr. He has filled several township offices since the war, including that of justice of the peace, and clerk. At present is acting as notary public, and conducting the business of carriage trimming, also largely engaged in horticulture. He is second to none in energy and benevolence.

Wales. John and Sarah Lewis, parents of the above, emigrated to Ohio in May, 1835, and purchased eighty acres of land where the subject of this sketch now resides. He has added more than three hundred acres to it December 15, 1859, he married Margaret Williams, who was born in Delaware county, Ohio, December 24, 1857. They have two children - Lizzie A., born November 10, i860; Margaret M., born November 21, 1866. John Lewis, the father of this subject, reared six children - D. W., Samuel, Mary, Eliza, David, and Jane; D. W. and Mary live in St Albans township, Samuel and Eliza in Delaware county, Ohio; David and Jane in Hancock county, Ohio.

Lyman, Abner, farmer, post office, Alexandria, was bom in Ontario county, New York, near Canandaigua, November 1, 1811, where he remained with his parents, Abner and Tabitha Lyman, until 1817, when he with the family went to Hardin county, Kentucky, and remained until 1820, when they removed to Louisville, Kentucky, making it their home for six years. About the year 1825 Mrs. Lyman, mother of the subject of this sketch, moved with her family of seven children - Abner, Horace, Lovicia, Arga, Dorcas, John, and Hannah, to Ohio. Abner, the subject of this notice, being fifteen or sixteen years old, drove a yoke of oxen with a cart from Louisville to the southern part of this township, arriving about the twenty-seventh of October, 1825. The family stopped with an uncle, Laman Smith. Mr. Lyman's mother was a widow a number of years, and the care of their affairs principally devolved upon him. His mother died when about sixty-two years of age, his father dying in the prime of manhood. Miss Betsey Hubbard, wife of Abner Lyman, was born September 30, 1815, in Vermont, and was married to Mr. Lyman July 10, 1836, and had four children, two boys and two girls; Elizabeth, the eldest, married Mr. Rufus Wright; Horace married, first, Miss Levonia Derman, by whom he has two children ; she dying May, 1871, he married Miss Dora Gardner. Sarah is still at home. Joseph A, the youngest son, enlisted October 9, 1861, in company B, Seventysixth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, and participated in the following engagements: Fort Henry, Fort Dondson, Pittsburgh Landing, Island No. 10, Pea. Ridge, Murfreesboro, New Madrid, Siege of Vicksburgh, after which engagements he was ordered to the front and participated in the battles of Mission Ridge, Lookout Mountain, and Ringgold. The twenty-fifth, twenty-sixth, and twenty-seventh of November, 1863, he led the regiment up the mountain, though a private, and was the first man shot out of the regiment, being shot once through the hand and twice through the left lung. He was bom March 7, 1846.