Ward, Ludlow B.
Birth
Ludlow B. Ward was born in July of 1845 in Westerlo, Albany County, NY to Gilbert Ward (B. abt 1819) and his wife Hannah [1]Sherwood[2] He was the oldest in the family.[3].[4]
Marriage & Children
Ludlow married two times. Before 1870, he married Ellen Dorcas Cronise (B. June 30, 1851, D. Nov 25, 1881), who was the daughter of Henry Cronise and Jane Whitbeck.[5][6] Ellen died in 1881.[5]
Then in 1885, he married a woman named Ella H. Banks, who was born in January 1865 and thus was 20 years his junior. They did not have any children.[7][8][9]
Occupation
Ludlow worked as a farmer before he enlisted in the 7th Heavy Artillery Regiment.[1] After the Civil War, Ludlow worked as clerk or saleman in grocery or dry goods stores.[10]
Military Service
| Residence at Enlistment: | Westerlo[11] |
| Place of Birth: | Westerlo, NY[11] |
| Date of Birth: | 1845[11] |
| Marital Status: | Single[11] |
| Occupation: | Farmer[11] |
| Term of Enlistment: | 3 years[11] |
| Bounty Received: | $50.00[11] |
| Enlistment Date: | 9 Aug 1862[1] |
| Enlistment Place: | Westerlo, NY |
| Enlistment Rank: | Musician[1] |
| State Served: | New York |
| Regiment: | 7th Regiment NY Heavy Artillery[1][9] |
| Company: | Company K[1][9] |
| Muster Out Date: | 17 June 1865[1] |
| Muster Out Place: | Baltimore, MD |
| Additional Remarks: Enlisted at the age of 17.[1]"He was a drummer and remained with his Reg untill its Muster out. Discharged June 16, 1865"[11]
Born in Westerlo, Age 17, Laborer Farmer, Blue eyes, Light hair, Light complexion, 5'6" Tall.[12] |
| Sources Used: Annual Report of the Adjutant-General of the State of NY for the year 1898; Keating, Robert, Carnival of Blood: The Civil War Ordeal of the Seventh New York Heavy Artillery, Published by Butternut and Blue, Baltimore, Md 1998; Town and City Registers of Men Who Served in the Civil War; 1890 US Veterans Census Penn Yan, Yates Co, NY; Civil War Pension Index |
Military Service
Also serving in the 7th Regiment NY Heavy Artillery, but in Company H was his relative Gilbert E. Fisher (B.July 31, 1831, D. abt Jan 1900), who enlisted on October 6, 1863 at the age of 33 years.
Life
Ludlow B. Ward was born and raised in Westerlo. His father Gilbert Ward was a waggon maker in 1850.[3] By 1860,at the age of 14, Ludlow was already working as a farm laborer for Uriah Stedman, a farmer in Westerlo.[13]
After the Civil War, Ludlow moved to Wayne County, NY, where he lived in 1870 with his wife Ellen and worked as a clerk in a store.[6] By 1880, Ludlow had moved to Oyster Bay, Queens County, NY, where he worked as a grocery clerk and lived with the family of Henry C. Weeks, an importer of granite. This record is confusing as it does not include his wife Ellen, but includes a single black domestic servant named Irene Ward.[14]
In 1885 he remarried and five years later Ludlow was living in Penn Yan, Yates County, NY at 3 Main Street.[15] In 1900 and 1910, Ludlow was working as a salesman at a dry goods store and owned a mortgaged home where he and his second wife Ella lived.[7][8] In 1917 Ludlow was granted a increase in his Civil War pension to $30/month by Congress. By 1920 at age 74 years, now living in Palmyra, Wayne County, NY, Ludlow was renting a home and was retired with no occupation.[4]
Death
Ludlow B. Ward died December 29, 1921 and he was buried at the Palmyra Village Cemetery, Wayne Co, NY.[16]
Postscript
After his death, on January 27, 1922, his wife Ella H. Banks Ward filed for his Civil War Pension as his widow.[9]
Being much younger, Ella lived for nearly three more decades, dying on September 1, 1949.[16] She was buried with her husband at Palmyra Village Cemetery.[16]
Obituary
Additional Research Notes
Additional Media
Town and City Registers of Men Who Served in the Civil War
Public Laws of the United States of America Passed by the Second Session of the Sixty-Fourth Congress 1916-17
"The name Ludlow B. Ward, late of Company K, Seventh Regiment New York Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and pay him a pension at the rate of $30 per month in lieu of that he is now receiving."[17]
Civil War Pension Index
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Keating, Robert, Carnival of Blood: The Civil War Ordeal of the Seventh New York Heavy Artillery, Published by Butternut and Blue, Baltimore, Md 1998
- ↑ 1865 Census, Westerlo, Albany Co.,NY
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 1850 US Census, Westerlo, Albany Co, NY
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 1920 US Census, Palmyra, Wayne Co, NY
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 www.ancestry.com
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 1870 US Census, Arcadia, Wayne Co, NY
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 1900 US Census, Penn Yan Village, Benton Twp, Yates, Albany Co, NY
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 1910 US Census, Penn Yan Ward 1, Yates Co, NY
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Civil War Pension Index, www.ancestry.com
- ↑ US Censuses
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 11.6 11.7 Town and City Registers of Men Who Served in the Civil War
- ↑ NY Civil War Muster Roll Abstracts, Ancestry.com Military databases
- ↑ 1860 US Census, Westerlo, Albany Co, NY
- ↑ 1880 US Census, Oyster Bay, Queens Co, NY
- ↑ 1890 US Veterans Census, Penn Yan, Yates Co, NY
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 Palmyra Village Cemetery, Wayne Co, NY, http://wayne.nygenweb.net/cemeteries/palmyup8.html
- ↑ Public Laws of the United States of America Passed by the Second Session of the Sixty-Fourth Congress 1916-17, page 333, www.googlebooks.com
