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 Sherwood He was the oldest in the family..

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. Ellen died in 1881.

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.

Occupation

Ludlow worked as a farmer before he enlisted in the 7th Heavy Artillery Regiment. After the Civil War, Ludlow worked as clerk or saleman in grocery or dry goods stores.

Military Service

Residence at Enlistment:	Westerlo
Place of Birth:	Westerlo, NY
Date of Birth:	1845
Marital Status:	Single
Occupation:	Farmer
Term of Enlistment:	3 years
Bounty Received:	$50.00
Enlistment Date:	9 Aug 1862
Enlistment Place:	Westerlo, NY
Enlistment Rank:	Musician
State Served:	New York
Regiment:	7th Regiment NY Heavy Artillery
Company:	Company K
Muster Out Date:	17 June 1865
Muster Out Place:	Baltimore, MD

Additional Remarks: Enlisted at the age of 17."He was a drummer and remained with his Reg untill its Muster out. Discharged June 16, 1865" Born in Westerlo, Age 17, Laborer Farmer, Blue eyes, Light hair, Light complexion, 5'6" Tall.

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. By 1860,at the age of 14, Ludlow was already working as a farm laborer for Uriah Stedman, a farmer in Westerlo.

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. 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.

In 1885 he remarried and five years later Ludlow was living in Penn Yan, Yates County, NY at 3 Main Street. 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. 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.

Death

Ludlow B. Ward died December 29, 1921 and he was buried at the Palmyra Village Cemetery, Wayne Co, NY.

Postscript

After his death, on January 27, 1922, his wife Ella H. Banks Ward filed for his Civil War Pension as his widow.

Being much younger, Ella lived for nearly three more decades, dying on September 1, 1949. She was buried with her husband at Palmyra Village Cemetery.

Additional Media

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."

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  Civil War Pension Index

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