Ladd, Illinois and the Enoch Rees Family by Betty ... - Illinois Ancestors

Ladd, Illinois and the Enoch Rees Family
by
Betty Boucher Miller

"Coal mining was inaugurated at Ladd with the
first successful sinking of a shaft in 1890.
Ladd, Illinois and the Enoch Rees Family
The Whitebreast Fuel Comapny of Iowa was
the mining pioneer bringing men needed for
construction. Work began in 1888. Osgood,
later to be named Ladd, was a railway
contruction station with a few farm houses, a
large swamp pond close by , and a large
boarding house for miners and their families."
"General Superintendent T.J. Phillips, from
Ottumawa, Iowa, for the Whitebreast Fuel
Company, was in charge of the crew that sunk
the first mine. Isaac Morgan and family
arrived in May of 1888, he was a experienced
miner who, along with others, arrived at
Arlington, Illinois, and they brought all their houshold goods down to Ladd with teams of horses."
Isaac & Margareta Morgan
Mrs. Isaac Morgan was the daughter of Enoch Rees. Enoch was from Wales and
had mined coal in Pennsylvania, Illinois and Iowa. Enoch died in Iowa in March
1887, before the family moved to Ladd.
"Mrs. Isaac Morgan ran the first boarding house in Ladd. Mr William Morgan had
the distinction of being Ladd's first dairyman, beginning as early as 1888." William
Morgan was a son of Isaac and Margaret Rees Morgan. Isaac and Margareta had
nine children. Four were buried in Iowa before they came to Ladd. They brought
Thomas B, William H , Mary and Lottie with them. Their youngest son, Arthur
Ladd Morgan was born in Ladd and named for it.
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Ladd School

Ladd, Illinois and the Enoch Rees Family
By 1891, Margareta sister, Mary Ann Rees Mitton and her husband, George Washington Mitton had joined them in Ladd. They
had two daughters, Sarah Elizabeth "Lizzie" and Clara Belle. In September 1891 Charlotte May "Lottie" was born in Ladd. George
Mitton worked in the mine in Ladd until in closed. They had 7 more children in Ladd, George Isaac and Pearl and 2 sets of twins
and another baby that died shortly after birth. Mary Ann died on 5 August 1944 and George died on 3 May 1950.
George I Mitton
Clara, Lizzie, George, Lottie, Pearl, George & Mary Ann Mitton
George I. Mitton served in the Air Services in WW I. He died in 1948 and is buried
in the Valley Memorial Cemetery with his parents and sisters.
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Ladd, Illinois and the Enoch Rees Family
On the 1900 Illinois census for Ladd, Bureau county, many more Rees family members had moved to Ladd. Mary Ann and
Margareta's mother, Sarah Brigham Rees had remarried and was living in Ladd with her husband, Thomas Farvis Turner. Thomas
was the town blacksmith. They had married in 1898. Her son, Elias was living in Margareta's boarding house. Her daughter,
Sarah Jane's daughter and her husband, Ida Mae and James Elijah Riggs were living next door. There sister, Elizabeth's son,
Samuel David and Elizabeth Morgan were also living in Ladd. Elizabeth married John Rolando in 1914.
Isaac B. Morgan lived in Ladd until his death on 11 June 1915. His wife, Margareta had died 9
Septermber 1912. Both were buried at the Berean Cemetery north of town. Their oldest son,
Thomas helped his father sink the first mine. He never married and lost his eyesight later in his
life. He died in Ladd on 22 June 1938. Brother William H. married Hannah Dixon and raised 3
children in Ladd, sons, William and Rufus and daughter, Marguerite. Their daughter, Mary
married John Heitz on 24 April 1900 and Kane Co. where she died on 17 June 1905. Their
daughter, Lottie Morgan died in Ladd in 1911. She was only 24 years old. She is also buried at
Berean Cemetery.
Arthur & Lottie Morgan
Son, Arthur Ladd Morgan married Mary Ann Barry, daughter of Tobias Barry of Ladd. Arthur
died on 13 January 1970 in Pana, Ohio, but was brought back to be buried at the Valley Memorial
Cemetery.
William H. and Hannah Dixon Morgan's daughter, Marguerite married George
Lunn in 1919. They ran the Lunn grocery store in Ladd. They raised 2 sons,
Robert and William S.
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Ida & James Davis, Mary &
Jack Heinz

Ladd, Illinois and the Enoch Rees Family
Mary Ann and George Mitton raised their family in Ladd. Two daughters
stayed in Ladd with their
families. They had
married railroaders that
came through town.
Ruth, Will, Lizzie, Harlie, Gary & Betty
Boucher
Will & Lizzie Boucher
Sarah Elizabeth
"Lizzie" married William Hall Boucher of Arlington on 19 November, 1902.
They had 4 children, Harlie William, Beatrice Pearl, Exa Marie, and Daniel
Harold. Daniel died in 1930 and is buried in the Valley Memorial Cemetery.
Beatrice and Exa moved to Chicago and Harlie married Ruth Kunkel of Peru
and raised Harlie D, Betty Ann, Richard and Gary in Ladd. Harlie D. died in
1970, Harlie William in 1980 and Ruth in 2005. They are all buried at the Valley Memorial Cemetery with Elizabeth, William Hall
and Exa.Harlie William owned a garage in Ladd for a number of years and then worked for Ladd Construction Company.
Charlottte May "Lottie" married Franklin Smith from Maryland and raised a
son and 2 daughters in Ladd. The son Charles Franklin died of the measles as a
small child and Charlotte and Edna Mae grew up in Ladd and moved to Springfield.
They have died without leaving family. George I. Mitton served in the Air Services
in WW I. He died in 1948 and is buried in the Valley Memorial Cemetery with his
parents and sisters.
Clara & Harlie Daughterty
After 110 years a few of the Rees ancestors still call Ladd home. Among them are
Sarann Lunn Terando and Judy Rolando Giachetto.
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Frank & Lottie Smith
Clarence & Pearl Mitton Trent