Elizabeth Ladner

1802-1882

Born 1802

Died 1882

Children include Edmond

Elizabeth Ladner was born about March 1802. Her gravestone gives her age at death as eighty years and eight months. Her memorial gives her full name as Elizabeth Tryan Ladner and her birthplace as Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, and names her parents as Johan Andrew Ladner and Sophia Hobbs. When her son Edmond married at Carver in 1863, the clerk wrote her maiden name as Ludman.

She married William Stringer, and they raised twelve children on Prince Edward Island and in Massachusetts, from William H. about 1824 to John T. in 1850 and Letitia. By a family account the family came down to Massachusetts in October 1854 and settled at South Carver in Plymouth County.

Four of her sons went into the Union army. In 1862 three of them died within four months. James, a corporal in Company C of the 18th Massachusetts, died of typhoid fever before Yorktown, Virginia, on 29 April. He was brought home and buried at Carver. At the end of August Joseph, of the same company, and Archy, of Company G, were killed in the Second Battle of Bull Run, the heavy Union defeat near Manassas in northern Virginia. The funeral of the two was held in the Methodist Church at Carver on 2 November 1862. A soldier of their company, John Maxim, wrote a ballad on the three brothers that the Middleboro Gazette printed in April 1863, and its last verse speaks to their parents. Her son John A. came home from his nine months' service in June 1863.

Her youngest son, John T., died at South Carver on 23 June 1865, at fifteen. William died in October 1878. Elizabeth died on 18 November 1882, aged eighty years and eight months, and was buried beside him at Union Cemetery in South Carver. Her stone reads "ELIZABETH Wife of William Stringer, died Nov. 18, 1882, Aged 80 yrs. 8 m's." and below that, "She is not dead but sleepeth" and "Gone but not forgotten."

Children

Edmond William Stringer 1845-1928

Sources

Middleboro Gazette, Middleborough, Massachusetts, 13 September 1862, page 2, Carver column; Middleborough Public Library digital archive.

Middleboro Gazette, Middleborough, Massachusetts, 13 September 1862, page 2; Middleborough Public Library digital archive.

Middleboro Gazette, Middleborough, Massachusetts, 8 November 1862, page 2; Middleborough Public Library digital archive.

Middleboro Gazette, Middleborough, Massachusetts, 11 April 1863, page 4; Middleborough Public Library digital archive.

Find a Grave memorial 33922462, Union Cemetery, South Carver, Plymouth County, Massachusetts; photograph added 17 November 2015.

Find a Grave memorial 33922325, Union Cemetery, South Carver, Plymouth County, Massachusetts; photograph added 17 November 2015.

Henry S. Griffith, History of the Town of Carver, Massachusetts (New Bedford, 1913), pages 231-235; archive.org identifier historyoftownofc00grif.

The Plymouth County Directory, and Historical Register of the Old Colony (Middleboro, 1867), Carver and Wareham sections; archive.org identifier plymouthcountydi00prat_1.

Massachusetts marriage register, Carver, 15 December 1863 (FamilySearch 1:1:N4MX-HBX); Middleboro Gazette, 13 September 1862, page 2 (Carver news and the official list of losses of the 18th regiment); 8 November 1862, page 2 (funeral); 11 April 1863, page 4 (poem by John Maxim); 26 December 1863, page 2 (marriage); Henry S. Griffith, History of the Town of Carver (1913), pages 232-235 (archive.org historyoftownofc00grif); Plymouth County Directory and Historical Register (1867), rolls of honor for Carver and Wareham (archive.org plymouthcountydi00prat_1); Find a Grave memorials 33922325 (Elizabeth Tryan Ladner Stringer, with stone photographs), 33922205, 33922462, 33941352

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