Sarah Gardner Ladd (1739-1807) - Find a Grave Memorial

Sarah Gardner Ladd

Birth

1739

Kingston, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA

Death

30 Oct 1807 (aged 67–68)

Alexandria City, Virginia, USA

Burial

Old Presbyterian Meeting House

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Sarah Gardner, a daughter of Capt. Benoni and Sarah [née Rogers] Gardner*, was born about 1739 near Kingston, Rhode Island. Sarah was one of three children. Her father was a son of Benoni and Mary [née Eldred] Gardner.

On December 22nd 1761, Sarah married William Ladd; with whom she had the following eight children:
Lydia (1762-1762)
Joseph Brown (1764-1786)
Benjamin Gardner (1765-1765)
Sarah (1766-1766)
William (1767-1830)
John Gardner (1771-1819)
Elizabeth (1772-1846)
Samuel Gray (1773-1781)

* the spelling of the family name is seen in various colonial records as: Gardner & Gardiner

Notes from church records:
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Wife of Captain William Ladd of Newport, Rhode Island.

Daughter of Benoni Gardner, Esq.

Funeral from the house of her son, John Gardner Ladd, located at 202 Duke Street, Alexandria

Inscription

“In Memory of Sarah Ladd, the amiable consort of William Ladd and daughter of Benoni Gardner, Esq. late of Newport, R.I. She died at Alexandria, 30 Oct 1807, in the 74th year of her age. Exemplary and endearing in all the relations of life, she possessed the respect and esteem of an extensive acquaintance. Her mourning children have erected this monument as a small testimony of their filial duty, reverence, and affection.”

* Her table grave marker is now gone, but there is evidence of her grave next to the boxtomb of her husband William Ladd.
** The inscription is quoted by Wesley Pippenger in volume 1 of his series “Tombstone Inscriptions of Alexandria, Virginia,” 1992, and taken from “A Collection of American Epitaphs and Inscriptions,” by Timothy Alden, 1814, vol. 5, p. 87.