Marriage record — Cooper Ludlow × Elizabeth Reeder, 8 October 1804, Warren Co., Ohio (register p.5, entry 36; by James Ley). Primary-source-locks [p.666]'s FIRST marriage — CORRECTS the catalog's '1801.'

Transcription and notes

Data from the document [verbatim]

• Date: 8th October 1804
• Married: Cooper Ludlow & Elizabeth Reeder
• By whom: James Ley [?] (faint)
• Register entry no. 36, Warren Co., Ohio.

Why it matters

1. Primary-source-locks [p.666] Cooper Ludlow's FIRST marriage — to Elizabeth Reeder, 8 Oct 1804, Warren Co., OH. CORRECTS the catalog's "m.1 (1801)" (which came from L.4/[J.173], not a record). The Reeder family had removed to the Mad River country ~1804 (per [p.666]/[J.173]); this marriage is in Warren Co. that same year.
2. Fixes the child-chronology: the Reeder children (Mary Ann 1807, Stephen Decatur [p.1520] 1809, John [p.1650] 1810, Jacob 1812) all follow the 1804 marriage cleanly. Elizabeth Reeder died before Cooper's 2nd marriage ([C.72], 14 Dec 1813) — so by Dec 1813, refining the catalog's "d. 1815."
3. ↔ Does not name the children — it is the parents' marriage. But it firms the Reeder-marriage window under which Stephen Decatur (b.1809) was born.

Cross-references

• p.666 Cooper Ludlow · C.72 Cooper Ludlow × Elizabeth Layton 1813 (his 2nd marriage) · J.173