"Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana Historical and
Biographical"
Charles Blanchard, Editor,
Chicago: F. A. Battey and Co. Publishers
1884
Page 272
James D. Hadley, farmer and stock-raiser, is a native of Chatham
County, N.C., was born August 30, 1807, and is the eighth of the nine
children of Jeremiah and Ruth (Maris) Hadley, also natives of North
Carolina, who moved to this State about 1823, located in this township,
and entered 720 acres of Government land, on which they lived and died.
James began the struggle of life on the home farm, and obtained what
education he could command from the public schools. October 1, 1831, he
married Matilda Morris, of North Carolina, and to this union were
granted the following children: Esther (deceased), Ruth, Eli (deceased),
Martha J. (deceased), Enos (killed in the late war), Eli A., Martha J.
and Nathan R. Mr. Hadley is the owner of a good farm of 120 acres, and
has been owner of 600, much of which he has given to his children, and
all of which he acquired by well-directed industry and frugality. He is
a Republican in politics, a liberal gentleman, an upright citizen, and,
with his wife, one of the adherents of the Society of Friends
