BREEDEN, Bland Ballard - Putnam

Monroe & Putnam Counties,Indiana

HISTORY of JACKSON COUNTY, IOWA

by Hon. James W. Ellis

Volume 1, Illustrated, Chicago, S. J. Clarke Publishing Co, 1910

pages 364 and 365

Sketch of the Life of B. B. Breeden

At about the beginning of the year 1700, three brothers, Henry, Job and

Richard Breeden, came from England and settled in Virginia and married.

Job remained there all his life, living on the old homestead. Henry and

Richard, with their families, went west after a time, and settled in

Lawrence county, Kentucky. They each took up homesteads. During an

encounter with the Indians, Henry and his two sons were killed, but not

until Henry had killed six Indians before he fell.

Richard married Fannie Fairchild, a Virginian woman. To them were born

eleven children, seven boys and four girls, the seventh child being Richard

Jr., who was born in 1778 in what is now known as Louisville, Kentucky.

The children scattered to various parts of the country. Paul went to

Louisiana; James, William and Richard, Jr., to Indiana. Richard settled in

Monroe county, Indiana, in about the year 1818. He was married to Miss

Lucretia Curl before he left Kentucky. To them were born fourteen

children, thirteen of whom lived to be grown. We give the names in order

of their ages: Fielding, born 1810; Millie, Richard O., William, Polly,

Dudley, Blan Ballard, Susan, Lucretia, Jane, Berryman, Calvin, James and

Amanda. The first six were born in Lawrence county, Kentucky, while

Ballard and Susan were born in Monroe county, Indiana. The whole family

afterward moved to Putnam county, Indiana, where Jane and Berryman were

born, the family afterward going to Edgar county, Illinois, where the rest

of the children were born.

In the year 1838 the family moved to Iowa. Millie married in Illinois and

moved back to Kentucky, but afterwards returned to Illinois. The family

settled in Jackson county, Iowa, and each of the sons took up claims for

themselves. Fielding and William were also married in Illinois. The

remainder married in Jackson county.

In about the year 1850, Fielding, Calvin, Ballard and William went to

California to make their fortunes in digging gold. Berryman joined them in

1852. They were three years returning via Pacific Ocean, Isthmus of

Panama, Atlantic Ocean, and New York city, thence overland to Iowa. They

failed to realize their expectations of making their fortunes.

Nearly two years after their return, Ballard married Miss Mary Jane

Furnish. To them were born three children--Sophronia, DeSoto and Otto.

She died on the 12th day of February 1861. On the 5th day of September, he

married Miss Mary Ann Campbell. To them were born seven children: Frances

J., Dora L., Willaims S., Lillie V., Arizona M., Millie L. and Clarence

Bird. Williams S. and Millie L. died in infancy.

Richard Breeden, father of B. B. Breeden, died in September 1872;

Lucretia, his mother, died in February, 1874, at the ages of eighty-four

and eighty-three years, respectively. Fielding moved to Keokuk county,

Iowa, where he died in 1887. Williams returned to Illinois and lived in

Hancock county where he died in 1896. Berryman never returned from

California. He died in the year 1875 or 1876. Owen was killed by a

falling tree while hunting, on the 12th day of February, 1868. Millie died

in Illinois in 1865. Polly died in Kansas in 1878. Dudley died in Jackson

county, Iowa, in 1842. Susan died in Jackson county in 1845. Lucretia

died in infancy in Putnam county, Indiana. Jane now lives in Mariposa

county, California. Calvin died very suddenly on October 31st, 1899.

James lives near Clear Lake, Wisconsin, and Amanda in Jackson county.

Mr. Breeden died on June 7, 1906, being eighty-six years, five months and

nineteen days old. His life was long and useful and he was loved and

honored by all his family and highly respected by all who knew him.

(Note: This history has many errors. Richard Breeden is listed on the tax

roll of Jefferson County, KY in 1789 and in Shelby County, KY in 1794.

Lawrence County was not established until 1821, from Floyd and Greenup.

Richard Jr. married Lucretia Alexander, daughter of John, who gave his

consent, in Gallatin County, KY. There were 10 children--8 boys: William,

Paul, James, John, Elijah, Richard Jr., Henry (my ancestor) and Bland

Ballard; and 2 girls: Mildred and Frances. William, Paul, James, Elijah,

Henry, Mildred and Frances all married in Shelby Co, KY. Bland Ballard

died unmarried about 1823. Richard and John married in Gallatin County. )

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