[64-25.10] WILLIAM LEDYARD AVERY, b Nov. 21, 1833; d May 12, 1898; s John Coleman and Lydia (Robinson) Avery [64-13]; m Feb. 5, 1878, MRS. JOHANNA (UMMETHUN) BUDDE- MEYER, b May 13, 1843; d May 25, 1909; dau John Richard and Catherine (Dresselhaus) Ummethun.
William Ledyard Avery was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and was married in Leavenworth, Kansas, to Johanna (OUmmethun) Buddemeyer, widow of Louis H. Buddemeyer. He was graduated from Yale University in 1855, studied law, and was admitted to the bar of Cincinnati in 1857. Mr. Avery was commissioned by the Governor of Ohio as Captain of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry in Nov., 1862. In 1863, Mr, Avery was appointed by the President an aide-de-camp of the U.S. Volunteers, as major and aide-de-camp in 1864, and as brevet lieutenant colonel on Mar. 25, 1865. Lieut. Col. Avery participated in the battles of Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge, and those engagements which clustered about Mobile Bay and Mobile. He was mustered out of service on Aug. 29, 1865, and returned to the practice of law in Cincinnati. He served as judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Hamilton Co., Ohio, for three successive terms, from 1871 to 1884. Hon. William L. Avery died in Hawthorne, Ky., in 1898, and his wife died in Cincinnati in 1909. [For further details, see ‘‘The Groton-Avery Clan.’
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