Kentucky: Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Volume I and II, Lewis
Publishing Company, 1904, pp 394-395 [Hickman]

THADDEUS G. KLAPP is one of the most successful business men and farmers
of Hickman county and by reason of the success he has achieved and the
reputation he has established for himself deserves creditable mention in
a work of local biography, such as it our present task to compile.
     Mr. Klapp was born in North Carolina, November 6, 1844.  His parents
were Daniel Monroe Klapp and Arlene (Robertson) Klapp, both natives of
North Carolina.  The name Klapp is of German origin.  About 1845 our
subject`t's parents removed from North Carolina to Missouri, and lived in
the latter state about two years.  They then came to Kentucky and 
settled in what is now Carlisle county, where they afterward lived and
died.  They had but one son, Thaddeus G., but five daughters were born to
them.
     Thaddeus G. Klapp was reared on the farm and given a fair education
for his day.  He was in his teens when the Civil war came on.  In March
of 1864 he enlisted as a private in  Company D, Third Kentucky, a mounted
infantry regiment, and served in the Confederate army till November,
1864. At the battle of Harrisburg he was wounded.
     Returning from the field of battle, young Klapp resumed the duties
of farm life, and not long thereafter married.  In 1867 he married Sarah
W. Fraser, a daughter of Daniel Fraser, a native of Virginia, of Scotch
descent, his grandfather, Daniel Fraser, having come from Scotland, and
was a soldier of the Revolutionary war.  Mrs. Klapp was born October 30, 
1846, in Calloway county, Kentucky, where her father was a pioneer
settler.
     To Mr. and Mrs. Klapp have been born the following children:  Daniel
I., born August 17, 1868; Dilar Wilmonth born in June, 1870; Sammel F.,
born March 17, 1872; James M., born March 16, 1874; Maud F., born August
14, 1877, married James F. Shelby; Thaddeus S., born November 6, 1880;
Hattie, born April 24, 1885, married W.W. Nall; Algie J., born 
January 9, 1890.
     Mr. Klapp has followed farming and milling, together with the
operation of threshing machines.  His life has been an active and
successful one, and he is held in high esteem by a wide circle of
acquaintances.  In 1880 Mr. Klapp became a resident of Hickman county. 
Previously he had resided in what is now Carlisle county, then a part of
Ballard county.  In Politics he is a staunch Democrat, and in church
faith is a Methodist.

Klapp Nall Robertson Shelby Fraser
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Ballard-KY Carlisle-KY Calloway-KY

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