When Elizabeth Ledgerwood was born in 1819, in Sullivan, Indiana, United States, her father, William Ledgerwood, was 33 and her mother, Catherine Jenkins, was 27. She married William Decatur Blackburn about 1840, in Sullivan, Hamilton Township, Sullivan, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She lived in Paris Township, Edgar, Illinois, United States in 1860 and Paris, Edgar, Illinois, United States in 1870. She died in January 1905, at the age of 86.