The History of Hendricks County (Chicago: Interstate Publishing, 1885)--Marion Township, page 680
Tillman Hadley, son of William T. and Beulah Hadley, was born April 13, 1839, on the old homestead in this township, where his grandfather settled in 1829. He was reared a farmer and has always followed that avocation. He remained at home till 1861 when he went to Clarke County, Iowa. At the end of a year he returned home, and Feb. 28, 1863, he was married to Susannah Jane Coffin, born in 1843, in Hendricks County, Ind. Her father, Charles Coffin, came to this county when a young man and was here married. Her parents are deceased. Two children were born to this union--Melworth K., who died at the age of sixteen years, and Julia Vashti, now a resident of Texas. Mrs. Hadley died Nov. 19, 1866, aged twenty-three years. Mr. Hadley married again Sept. 8, 1869, to Hannah Hadley, a native of Clay Township, this county, and daughter of Nathan and Olive Hadley, of Clay Township. To them were born six children, all of whom are living--Luther, Olive, Beulah, Smithie, William and Paul. Mr. Hadley resides on section 13, where he has a farm of 400 acres of excellent land, 100 acres of which is in Clay Township. He also owns the White corner property and a dwelling house on West Marion street, in Danville, and three and a half sections of land in Crosby County, Texas. He is a member of the society of Friends. Politically he is a Republican.