Can't Follow the Tangled Tree Please Help!!!
Okay all I have read every message in this forum and any other one that I can find and I can't seem to straighten out this one branch in the spider web of the Ball Tree.If anyone can give me a direction to start digging please do so, or if you can all give me your opinion, then maybe I can find somewhere to start.I would like to apologize as this will be a long message but would like you to all know what I have and where I found it I have documented my finding as best as possible.Thank You in advance for any help that any of you can provide.Here goes....
Anna Temperance Ball
b.Mar 5 1883 Odin, Marion, Illinois
d.Feb 3 1960 Denver, Adams, Colorado
Census Records:
1900:Odin, Marion, Illinois
1910:Vernon, Yuma, Colorado
1920:Center, Yuma, Colorado
1930:Stratton, Hitchcock, Nebraska (boarder, working as a cook and states she is divorced)
m.in Unknown ( possibly McCook, Red Willow, Nebraska) on unknown (prob. bef. Jan 1 1906) to William Henry Shively s/o Charles F. and Susan Adaline (Wales) Shively, he was born Oct 23 1879 in Illinois and died Feb 4 1961 in Lakewood, Colorado
Children of this union:
Georgia May 1906, Preston Ora 1908, Nathen ??, Charles Ausborn 1911, Clark Deafus 1914, Living Male 1917, Darlene Louise 1920
PARENTS OF ANNA TEMPERANCE:
German Ausborn Ball
b.Apr 29, 1846 in TN, prob Wilson County
d.Feb 9 1934 Yuma, Yuma, Colorado
b.Yuma Cemetery, Yuma Colorado
Census Records:
1850Jefferson County, Illinois (In this census he is listed as Jeremiah)
1860Marion County, Illinois (In this census he is listed as Germain)
1870Clinton County, Illinois (In this census he is now listed as German)
1880Centralia, Marion, Illinois
1900Odin, Marion, Illinois
1910Ridnour, Hitchcock, Nebraska
1920Center, Yuma, Colorado
1930Abarr, Yuma, Colorado
M.1st on 12-16-1869 in Christian County Illinois to Louisa Randall she was born Jan 16 1845 in England (note that in the 1850 census the Ball family is living two houses away from the Randall's no Louisa listed but may have been a neice) and died Jan 29 1871 in Illinois
Children from this marriage
Infant b. Jan 29 1871 died same
Silas W. b. Jan 29 1871
(Louisa Randall Ball died during or right after child birth Silas was the only one to live out of the three, he died in Hemingford Nebraska)
M.2nd on Jan 28 1874 in Marion County Illinois to Emma Greiner d/o Peter and Christinia (Rhinemiller) Greiner, she was born Apr 21 1854 in Ohio and died Apr 12 1942 in Ohio, buried in the Yuma Cemetery, Yuma Colorado.
Children of this marriage:
George Ausborn 1877
Willie Jan 1880
Temperance Anna 1882
Charles Erastus 1884
Andrew Riley Aug 1891
Robert Owen 1895
Halcie (Halsey) Bun (I swear that is his name on his WWI draft registration card) 1896
Benjamin (no record as of yet except for census)
PARENTS OF GERMAN (GERMAIN, JEREMIAH) BALL
***Please note this is where it gets murky but I am confident that this is the right family for German, however if you have another direction for me to go please feel free to let me know.Based parents and siblings on 1850 census and the close proximity that most of them were living.
Samuel H. Ball
b. 1805-1814 in North Carolina
d. 1870-1880 prob. in Illinois
Census Records:
1840 Wilson County TN (all ages of the children that would have been born by this time are correct and the number of children is correct for my family)
1850 Jefferson County IL
1860 Marion County IL
1870 Centralia, Marion, IL
M 1st to Temperance Unknown, some have told me that this would be Temperance Collier, but they state that this family stayed in NC and only had three children, so I am not sure that this Temperance is the same one but is quite a coincidence to find two Temperance's married to Samuel Ball both in NC.Once again you may double check me on the 1850 Census for Jefferson County, IL.Temperance was born bet 1810-1820 and died bef. 1860.
Children of this Union
Doctor A.W. (this is how it is written on Census) 1832
Thomas R. (Riley) 1836
Nathaniel L. 1840
Miranda F. 1841
German A. (Ausborn) 1846
Alice 1847
Houston 1854
Samuel 1855
M.2nd to Charity Unknown she was born abt. 1827 in TN and died unknown in Unknown.
Children of this union were
Nella 1864
Minnie 1869
Charles 1860
Here is where I stop!!!If you go on the theory that this Samuel H. (which is how is always lists himself in the early census) is the same one that married Temperance Collier then his father should be Osborne Ball b. 1779.If you go on another wing then his father would be Daniel.I can't seem to figure out which one.If you have any info on any of these people please let me know.I know that most people are trying to find their way back to Mary Ball and Augustine Washington, but at this point I don't even care about that I would just like to know where my Samuel H fits.
Thank You in much Advance and Cheers,
Heather Nelson
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