William Hines Ball (abt. 1839 - 1888)

Born about 1839 in Fort Valley, Peach, Georgia, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Viney Jane (Cole) Braden — married 7 Oct 1858 (to about 1876) in Carroll, Mississippi, United States

Descendants

Died 1888 at about age 49 in Black Hawk, Carroll, Mississippi, United States

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Biography

William H. Ball was living in Carroll County, Mississippi in the 1860 Census. He married Viney (Vina) Jane Cole on 7 October 1858. They had a son named William Elliott Ball living with them. William Ball enlisted in Company G, "Black Hawk Rifles", of the 22nd Mississippi regiment on 30 April 1861. He received a medical discharge on 27 March 1862 but was conscripted back into his company in September. He was one of a few who remained with this company when it surrendered in May 1865. After the war, he came home and bought a quarter section of land on 7 October 1865. This land was adjacent to the land owned by Eliza Cole, the mother of Jane. On 28 November 1874, William sold 55 acres in the southwest corner of his land to his brother-in-law, Richard Bascom Cole. William and Jane Ball sold their farm on 5 october 1878. They divorced a short time later and Jane and the five children moved to Magnet Cove, Arkansas, where Jane remarried Wiley A. Braden on 14 September 1884. William Ball, age 40, was living with James and Frances Purcell in Black Hawk, MS, in June 1880. He was considered insane and had no money. It was testified that he shot himself. Date of death was unknown.

William Ball served in the United States Civil War.
Enlisted: April 30, 1861
Mustered out: April , 1865
Side: CSA
Regiment(s): Company G, 22 Mississippi Regiment

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Sources

1. ↑ Entered by Steve Cole, Sep 2, 2011

• US Federal Census 1860, Mississippi, Choctaw County
• US Federal Census 1900
• Ball, Henry Fletcher, Jr. "Bartholomew's Chirldren- A Southern Ball Family", Fort Worth, Texas. Hennington Publishing Company 1992.
• Carroll County Deed book.
• Ancestry.com. Mississippi, U.S., Compiled Marriage Index, 1776-1935 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.

Original data: Hunting For Bears, comp.. Mississippi Marriages, 1776-1935. Mississippi marriage information taken from county courthouse records. Many of these records were extracted from copies of the original records in microfilm, microfiche, or book format, located at the Family History Library.