John Coming Ball (1714 - 1765)

Born 25 Aug 1714 in Huger, Berkeley, Province of South Carolina

Ancestors

Husband of Catherine (Gendron) Ball — married 1742 in Berkeley County, Colony of South Carolina

Husband of Judith (Boisseau) Ball — married about 1756 in Province of South Carolina

Descendants

Died 20 Oct 1765 at age 51 in Huger, Berkeley, Province of South Carolina

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John Ball is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A212040.

Biography

John Coming Ball

John was born in 1714. He was the son of Elias Ball and Elizabeth Harleston. He passed away in 1764.

John Coming Ball bought a tract of land on the Eastern Branch, from Mr. Gough and built and settled there, calling the plantation, “Hyde Park.” The date of purchase was somewhere about 1740. IT stood on the hill near the family cemetery and is said to have been a comfortable square house, resembling that now standing at Kensington. The house burned down during the Revolutionary War. Subsequent to Mrs. Judith Ball’s death at Hyde Park, the present house was built.^[1]

In 1742 he married Catherine Gendron, daughter of John Gendron and his wife Elizabeth Mazyck, Huguenots of the Santee settlement. There were six children by this marriage, tow of whom died in early childhood and in the same year.

Mrs. Catherine Ball died in the latter part of September 1755, the eldest of her four children was under thirteen, and the youngest only two.

Ten months later, he married another Hugenot bride – Judith Boisseau. By this marriage there were five children, two of whom, also, died in childhood.

John Coming Ball died in October 1765 and was buried in the family cemetery at Hyde Park, where the bodies of his first wife and four of his children had already preceded him. When John died he owned nearly 9000 acres of land, including at least two settled plantations; and, as sawing lumber and making tar were then important industries, even the large body of uncleared pine forest was by no means unproductive. ^[1]

Birth

Birth Date: 25 Aug 1714

Marriage

Husband: John Coming Ball 25 Aug 1714 – 20 Oct 1764^[2]

Wife: Catherine Gendron (1723 – 23 Sept 1755

Children:

1. Elias Ball 11 May 1744 – 29 Sept 1822 married Catherine Gaillard (17 Nov 1744 – 19 Sept 1821
2. Elizabeth Ball 6 Feb 1746 – 30 Apr 1787 married Henry Jr Smith (LG) 6 Aug 1727 – 8 Dec 1780

Death

Death Date: 4 Oct 1764 or 20 Oct 1764 (aged 50)

Death Place: Huger, Berkeley County, South Carolina, USA

Burial:

Hyde Park Plantation Cemetery

Huger, Berkeley County, South Carolina, USA

Gravestone Inscription (single stone)

Inscription at cemetery on a single stone:

John Coming Ball died at Hyde Park, Oct 20, 1764, aged 50 years and 2 months

Katherine Ball died at Hyde Park Sept 23d 1755, aged 32 years

Judith Ball died at Hyde Park Aug 2d 1772, aged 41 years.

Slaves

See: Slaves of John Coming Ball, Berkley County, South Carolina

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Deas, Ann Simons: Recollections of the Ball Family of South Carolina and the Comingtee Plantation: John Coming Ball
2. ↑ Register of Carolina Huguenots, Vol. 3, Marion - Villepontoux By Horry Frost Prioleau, Edward Lining Manigault.Lulu.com, Mar 24, 2010 - 582 pages.

• U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, Source number: 1870.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: JCF, Ancestry.com Operations Inc. (2004), US Marriage Records
• Find A Grave: Memorial #35721715, Hyde Park Plantation Cemetery, Huger, South Carolina
• Probate: "South Carolina, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1670-1980"
  Wills and Miscellaneous Probate Records, 1671-1868; Author: Charleston County (South Carolina). Probate Judge; Probate Place: Charleston, South Carolina
  Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 9080 #8279 (accessed 20 September 2022)
  John Coming Ball probate on 28 Mar 1764.
• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/), "Record of John Ball", Ancestor # A212040.