Thomas Ball (1770 - 1839)

Born 1770 in Richland MM, Bucks, Pennsylvania

Ancestors

Husband of Hannah (Miller) Ball — married 1798 in Pennsylvania, United States

Descendants

Died 23 Apr 1839 at about age 69 in Carroll, Fairfield, Ohio, United States

Biography

Thomas was a Friend (Quaker)

Thomas was the son of Abraham and Ann (Adamson) Ball. He was brother to Abraham and Nathan Ball. Thomas was born in Richland Meeting and took a certificate to Westland Monthly Meeting when he removed to Greene County, Pa. in 1797. He married Hannah Miller at Westland Monthly Meeting in 1798. Many of their children were said to have been born in Washington County, Pa. (just north of Greene). It is claimed this couple removed first to Fayette PA., and from there to Hanover Twp, Columbiana County, Ohio where Hannah died in 1821. They are known to have been the parents of: Alvia, Guy, Nancy, Levi, Mary, Rebecca, Nathan, Thomas, Hannah, Abraham, and Catherine. An additional son, James, was born to Thomas and his second wife. Note: Death record for Mary (Hawley) Ingram, daughter of their child, Hannah (Ball) Hawley, claims Hannah Ball was born in New Garden, Ohio which is an unincorporated community in Hanover Twp, Columbiana Co, Oh. It is not known if Thomas and Hannah belonged to New Garden Monthly Meeting but it is likely.^[1]

Sources

• Ball families of Pennsylvania : a study, by Claudette Maerz, p 17, downloaded 5/27/2018 from: https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE76951

1. ↑ "Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X6W4-J7D : 8 December 2014), Calob Hawley in entry for Mary Hawley Ingram, 15 Apr 1935; citing Goshen, Mahoning, Ohio, reference fn 25597; FHL microfilm 2,022,487.

• "The Hawley Families in America"

Citing : Early Friends Families of Upper Bucks, With Some Accounts of Their Descendants. Clarence V. Roberts, Warren Smedley Ely

• "Thomas Ball (John, John, Abraham), eldest son of Abraham and Ann (Adamson) Ball, born in Richland, about 1770, removed to what is now Greene County, Pa., taking a certificate to Westland Monthly Meeting, dated 2 mo. 16, 1797. He married 1798 Hannah Miller, daughter of Robert Miller and Mary (Shaw) Miller, who had gone West with her sister elder sister Mary and the latter's husband, Nathan Walton. They settled on a farm near the Waltons and resided their until 1814, when they removed to Columbiana County, Ohio, where Hannah died in 1821."

Note:

Thomas Ball, Nathan Walton, and Jacob Hormell (husband of Jane Miller) where neighbors.

Thomas remarried his housekeeper and is said to have had an additional child per the above source.

• https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=WAlM0vn_TgkC&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA53.w.1.24.0