Born in Ada, Ottawa, Kansas, United States
Ancestors 
Daughter of James Laity
and Almira (Horton) Laity
Sister of
Harriet Laity, Thomas Laity, James Forrest Laity, Myrtle (Laity) Prinzing, Bessie (Laity) Baccus and Nora (Laity) Townsend
Wife of
Francis Victor Balluff
— married
21 Oct 1908 (to 17 Aug 1937) in Saline, Kansas, USA
Mother of
Victor James Balluff
Died
at age 96
in Cambridge, Henry, Illinois, USA
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Biography
Dorothy was born in 1884. She passed away in 1980.
Dorothy Delilah (Doris) Laity b 11 Feb 1884 Ada KS 112, 222; d 7 Jun 1980 Cambridge IL (or Geneseo IL, according to her grandson Warren Hadley); m 21 Oct 1908 Salinas KS (in double wedding ceremony with her brother James Forrest Laity and Phoebe Virgason) to Francis Victor (France) Balluff (widower of her first cousin Clara Laity; b 21 Oct 1872 Clayton Co IA; d 17 Aug 1937 Lansing IA or d La Cross WI; son of Victor Baluff, b 11 Sep 1842 Württemburg, Germany, d 13 Jan 1896 Strawberry Point IA, and Mary Elizabeth Mullen, b Hancock IL; Mary d Jul 1926); both bur Strawberry Point IA 283, 284.
Sources
- 1900 U.S. Federal Census
Year: 1900; Census Place: Fountain, Ottawa, Kansas; Roll: 494; Page: 9A; Enumeration District: 0079; FHL microfilm: 1240494 (aged 16 years old) Publisher and Repisitory:Ancestry.com Operations Inc
Kansas, County Marriage Records, 1811-1911 Oct. 21 1908 at Saline, Kansas, USA Bride age 25 yrs Film Number 002384275 Publisher and Repository:Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. 2016, Lehi, Utah (image available)
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/110126615
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