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Ball Family Publications & Research Library

An illustrated bibliography of books, articles, Bible transcriptions, and supporting works used in Ball family research.

A Chronology of William Ball

R. C. Ball, Jefferson Martin Ball, and H. Brooks Ball. A Chronology of William Ball of St. Johns Parish, Berkeley County, South Carolina, and Some of His Descendants. William Ball Family Association, 2011.

Bartholomew’s Children

Henry Fletcher Ball Jr. Bartholomew’s Children: A Southern Ball Family. Fort Worth, Texas: H. Ball, 1992.

Cover reconstruction based on the original burgundy cloth and gold lettering.

Chronicle of Balls

Carroll R. Ball and H. Brooks Ball. Chronicle of Balls. Carroll R. Ball, 2017. Hardcover published through Lulu.

James Sampson and Sarah Roberts Ball

Ronald Eugene “Ron” Childress, compiler. James Sampson and Sarah Roberts Ball, Sr. of Greene County, Mississippi, and Their Descendants. Undated.

Ball Families of the South

George R. Watson Sr. Ball Families of the South. Hattiesburg, Mississippi: privately published, 1980. Prepared in connection with the Bartholomew Ball Family Association Reunion.

Representative image: Ball Reunion, Sunday, July 29, 1951.

Hogs, Mules, and Yellow Dogs

Jimmye Hillman. Hogs, Mules, and Yellow Dogs: Growing Up on a Mississippi Subsistence Farm. University of Arizona Press, 2012.

Includes the Byrd–Hillman–Ball family.

Identifying the Father of William Bartholomew Ball

Susan Sloan. “Identifying the Father of William Bartholomew Ball (1767–1841/46).” Georgia Genealogical Society Quarterly 48, no. 2 (Summer 2012): 107–114.

Ball Family Bibles

John and Susan Sloan, transcribers. “Ball Family Bibles.” Georgia Genealogical Society Quarterly 48, no. 2 (Summer 2012): 115–118.

Archival portrait of Thomas I. Ball wearing a dark hat and suit

The Bartholomew Ball Family

Thomas I. Ball. The Bartholomew Ball Family. Unpublished typescript, 1968; donated to the Ball Family Association Reunion.

Representative cover image: Thomas I. Ball.

Georgians in the Revolution

Robert Scott Davis Jr. Georgians in the Revolution: At Kettle Creek (Wilkes County) and Burke County. Southern Historical Press, 1986; reprinted 2007. 272 pages. ISBN 9780893083502.

Includes the Battle of Kettle Creek, Burke County militia records, and the Battle of Briar Creek.

Love and War

Augustus V. Ball. Love and War: The Civil War Letters and Medicinal Book of Augustus V. Ball. Edited by Donald S. Frazier and Andrew Hillhouse; transcribed by Anne Ball Ryals. State House Press at the Texas Center–Schreiner, 2010. 528 pages. ISBN 978-1-933337-42-5.

Includes the wartime correspondence of Augustus and Argent Ball, service with the Twenty-third Texas Cavalry and McMahan’s Light Artillery Battery, and a fully annotated medicinal recipe book.

Additional Ball Publications Awaiting Cover Images

  1. Elizabeth Shown Mills. “Unraveling Balls of Yarn: Lessons in the Use of a Skeptical Eye (As Taught by William Bartholomew Ball and William F. Ball, Esq.).” Genealogical Journal 19 (1991): 1–21. Author bibliography.

Supporting Research Publications

  1. Brent H. Holcomb. Probate Records of South Carolina, Volume 3: Journal of the Court of Ordinary, 1764–1771. Southern Historical Press, 2007.
  2. Brent H. Holcomb. Petitions for Land from the South Carolina Council Journals.
  3. Dorothy Williams Potter. Passports of Southeastern Pioneers, 1770–1823. Gateway Press, 1982.
  4. National Society of the Colonial Dames of America. The Register Book for the Parish Prince Frederick Winyaw, Anno Domini 1713. Williams & Wilkins, 1916.
  5. Alice O. Walker. Personal Name Index to the Augusta Chronicle. Vols. 1–2, 1987–1988.
  6. Margaret Ball Miles. “Request for Information.” South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research 19 (Summer 1991): 175.