An illustrated bibliography of books, articles, Bible transcriptions, and supporting works used in Ball family research.
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.
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.
Carroll R. Ball and H. Brooks Ball. Chronicle of Balls. Carroll R. Ball, 2017. Hardcover published through Lulu.
Ronald Eugene “Ron” Childress, compiler. James Sampson and Sarah Roberts Ball, Sr. of Greene County, Mississippi, and Their Descendants. Undated.
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.
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.
Susan Sloan. “Identifying the Father of William Bartholomew Ball (1767–1841/46).” Georgia Genealogical Society Quarterly 48, no. 2 (Summer 2012): 107–114.
John and Susan Sloan, transcribers. “Ball Family Bibles.” Georgia Genealogical Society Quarterly 48, no. 2 (Summer 2012): 115–118.
Thomas I. Ball. The Bartholomew Ball Family. Unpublished typescript, 1968; donated to the Ball Family Association Reunion.
Representative cover image: Thomas I. Ball.
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.
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.