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WILLIAM BARTHOLOMEW BALL: Bartholomew; William, Sr. William Bartholomew Ball was born 2 December 1767, the place of this birth was St. Marks Parish South Carolina. His parents were Bartholomew Ball and Sarah Brown. Charlotte Lee, his wife was born 27 August 1781, in Burke County, Georgia. (According to the Ball family Bible, in his journal The True and Interesting Travels of William Lee, she was born on the 7th of August.)1 Her parents were William and Charity Lee. William Bartholomew Ball came from St. Marks Parish, Craven County, South Carolina, where he was born and raised, and where his father Bartholomew Ball, had died between 1777 and 1788 and was buried, and his mother Sarah (Brown) Ball had lived and had died in 1788, to join William Brown coming from Columbia County.
William Bartholomew Ball might have continued to live on Spirit Creek, and the first of January 1796, married at age fifteen, Charlotte Lee, daughter of William Lee and wife Charity Lee.2 William Bartholomew Ball was twenty-eight years old. The 1793-1800 tax digest of Richmond County, extant for the year 1795, does not list him on the tax roll for that year.3 Edward Marshal Ball, first born of William and Charlotte, was born 16 November 1796 in Richmond County, Georgia.4 In 1797, William Ball is listed in Captain Stiles’ Militia District, and taxed on 18 acres of pine land, adjoining the property of Mr. Watkins on the waters of Butler Creek.
Value of the land $4, white poll 1.Slaves 0. Total tax 32-1/2 cents. No record can be found of William’s purchase, sale or inheritance of this land, so it appears he is merely a renter.5 The second child of William and Charlotte, James Sampson Ball was born 27 September 1799, in Richmond County.6 William Ball does not appear on the Richmond County Tax Rolls for the year 1800.7 Also, in the year 1800, the 31st of December, Sarah Ann Ball, third child of William and Charlotte was born in Richmond County.8
William Ball and his family are absent from Richmond during the years 1801 through 1803. It is not known where he went. According to the Obituary of Charity Lee: Died, on Thursday last, in her 54th year, after a few days severe illness, which she bore with great patience and Christian resignation, Mrs. Charity Lee, wife of William Lee, Esq. of this county. She had been the widow, the wife, and the mother of a number of children, whom she had raised with the most tender circumspection-burdened with the care of infants, separated from the helping hand of a father and a husband by a cruel war, she had to meet the horrors and vicissitudes of the late revolution, and her steady and virtuous mind enabled her to stem the torment of these difficulties, with reputation to herself and credit to her family and friends, whom she has now left, with an husband, to mourn the irreparable loss of a truly affectionate and valuable mother and helpmate.
She was in truth the friend to all. By her neighbors, she will be long remembered-to them she was indeed a sister-a mother. Her amiable disposition and exemplary deportment through so long a course of years, could not fail to insure her esteem and confidence of her numerous friends and acquaintances; and her loss justly inspires a sympathizing tear of sorrow. Augusta Herald, August 29, 1799. William Lee, father-in-law of William Bartholomew Ball, owned property in Burke County, Georgia and the Ball family could have been there on the William Lee lands.9
Eliza Ball, fourth child of William and Charlotte, was born 6 July 1801. She may not have been born in Richmond County.10 William Ball and his family had returned to Richmond County by 2 November 1803, as he is included on the Richmond County Petit Jury List.11131 In 1804, in Richmond County, William Lee Ball, fifth child of William and Charlotte was born. There are two different months and day dates for the birth year of 1804 for William Lee Ball. The family Bible record shows 6 February, but has been marked through. Records from the personal files of Mrs. Julia Georgiana (Ball) Campbell shows 6 June.12
The 1805 Georgia Land Lottery shows that William Ball, a resident of Richmond County, Register No. 1793, drew two blanks.13 Two chances were allotted to males over 21 years of age who were married and had children. One other William Ball qualified, with one draw from adjacent Burke County, Georgia. On 2 January 1806, the estate sale of George Low/Lowe, deceased, took place. William Ball had been a neighbor of George Lowe and bought a shotgun at the sale for $8. Other neighbors of William Ball who attended the sale were William Hat, John Twiggs, Moses Collins, William McTyre, William Shaw, John Harwood, Peter Johnson, Gideon Seely, John Findley, and William Montgomery.14
On 6 October 1806, Jurors empanelled for the December Term included William Ball.15 The following year, 6 February 1807, was the date of birth of Bartholomew Ball, Jr., son of William and Charlotte, born in Richmond County.16 William Ball is listed on the Richmond County, Georgia, Tax Roll for District Two for one white poll, .31-1/4¢ for the year 1807.17 In the 1807 Land Lottery of Georgia, William Ball of Richmond County, Georgia drew lot No. 144 in District 6 in Baldwin County, Georgia. There were no other Balls shown in the lottery as being from Richmond County. There was a William F. Ball who drew lots, who lived in Baldwin County.18 This William Ball was the son of Edward Ball and wife Rebecca (Baker) Jones and brother of Sampson Edward Ball of Liberty County, Georgia and Washington Parish, Louisiana.
On April 21, 1808 a patent was issued to William Ball of Richmond County for lot No. 144, 6th District, Baldwin County, Georgia.19 In 1809, William Ball paid taxes on 202-1/2 acres of pine land, lot No. 144, 6th District in Baldwin County, value .57¢ per acre, 1 white poll, total tax .46.5¢.20 Also on 15 May 1809, William Ball of Richmond County was on Jury Duty for the June Term. He did not appear as an actual Juror.21 September 25, 1809, William Ball of Richmond County, Georgia, is recommended for a passport for safe passage through the Creek Indian Nation.
“Be it known to all whom it may concern that I have for a number of years past been personally acquainted with William Ball and that he hath always behaved himself as an honest and industrious good citizen. Certified by: John Twigg, Major General, 2nd Division, Georgia Militia, William McDade, John McDade, Hugh McGee, Isaac Lowe, Steven Wiggon, George Twiggs, Dan Sulivan.” October 2nd 1809, Executive Department – Georgia Passports on Recommendation – Ordered: That Passports through the Creek Nation be prepared for William Ball and George Foulds and their families.22
The 1810, June Term Of Court, Richmond County, Georgia: Benjamin F. Harris vs. William Ball: “It appearing to the Court that the attachment in the above case has been levied on a mare and the same being of a perishable nature, ordered that the Sheriff, after advertising for fifteen days,132 proceed to sell the said mare and deposit the proceeds in the Clerk of the Superior Court’s office subject to the plaintiff’s demand when established.”23 If the levy against William Ball was made on livestock, then he did not own any land. In light of the October 1809 passport issued to William Ball, the above court suit may be interpreted in at least two ways. 1) He remained in the county for at least nine months – perhaps until the settlement of the suit. 2) He moved from the county, but left this mare behind – perhaps to cover whatever liabilities he expected to be levied against him in the course of the suit.
In a list of claims of actual settlers east of the Pearl River, #74 present settler, William Ball; original settler, William Ball; date of present settlement, October 1811; date of original settlement, October, 1811; location – Pascagoula River.24 February 11, 1813, Susan Rebecca Ball, daughter of William Ball and Charlotte Lee was born in Jackson County, Mississippi.25 In April of 1813, the United States troops seized the eastern part of Spanish West Florida. Landholders were required to file “proofs” of ownership or claims to lands being occupied “by right of settlement.” William Ball promptly filed.26
On January 3, 1816, Margaret Ball, daughter of William Ball and wife Charlotte Lee was born in Jackson County, Mississippi.27 A petition to Congress, dated 11 December 1816, was presented by the inhabitants of Jackson County, Mississippi. This petition points out that they had settled there while it WAS PART OF Spanish West Florida, with permission of the Spanish. That government had made grants to them. They cannot believe that the United States Congress will take that land from them now. Among the signers were: William Ball and his elder son Edward Marshall Ball.28
The Territory of Mississippi conducted a census during the year 1816, but the census for Jackson County appears to be lost.29 William Ball’s name does not appear on the 1818 tax roll for Jackson County, Mississippi.30 He is past the poll tax age and has not yet received title to his land. His son, Edward M. Ball, is now 21 years of age and will pay poll taxes. Harriet Ball, daughter of William Ball and Charlotte Lee was born 22 July 1818 in Jackson County, Mississippi.31 William Ball does not appear on the Jackson County Tax Roll for 1819.32 William Ball has passed poll tax age and has not yet received title to his land. Son James S. Ball is now 21 years of age and will pay a poll tax with his brother Edward.
William Ball’s title to land is confirmed by the United States Government.33 Under the General Land Act of 3 March 1818, William Ball (and others) were confirmed in his possession of land described as 640 acres… designated as Section 6, Township 1 South, Range 7 West, St. Stephens Meridian, State of Mississippi, waters of Chickasawhay River. A Patent was issued to Henry Augustus Ball 28 February 1900 on this land. The 1820 Federal Census, State of Mississippi, County of Jackson, census page 45A: 1 male 45 and up – William Ball, born 2 Dec. 1767 – 53 years old 2 males 18-25 – Edward M. Ball, born 16 Nov. 1796 – 24 years old James S. Ball, born 22 Sept. 1799 – 22 years old 1 male 16-18 – William Lee Ball, born _ _ _ _1804 – 16 years old 1 male 10-15 – Bartholomew Ball, born 6 Feb. 1807 – 13 years old 1 female 26-45 – Charlotte Lee, born 27 Aug.
1781 – 39 years old 1 female 10 -15 – Eliza Ball, born 6 July 1801 – 19 years old 3 females 0-10 – Susan Rebecca Ball, born 11 Feb. 1813 – 7 years old133 Margaret Ball, born 3 Jan. 1816 - 4 years old Harriet Ball, born 22 July 1818 – 2 years old Sarah Ann Ball, born 31 Dec. 1800, was 20 years old. She is not listed. Had she already married and left home? Eliza Ball was born in 1801 according to the Bible record, but she is listed as being 10- 15 years of age on this census report. Census records are often in error by giving wrong birth dates, names or leaving names off of the list.
William Ball’s name does not appear on the 1820-21 Jackson County Tax Rolls.35 Due to a change in county boundary lines, the Ball family subsequently appears in Greene County.36 He is past the age limit for poll tax but has not yet been assessed taxes on his land. Edward M. Ball and James S. Ball are of poll tax age and are listed. Henry Augustus Ball, the last child of William Ball and Charlotte Lee, was born 10 January 1821 in Greene County, Mississippi.37
On October 26, 1824, the Order of 7 July 1823 to survey the private land claim of William Ball for perfection of his Jackson County Land Title was performed: “Pursuant to an Order from the Principal Deputy Surveyor of the Land District East of the Island Of New Orleans, and in conformity with Certificate No. 74 from the Commissioners appointed under authority of the Act of Congress of 25 April 1812, and recognized by a subsequent Act approved March 3rd , 1819, I have surveyed a Tract of Land claimed by William Ball situated on the waters of the Chickasawhay River in the State of Mississippi, being in Section 6, Township 1 South, Range 7 West of the Basis Meridian and South of the 31st degree of latitude, containing 663 and .13 acres, and having such shape, form and marks, natural and artificial, as presented in the Plat and Description. SIGNED: Thomas Bilbo. Examined and approved by William Brown, Principal Deputy Surveyor.40
The 1824 Tax Roll for Greene County, Mississippi does not list William Ball. Edward M. Ball is still assigned the 340 acres of land, with 1 white poll, 0 slaves, and no tax assessment shown. James S. Ball is shown with no land, 1 white poll and 75¢ tax41. No further tax rolls are extant until 1827. The 1827 Greene County Tax Roll does not list William Ball. James S. Ball has acquired 170 acres of land valued at $510, 1 white poll, total tax $1.77-1/2¢. Edward M. Ball is not in charge of the 340 acres anymore, therefore he is shown with no land, 1 white poll, 0 slaves, tax 50¢.
William Ball is shown with no land, 1 white poll, 0 slaves, taxed .50¢. William Ball was born in 1804 according to Alex Monroe Family Bible record. He, therefore, turned 21 years of age in 1825 during the period of time for which Greene County Tax Assessments are missing. Note that he is listed as William S. Ball on the tax record. The record of his land purchase in De Soto Parish, Louisiana in 1848 shows for the first time his middle name to be LEE. There was an amended Tax Roll for 1827, Greene County, Mississippi; William S. Ball, 1 white poll, 0 slaves, 1 horse, 35 cattle, value_ _ _ _, tax _ _ _ . James S. Ball, 1 white Poll, 2 horses, 18 cattle, value _ _ _ _, tax _ _ _.
The 1828 Tax Rolls of Greene County, Mississippi shows Edward M. Ball now owns 80 acres of land 4th class, 2nd quality, value $240, 1 white poll, 0 slaves, total tax $1.12-1/2¢. James S. Ball also now owns 80 acres of land 4th class, 2nd quality, $240 value, 1 white poll, 0 slaves, total tax $1.12- 1/2¢. William Ball, Sr., 79 and 302 acres of land 4th class, 2nd and 3rd class quality, valued at $844, poll 0, tax 2.12-1/2¢ 43. William Ball is at last being assessed on the tract of land, which he had claimed by right of settlement in 1811, and had been given legal right to in 1820. There is nothing in the records to explain why he was not taxed beginning in 1820 other than to assume his name had never been added to the tax roll. Note, also, that he filed on, claimed and received title to 664 acres134 of land, but in 1828, he paid property tax on just 381 acres.
The reason is William has sold 283 acres to Mr. Wheeler Gresham. This sale took place after the last survey, October 26, 1824. The 1829 Tax Roll of Greene County, Mississippi lists William Ball with 382 acres, 4th class, 3rd quality, 0 poll, and total tax $1.93-3/4¢. Bartholomew Ball, 0 acres, 1 white poll, Tax .50. Edward M. Ball, 160 acres, class 4, quality 2nd , white poll 1, total tax $1.70. James S. Ball, acres 0, poll 1, total tax .50.44 Note that Bartholomew has not reached the age of 21 years and William Lee Ball is not listed, he has moved to Hinds County, Mississippi.
James S. Ball, in 1830, on the Greene County Tax Poll, has no land, but is living on Big Creek, has 1 white poll, total tax is .50. Edward M. Ball has 137 acres on the Chickasawhay River, 4th Class, 2nd quality, value $412.50, 1 white poll, total State Tax $1.54, Literary Fund .15-1/2. William Ball, Sr. is taxed on 80 and 302 acres in two plots, on the Chickasawhay River, Class 4, Quality 3, Value $764. poll 0, State Tax $1.41, Literary Fund .14. Bartholomew Ball does not have any land, 1 white poll, total tax .50.45
The 1830 Census of Greene County, Mississippi, census page 9, shows: 1 male 60 – 69 – William Ball, born 2 Dec. 1767 – 63 years old. 1 male 20 – 29 - Bartholomew Ball, born 6 Feb. 1807 – 23 years old. 1 male 10 – 14 – Henry Augustus Ball, born 10 Jan. 1821 – 10 years old. 1 female 40 – 49 – Charlotte Lee, born 27 Aug. 1781 – 49 years old. 2 females 10 – 14 – Margaret Ball, born 3 Jan. 1816 – 14 years old. - Harriet Ball, born 22 July 1818 – 12 years old.46
Edward, James, William Lee, Sarah Ann, Eliza and Susan Rebecca have left the home of William Ball and wife Charlotte Lee. Edward and James are still living in the neighborhood, but on their own. William Lee Ball has left the county and is now living in Hinds County. Sarah Ann, Eliza and Susan Rebecca have married and are living away from home. Nothing further is known of Sarah Ann; Eliza had married Ervin Barnes Roberts and Susan Rebecca is supposed to have married James N. Beard. A few of the neighbors of William Bartholomew Ball and Charlotte Lee, as listed on the 1820 and 1830 censuses were the Turners, Rogers, Greshams, McInnises, Howells, Stokeses, McManuses, Millers, Duprees, Eubanks, Perkins, Brooms and others.
The boundary lines for Greene and Jackson counties has not yet been defined at this time (1830) so the enumerators of both Greene County and Jackson County listed these people living on the borderline; therefore William Ball and his family were listed in both Greene County and Jackson County with the same neighbors. The 1831 Tax Roll for Greene County, Mississippi shows James S. Ball with no land but located on Big Creek, West, 1 white poll, tax .37-1/2¢. Edward M. Ball with 137 acres located on the Chickasawhay River, Class 4, Quality 2, value $412.50, 1 white poll, State Tax 1.06-1/4¢.
Bartholomew Ball has no land, 1 white poll, tax .37-1/2¢. William Ball, Sr., has 380 acres on the Chickasawhay River, class 4, value $380, Quality 3, 0 poll, State Tax .95¢. 47. The 1832 Tax Roll for Greene County is not extant.48 The 1833 Tax Roll for Greene County, Mississippi shows James S. Ball with no land, 1 white poll .37-1/2¢; Bartholomew Ball, Esquire, two tracts of land of 240 and 80 acres, each located on the Chickasawhay River, Class 4, Quality 3, Value $400, 0 poll, State Tax $1.00.49 Edward Marshall Ball moved to Jasper County, Mississippi in 1832. Bartholomew Ball has been elected as a Justice of the Peace and is entitled to the title of ESQUIRE. William Ball, Sr., has disposed of 60 more acres of his land. A record of the disposition of these 60 acres could not be found.135
In 1834, James S. Ball still did not own any land. He is shown with 1 white poll. Total tax .37-1/2¢. William Ball Sr., is taxed on 320 acres of land located on the Chickasawhay River, Class 4, Quality 3, 0 Poll, State Tax .80¢. Bartholomew Ball, Esq. has no land and only 1 poll, Tax .37-1/2¢.50 The 1835 tax list of Greene County shows the same as the 1834 tax roll, except that Bartholomew Ball is not listed. He has moved to Hinds County, Mississippi.51
The 1836 Tax Roll of Greene County, Mississippi, lists William Ball, Sr., with 320 acres located on the Chickasawhay River, Class 4, Quality 3, Value $400, 0 poll, State Tax .80. James S. Ball who has been living on Big Creek and who has been leasing or renting land has only the 1 white poll .37- 1/2¢52. The 1837 Tax Roll for Greene County is the same as the 1836 Tax Roll.53 The 1838 Tax Roll was the same as for 1837.54 The 1839 Tax Roll is missing.55
The 1840 Federal Census Report of Greene County, Mississippi, page 2 is as follows: 1 male 70-79 – Bartholomew Ball, born 2 Dec. 1767 – 73 years old. One male 15–19 – Henry Augustus Ball born 10 Jan. 1821 – 19 years old. One female 60–69 – Charlotte Lee, born 27 Aug. 1781 – 59 years old. The remaining children at home in 1830, except for Henry Augustus, have left and married. They were Bartholomew, Margaret and Harriet. Some of the neighbors of William and Charlotte as listed on the census roll were the Turners, Taylors, Chathams, Roberts, Williams, Cokers, Landrys, Donhams, McInnises, Duprees, Brooms, Gibsons, Denneys, Evans, Greenes.56
The 1840 Tax Roll of Greene County has not changed for the Ball family from what it was in 1839.57 The 1841 Tax Roll for Greene County shows William Ball, Sr., with 320 acres of land on the Chickasawhay River, 0 poll, cattle 0, 1 clock value $5. Total tax .81-1/2¢. James S. Ball now has 40 acres, value $50, 1 poll, 1 clock at $30, cattle 50 head, total tax .58 The Tax Roll for 1842 shows James Ball with no taxable land, 1 clock at $25, 1 poll, 50 head of cattle, total tax .59 William Bartholomew Ball has been dropped from the tax roll for 1842.
There are no further references to him on any record anywhere except the Commissioner’s Report of 1846 in which it is indicated that he has died. William Bartholomew Ball died between the payment of the 1841 tax due date and the 1842 tax due date. The 1843-1847 Tax Roll of Greene County shows that James S. Ball continues with no land and 1 poll. Henry A. Ball appears on the tax roll for the first time, having turned 21 years of age in 1842. He paid his poll tax and that is all. He is not taxed on any land.60
The 1846 Land Commissioner’s Book, Greene County, Mississippi: The William Ball Estate NW1/4, Section 3, Township 1 South, Range 7 West – 160 acres at $1.00 per acre, value $69, Tax $.16-3/4¢. William Ball Estate NE1/4, NE1/4 of Section 5, Township 1 South, Range 7 West, 80 acres at $1.00 per acre, value $80. Tax $.20. William Ball Estate, N1/2, NW1/4 Section 5, Township 1 South, Range 7 West, 80 acres at $1.00 per acre, value $80, Tax $.20.61 The 1846 Land Commissioner’s Report Book shows 389 acres for the William Ball estate.
The 1850 Federal Census, State of Mississippi, County of Greene, page 76, dated 29 August 1850, Household 76, Family 91: Ball, Charlotte, 69 female, white, housewife, $200, Georgia Ball, Augustus, 26 male, white, farm laborer, Miss. Ball, Martha, 22 female, white, housewife, Miss. Ball, Henry, 4 male, white Miss. Ball, Charlotte 9 1/2 female, white Miss. Charlotte Lee Ball, widow, has replaced William Bartholomew Ball as the head of the house.62136
The 1860 census of Greene County, Mississippi, household 32, family 33, dated 18 July 1860, shows Charlotte Lee Ball living in the household of her son, James S. Ball. She is 79 years old.63 Charlotte Lee Ball died in 1869 at the age of 88. She is buried beside her husband in the William Bartholomew Ball Cemetery located on land that was once a part of the original 664 acre land grant of 1811, and within a stone’s throw of where their home was built, where they raised their nine children and lived out their lives.
The 4th of November, 1766, a citation was granted to Bartholomew Ball of St. Marks Parish, Craven County, South Carolina, to administer to the estate of John Brown, deceased; Bartholomew being the nearest of kin.64 He was also included as a beneficiary in his son Edward Ball’s will of 13 March 1777.65 Bartholomew had a son named William (Sarah Brown Ball was his mother), born Dec 2, 1777. This son is not listed on the Guardianship Document of 1755 so he had not been born at that time.66 This son was named in Edward Ball’s will as a brother.
William Brown, son of John Brown, deceased, of St. Marks Parish, Craven County, South Carolina, moved to Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia in 1788 and lived on Spirit Creek.67 A Neighbor was a William Lee and wife Charity who had a daughter, named Charlotte, born August 7, 1781 in Burke County, Georgia68. Charlotte Lee, wife of William Bartholomew Ball, according to Alex Monroe Family Bible, was born 27 August 1781, somewhere in Georgia. Perhaps William Bartholomew Ball was living with his half brother, William Brown, on Spirit Creek. William Bartholomew Ball and his wife, Charlotte Lee, lived on Spirit Creek the first few years of their marriage.
There is a family tradition story that William Bartholomew Ball had half brothers and sisters named Brown, but no full brothers or sisters named Ball. There are two more family tradition stories. The first is William Bartholomew Ball was never called William at home or with friends, but was known as Bartholomew or “Bart” because he had an older half brother named William Brown. The second story is the Bible of William Bartholomew and Charlotte was burned up. The sons and daughters gathered to rewrite the family information from memory that was in the Bible. They got the year Charlotte was born, 1781, correct, and they got the month correct, August, but they missed the day by twenty days. She was born on the seventh and not the twenty-seventh in Burke County, Georgia.
Bartholomew Ball married John Brown’s widow, Sarah Brown. It was the custom of that day that, if a widow remarried before her deceased husband’s estate was settled, her new husband assumed the duty of administrator of the deceased husband’s estate, because upon marrying the widow, her possessions became his legal property and responsibility and management. This is what happened in Bartholomew’s case and thus he was identified as John Brown’s “nearest of kin.”
William Brown, son of John Brown and wife Sarah, moved from Columbia County, Georgia to Augusta, Georgia in 1788 and lived on Spirit Creek. He was the administrator of his mother Sarah (Brown) Ball’s estate located in St. Marks Parish, Craven County, South Carolina; where she had lived all of her married life with her first husband, John Brown; then her second husband, Bartholomew Ball. William’s next-door neighbor on Spirit Creek was William Lee, his wife Charity and seven year old daughter, named Charlotte.137
William Bartholomew Ball came from St. Marks Parish, Craven County, South Carolina, where he was born and raised and where his father, Bartholomew Ball, had died between 1777 and 1788 and was buried; and his mother Sarah (Brown) Ball had lived and had died in 1788, to join William coming from Columbia County. William Bartholomew Ball may have continued to live on Spirit Creek and the first of January 1796, married, at age fifteen, Charlotte Lee, daughter of William Lee and wife Charity Lee. William Bartholomew Ball was twenty-eight years old.
William Lee, old and feeble and after the death of Charity in 1799, he had never broken his ties to England and may have returned to England. He was loyal to England and yet sympathetic to the Colonists, The story of William Lee, his wife Charity and children, is found in the book Georgians in the Revolution: At Kettle Creek (Wilkes County) and Burke County, by Robert Scott Davis, Jr., page 224. The preponderance of the evidence is clear. Bartholomew Ball came to St. Marks Parish, Craven County, South Carolina, after the Cherokee Expedition was ended, about 1765, married Sarah Brown, widow, prior to 4 November 1766; their son William Bartholomew Ball, born 2 December, 1767, married 1 January 1796, Charlotte Lee, born 7 August 1781, Burke County, Georgia, daughter of William Lee and wife Charity.
The children of William Bartholomew Ball and wife Charlotte Lee, as stated were: Edward Marshall Ball, married Elizabeth Scarborough in 1822 in Greene County, Mississippi. He enlisted in the Creek Indian War and served three months from August to November 1813. He enlisted and was discharged from St. Stephens, Mississippi. His age at enlistment was 17 years; he was 5’8” tall, weighed 120 pounds and had light red hair and light gray eyes, according to his enlistment papers. He was commissioned an Ensign in the 17th Regiment, Jackson County Militia, December 21, 1815. Edward was a farmer. In 1832 he and his family moved to Jasper County, Mississippi.
James Sampson Ball, married Sarah Roberts, daughter of John Roberts, in Greene County about 1824. They continued to live in Greene County and raised ten children. James was a farmer as well as owned and operated a store and saloon. There was a Post Office in his store for a while. An old county map identified his place as the Ball Community. Sarah Ann Ball, married at age 20, which was in the year 1820. There is no further information at this time.
Eliza Ball, married Irvin Barnes Roberts, brother of Sarah Roberts Ball. They moved to Hinds County about 1834 and lived near Brandon. Irvin was the manager of the McManus and Laurin Plantations there. William Lee Ball, married in 1828 in Greene County and moved to Hinds County that year. He is listed on the 1840 census with three sons, no wife. He may have married again about 1842; had a daughter named Charlotte Ann, wife died and he married a third time to Harriet Powell of De Soto Parish, Louisiana. He bought land in De Soto Parish in 1848, died about 1850; buried in Powell family cemetery in Stonewall, De Soto Parish. He had a son named Sterling Luke Ball by wife Harriet, born 1850. William’s sons named William Lee, Jr., Ervin M., James S.
Bartholomew Ball, moved to Hinds County, Mississippi in 1832, where he married Nancy Rainey and continued to live there near Clinton. Bartholomew was a farmer.138 Susan Rebecca Ball, married to Burrell Eubanks in Greene County, and lived for a while in Jasper County near her brother, Edward Marshall Ball; they moved to Bastrop, in northeast Louisiana. Burrell was a farmer. Harriet Ball, married Edward Lyles and lived in Jasper County, east Texas; working in saw mills in the piney woods, then back home to Greene County where they lived out their lives. Edward was a farmer.
Henry Augustus Ball, married first Martha Lundy in 1845; second, Jane Courtney in 1870, and fathered a total of 18 children. They lived in the Vernal Community of Greene County. Henry enlisted in the Mississippi Cavalry, 9th Regiment in the Civil War and was wounded, for which he drew a pension. He also received a Bounty Land Grant, acreage unknown. He farmed and was also in the logging business. The religion of these children was either Baptist or Methodist. The above is a good base of foundation on which to build a proven history and genealogy with documentation of these children and their descendants to the present day. This miscellaneous family history information was obtained from multiple sources and has not been proven.70
NOTES AND REFERENCES
1. A copy of the Bible record of Alex Monroe Ball, now in the possession of Paul Z. Ball of Leakesville, Mississippi. 2. Loose Marriage bonds and licenses in the Office of the Ordinary, Richmond County, Georgia. 3. 1793 – 1800 Tax Digest of Richmond County, Georgia, tax year of 1795, does not list William Bartholomew Ball. 4. A copy of the Bible record of Alex Monroe Ball, now is the possession of Paul Z. Ball of Leakesville, Mississippi. 5. 1793-1800 Tax Digest of Richmond County, Georgia – tax year of 1797 lists William Bartholomew Ball.
6. A copy of the Bible record of Alex Monroe Ball, now in the possession of Paul Z. Ball of Leakesville, Mississippi. 7. 1793-1800 Tax Digest of Richmond County, Georgia – tax year of 1800, William Bartholomew Ball does not appear. 8. A copy of Bible record of Alex Monroe Ball, now in the possession of Paul Z. Ball. 9. All known records checked without finding them – the tax rolls, land records, jury lists, militia rosters. 10. A copy of the Bible record of Alex Monroe Ball, in the possession of Paul Z. Ball.
11. Richmond County, Georgia, Superior Court Minutes, Vol. 7, 1801 – 1804, page 142. 12. A copy of the Bible record of Alex Monroe Ball, now in the possession of Paul Z. Ball, Leakesville, Mississippi. 13. The 1805 Georgia Land Lottery, by Virginia S. and Ralph V. Wood, page 15. 14. Book No. A of Inventories, Accounts, Sales, Divisions and Year’s Support, 1799 – 1813, Richmond County, Georgia. 15. Richmond County, Georgia, Court of the Ordinary Minutes, 1804 – 1819, page 81.139
16. A copy of the Bible record of Alex Monroe Ball, now in the possession of Paul Z. Ball, Leakesville, Mississippi. 17. Richmond County, Georgia, Tax Digest for the year 1807. 18. The Second Or The 1807 Land Lottery of Georgia, by the Rev. Silas Emmett Lucas, Jr. Published in 1968. 19. The Land Register Book, page 75, in the Surveyor General’s Office, Atlanta, Georgia, for Baldwin County, 6th District. 20. The 1809 Tax Digest of Richmond County, Georgia, page 79.
21. Court of the Ordinary Minutes 1804 – 1819, page 170, for Richmond County, Georgia Jury Lists. 22. Georgia Executive Proceedings, February 1808 to November 1809, Page 495, Georgia Department of Archives and History, Atlanta, Georgia. 23. The Inferior Court Book, 1805 – 1818, page 108, Richmond County, Georgia. 24. American State Papers: Documents Executive and Legislature of the Congress of the United States. 38 Volumes at Washington D.C. by Gales and Seaton, 1861. Lands Series, Vol. III, page 37.
25. A copy of the Bible record of Alex Monroe Ball, now in the possession of Paul Z. Ball, Leakesville, Mississippi. 26. Petitions and Memorials, 14th Congress, 14A – F13.1. 27. A copy of the Bible record of Alex Monroe Ball, now in the possession of Paul Z. Ball, Leakesville, Mississippi. 28. House Journal of Congress, the 1th(?) Congress, 2nd Session, page 51ff, located in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 29. The 1816 Mississippi Territory Federal Census Records of Jackson County has been lost.
30. State of Mississippi Department of Archives and History, microfilm Tax Rolls, Jackson, Mississippi. 31. A copy of the Bible record of Alex Monroe Ball, now in the possession of Paul Z. Ball, Leakesville, Mississippi. 32. Microfilm Department, Mississippi State Department of Archives and History, Jackson, Mississippi. 33. United States Commissioner’s Report No. 12, Certificate No. 74, and Private Land Claim File – William Ball. Located in the National Archives and Records Service Department.
34. The 1820 Federal Census Record: State of Mississippi, County of Jackson, Census page 45A. 35. Microfilm Department, Tax Rolls, Mississippi State Department of Archives and History, Jackson, Mississippi. 36. A copy of the Bible record of Alex Monroe Ball, now in the possession of Paul Z. Ball, Leakesville, Mississippi. 37. Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Microfilm Tax Rolls, Jackson, Mississippi. 38. Warrant No. 16, The Land Office, Jackson, Mississippi; Department of Archives and History.140
39. Department of Archives and History, Microfilm Tax Rolls; Jackson, Mississippi. 40. By authority of the Act of Congress of April 25, 1812, and recognized by a subsequent Act approved March 3rd , 1819. 41. Microfilm Department, County Tax Records, Department of Archives and History; Jackson, Mississippi. 42. Microfilm Department, County Tax Records, Department of Archives and History; Jackson, Mississippi. 43. Microfilm Department, County Tax Records, Department of Archives and History; Jackson, Mississippi.
44. Microfilm Department, County Tax Records, Department of Archives and History; Jackson, Mississippi. 45. Microfilm Department, County Tax Records, Department of Archives and History; Jackson, Mississippi. 46. Federal Census: State of Mississippi, County of Greene, Census page 9. The 1830 population census. 47. Microfilm Department, County Tax Records, Department of Archives and History; Jackson, Mississippi. 48. Microfilm Department, County Tax Records, Department of Archives and History; Jackson, Mississippi.
49. Microfilm Department, County Tax Records, Department of Archives and History; Jackson, Mississippi. 50. Microfilm Department, County Tax Records, Department of Archives and History; Jackson, Mississippi. 51. Microfilm Department, County Tax Records, Department of Archives and History; Jackson, Mississippi. 52. Microfilm Department, County Tax Records, Department of Archives and History; Jackson, Mississippi. 53. Microfilm Department, County Tax Records, Department of Archives and History; Jackson, Mississippi.
54. Microfilm Department, County Tax Records, Department of Archives and History; Jackson, Mississippi. 55. Microfilm Department, County Tax Records, Department of Archives and History; Jackson, Mississippi. 56. 1840 Federal Census: State of Mississippi, County of Greene, Census page No. 2. 57. Microfilm Department, County Tax Records, Department of Archives and History; Jackson, Mississippi. 58. Microfilm Department, County Tax Records, Department of Archives and History; Jackson, Mississippi.
59. Microfilm Department, County Tax Records, Department of Archives and History; Jackson, Mississippi. 60. Microfilm Department, County Tax Records, Department of Archives and History; Jackson, Mississippi. 61. Records of Greene County, Mississippi – 1853 State Census, compiled by Ben and Jean Strickland, Vol. III, pages 17 and 18.141 62. 1850 Federal Census: State of Mississippi, County of Greene, page 76. 63. 1860 Federal Census: State of Mississippi, County of Greene, Household 32/Family 33.
64. Charleston Court of the Ordinary Journal, December 21, 1704 to August 29, 1771, page 40 – Bartholomew Ball. 65. Liberty County, Georgia, Will Book A, 1791 – 1822, pages 38 and 39, Georgia State Archives, Atlanta, Georgia, -Bartholomew Ball. 66. South Carolina (WPA) Typescript Miscellaneous Records, Vol. 83-A, page 313, South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South CarolinaBartholomew Ball. 67. Plat Book A, page 333; Deed Book E, page 258 – 259. Richmond County Land Deeds; Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia.
68. Georgians In The Revolution: At Kettle Creek (Wilkes County) and Burke County by Robert Scott Davis, Jr., page 224. 69. Family tradition stories told by Mrs. Myrtle Loyless and Mr. Thomas I. Ball, both deceased. These stories were told to Mrs. Loyless by the “Old Timers” of her family when she was young. Mr. Thomas Ball related the same story in his letters to Mr. Leon Hollingsworth of Georgia, who was the foremost genealogist of his time in the southeastern states.
70. This miscellaneous family history, information heard and remembered over the years from many sources has not been proven.142