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Mathews-Williams Family Genealogy
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George Ball and his first wife, Ann, had two children.
George Ball and his first wife, Ann, had two children.
Albert Ball inherited "Clover Dale" from David Ball.
Jesse Ball inherited land in Amelia Co., VA. He and Frances had no children. His third wife, Eunice, was a sister of his second wife Frances.
Jesse and his last two wives were buried on a farm about two miles north of Fayette, Missouri. When "The Paynes of Virginia" was first published in 1937, pages 499-500 reads, "the graves are marked by moss-covered stones that are down, and the fence is in decay. The inscriptions are legible. Mrs. Frances E. Ball's reads in part - 'Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord'."
From, "The Paynes of Virginia", pp. 513-514:
In 1849, John Gibbs Ball, and his son-in-law William S. Flournoy, and a considerable party of others set out for California during the great Gold Rush, and had been on the road for several weeks, living on salt-pork and beans when the wagon-train encountered a herd of buffalo and shot some of them. The change of diet from salt to fresh meat, it was thought, made several persons ill, and resulted in thedeath of twon men, one of whom was John Gibbs Ball, who died June 17, 1849 in Colorado at what was then known as Big Timbers, on the Arkansas River about 40 miles below Fort Bent, a pioneer trading-post surrounded by a stockade as protection agains the Indians. From a letter written in 1895 by Mr. Flournoy the following is quoted - "The timber was all cottonwood and stood scattering on the ground. We had a top-floor in our wagon and I had a coffin made of it to bury him in, (referring to John Gibbs Ball). The grave was marked with head and foot boards only, there being no stone near."