Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Amos Ball and Elizabeth Harper




Husband Amos Ball 1

           Born: 1793 - Washington Co, PA 1
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           Died: 17 May 1861 - Delaware Twp, Mercer Co, PA 1
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         Father: Caleb Ball (      -1814) 2 3
         Mother: Phoebe Walton (      -Bef 1888) 1


       Marriage: 1819 1



Wife Elizabeth Harper 1

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           Died: 1 Apr 1881 1
         Buried:  - Delaware Twp, Mercer Co, PA


         Father: Daniel Harper (      -      ) 1
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Children
1 F Phoebe Ball 1

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2 M Caleb Ball 1

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3 F Elizabeth Ball 1

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4 M Amos Walton Ball 1 4

           Born: Aug 1824 - Coolspring Twp, Mercer Co, PA 1
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           Died: 1889 4
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         Spouse: Eliza Jane Earley (1832-1912) 5


5 M Francis Asbury Ball 1

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6 F Lucinda Ball 1

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7 M William Fletcher Ball 1

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General Notes: Husband - Amos Ball


He served in the War of 1812.
He came to Worth Township in Mercer County, PA, in 1794, and to Delaware Township in 1824. He died on his farm there and his remains now lie at rest in the graveyard on the old homestead by the side of those of his wife. They were members of the Methodist church, and he in politics was a Democrat. He was a local minister of the Methodist denomination, and was a justice of the peace of Pymatuning, Hempfield, Otter Creek and Delaware Townships for thirty or forty years, having been appointed by the different governors of the state of Pennsylvania.

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Sources


1 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 837.

2 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1071.

3 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 837, 968.

4 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 300.

5 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 838.


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