Charles BALLOW

                   «b»1860 Federal Census«/b» - Marengo, Alabama (Ballen in index)
Ballow, W.H. - age 46
Ballow, Rebecca - age 36
Ballow, Rebecca - age 12
Ballow, Louisa - age 11
Ballow, Ema - age 8
Ballow, Wm. H. - age 6
Ballow, Sallie - age 4
Ballow, Charles - age 2
Ballow, John Thomas - age 1

William Henry Ballow died 3 November 1867 and is not found in the 1870 census.

«b»Old Spring Hill Methodist Cemetery, Marengo, Alabama«/b» - Ballow, W.H. - born 6 Mar 1813 - died 3 Nov 1867 - husband of RW
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1850 US Census «/b»- Film #2352 - Image#00118 - Reference#14 - Dwelling #840
Wm H. Ballow - resident of Marengo, Alabama - age 37 yrs - estimated birth yr 1813 - born in Virginia - male
Rebecca W. Ballow - resident of Marengo, Alabama - age 25 yrs - estimated birth yr 1825 in Virginia - female
Louisa A. Ballow - resident of Marengo, Alabama - age 10 months - estimated birth yr 1850 - born Alabama - female
Rebecca A. Ballow - resident of Marengo, Alabama - age 2 yrs - estimated birth yr 1848 - born Alabama - female

«b»Genealogical Abstracts from the Southern Republican«/b»
Pg. 4 - State of Alabama, Marengo County, Probate Court, 11 Jan 1869
Estate of W.H. Ballow, deceased.  The estate of said deceased having this day been declare insolvent by said Court, it is ordered that the 3rd Monday of March 1869, be appointed a day for Mrs. Rebecca Ballow, administratix of said estate, to appear and make settlement og her accounts, preparatory to turning over the property of said decedent, which now remains unadministered. . P.E. O'Connor, Judge

«b»Genealogical Abstracts from the Southern Republican«/b»
Pg. 63 - State of Alabama, Marengo County, Probate Court, 8 Nov 1869
Estate of W.H. Ballow, deceased.  This day came Rebecca Ballow, administratrix of said estate, and filed her statements, accounts, vbouchers and evidences for a final settlement of her said administration.  It is ordered that the 13th day of December 1869, be appointed a day on which to make such settlement. . . P.E. O'Connor, Judge
                  

                   BIRTH: This male child was under 10 yrs old in the 1820 Census of Cumberland,
VA.

1870 Census - Linden- Marengo - Alabama - 26 June 1870
Ballow, Edwin - age 51 - born VA
Ballow, Mary M. - age 40
Mary E. - age 16
Charles - age 10
Fanny - age 5
Sola - age 5/12

1880 Census - Linden - Marengo - alabama - Beat #16 - 30 June 1880
Ballew, M.M. - female - age 52
Charles - age 18
Fannie - age 14
Odessa - age 9
Eugene - age 6

Could have been in Union Army during Civil War - Ballow, Edwin - Union - Infantry - 2nd Regiment, Kentucky Infantry

«b»US Civil War Soldiers 1861-1865«/b» - E.A. Ballow - Confederate from Alabama - 3rd Regiment, Alabama Reserves - Company I - Rank: Private - Film # M374 roll 3

«b»Alabama Marriage Collection 1800-1969- Ancestry.com - «/b»
Edwin A. Ballow married to Mary M. Sims - married 15 April 1848 in Greene County, Alabama - source: Hunting for Bears
                  

                   Lot 46 Grave 1

John Franklin was 36 on the 1860 Census.
He was 50 on the 1870 Census.
He was a plasterer.
The last name is sometimes spelled Ballou, Ballew, Ballow

«b»Film 1862619 - Index to Homesteads in San Joaquin 1860-1921«/b»
Ballow, J.F. - 17 June 1863 - declaration - Bk. H  - Vol. 1 - Pg. 364 & 365

«b»Land Deed«/b» - R.P. Hammond and wife Sallie E. Hammond by attorney deed to J.F. Ballou - 11 July 1860 between Richard P. Hammond and his wife of San Joaquin, California and J.F. Ballou of Stockton - paid $67.00 for Lots 9 and 11 of Block 57, east of Center Street

Sources of family information:
1860 Census, Stockton, San Joaquin, CA
1870 Census, Stockton, San Joaquin, CA (3rd District)
1880 Census, Sacramento, CA (daughters Mae Nellie and Elvy living with
Elvalina's brother John)
San Joaquin Co., CA Marriages
1880 Census, Tulare Co., CA (Ada  living with Eugenia)
"Gold Rush Days" Vol. 2:3; 6:27
Stanislaus Co., CA Marriages Records 4:240
Stanislaus Co., CA Great Register
Personal visit to Oakdale Citizens Cemetery, Oakdale, Stanislaus, CA 7/2000 by D. Wilberg and picture of headstone. Lot 46 Grave 1
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City Directory of Stockton, California«/b»
1870-71 Ballow, J.F.-plasterer - 317 San Joaquin
1871-72 Same as above
1873-74 Gone from city
1876-78 No Ballow

John F. Ballow was fined $7000 in 1873 - in 2001 that would be equivalent to $103,309.79

Death date of 17 July 1883 given on papers from Lewis Howell Smith per Laurena Gomez. - Death date taken from bible given to Laurena Gomez by her Aunt Clara Wyatt about 1909

«b»San Francisco Bulletin - 23 September 1873
The Ballou Case - Knives and Pistols Not a Proper Resort for Jealous Husbands«/b»
John Ballou has been on trial in the Muncipal Criminal Court on indictment of assault with a deadly weapon on George Sandford Barnabas Spooner, one of Mrs. Ballou's boarders.  The testimony showed that John was jealous of George and that on the night of the assault he came home at a late hour, and finding Mrs. Ballou absent, he concluded that she must be in the room of George Sandford Barnabas Spooner, a conclusion not justified by the facts, as she was in fact hiding in from her infuriated husband in the room of a lady boarder, La Du, a sick woman who occupied the back parlor while her cousin, John Lucas, slept in the front parlor. Mr. Ballou stormed about the house for an hour or more, inquiring for Mrs. B, going five or six times to the front parlor, then back;  Mrs. Ballou meanwhile flitting through the ?ding doors from one room to another to avoid him.  Finally Ballou went to a room occupied by John Greenhalgh, adjoining the bedroom of Spooner, and having in his hand a large butcher-knife, Greenhalgh was "airbli??' after the style of Barrabas in "Sea of Ice", and while in such fear, he seized a shot-gun and gave Ballou a tap on his head which laid him low, and while so lying, George Sandford Barnabas Spooner, came out of his room and pushed Ballou, with his carving knife downstairs; whereupon Ballou drew a pistol and fired a shot at Spooner, alightly (??ultimately) wounding him in the rear.

These facts being proved by many witnesses, testimony was introduced by the defense to prove that the shooting was done under great provocation; that defendant suspected his wife of intimacy with Spooner and being much incensed and unbalanced in mind, sought to do bodily injury as a remedy for his wrongs.  He took the stand himself and related his story, but failed to show any knowledge of wrongdoing on the part of Mrs. B. and Spooner. Charles Ballou, his son, testified that he had seen Spooner leave the house on several occasions, going in one direction, while his mother went in the opposite direction, the two meeting on the opposite side of the block and going on together.
Spooner being put on the stand, denied the boy's statement and Mr. Greenhalgh testified that the boy had said  to him that he would swear to anything to help his father.  The defense desired to put Mrs. Ballou on the stand to testify as to the statements made concerning her by the father and son,but counsel for the defense objected on the grounds that a WIFE CANNOT TESTIFY AGAINST HER HUSBAND.  And the Judge excluded the testimony, saying he would have excluded the husband's statements with regard to the wife, also, if objection had been made.  Counsel for the people stated that the reason why they did not object was that the impression would be left on the minds of the jury that they were fearful of the evidence.  Mr. Darwin, Assistance Prosecuting Attorney, took exceptions to this ruling of the Court on the ground that the defense by introducing such testimony by the husband, waived the right to exclude rebutting testimony on the part of the wife.  Mr. Darwin admitted that such testimony is inadmissible except in rebuttal of similar testimony already given.  The husband had been allowed to cast reflections upon the wife, and he thought it unjust and unlawful to deny her the right to clear herself of the imputations.  The case was submitted to the jury on charge from the Judge without argument by counsel. The jury retired soon after 12 o'clock today, and at 2 PMentered with a verdict of guilty.

«b»San Francisco Bulletin - 31 July 1873 - The Ballow-Spooner Family - Statement of the Wounded Man Regarding the Shooting Affair
«/b»The Police Judge, attended by the Prosecuting Attorney, visited the lodging house kept by Mrs.Ballow, on Howard Street, near Fourth, this afternoon, for the purpose of taking the testimony of Sanford Spooner regarding the wound which he received from a pistol in the hand of John F. Ballow, on Tuesdays last.  On being sworn, he testified as follows:

On Tuesday night last, Ballow's son came to my room and said his father was on another drunk, and he was afraid of him.  Presently Ballow himself came up and inquired for his children.  His son went out with him.  Between 10 and 11 o'clock some one came to the door and tried to get in.  The person went away and returned again.  Mr. Green, occupying the adjoing room, got up and opened the door.  Ballow stood there with a knife in his hand; Green had a shot-gun in his hand, and struck Ballow several times over the head; Ballow finally got the advantage of Green; then I interferred, and struck Ballow, and took the knife away from him.  I shoved him out of the room and took him downstairs.  I turned to leave him at the foot of the stairs, when Ballow turned on me and fired the shot which wounded me.  I was about three feet from Ballow when he shot me.  He said, "Take that," when he fired.  I did not strike him when taking him down stairs.  I turned round and faced him when he shot, as I heard the click of his pistol when he cocked it.  Ballou's wife was not in my room on the night of the shooting.  I did not know that Ballow was jealous of me in reference to his wife.  My relations with Mrs. Ballow have never been otherwise than proper.  I was not armed on Tuesday night, and had no suspicion that Ballow intended to harm me.

Spooner is now in a comparatively comfortable condition and in a fair way of recovery.  The Judge committed Ballow for trial on the charge of assault to murder, said he was conducted back to the City Prison.  The amount of bail will be fixed this evening.

«b»San Francisco Bulletin 30 July 1873 - The Howard Street Eruption - Examination of John F.Ballow for the Attempted Murder of Sanford Spooner
«/b»The examination of John F.Ballow, charged with shooting with intent to murder Sanford B. Spooner, which has been deferred from day to day since Thursday last, in consequency of the uncertain result of the wound inflicted, was commenced in the Police Court yesterday afternoon.  The affair occurred on the night of the 23d at No. 746 Howard Street, a lodging-house kept by Ballow and his wife, in which Spooner occupied apartments, and the circumstances have already been published at length.  The evidence so far taken; however, throws some light upon the motive or incentive to the murderous act, which had previously been attributed in a vague way to an unhealthy mental condition of the accused, resulting from dissipation and opium-eating.  Ballow is a man about 55 years of age, with noting in his appearance or manner to bear out the imputation maintained.  On the contrary he manifests perfect composure and good sense in reference to the matter, and seems to consider that the act whereof he is accused was justified by unbearable provocation.,

The evidence was to the effect that the relations between Ballow and his wife were not happy, and that Spooner had been a favorite of the lady for the past two years.  Mrs. Ballow left her husband at Stockton, where the family formerly resided, a year ago, on the pretext of visiting a sister at Sacramento, but instead she came to this city and took up a house, being joined immediately afterward by Spooner.  Ballow having discovered the whereabouts of his wife, again lived with her, and endeavored to break up the unhallowed intimacy with Spooner.  His appeals were answered by aggravating declarations from his wife that Spooner was a better man than he; that if Spooner went away, she would go with him, and other comforting assurances in the same vein.  Other details of the domestic affairs of the Ballow family went to show that the attempted tragedy was instigated by shameless perfidy and that Spooner was fortunate in having an avenger not given to insane passion, to that extent which injured husbands have developed in some instances.

Regarding the affray, it appeaerd from the evidence that Ballow had been looking through the house for his wife on the night in question, and not finding her elsewhere, naturally inquired at Spooner's room.  Ballow claimed to have a case-knife in his hand at the time of opening the door.  After a brief altercation, Ballow was pummelled over the head with a shot gun in the hands of Greenhatch, Spooner's room-mate.  Spooner then took a hand in the affray, knocked Ballow down and dragged him down stairs, threatening to kill him.  At the foot of the stairway Ballow recovered himself and discharged a derringer at Spooner, with the result already described.  Spooner had a pistol also in his possession which had been furnished to him by Mrs. Ballow to defend himself against her own husband.  Such is the interesting aspect of affairs in the Ballow-Spooner family.

After hearing the evidence of witnesses present, including the statement of defendent, the examination was continued until this afternoon, when the Court appointed to attend at the bedside of the wounded man and receive his version of the affair.

«b»Stockton Daily Independent«/b» - August 5, 1872, Monday
Stockton Fire Department - Following is a list of the active members of the Stockton Fire Department, whose names are on the voting roll.  The election for Department officers takes place today:
Weber Engine Co. No. 1
Ballou, J.F.
Thresher, Thos.
Thresher, M.S.
Thresher, A.H.
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San Francisco Bulletin «/b»- 11 July 1882  (probably not our John Franklin)
Last Friday evening at Visalia, Mr. Ballou and son got into a quarrel with some Chinamen and during the dispute a Chinaman drew a pistol and shot the father.  The ball passed through his heart, killing him instantly.  The son took up the quarrel, and it is supposed stabbed a Chinaman to death.  The authorities arrested young Ballou.
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San Francisco Bulletin - 20 October 1873 «/b»
Fined for Shooting a Lodger
John F. Ballou conficted of assault to do bodily harm was before Judge Blake this morning on application for a new trial.  The motion was denied and the accused was sentenced to pay a fine of $100 or be imprisoned in the County Jail one hundred days.  Ballou shot and wounded a man who was lodging in his house on Howard Street, above Third, whose attentions to Mrs. Ballou were distasteful to him.

«b»San Francisco Bulletin - 23 July 1873
The Pistol and the Knife Details of a Terrible Affray - One Ballon Attacks Three Men With a Knife and Pistol, and Shoots Spooner Sanford Through the Left Breast - The Wounded Man Likely to Die - A Howard Street Lodging House the Scene of the Affair

«/b»An episode invested with thrilling interest, though painful in the extreme to the parties immediately concerned and their many friends, occurred last night in the stylish mansion No. 746 Howard street, devoted to the purposes of a boarding and lodging house by J.F. Ballou and lady, and although no official investigation has been held and the facts gleaned have not the prestige of sworn declarations, enough is known of the sad affair to afford material for a strange and exciting narrative.

Mrs. Ballou is a lady on the other side of forty, and in appearance and behavior, according to reportorial observations, is worthy and intelligent, and a good wife and mother; but Mr. Ballou is a man nearer fifty, has hair and whiskers intermingled with gray, and carries in his countenance the traces of a dissipated career; indeed, he appears to have been wrecked both mentally and physically by a course of persistence intemperance.  Until within a year Mr. Ballou was almost constantly under the influence of alcoholic stimulants.  With a view to reformation, and in the hope that he might succeed in recuperating his flagging energies, he substituted opium for liquor, and, under, the influence of this narcotic, lost his taste for strong drink, and seemed likely to again possess the manhood that dissipation had almost succeeded in wresting away.

But he was marked for a victim, and contended only with inevitable fate, for the drug that obviated the necessity of spiritual indulgence by turning his appetite in another direction, warped his judgment, and so seriously affected his reason that he became the victim of emotional insanity and was considered by his wife entirely unaccountable for any act that the flights of his fancy might impel him to commit.   Recently, as she says, he has evinced a spirit of combativeness that was entirely at variance with his character when of sound mind, and he caused her continual apprehension for his safety and her own.  She had even though of securing his admission to the Insane Asylum - had seriously entertained a proposition to that effect, and was only prevented from taking the proper course in the premises by those delicate thoughts that arise in cases where one's near and dear relatives are concerned.  Too late and at an awful cost she has learned her mistake and appreciates the error of her course.

«b»Hunting for a Victim«/b» - During last evening Mrs. Ballou's attention was devoted to the entertainment of a few lady and gentlemen friends, who had called by invitation, to pass a few hours in the light and harmless pleasures of card and conversation, hence events that transpired out of the parlor were not wholly under her observation.  Still she has a general knowledge of the trouble in the house and is competent to tell the story and to her the reporter is mainly indebted for his data.

Between the hours of eight and ten o'clock, Mr. Ballou two or three times visited a room in the second story, which was occupied by three gentlemen, and, by various offensive remarks and otherwise, endeavored to bring about a personal collision between himself and the parties, using language calculated to provoke even a person of almost imperturbable temper; and at each visit he was called and then mildly but firmly ejected and advised to retire to his own quarters and there remain.  Mr. Ballou was not to be suppressed in this manner, as it appears from subsequent events, and instead of complying with the reasonable request to stay away, he ransacked the basement until he found a large knife, and then, armed with this murderous weapon and a derringer, he again approached the room from whence he had been removed and demanded admittance, and that, too, without delay.  "Go away," said the lodgers, "we'll not let you in and we are tired of this nonsense."  The refusal to receive him aggravated 
                  

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«b»U.S. Civil War Soldiers 1861-1865 - Ancestry.com
«/b»James Ballow - Confederate - from Alabama - 51 Regiment,  Alabama Partisan Rangers - Company K - Rank in: private - rank out: private - Film Number M374

«b»US Census 1850 - Film #2353 «/b»- Image #00031- Reference #30 -Dwelling #200-Household id#209
James Ballow - residence Mobile, Alabama - age 20 yrs - estimated birth year 1830 - born Alabama - male -

, , Alabama, United States

First person buried in White Hall Cemetery
«b»White Hall Register Newspaper
«/b»Jas. B. Ballow, Company E. - born 28 May 1824; died 21 April 1862 - buried in White Hall Cemetery, White Hall, Greene County, Illinois

«b»White Hall Cemetery, White Hall Township, Greene, Illinois«/b»
Ballow, J. B. - born 24 May 1824 - died 21 April 1862 - age 38 years 11 months 3 days - 2nd Lieutenant, Company E. 61st Illinois Infantry Reg. IL Volunteer - Sec. 16

«b»Find a Grave «/b»- Liet James B. Ballow, Sr.
Birth: 24 May 1824 - Virginia, USA
Death: 21 April 1862 in st. Louis City, Missouri, USA
Age 38 years 11 months 3 days

«b»US Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles at ancestry.com«/b»
James B. Ballow - resides: Illinois - enlistment date: 7 Dec 1861 - Rank at enlistment: Private - State served: Illinoia - survived the War?: No - Service Record:  Enlisted in Company E., Illinois 61st Infantry Regiment on 5 Feb 1862.  Mustered out on 21 April 1862 at Saint Louis, MO.  Promoted to full 2nd Lieutenant on 7 Mar 1862 - Sources:  Illinois: Roster of Officers and Enlisted Men


2nd Lt. Co. E, 61st Regiment Illinois Volunteers
Husband of Priscilla Ballow 1831-1920

Children:  Cornelia A.
                  Charles Albert Ballow (1847-1922)
                  James B. Ballow (1856- )
                  William H. Ballow (1859-1940)
                  Laura A. Ballow (1861-1881)
Buried: White Hall Cemetery, White Hall, Greene County, Illinois, USA

«b»U.S. Military Hospitals - Certificate For Government Undertaker John A. Smithers, «/b»Office No. 113 Chesnut, between Fifth and Sixth Streets, Saint Louis, Missouri
Name of Deceased - Lieut J. Ballou - Name of Regiment - 61st Illinois Infantry Volunteer - company E. - died 21 April 1862 in City General Hospital of chronic Diarrhea - J.T. Hodgen - Brig. Surgery - at death age 34 years - Height 5 ft 10 1.2 in - light complexion - hazel eyes - light hair

Fought in the Battle of Pittsburg Landing in the State of Tennessee

In May 12 1890 a Sarah Shepell, formerly Ballow, residing at Keokuk, Iowas, claimed to be the widow of the soldier James B. Ballow.  She attests that she was married to the soldier 9 March 1853 at Petersburg, Iowa, by a Justice of the Peace Esquire Holton, J.P. at Wardena, Iowa and that her maiden name was Sarah Kellog.   On 28 Nov 1890 an attorney by the name of Osborn forwarded a letter from the Clerk of the District Court of Fayette County, Iowa who states that he cannot find record evidence of marriage of James B  Ballow to Sarah Kellog - He did find a record of the issuance of a license to James Ballow and Mary Kellog in March 1854

On 31 July 1889 J.W. Osborn, Keokuk, Iowa filed a claim for Sarah A. Hovey residing at 428 Exchange Street.  Claimant swears that the soldier was born at Liverpool, England, 24 May 1830 was 5 ft 6 1/2 in in high - light complexion - dark hair - occupation laborer.  That he died leaving Sarah M. Ballow (widow) who again married 1 April 1867 and claimant who is the only surviving child.

«b»Marriage Certificate, State of Iowa, Lucas County - 1 April 1866«/b» at the house of Jacob Cousins - joined in marriages Mr. Elmus Shappell and M Sarah Barlow - A. Burris, Minister - (notice the wife was Sarah Barlow ??????)  - child was named Sarah A. Ballow , born 4 February 1856 and who married a Hovey

«b»Cemeteries of Greeen Co., Illinois - White Hall Township by Edna McMahan Secrest - c. 1986
«/b»Highstreet Cemetery:
Dennis Nash - 13 Jan 1846 - 19 Feb 1923
Annis Nash, his wife - 12 Mar 1851 - 2 Feb 1918

- Ballow, J. B., died 21 April 1862 in St. Louis, age 38 years 11 months 3 days - 2nd Lieutenant Company E 61 Regiment Illinois Volunteers
                  

                   «b»Find a Grave - George A. Ballow
«/b»Born 10 Dec 1829 - died 18 March 1896 -
Husband of Margareta A (Nash) Ballow
Children: James H. Ballow (1869-1874)
Burial: High Street Cemetery, White Hall, Greene, Illinois, USA

«b»1880 Federal Census - Mill Creek, Bourbon, Kansas«/b»
George A. Ballow - age 53 yrs - born about 1827 in Virginia - white - male - head of house: self - married - spouse: Margaret M. Ballou - Father's birthplace: Virginia - Mother's birthplace: Virginia - occupation Farmer
Ella Ballou - daughter
Emma J. Ballou - daughter
Kate Ballou - daughter

«b»Biographies - 1879 History of Greene County, Illinois: Its Past and Present«/b»
Chicago: Donnelley, Gassett & Loyd Publishers - Pg. 643
Ballow, G.A., farmer and stock raiser, Sec. 30, P.O. White Hall, was born 10 December 1826 in Virginia.  Came to Greene County, Illinois, July 1845.  Was married 24 December 1848 to Margaret North, the daughter of W.H. North, who was born in Sept 1818; had eight children, two of which are dead; Burley E., born 2 September 1850; Laura, born 6 July 1853, died 7 July 1863; Charles J., born 14 January 1855; Lizzie M., born 20 January 1857; Sarah E., born 10 December 1859; Emily J., born 10 August 1862; Catharine B., born 31 January 1865; James H., born 4 July 1869, died 12 December 1874.  The father and mother of Mr. Ballow died in Virginia when he was very small.  He came to Greene County, Illinois when he was 19 years of age, and started in life as a farmer, and owns 50 acres of well improved land.

Residence 1850: North of Apple Creek, Greene, Illinois
Residence: 1880:  Mill Creek, Bourbon, Kansas
Residence: 1882: Christian, Illinois

Richmond was never part of Wise County.  Prior to 1870 it was part of Henrico, VA

«b»Illinois County Marriages, 1810-1934 (new.familysearch.org)«/b»
George A. Ballow - married 1882 in Christian, Illinois - age 55 born about 1827 - Father: Charles Ballow - Mother: Elizabeth Taylor - Spouse: Isabelle Jarvis - age 39 yrs - spouse born about 1843 - Father Phillip - Mother: Mary Toriman - GSA Film Number: 986722 - Digital Folder Number:  004539322 - Image Number: 00092

«b»Illinois County Marriages, 1810-1934 (new.familysearch.org)
«/b»George A. Ballow - marriage 1882 in Christian, Illinois - age 56 - born about 1826 - spouse: Isabell Vandyke, Mrs. - Film #987611 - Digital Folder # 004539324 - Image #00379

«b»Cemeteries of Greeen Co., Illinois - White Hall Township by Edna McMahan Secrest - c. 1986
«/b»Highstreet Cemetery:
Ballow, Geo. A. - 10 Dec 1829 - 18 Mar 1896
Ballow, Margareta, wife of G. A. - 10 Sept 1828 - 3 Feb 1882