(From the records of Edna Ballard Schultz) 

 

This is a copy of an article printed in the Deadwood, So. Dak. paper
at the time Hugh Ballard passed away. Hugh is listed at the bottom of
page 2.

HUGH BALLARD, aged about 70 years, passed away yesterday afternoon at
the home of W. J. Shekles at Pluma, after an illness which had lasted
only about a week. While the deceased had not been in robust health
for several years, he was able to attend to little work which he did
about the farm of Mr. Sheckles with whom had been for the past fifteen
years, and who during the time of his illness gave him every attention
and provided him with every care. Mr. Ballard was one of the old time
prospectors of the Black Hills, and for a number of years followed
that avocation until an injury to one of his legs made it impossible
for him to get around as spryly as before it occurred. He was well
known in Deadwood, where he had made his home before going to live at
Pluma. He was a man whom everyone liked, honest, upright and gentle
and good of heart. He leaves a sister living somewhere in the East and
a brother in Marshalltown, Iowa who has been notified. Internment will
not take place until the brother has been heard from.

 

Hugh was never heard from after he went to Deadwood. There was no
sister living in the East or elsewhere and Jabez lived at Albion,
Iowa. He went to Deadwood for the funeral in January, 1917.