|--------Reuben BALLARD (1748, VA or NC - 1820, KY)
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|---------John BALLARD (1779 - 1848, Iowa)
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| |--------Absilla A. ``Assala'' BALLARD ( - )
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|------Philip BALLARD (1802, Kentucky - 1877, Missouri)
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| | |--------John COX ( - )
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| |---------Jinney COX (1775, Kentucky - Indiana)
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| |--------Jinney ``Jane'' ( - )
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William Jasper BALLARD (1845, Illinois - 1924)
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|------Elizabeth PARKS (1810, Indiana - 1852, Iowa)
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According to a Marshall Co. cemetery index, W. M. J. Ballard died 14 Jul 1924 at age 78 and was buried at the Iowa Soldiers Home in Marshalltown. Born in Iowa, served in Co. A. 6th Iowa Cav., Civil War 46. The LDS AF has William Jasper Ballard born 1845--1846, and lists his first two marriages (Eliza Smith and Mary Devine). His third marriage is from the Gentry Co., Missouri record of the marriage of Wm. J. Ballard and Isabelle Dunkin combined with the 1900 Gentry Co. census showing William J. Ballard, born Feb 1846 in Iowa, father born Kentucky, mother Indiana, listed with his wife Belle (Isabelle). The age and birthplaces fits perfectly with this William Jasper and his father and brother and other relatives also moved to Gentry Co., Missouri. Included with them in the census are three children, Cecil, Thomas, and Alice. Thomas (b. June 1890) and Alice (b. July 1893) were children from Isabelle's first marriage to Mr. Dunkin. When Belle died, their Dunkin relatives took them in and raised them. Their family is still in the St. Joe area. Alice married a Beuer.
William Jasper's great-great-granddaughter Vicki Pickering confirmed
that he went by his middle name Jasper or `Jap' and wrote the following
about him:
The Pickerings called him
a wanderer. He would leave my grandmother and Uncle Reub in the care
of either the local orphanage or one of their older half siblings for
long periods of time.
His military service (according to my Uncle Dale Pickering) is as
follows: Marshall County Company A, 6th Reg of IA volunteers. His commanding
officer was a John Gallager. He signed up April 25, 1864, mustered in
May 5, 1864 at Davenport, IA. He served for three years.
He and a friend had heard about an Indian massacre which had occurred
in NW IA. They walked to the sight and were so enraged by the scene,
that they signed up to fight the Indians in the Border Wars in NW IA, the
Dakotas and MN. He lied about his age to get in. After he got out of
the service, he is said to have lived with the Indians on the Tama
Reservation for a time.
I remember Grandma Cecile talking about living with her half-brother
Frank so that had to have been Ballard. Dad said she was very fond of
him. I also visited Aunt Allie, her half-sister through her mother, in St.
Joseph, MO when I was a child.
My father's older brother and sisters remembered Jasper. They said he
was mean. I think their perception of him was largely negative and
probably did not reflect his true personality although, he would have to be
termed `colorful' by any definition.
According to a descendent of Clara, William Jasper and his kids lived with Clara Ellen and her family for a while after Isabelle died.
Various family traditions among descendents say that William died as a result of a car accident. He was living in the Iowa Soldiers Home and his son was taking him back to the Home
Sources for this individual: @S1262@ @S1288@ @S1297@
