Nathaniel A. BALL

  General Notes:

PHOTO: submitted by Roger Greenough. Photographer: McVicker Bros., Mapleton, IA.

1830 OH CENSUS, Monroe Co, Union Twp:
Daniel Ball
3 males under 5
1 male 5-9
1 male 20-29
1 female under 5
1 female 20-29

1880 IA CENSUS, Monona Co, Mapleton:
Nathaniel Ball, 57, day laborer, b. OH, parents b. OH, could not read or write;
Mary, 14, keeping house;
William, 10;
dau. Idella, 8;
dau. Adah, 6;
son Nathaniel, 21, farm, home;
son Elish, 17, farm, home.
All children were b. IA and parents b. OH.
(Listed next to them on the census was the family of Daniel Ball.)

INDEX OF DR. WILLIAM W. ORDWAY'S LEDGER, Castana, Monona Co, IA 1880-1891 (he loaned money to early settlers):
Nathaniel Ball - Feb 22, 1888 p. 51 (unclear whether this is Nathaniel Ball Sr. or Jr.)

1900 IA CENSUS, Monona Co, St. Clair Twp:
Nathaniel A. Ball, June 1931, 68, wd, b. OH, parents b. OH.
He was living with his widowed daughter, Dianah Leach.

1905 IA STATE CENSUS, Monona Co, St. Clair Twp, Mapleton P.O.:
"Nathanal" Ball, Mrs. Diana Leach, Elisha E. Leach, and Ada E. Ball were all listed together.

IA CERTIFICATE OF DEATH: Nathan Ball was sick for 13 days before he died of LaGrippe (flu) and old age in St. Clair Twp, Monona Co, IA; 79 yrs old 8 months; b. Jun - , 1829; d. Feb 23, 1909; father: Daniel Ball who was b. VA; mother: not listed; buried Feb 25, 1909 in Heisler Cem, Monona Co, IA; widower; farmer; informant: Mr. Burch of Mapleton, IA.

Nathaniel married Hester Mary WICKHAM, daughter of Leicester "Lester" WICKHAM and Diana WICKHAM, about 1846 in OH. (Hester Mary WICKHAM was born in Jun 1830 in OH and died in 1875 in Mapleton, Monona Co, IA ^{2 3}.)