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     Jonathan Ball 3d was born on 24 Apr 1729 at Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts.¹ He was the son of Jonathan Ball and Elizabeth Old.¹ Jonathan Ball 3d was baptized on 29 Jun 1729 at Second Church of Christ, Springfield (West Springfield), Hampden County, Massachusetts.² He died on 7 Mar 1760 at age 30.³

     Lebbeas Ball was born on 11 Nov 1739 at Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts.¹ He was the son of Jonathan Ball and Elizabeth Old.¹ Lebbeas Ball married Thankful Stow on 20 May 1762 at Granville, Massachusetts.² Lebbeas Ball died c 1806 at Onandaga County, New York.³ He was buried at Sweet Cemetery, Pompey, Onandaga County, New York.⁴
     Through his daughter, Elizabeth (Ball) Jerome, Major Lebbeus Ball (and thus Robert Old) is among the ancestors of Jennie Jerome, mother of Sir Winston Churchill.⁵
     "Our chapter president, Wayne Rogers, recently traveled three thousand miles to mark the unmarked grave of a patriot ancestor, Major Lebbeus Ball ..."
"On May 10th [2003], a VA marker, Order of Cinncinatti Marker and SAR grave marker were installed on patriot Major Lebbeus Ball's (b. 1738 died 1806) grave at Sweet Cemetery in Pompey, New York."⁴

     Stephen Ball was born on 20 Aug 1730 at Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts.¹ He was the son of Jonathan Ball and Elizabeth Old.¹ Stephen Ball was baptized on 25 Oct 1730 at Second Church of Christ, Springfield (West Springfield), Hampden County, Massachusetts.²

     Susannah Ball was born on 2 Oct 1733 at Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts.¹ She was the daughter of Jonathan Ball and Elizabeth Old.¹ Susannah Ball was baptized on 17 Apr 1734 at Second Church of Christ, Springfield (West Springfield), Hampden County, Massachusetts.²

     Galen B. Ballard married Matilda E. Patton.¹ Galen B. Ballard died on 22 Jul 1864 at near Atlanta, Georgia.² He was buried at Marietta National Cemetery, Marietta, Georgia.³
     Galen B. Ballard and Matilda E. Ballard appeared on the census of Jun 1860 at Dallasburgh, Hamilton Township, Warren County, Ohio, as follows:
     397/397 G. B. Ballard, 25, painter, b. Virginia
      Matilda E. " , 22, b. Ohio
      A. S. " , 5, female, b. Ohio
      G. W. " , 3, male, b. Ohio
      E. J. " , 2, female, b. Ohio
      S. P. " , 1, male, b. Ohio.⁴
[These children appeared again as Anna, George, Eliza and Samuel OLDS in the 1870 census in the family of David and Matilda E. Olds] Galen B. Ballard
     Galen B. Balllard, Co. E, 47th Ohio infantry, has a pension card showing that his widow, Matilda E., applied for a pension 27 Oct 1867, application 71059 and certificate 49181. As guardian of minors, she applied 20 Jan 1868, application 156770, certificate 112754.⁶

     Grady Lewis Ballard was buried at Mountain View, Greer, South Carolina. He married Edith Elizabeth Burrell, daughter of Hughey Ezell Burrell and Daisy Elizabeth Duncan. Grady Lewis Ballard was born b 1936 at Spartanburg, Spartanburg County, South Carolina. He died on 6 Jun 1990 at St Francis Hospital, Greenville, Greenville County, South Carolina.¹
     His obituary states:
     "Grady L. Ballard
"Greenville -- Grady Lewis Ballad, 55, of 207-A Colonial Ave., died June 6, 1990, in St. Francis Hospital after an extended illness.
"A native of Spartanburg County, he was the husband of Edith Elizabeth Burrell Ballard and son of the late Margaret Gray Ballard. He was an electrician with Kerr Finishing Co. and of the Baptist faith.
"Also surviving are a son, Samuel Lewis Ballard of Greenwood; a step-daughter, Wanda Denise Littlefield of Greer; a brother, Claude Earl Ballard of Spartanburg; and a sister, Louise Roberts of Laurens.
"Visitation will be held from 7 to 9 tonight at the Wood Mortuary in Greer. Services will be at 4 p.m. tomorrow at the mortuary chapel by the Revs. Ernest Barr and Bobby Bowers. Burial will be in Mountain View Cemetery."¹

     Lillian A. Balliett was born on 23 Mar 1869.¹ She married Owen Walter Olds, son of Miles Olds and Dorothy J. West, on 27 Oct 1887.¹

     Margaret M. Balliett was born on 29 Sep 1871.¹ She married Elmer Seneca Olds, son of Miles Olds and Dorothy J. West, on 26 Dec 1894.¹

     Alman Ballou married Martha M. Larrabee, daughter of Timothy Laribee and Cynthia Olds.¹

     Clyde Balser married Lyla Edna Olds, daughter of Abe Olds and Mary Fedde.¹ Clyde Balser died on 23 Oct 1907.¹

     Apphia Bangs was born on 15 Oct 1651 at Eastham, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts.^1,2 She was the daughter of Edward Bangs and Rebecca (?).¹ Apphia Bangs married (2) Stephen Wood c 1676. His name is also given as Atwood.^1,3 Apphia Bangs died a 1722.^4,5

     Bethia Bangs was born on 28 May 1650.^1,2 She was the daughter of Edward Bangs and Rebecca (?).¹

     Edward Bangs was born c 1591. This is based on his 1677 will, giving his age as 86. His age may have been exaggerated.² He married (2) Rebecca (?).³
     Edward Banges arrived at New Plymouth on the Anne, late in July of 1623. He died at Eastham, MA, in 1678. His English background is unknown, although it has been suggested that he is the same as Edward Banges, baptized 28 Oct. 1591, in Panfield, near Braintree, Co. Essex, England as the son of John and Jane (Chaire) Banges.⁴ The will of John Banges, of Hempsted, Essex, dated 20 Aug. 1631, named sons John, Edward, Jonas, Sampson, and Joshua, grandchildren John and Elizabeth (children of son John ), nephew Thomas Banges and his (Thomas') brother John and sister Susan Bange, daughter Jane Payne and wife Jane (sole executrix). The will was proven at Dunmow on 20 Feb. 1631-2 by son James Banges by reason of the death of the executrix.⁵ Possible connections between this will and Edward Banges of Plymouth include reasonable chronology and the fact that Edward named his first son John and another Joshua.⁶

Shortly after the arrival of the Anne and the Little James in 1623, the Pilgrims agreed to divide some of their land among themselves. In this division, Edward Bangs was given "four acres for a garden plot on the other side of town towards Eel River".⁷ This entire list has been reprinted.⁸ Four acres, which was four shares, seem to be more than given to an ordinary single man, from which some have concluded that Bangs may have already been married by 1623. It is probably for this reason that Banks concluded that Edward Bangs had married Lydia, daughter of Robert and Margaret Hicks of Southwark, about 1612, and accompanied his mother-in-law and family to join his father-in-law who had come over on the Fortune and that the shares were for Edward and Lydia Bangs and their sons Jonathan and John.⁹

However, in the cattle division of 1627, when a share was made for each person (man, woman or child, but not for servants), Edward Bangs was the thirteenth member of the twelfth group which included Robert Hicks and family in which Lydia Hicks was a single person.¹⁰

He was made a freeman in 1633. In 1641, it was decided to build a forty to fifty ton barque at a cost of 200 pounds. Edward Bangs was granted eighty acres of land for contributing one-sixteenth part of the cost.¹¹ Anderson, however, says the Plymouth records do not support stating that the grant of land was connected with funding the ship construction and certainly do not support calling Bangs a ship builder but that he was called an innkeeper at times and a yeoman.¹²

In 1643, Edward Bangs was one of the men of Plymouth able to bear arms (age 16 to 60). In 1644, he moved to Eastham and was one of the seven men who, with their families, were founders of that town.¹³

In 1644, Edward Bangs was one of the founders of Nauset (Eastham since 1651) on Cape Code. The other Pilgrims who settled there included Thomas Prence, John Doane, Nicholas Snow, Josias Cook, Richard Higgins, and John Smalley.¹⁴ Bangs was transferred from the Plymouth to the Eastham list of freeman about 1639.¹⁵

In 1651, Edward Bangs and his wife Rebecca gave a deed to M. Kempton. This is the only record naming his wife for which a reference has been found.¹⁶

Torrey lists three marriages for this Edward Bangs. He married first in England, before coming to America in 1623. Then about 1627-1630, (apparently after the 1627 cattle division) he married Lydia Hicks and by 1636, he married Rebecca Hobart. Torrey supplies the two maiden names, but not from a marriage record.¹⁷ Virkus gives Rebecca as either Hobart orTracy, and it is probably best to consider her surname unknown.¹⁸ In one reference, Rebecca is given as born in England in 1608, daughter of Edmund and Margaret (Dewey) Hubbard¹⁹. The IGI shows several other records for a birth of a Rebecca Hobart in England about this time.²⁰ This Edmund Hobart and his daughter did come to Charlestown, Massachusetts by 1633.²¹ Anderson²² refers to Mary Walton Ferris' mention of a supposed entry in a Hobart diary indicating Rebecca was the daughter of Edmund Hobart of Hingham but dismisses this because the diary may not have existed.

According to Dudley³, there is no record of a first wife Lydia for Edward Bangs and there is no proof that Lydia was the name of the daughter of Robert Hicks whom Edward Bangs married, merely that Lydia is the only such daughter available. The wills of both Robert Hicks (dated 1645) and his wife Margaret (dated 1665) mention a grandson John Bangs and Dudley concludes that, of the Bangs children, John was the only one by Lydia and that all the others were children of Rebecca. Other authors have assigned all the children to Lydia, with no mention of Rebecca. NEED REF.

When Edward Bangs wrote his will on 19 Oct. 1677 he said he was 86 years old. This will, which is reprinted by Dudley, was brought to court for probate on 5 March 1677/78 and recorded in Plymouth Colony Records of Wills, Book 3, part 2, page 106. The will names his son Jonathan (sole executor), son John , son Joshua , daughter Howes, daughter Higgens, daughter Done, daughter Hall, daughter Merricke, daughter Atwood, and children of deceased daughter Rebecca. A comparison of this list with that in the estate of Joshua Bangs gives a reasonable reconstruction of the birth order of the children.

     Hannah Bangs was born s 1645.² She was the daughter of Edward Bangs and Rebecca (?).¹

     John Bangs was born s 1631.² He was the son of Edward Bangs.¹ John Bangs died in 1708.¹
     He left a will on 27 Jan 1702/3. It was probated 17 May 1708 and mentions no heirs except his wife.¹

     Capt. Jonathan Bangs was born s 1640 at Plymouth, Massachusetts.^2,3 He was the son of Edward Bangs and Rebecca (?).¹

     Lt. Joshua Bangs was born s 1646 at Plymouth, Massachusetts.^2,3 He was the son of Edward Bangs and Rebecca (?).¹ Lt. Joshua Bangs died on 14 Jan 1709/10.^1,4
     Edward called Joshua his son in a deed to Joshua for Eastham land, dated 23 Feb 1676.⁵
     His will was dated 20 Feb. 1706 and probated 7 Feb. 1709/10. According to the abstract by Dudley (from the Barnstable, MA probate record), Joshua Bangs instructed that a portion of his estate was to be divided into eight parts after the decease of his wife. One such part was to go to each of his living sisters Lydia Higgins and Apphia Atwood, and one such part to the heirs of each of his deceased sisters Rebecca Sparrow, sister Howes, Bethia Hall, Hannah Doane, Mercy Myrick, "and to Lydia, wife of Nicholas Snow, and her heirs one- eighth"¹. Both Dudley and the Higgins genealogy state that Lydia, widow of Benjamin Higgins, married Nicholas Snow. The date of the marriage is not given. Higgins quotes the town records of Eastham which "laid out to widdow Lydia Higgins for her naturaly life, a parcel of land .... "on 20 Aug. 1711⁶ but Dudley says she was living in Eastham in 1709 as the wife of Nicholas Snow. This cannot be the wife of Nicholas Snow that was intended by Joshua Bangs, however, since he would not have named one sister twice under two different surnames. The Eastham, MA, vital records⁷ show that a Nicholas Snow married Lydia Shaw on 4 April 1689. Nicholas was b. 6 Dec. 1663, son of Mark Snow and grandson of Nicholas Snow and she was a daughter of Jonathan and Phebe (Watson) Shaw.⁸ This may be the person who shared Joshua's estate. Phoebe (Watson) Shaw was a granddaughter of Robert Hicks⁹ but it appears that Joshua was not her cousin if the conclusion stands that Lydia Hicks was not his mother.

     Lydia Bangs was born s 1642.² She was the daughter of Edward Bangs and Rebecca (?).¹ Lydia Bangs married Benjamin Higgins, son of Richard Higgins and Lydia Chandler, on 24 Dec 1661 at Eastham, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts.^3,2 Lydia Bangs married Nicholas Snow a 1691.⁴

     Mercy Bangs was born on 15 Oct 1651.^1,2 She was the daughter of Edward Bangs and Rebecca (?).¹

     Rebecca Bangs was born s 1636.² She was the daughter of Edward Bangs and Rebecca (?).¹ Rebecca Bangs died b 1677.¹

     Sarah Bangs was born s 1638.² She was the daughter of Edward Bangs and Rebecca (?).¹

     Elizabeth Bannister married Simeon Olds, son of William Old and Damaris Gilbert, on 1 Apr 1773 at Brookfield, Worcester County, Massachusetts.² Elizabeth Bannister died on 30 Dec 1831 at Brookfield, Worcester County, Massachusetts.^3,4

     Louise Banta married Charles Schell.

     Eva Barbour was born on 19 Jul 1862 at Ohio.^2,3 She married Ralph S. Olds, son of Gilbert Ogden Olds and Sarah Catharine Showman, on 30 Oct 1894 at Delaware County, Ohio.¹ Eva Barbour died on 12 Apr 1940 at Kern County, California, at age 77.⁴
     Eva Olds and Ralph S. Olds appeared on the census of 1 Jun 1900 at Porter Township, Delaware County, Ohio, as follows:
     8/8 Olds, Ralph, head, b. Aug 1866, 33, marr. 5 yrs, b. Ohio, parents b. Ohio, farmer
      , Eva, wife, b. July 1862, 37, marr. 5 yrs, 0 children, 0 living, b. Ohio, father b. Connecticut, mother b. Ohio.²
Eva Olds and Ralph S. Olds appeared on the census of 20 Apr 1910 at 411 C Street, Bakersfield, Kern County, California, as follows:
     108/118 Olds, Ralph S., head, 44, marr. once, 15 yrs, chaffeur
      , Eva. wife. 47, marr. once, 15 yrs, 0 children, 0 living, b. Ohio, father b. N. Y., mother b. Ohio
      Barbour, Carl S., brother-in-law, 43, single, b. Ohio, father b. N. Y., mother b. Ohio, retired merchant.⁵
Eva Olds and Ralph S. Olds appeared on the census of 5 Jan 1920 at 1415 Beale Avenue, Bakersfield, Kern County, California, as follows:
     104/106 Olds, Ralpha [sic], head, 53, male, b. Ohio, parents b. Ohio, solicitor for creamery
      , Eva, wife, 57, b. Ohio, father b. Connecticut, mother b. Ohio.⁶
Eva Olds and Ralph S. Olds appeared on the census of 8 Apr 1930 at 1415 Beal Avenue, Bakersfield, Kern County, California, as follows:
     239/244 Olds, Ralph S., 63, first marr. at age 27, b. Ohio, parents b.Ohio, painter & carpenter, job work
      , Eva, 67, first. marr. at 32, b. Ohio, father b. Conn., mother b. Ohio.⁷

     Sarah Bardeen was born at Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Stephen Barden and Abigail Williamson. Sarah Bardeen married John Wood, son of David Wood and Mary Barker, c 1711. Sarah Bardeen died in 1726 at Massachusetts.

     Abraham Barden was born on 14 May 1674 at Barnstable, Massachusetts. He was the son of William Barden and Deborah Barker. Abraham Barden married Mary Booth on 20 Oct 1697 at Middleborough, Massachusetts. Abraham Barden died in 1729 at Middleborough, Massachusetts.

     Ann Barden was born on 26 Aug 1677 at Middleborough, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of William Barden and Deborah Barker. Ann Barden married Jonathan Morse in 1700 at Middleborough, Massachusetts.

     Benjamin Barden was born c 1679 at Barnstable, Massachusetts. He was the son of William Barden and Deborah Barker.

     Content Barden was born in 1679 at Barnstable, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of William Barden and Deborah Barker.

     Content Barden was born in 1685 at Barnstable, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of William Barden and Deborah Barker. Content Barden married Samuel Leach on 26 Mar 1725 at Middleborough, Massachusetts.