Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Ball, Josiah October 4, 1913
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The Ionia Daily Sentinel, Thursday, October 9, 1913
The Rev. Josiah Ball entered into rest at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Wm. 
J. Ball in Berlin, Ionia county, Mich., on Saturday evening, October 4, at the 
ripe old age of 81 years, 5 months and 13 days.  He was born in Quidhampton 
near Salisbury, England, 21st April, 1833, and was the youngest son of the 
late Josiah Ball of the Town Mills, Salisbury, England, and a member of the 
English branch of the George Washington Ball family.  He came to American in 
April 1853 and followed newspaper editorial work in New York and later in 
Toronto, Stratford, Ottawa and Pembroke, Ontario, Canada, and also at 
Huntingdon, Province Quebec, Canada.  Giving up this work he taught 
successfully in various schools of the province of Quebec for several years 
and finally entered the ministry of the Church of England in the diocese of 
Montreal, Canada.  He was ordained a deacon in 1878 by the late Right Rev. 
Aston Oxendon, Bishop of Montreal and Metropolitan of Canada, and later to the 
order of Priest by the late Archbishop Bond of Montreal.

After many years of active ministerial work in the diocese of Montreal, he 
took up missionary work on the Canadian Labrador in the diocese of Quebec, 
Canada, and also spent several years in the missionary field of the Magedalen 
Islands in the Gulf St. Lawrence, Prov. Quebec, Canada.  During his ministry 
with the exception of his Labrador work, he was actively assisted by his 
daughter and after his retirement he spent his declining years with her.  On 
the 30th of November 1857 he was married at Toronto, Ontario to Charlotte 
Chubb, youngest daughter of the late Richard Chubb of St. Helliere, Jersey, 
Channel Island and niece of the late Mrs. John Eliah of Youngs street, 
Toronto.  She still survives him and bitterly mourns his loss.   There were 
four children.  The eldest son, Josiah R., died in 1901.  He leaves two sons 
John N. Ball of Hapaneia, Ontario, and the Rev. T. W. Ball, M. A., curate in 
charge of the Church of the Ascension, Montreal, Quebec, and one daughter, 
Mary C., wife of his nephew, Wm. J. Ball, of Berlin, Ionia County, Michigan, 
and also two grandchildren, (illegible) Ball of Ottawa, Ont, and (illegible) 
J. Ball of Berlin, Ionia county, Mich.  He was quietly laid to rest in Balcom 
cemetery on Monday afternoon, Oct. 6, 1913.  The Rev. Cyrus Mendenhall kindly 
officiated.

Another Publication:  Monday, October 6, 1913

Josiah Ball, aged 81 years, died at the home of his son, John W. Ball on the 
Dr. Culp home in Berlin Saturday.  The funeral will be attended from the 
residence Monday afternoon, Rev. Cyrus Mendenhall officiating.  Burial in 
Balcom cemetery.


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