History of Acworth, New Hampshire
From: tumbleweed@lisco.net - Sharon Franklin
Date: 03 August 1999

Surname: BALL
Source:  History of Acworth with the Proceedings of the Centennial Anniversary, Genealogical
         Records and Register of Farms by Rev. J. L. Merrill, Town of Acworth, 1869, page 184

JOSEPH, THOMAS and WILLIAM BALL were of the fourth generation of the family known; their great-
grandfather, Thomas Ball of Massachusetts, was killed in the old Indian wars, at Brookfield; 
their grandfather, Thomas Ball, was a soldier in Fort No. 4, (Charlestown,) and was killed by 
the Indians; their father, Samuel, was a three years' soldier and officer in the Revolutionary 
War; he married Hannah Rainger - children, Joseph, Thomas and William. Joseph settled in Acworth
1825; he was a man of much public spirit, to whom the south part of the town is much indebted; 
he married Betsey Haywood (see Haywood family) - children,
I.  Laura H. died unmarried
II. Hiram, married Lucy Day - children,
	1, Henry
	2, Eddie
III. Hannah B. married Ebenezer Stevens, residence Bradford - children,
	1   Charles A.
	2  Eddie
	3  Anna
IV.   Freeland 
V.   Carlos -  by his third wife
Thomas, a soldier in the war of 1812, settled in Acworth in 1818, for a time a deacon in the 
Congregational Church, married Elizabeth Gould - children,
I.   Harvey married Louisa Wood, residence Walpole. - children,
	1  Milon W. 
II.   Abigail married John Hooper, residence Walpole. - children,
	1  Martha E.      died  unmarried
	2  Estelle M. marrried Levi A. Hall - children,
(1) Alfred A.
3  Warren E.
4  Ellen F.
5  Rufus R.
6  Lucy M.
III., Caroline, married John G. Blount, residence Nashua - children,
	1  Edward O.
	2  Charles P.
	3  Mary E.
	4  Alfred A.
IV.  Elizabeth, married Warren J. Cooper, residence Nashua - children, 
	1  Benson P.
	2 Alice J.
V.   Thomas C. three years a soldier in the late war, residence Bellows Falls, Vermont, married
Adeline Chase - children,
	1  Ada
VI.   Lucy, married Rufus L. McClure (see McClure family); married second Rufus Shepardson, 
residence Claremont.
VII.  Benjamin G., died in Boston, Massachusetts, married Betsy Ann Smith - children,
	1  Willis A.
VIII.  Julia Ann,      died unmarried.
William, married Jane C. Haywood (see   Haywood Family), settled in Acworth 1854 - children, 
I.    Prudence
II.  Rebecca B., married Jonas Green, residence Alstead - children,
	1  Milon F.
	2  Ida J.
	3  Herbert W.
III.  Haywood, killed on the cars, unmarried
IV.  Mary E.  married Frederic Watkins, residence Walpole - children,
	1  Belle.	


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