Ball, Frank Sr. died 1921
BALL, BEMIS, CHILDERS, MORRIS, TAYLOR
Posted By: Clayton co. Coordinator
Date: 3/25/2007 at 02:04:30
Frank Ball, Sr., is dead at Arlington, Iowa, after a brief illness. His daughter and five sons survive. One of his sons is Dr. James William Ball, of Battle Creek, Iowa, who is well-known here having been graduated from the college of medicine, in 1911. The burial will be at Strawberry Point, where the estimable pioneer's wife sleeps. That city was the Ball family's longtime home.
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Added by Reid R. Johnson, 1/18/2018:
Elkader Register, Thur., 28 Apr. 1921. Strawberry Point columns.
The death of Frank Ball Sr., a former resident of this place, but for the past year, passed away at his home in Arlington last Thursday morning. Mr. Ball had been ailing for some time before his death. He was a kind hearted man, ever ready to help his neighbors and any one in need, for he knew what trouble was. After the death of his first wife, formerly Miss Hattie Bemis, two children, Zearley Ball and Miss Jessie Ball, were left motherless and they went to live with Mr. Ball's sister, Mrs. Bailey Childers, who gave them the care next to a mother's. He was again united in marriage to Miss Rose Morris. To this union six children were born: Dr. Jas. Ball, of Battle Creek; Gorda Ball, of Denver, Colo.; Lester Ball, Frank Ball Jr., and Cornelius, of Arlington, and Mrs. Ollie Taylor, of Ida Grove, Iowa. After the death of this beloved mother he kept the home together until the children are now grown to young manhood and womanhood. Besides his children he leaves one sister and two brothers: Mrs. Bailey Childers, of Kingfisher, Okla.; Japh Ball, of Arlington; and Steve Ball, of this place, and other relatives and friends to mourn his loss. Funeral services occurred in the Christian church at Arlington Sunday and the remains were brought here and laid beside his wife in our beautiful cemetery.
-Iowa City Press-Citizen, Monday, April 25, 1921
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