Samuel Thurston Ballard

ARASMITH, BALLARD

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 9/10/2004 at 11:46:51

S. T. Ballard, Grand River twp.; sec. 15; P. O. Macksburg; was born in Virginia, May 10, 1833, and emigrated to Illinois in 1857, and came to this county in 1867; owns 67 acres of land; he married Martha E. Arasmith in 1858; she was born in Henry county, Illinois; has nine children: Phebe E., Emily J., Philip S., Inez M., James W., Ransom, Nellie R., Maggie W. and a baby.

Taken from the book, “The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879” page 588