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Nelson G. Ball
NELSON G. BALL, farmer, P. O. Pit Hole City, Venango Co., Penn., was born
in what is now Hickory township, Forest Co., Penn., April 28, 1832, and is a
son of Isaac and Sally (Manross) Ball, natives of Vermont, and among the
pioneers of what is now Forest county, locating first in what is now Harmony
township. Here the father conducted a saw-mill for a time, which was erected
by George Siggins, but afterward came to Hickory township, and here engaged in
lumbering. In 1832 he located in Balltown, built a saw-mill and commenced
lumbering. Here he resided ten years, and then returned to Hickory township,
where he erected a saw and grist-mill, which he conducted until his death. He
had ten children: Fidelia (Mrs. John Gilson), Harriet (Mrs. Robert Hiner),
Clinton, Isaac, Sally (Mrs. James Y. Siggins), Lavina (Mrs. Clark Bean),
David, Nelson G., Julia (Mrs. William Richardson) and William. Nelson G. Ball
was reared in Forest county, and conducted a grist-mill at East Hickory for
twenty-three years; he then engaged in farming, and resided in Hickory
township until 1885, when he removed to Columbus township, Warren county, and
there remained until the spring of 1886, when he removed to Allegheny
township, Venango Co., Penn., where be now resides. His wife, nee Martha
Hunter, daughter of William and Sally (Range) Hunter, is a granddaughter of
Poland Hunter, a pioneer of Forest county. Mr. and Mrs. Ball have had seven
children: J. Wesley, Homer, Austin (deceased), Sally (Mrs. J. Gorman), Jennie
(Mrs. Jacob Zahniser), William and Rilla. Mr. Ball is a member of the Free
Methodist Church. Politically he is an advocate of prohibition.Source: Page(s) 942-943, Chapter 15 Biographical Sketches – Tionesta Township
and Borough of Tionesta
Hickory and Harmony Townships
History of Counties of McKean, Elk and Forest, Pennsylvania.
Chicago, J.H. Beers & Co., 1890.
Transcribed December 2005 by Nathan Zipfel for the Forest County Genealogy
Project
Published 2005 by the Forest County Pennsylvania Genealogy Project
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