Martha Ball1

#23214, (circa 1808 - before 1848)
Father*Dennis Ball2 (c 1775 - )

Family

David Rusk Jr. b. 1806, d. 1875
Children 1.Abigail Rusk5 (1828 - 1911)
 2.Dennis Rusk6 (1830 - 1915)
 3.son2 Rusk7 (c 1834 - )
 4.Squire Rusk8 (1834 - 1917)
 5.Joan Rusk9 (1836 - 1927)
 6.Lucetta Rusk10 (c 1838 - 1911)
Her married name was Rusk.1 
Birth*circa 1808She was born circa 1808.1 
Marriage*28 December 1827She married David Rusk Jr., son of David Rusk and Margaret Vance, on 28 December 1827 at Montgomery Co., IndianaG.1,2 
1840She and David Rusk Jr. appeared on the census of 1840 at Wayne Twp., Montgomery Co., IndianaG; (neis. William Rusk, John Biddle, John Munns, George Philips, James Ball.)3 
Death*before 1848She died before 1848 at Montgomery Co., IndianaG.4 

Citations

  1. [S715] Indiana State Library Genealogy Database: Marriages through 1850, online web.isl.lib.in.us. Hereinafter cited as Indiana State Library: Marriages through 1850.
  2. [S2042] History of Montgomery County Indiana (Indianapolis, Indiana: W. Bowen & Co., 1911), p. 436. "An account of the early settlement given by E. H. Edwards states that the early settlers came in as follows: William Heath, 1823, was born in Maryland in 1794 and died 1874; was the father of Abram Heath and Mary Heath; Mary married David Rusk, son of David Rusk. David Rusk’s first wife was the mother of all of his children, was the daughter of Dennis Ball.... David Rusk came in 1825, or earlier. Dennis Ball came in 1826, and he was from Pennsylvania."
  3. [S54] 1840 U.S. Federal Census. David (30-39); F (30-39) [Martha]; 3 m (5-9) [Dennis, son2, Squire); f (10-14) [Abigail], 2 f (<5) [Loan, Lucetta].
  4. [S520] VWH, David remarried Jan 1848.
  5. [S1672] Indiana Death Certificates 1899-2011/2017, Indiana State Board of Health, Death Certificates, 1900–2011, Certificate > 1911 > Roll 09, img. 2379/2738. Abigail Grenard, b. Montgomery Co. IN 5 Dec 1828, dau. of David Rusk, b. Butler Co. OH, and Martha Ball, b. OH; wid.; d. Coal Creek Twp., Montgoery Co. IN, 29 Jan 1911, age 82y 1m 24d, acute nephritis; inf. Squire Rusk, res. Waynetown; bur. Waynetown IN 31 jan 1911, online Ancestry.com.
  6. [S1672] Indiana Death Certificates 1899-2011, Certificate > 1910 - 1919 > Roll 06, img. 2092/2139. File No. 189, Reg. No. 10. Dennis Rusk, b. Montgomery Co. IN 7 Sep 1830, son of David Rusk, b. OH, and Martha Ball, b. VA; wid., farmer; d. Cain Twp., Fountain Co. IN, 25 Jan 1915, age 84y 4m 18d, cardiac insufficiency; inf. Delila Rusk, res. Hillsboro IN; bur. Waynetown IN 27 Jan 1915.
  7. [S54] 1840 U.S. Federal Census.
  8. [S2042] History of Montgomery County Indiana, pp. 920-921.
  9. [S1672] Indiana Death Certificates 1899-2011, Certificate > 1926 - 1927 > Roll 06, img. 2485/5771. Reg. No. 15223. Joan Biddle, wife of Wm H Biddle, b. IN 24 Jul 1836, dau. of David Rusk and Martha Ball, both b. OH [sic]; housekeeper; d. Waynetown, Wayne Twp., Montgomery CO. IN, 18 May 1927, age 90y 9m 24d, mitral insufficiency; inf. Wm H Biddle, res. Waynetown; bur. Waynetown 20 May 1927.
  10. [S362] Indiana Deaths, 1882-1920 [database], online Ancestry.com, Lusetta Bunnell, age 72, d. Waynetown 1 Jan 1911; citing City Health Office, Crawfordsville, Book H-35, p. 98.