RICHARD BALL

Company "L" 6th West Virginia Infantry

Researched & Compiled by Linda Fluharty

1860 Marshall County Census
BALL (2119)
Richard...46-wm...button maker...England
Caroline...34-wf...England
Richard...19-wm...button maker...England
Mary M...10-wf...MD
Rosanna...8-wf...MD
Charles A...5-wm...MD
Caroline...3-wf...MD
Sarah V...2/12-wf...VA
Theodore Shriver...30-wm...button maker...Saxony

Service Record: At age 40, he joined and enrolled for duty on Oct. 1, 1861 at Cameron. “Died at U.S. General Hospital, Grafton, Va., March 13, 1863.” He was a Button Maker born in Devonshire, England.

By 1860, he was a resident of Boggs Run, Marshall County, and had established a button business at Boggs Run, per this writer’s book, Up The Run, A History of Boggs Run, Marshall County, West Virginia.

The death record indicates he died of Endocarditis. His remains were brought to Wheeling and he was interred at Mt. Wood Cemetery.

Richard's first wife, the mother of his older children, was Sarah Gray; she might have died in England. The second wife, Caroline Allen, born in England, was the mother of about six younger children. Caroline died in 1901 and is buried by her husband at Mt. Wood Cemetery.

This soldier’s son, Richard, Jr., served in G 1 W.Va. Infantry during the Civil War.


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