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I would like to obtain any information related to the Ball family of Danville Kentucky. My gggg grand mother was Louise Ball, her brother, William Barton Ball left Danville and graduated from Oberlin College in Ohio. He joined the Union army at the start of the Civil War. After the war he moved to San Antonio, Texas were he organized a cavalry unit and served on the frontier. In 1871 he moved to Guadalupe County Texas where he started a school for African Americans. He was a minister of the Second Baptist Church in Seguin, Texas and president of the Negro Baptist College for twenty years.
William Barton Ball is listed as mulatto in the census records and additional material that I have seen. I would greatly appreciate any information that sheds some light on who his family was in Danville Kentucky. Your personal information will only be used to contact the submitter and will not be saved or used for any other purpose.
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