Claude Ellsworth BALL ²

  General Notes:

BURT CO, (NE) MARRIAGES, Book 5, 9 Oct 1903 - 10 Dec 1910: "Claud" Ball & Myrtle Marks (no marriage date listed)

1910 NE CENSUS, Burt Co, Decatur precinct: "Clyde" Ball, 26, 1st marriage, married 5 yrs, b. IA, father b. IA, mother b. IL, farmer, manager; wife Myrtle, 22, 1st marriage, married 5 yrs, b. IA, parents b. IA; dau. "Laurene", 4, b. NE, parents b. IA; dau. Louise, 2, b. NE, parents b. IA; brother "Elisa" Ball, 16, single, b. IA, parents b. IA, laborer, home farm.

WWI DRAFT REGISTRATION CARDS, 1917-1918, Thurston Co, NE: "Claud Ellworth" Ball of Decatur, Burt Co, NE; 34; b. Nov. 12, 1994; farmer, self-employed at Decatur, Burt Co, NE; nearest relative: Myrtle Ball of Decatur, Burt Co, NE; medium height and build, gray eyes, brown hair.

1920 NE CENSUS, Thurston Co, Anderson: Clyde Ball, 36, b. IA, parents b. IA, farmer, gen. farm; wife "Mirtle", 33, b. IA, parents b. IA; dau. "Laucil", 11; dau. Luella, 9; dau. "Mabel", 7; son Hiram, 5; son Jack, 5/12. All children were b. NE and parents b. IA. (On the census, his brother Walter Ball was listed in the same township.)

1930 NE CENSUS, Thurston Co, Anderson precinct: Claude E. Ball, 46, 1st marriage age 22, b. IA, parents b. IA, gen. farmer, farm; wife Myrtle M., 42, 1st marriage was age 16, b. IA, parents b. IA; dau. Luella, 19, single; dau. "Mabel" E., 17, single; son Hiram E., 15; son Jackie D., 10; dau. Lorraine M., 8; son "Claud", 7; son Stephen E., 4(?)-6/12; dau. Bonnie L., 7/12. All children were b. NE and parents b. IA. (Claude's brother, Walter Ball, was listed on the same census page.)

FATHER'S OBIT: Claude Ball was living Decatur, NE in 1940.

Claude married Myrtle Edna MARKS, daughter of Royal Hiram MARKS and Elizabeth Ollie HAYNIE, about 1905 in Burt Co, NE.¹ (Myrtle Edna MARKS was born on 30 Mar 1888 in Glenwood, Mills Co, IA and died on 18 Nov 1965 in Decatur, Burt Co, NE.)