Phillip {Philip} Ballard

Tombstone of Phillip Ballard. Cooper Cemetery, Stanberry, MO

Philip moved to Indiana in 1813 and to Illinois in 1829, and to Marshall County, Iowa in 1848, having first visited Marshall county in 1846. In March, 1848, Philip Ballard settled on the Iowa River, in what is Iowa Township. In 1878 he owned 243 acres of land in Iowa Twp. of Marshall county near Albion. He had held the offices of Township Trustee and Judge of the Election.
Phillip's tombstone shows his death date as 29 Oct 1887 (the last digit is hard to read). But in any case the 1877 death year that is in the LDS AF (and that I used to have) is definitely wrong. The tombstone also shows an age of 85 years, 6 mo., and 19 (or 10) days (the number of days is hard to read, and it might be 83 years, not 85). A cemetery index gives 85/6/19 for the age in 1887. That's consistent with a birth year of 1802 given for Phillip in the 1878 Marshall Co., Iowa history book.
Phillip's name is spelled with two 'l's on his tombstone, but only one 'l' in the Marshall Co., Iowa history.

Census: 1840, Des Moines Co., Iowa
Census: 1850, Marshall Co.,Iowa

born: 10 Apr 1802, Warren Co.,Kentucky

died: 29 Oct 1887, probably near Stanberry, Missouri

bur.: south of Stanberry, Gentry Co., MO, at Cooper Cemetery

spouse: Elizabeth PARKS

marr: 2 Feb 1822, Indiana

born: 4 Mar 1810, Clark Co.,Indiana

died: 16 Jun 1852, Iowa Twp,Marshall Co.,Iowa

bur.: near Albion,Marshall Co.,Iowa, at Ballard's Half Acre Cemetery

Children:

Lurana BALLARD

Harriet BALLARD

Nancy BALLARD

Rebecca BALLARD

Sarah BALLARD

Charles C. BALLARD

James Milton BALLARD

William Jasper BALLARD

Sylvia BALLARD

spouse: Rosannah LEONARD

born: 31 Oct 1822

died: 10 Apr 1858, Iowa Twp,Marshall Co.,Iowa

bur.: near Albion,Marshall Co.,Iowa, at Ballard's Half Acre Cemetery

Pedigree Chart

|--------
                      |
           |---------Reuben BALLARD (1748, VA or NC - 1820, KY)
           |          |
           |          |--------
           |
  |------John BALLARD (1779 - 1848, Iowa)
  |        |
  |        |          |--------Abraham BALLARD (1705, VA - 1754, NC)
  |        |          |
  |        |---------Absilla A. ``Assala'' BALLARD ( - )
  |                   |
  |                   |--------Elizabeth SUMNER (1715 - )
  |
Philip BALLARD (1802, Kentucky - 1877, Missouri)
  |
  |                   |--------
  |                   |
  |        |---------John COX ( - )
  |        |          |
  |        |          |--------
  |        |
  |------Jinney COX (1775, Kentucky - Indiana)
           |
           |          |--------
           |          |
           |---------Jinney ``Jane'' ( - )
                      |
                      |--------

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