From the Reno Evening Gazette, November 12, 1930
CAME TO NEVADA ACROSS PLAINS IN FIFTIES
A pioneer of Nevada, who crossed the plains in the early days, Mrs. Merissa I Ball died Monday at the home of her daughter in Wheatland, California. Funeral services will be held at the Wheatland Methodist Church Friday morning, and committal services and interment will take at Mountain View Cemetery, Reno, Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock under the direction of Dr. A.J. Case.
Mrs. Ball was born in Tennessee eighty-one years ago. As a child she crossed the plains with her parents and settled at Glendale, where her father engaged in horse trading. The family later returned to Tennessee and again made the trip west by wagon train. The train was attacked by Indians and Mrs. Ball and several other girls were seized by the Indians, but a counter-attack by the defenders rescued them.
When she was fifteen years old, she eloped with W.V. Ball and was married August 27, 1864, in Virginia City. The couple settled in Balls Canyon near Peavine Mountain (just across the Nevada border in Sierra County, California, where her husband engaged in ranching and stock raising and also conducted freight lines between the Comstock and Sacramento valley. His death occurred twenty years ago this month, and Mrs. Ball then removed to California to live with her daughter.
Surviving are a son, Alvaro Ball of Loyalton, and four daughters, Mrs. Ellen Kendall of Wheatland, Mrs. Mabel Warlow and Mrs. Alice Binkell of Washington, and Mrs. Flora Thinney of Nevada. Two sons, William and John Ball, and one daughter, Elizabeth Adeline Copeland, preceded her in death.
CAME TO NEVADA ACROSS PLAINS IN FIFTIES
A pioneer of Nevada, who crossed the plains in the early days, Mrs. Merissa I Ball died Monday at the home of her daughter in Wheatland, California. Funeral services will be held at the Wheatland Methodist Church Friday morning, and committal services and interment will take at Mountain View Cemetery, Reno, Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock under the direction of Dr. A.J. Case.
Mrs. Ball was born in Tennessee eighty-one years ago. As a child she crossed the plains with her parents and settled at Glendale, where her father engaged in horse trading. The family later returned to Tennessee and again made the trip west by wagon train. The train was attacked by Indians and Mrs. Ball and several other girls were seized by the Indians, but a counter-attack by the defenders rescued them.
When she was fifteen years old, she eloped with W.V. Ball and was married August 27, 1864, in Virginia City. The couple settled in Balls Canyon near Peavine Mountain (just across the Nevada border in Sierra County, California, where her husband engaged in ranching and stock raising and also conducted freight lines between the Comstock and Sacramento valley. His death occurred twenty years ago this month, and Mrs. Ball then removed to California to live with her daughter.
Surviving are a son, Alvaro Ball of Loyalton, and four daughters, Mrs. Ellen Kendall of Wheatland, Mrs. Mabel Warlow and Mrs. Alice Binkell of Washington, and Mrs. Flora Thinney of Nevada. Two sons, William and John Ball, and one daughter, Elizabeth Adeline Copeland, preceded her in death.
From the Reno Evening Gazette, November 12, 1930
CAME TO NEVADA ACROSS PLAINS IN FIFTIES
A pioneer of Nevada, who crossed the plains in the early days, Mrs. Merissa I Ball died Monday at the home of her daughter in Wheatland, California. Funeral services will be held at the Wheatland Methodist Church Friday morning, and committal services and interment will take at Mountain View Cemetery, Reno, Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock under the direction of Dr. A.J. Case.
Mrs. Ball was born in Tennessee eighty-one years ago. As a child she crossed the plains with her parents and settled at Glendale, where her father engaged in horse trading. The family later returned to Tennessee and again made the trip west by wagon train. The train was attacked by Indians and Mrs. Ball and several other girls were seized by the Indians, but a counter-attack by the defenders rescued them.
When she was fifteen years old, she eloped with W.V. Ball and was married August 27, 1864, in Virginia City. The couple settled in Balls Canyon near Peavine Mountain (just across the Nevada border in Sierra County, California, where her husband engaged in ranching and stock raising and also conducted freight lines between the Comstock and Sacramento valley. His death occurred twenty years ago this month, and Mrs. Ball then removed to California to live with her daughter.
Surviving are a son, Alvaro Ball of Loyalton, and four daughters, Mrs. Ellen Kendall of Wheatland, Mrs. Mabel Warlow and Mrs. Alice Binkell of Washington, and Mrs. Flora Thinney of Nevada. Two sons, William and John Ball, and one daughter, Elizabeth Adeline Copeland, preceded her in death.
CAME TO NEVADA ACROSS PLAINS IN FIFTIES
A pioneer of Nevada, who crossed the plains in the early days, Mrs. Merissa I Ball died Monday at the home of her daughter in Wheatland, California. Funeral services will be held at the Wheatland Methodist Church Friday morning, and committal services and interment will take at Mountain View Cemetery, Reno, Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock under the direction of Dr. A.J. Case.
Mrs. Ball was born in Tennessee eighty-one years ago. As a child she crossed the plains with her parents and settled at Glendale, where her father engaged in horse trading. The family later returned to Tennessee and again made the trip west by wagon train. The train was attacked by Indians and Mrs. Ball and several other girls were seized by the Indians, but a counter-attack by the defenders rescued them.
When she was fifteen years old, she eloped with W.V. Ball and was married August 27, 1864, in Virginia City. The couple settled in Balls Canyon near Peavine Mountain (just across the Nevada border in Sierra County, California, where her husband engaged in ranching and stock raising and also conducted freight lines between the Comstock and Sacramento valley. His death occurred twenty years ago this month, and Mrs. Ball then removed to California to live with her daughter.
Surviving are a son, Alvaro Ball of Loyalton, and four daughters, Mrs. Ellen Kendall of Wheatland, Mrs. Mabel Warlow and Mrs. Alice Binkell of Washington, and Mrs. Flora Thinney of Nevada. Two sons, William and John Ball, and one daughter, Elizabeth Adeline Copeland, preceded her in death.
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