Henry George Ball was born near Roswell, Georgia, the youngest of Peter M. and Nancy Brightwell Ball's 12 children. The family moved to Texas from Georgia in 1896, then relocated near Gainesville, Cooke Co. Texas. Henry married Miss Minnie Greer near Tioga, Texas on 2 December 1914. He joined the church in April of 1904 and became ordained as a Baptist minister in 1912. He served churches in Bonham, Tioga, Fort Worth, and Durant, Okla... His first church to pastor was the Harmony Church near Bonham, Texas in 1910. Henry George Ball, 83, of Tioga baptized the late Senator, Sam Rayburn of Bonham on Sept 2, 1956, and later preached at his funeral Nov 18, 1961, with 5 past, present, and future Presidents in attendance. (Past Presidents were Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower, present President John F. Kennedy, and future Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon.)
He owned and operated his own insurance agency and grocery store in Tioga for 45 years. He granted many farmers credit from one crop season until the next. He was the speaker for most of the school functions and also was the pastor that was called on almost anytime there was a death in the community. He was a member of the Grayson County School Board and the Grayson County Draft Board and in the 1940's served as mayor of Tioga for several years.
He died in Sherman. Funeral services were held in the Primitive Baptist Church in Tioga.
Some of the above-paraphrased details were pulled from the Obituary published in the Dallas Morning News on October 12, 1971. Some information also gleaned from The Baptist Trumpet written on Oct 1970, for the biography and picture on Elder H. G. and Minnie Ball.
He owned and operated his own insurance agency and grocery store in Tioga for 45 years. He granted many farmers credit from one crop season until the next. He was the speaker for most of the school functions and also was the pastor that was called on almost anytime there was a death in the community. He was a member of the Grayson County School Board and the Grayson County Draft Board and in the 1940's served as mayor of Tioga for several years.
He died in Sherman. Funeral services were held in the Primitive Baptist Church in Tioga.
Some of the above-paraphrased details were pulled from the Obituary published in the Dallas Morning News on October 12, 1971. Some information also gleaned from The Baptist Trumpet written on Oct 1970, for the biography and picture on Elder H. G. and Minnie Ball.
Henry George Ball was born near Roswell, Georgia, the youngest of Peter M. and Nancy Brightwell Ball's 12 children. The family moved to Texas from Georgia in 1896, then relocated near Gainesville, Cooke Co. Texas. Henry married Miss Minnie Greer near Tioga, Texas on 2 December 1914. He joined the church in April of 1904 and became ordained as a Baptist minister in 1912. He served churches in Bonham, Tioga, Fort Worth, and Durant, Okla... His first church to pastor was the Harmony Church near Bonham, Texas in 1910. Henry George Ball, 83, of Tioga baptized the late Senator, Sam Rayburn of Bonham on Sept 2, 1956, and later preached at his funeral Nov 18, 1961, with 5 past, present, and future Presidents in attendance. (Past Presidents were Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower, present President John F. Kennedy, and future Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon.)
He owned and operated his own insurance agency and grocery store in Tioga for 45 years. He granted many farmers credit from one crop season until the next. He was the speaker for most of the school functions and also was the pastor that was called on almost anytime there was a death in the community. He was a member of the Grayson County School Board and the Grayson County Draft Board and in the 1940's served as mayor of Tioga for several years.
He died in Sherman. Funeral services were held in the Primitive Baptist Church in Tioga.
Some of the above-paraphrased details were pulled from the Obituary published in the Dallas Morning News on October 12, 1971. Some information also gleaned from The Baptist Trumpet written on Oct 1970, for the biography and picture on Elder H. G. and Minnie Ball.
He owned and operated his own insurance agency and grocery store in Tioga for 45 years. He granted many farmers credit from one crop season until the next. He was the speaker for most of the school functions and also was the pastor that was called on almost anytime there was a death in the community. He was a member of the Grayson County School Board and the Grayson County Draft Board and in the 1940's served as mayor of Tioga for several years.
He died in Sherman. Funeral services were held in the Primitive Baptist Church in Tioga.
Some of the above-paraphrased details were pulled from the Obituary published in the Dallas Morning News on October 12, 1971. Some information also gleaned from The Baptist Trumpet written on Oct 1970, for the biography and picture on Elder H. G. and Minnie Ball.
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