The youngest daughter of Joel and Ann (Barnett) Ballard, she was born near Fairfield Friend Church, where her parents were buried. She was a member of the Moorseville Auxillary of the Women's Home Missionary Society. She died at the home of her sister, Mrs. Louisa Heiner.

I was going to indicate that she never married. However, after reading her obituary, I know she would protest. Apparently she spent a good portion of her life devoted to displaying the love of Christ to others. She'd say that Christ as the husband of the church was her husband.

Just a small portion from her obituary, Martinsville Republican, August 21, 1890:

"Having been afflicted from childhood, her opportunities to secure an education were limited, and owing to her inability to perform mental labor without serious detriment to health, she was compelled to abandon a cherished hope of securing a course of study that would better fit her for the duties of life. During the winter of 1863 and 64, while attending the Seminary in Danville, Indiana, she became greatly interested in the great problem of life, and made the wise choice so often indefinitely delayed, that of giving heart to God and united with the Methodist Episcopal Church and became an earnest, active member, gladly contributing to the support of the church, to Home and Foreign Missions, and doing all that her strength and surrounding circumstances would permit her to do to honor the Master's name, until called from her labors to wear the crown that awaits the faithful, and be brought into a perfect realization of the truth of the promises of God. Uneventful and common place, as her life may have appeared, it was rich in the rare beauty that can only be attained by patient submission to afflictions and self denials, unknown to those more favored with health, and by trusting implicitly in a Saviour's love . . . She passed away peacefully as she had lived, emphasizing in death a faith unfaltering, simply trusting to the end."