Veteran Soldier, Riverman and Banker Passed Away Last Friday
Captain George Wendell Ball, formerly a resident of this city, and well known here died Friday morning May 13 at his home in Cincinnati after a weeks illness with paralysis.
He was born at Haverhill, Mass., and entered the Union Army, Twenty-second regiment, volunteer infantry of Massachusetts, under age. After a year's service, with disablement from fever, he re-entered the service as an ensign and remained a commissioned officer in the navy throughout the war, serving in various gunboats of the Mississippi squadron.
After the Civil War Captain Ball entered the river service on the Mississippi and Ohio, and it was while steamboating on the latter river that he met and married Miss Cora Bayes of this city, who, with son Eustace of New York City, survive him.
Captain Ball and family moved to Cincinnati more than twenty years ago and for a number of years he has been a prominent official of the Union Savings Bank and Trust Co. He was a member of The Military Order of the Loyal Legion, the Fred C. Jones post of the Grand Army of the Republic, the New England Society, the Masonic order, the Scottish Rite and Mystic Order of the Shrine.
Services were held in the Scottish Rite Cathedral Cincinnati, Saturday afternoon and the body accompanied by the wife, son and nephew Harry Maddy arrived here Sunday morning. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at the residence of his brother-in-law, E. F. Maddy by Rev. J. W. McCormick and were largely attended. The burial which occurred at Mound Hill cemetery was in charge of the Masons.
Gallipolis Journal
Wednesday, May 18, 1910
Captain George Wendell Ball, formerly a resident of this city, and well known here died Friday morning May 13 at his home in Cincinnati after a weeks illness with paralysis.
He was born at Haverhill, Mass., and entered the Union Army, Twenty-second regiment, volunteer infantry of Massachusetts, under age. After a year's service, with disablement from fever, he re-entered the service as an ensign and remained a commissioned officer in the navy throughout the war, serving in various gunboats of the Mississippi squadron.
After the Civil War Captain Ball entered the river service on the Mississippi and Ohio, and it was while steamboating on the latter river that he met and married Miss Cora Bayes of this city, who, with son Eustace of New York City, survive him.
Captain Ball and family moved to Cincinnati more than twenty years ago and for a number of years he has been a prominent official of the Union Savings Bank and Trust Co. He was a member of The Military Order of the Loyal Legion, the Fred C. Jones post of the Grand Army of the Republic, the New England Society, the Masonic order, the Scottish Rite and Mystic Order of the Shrine.
Services were held in the Scottish Rite Cathedral Cincinnati, Saturday afternoon and the body accompanied by the wife, son and nephew Harry Maddy arrived here Sunday morning. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at the residence of his brother-in-law, E. F. Maddy by Rev. J. W. McCormick and were largely attended. The burial which occurred at Mound Hill cemetery was in charge of the Masons.
Gallipolis Journal
Wednesday, May 18, 1910
Veteran Soldier, Riverman and Banker Passed Away Last Friday
Captain George Wendell Ball, formerly a resident of this city, and well known here died Friday morning May 13 at his home in Cincinnati after a weeks illness with paralysis.
He was born at Haverhill, Mass., and entered the Union Army, Twenty-second regiment, volunteer infantry of Massachusetts, under age. After a year's service, with disablement from fever, he re-entered the service as an ensign and remained a commissioned officer in the navy throughout the war, serving in various gunboats of the Mississippi squadron.
After the Civil War Captain Ball entered the river service on the Mississippi and Ohio, and it was while steamboating on the latter river that he met and married Miss Cora Bayes of this city, who, with son Eustace of New York City, survive him.
Captain Ball and family moved to Cincinnati more than twenty years ago and for a number of years he has been a prominent official of the Union Savings Bank and Trust Co. He was a member of The Military Order of the Loyal Legion, the Fred C. Jones post of the Grand Army of the Republic, the New England Society, the Masonic order, the Scottish Rite and Mystic Order of the Shrine.
Services were held in the Scottish Rite Cathedral Cincinnati, Saturday afternoon and the body accompanied by the wife, son and nephew Harry Maddy arrived here Sunday morning. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at the residence of his brother-in-law, E. F. Maddy by Rev. J. W. McCormick and were largely attended. The burial which occurred at Mound Hill cemetery was in charge of the Masons.
Gallipolis Journal
Wednesday, May 18, 1910
Captain George Wendell Ball, formerly a resident of this city, and well known here died Friday morning May 13 at his home in Cincinnati after a weeks illness with paralysis.
He was born at Haverhill, Mass., and entered the Union Army, Twenty-second regiment, volunteer infantry of Massachusetts, under age. After a year's service, with disablement from fever, he re-entered the service as an ensign and remained a commissioned officer in the navy throughout the war, serving in various gunboats of the Mississippi squadron.
After the Civil War Captain Ball entered the river service on the Mississippi and Ohio, and it was while steamboating on the latter river that he met and married Miss Cora Bayes of this city, who, with son Eustace of New York City, survive him.
Captain Ball and family moved to Cincinnati more than twenty years ago and for a number of years he has been a prominent official of the Union Savings Bank and Trust Co. He was a member of The Military Order of the Loyal Legion, the Fred C. Jones post of the Grand Army of the Republic, the New England Society, the Masonic order, the Scottish Rite and Mystic Order of the Shrine.
Services were held in the Scottish Rite Cathedral Cincinnati, Saturday afternoon and the body accompanied by the wife, son and nephew Harry Maddy arrived here Sunday morning. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at the residence of his brother-in-law, E. F. Maddy by Rev. J. W. McCormick and were largely attended. The burial which occurred at Mound Hill cemetery was in charge of the Masons.
Gallipolis Journal
Wednesday, May 18, 1910
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