Display Patriot - P-108020 - William BALLARD

William BALLARD

SAR Patriot #: P-108020

The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
It is considered a research aid and is intended to assist in locating sources that can be used as proof.
 

State of Service: VA      Qualifying Service: Corporal / Patriotic Service
DAR #: A005555

Birth: 1732 / / VA
Death: 14 Sep 1799 / Monroe / VA

Qualifying Service Description:
  1. 1779-1780 - Corporal in the companies of Captains Ambrose Madison, May Burton, and James Burton, commanded by Colonel Francis Taylor
  2. Not long after starting his service as a Corporal, he was reduced to Private
  3. 1786, he paid a Supply Tax to aid the war effort

Additional References:
  1. Compiled Service Records of Soldiers Who Served in the American Army During the Revolutionary War. Micropublication M881, roll 1087. Washington: National Archives
  2. Gwathmey, John H.Historical Register of Virginians in the Revolution: Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, 1775-1783, Virginia. Richmond: Dietz Press, 1938, pg 36
  3. Burial data from Patriot Index. Drft manuscript. Florida Society SAR (FLSSAR). 1995-6
  4. Ballard, Margaret B.William Ballard a Genealogical Record of His Descendants in Monroe County, West Virginia, 1957, pg 18
  5. Library of Virginia, Orange County, VA Personal PropertyTax, 1782-1800, Roll 262
  6. Pay Records, 06 September 1783, -L, 48, D6, (Personal Corr.) Deptartment of the Army, Office of the Adjutant General, Washington, DC, 01 May 1950

Spouse: Elizabeth Steppe;
Children: Emeliah/Millie; Jeremiah; William; Willis; Johnson; Mary; Molly; James; Susanna; Nancy; Lucresia/Lucy;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
1963-12-19 WV Unassigned Jack Vernon Altizer (90413) Millie   
1971-01-21 WV Unassigned Wade Hampton Ballard II (100537) Jeremiah   
1971-11-18 FL Unassigned Chase Alexander Ballard (102336) Willis   
1978-11-16 KS Unassigned Gregg Edward Amos (106045) Johnson   
1982-05-03 WV Unassigned Paul Ryan Lilly (117654) William   
1982-08-17 TX Unassigned Henry William Goodall (120742) Lucy   
1986-06-25 TN 227160 John Franklin Hurt Jr (127875) Willis   
1986-09-08 NH 226515 Emmett Jessee Ballard II (128217) Jeremiah   
1990-10-08 VA 225276 William Allen Veselik (129255) Jeremiah   
2008-08-13 MO 32345 Charles Elliott Lilly (166334) William   
2013-01-18 WV 50397 William Hayes Lester (171091) Emeliah/Millie   
2014-05-28 OH 58420 Timothy Edward Ward (158408) William   
2018-03-07 KY 79900 Richard Pendleton Watts ll (206642) Jeremiah   
2019-05-17 PA 85744 Mark Edward Burt Ph.D. (184810) James   
2023-01-20 WV 103918 Charles Robert Mann (205140) Millie/Milley   
2023-08-25 MO 108722 Steven K. Ballard (227640) William   
Burial:
Cummings Cemetery (C-0070274)
Location:
Greenville / Monroe / WV / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
167914
Grave Plot #:
Grave GPS Coordinates:
37.503490 / -80.661670
Find A Grave Memorial #:
5019106
Marker Type:

SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:

Upright V/A stone



Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:


Author: Mark Edward Burt

William Ballard was born in about 1732 in Virginia. He married in about 1773 to Elizabeth Steppe, the niece of Elizabeth Steep, who married William Morris. The Ballards had the following known children:

  • Johnson was born about 1774 and married Isabelle Sparks and Nancy [surname unknown].
  • William was born in about 1775 and married Mary "Polly" Snow.
  • Lucretia "Lucy" was born in about 1776 and married to John Goodall and John Stodghill.
  • Jeremiah was born on 13 October 1778 and married Julia Thompson.
  • James was born in about 1784 and married Jennie Keaton.
  • Millie or Miley was born in 1785 and married Jacob Mann.
  • William "Willis"  was born in 1792 and married Isabelle Thompson.
  • Mary was born in 1789 and married Michael Kessinger.

Revolutionary War records show that he served as a Private and a Corporal in a company designated at various times in the companies of Captains Ambrose Madison and James Burton, commanded by Colonel Taylor of the Virginia Regiment. 

He enlisted on 4 April 1779 at age 45, and the company muster roll for March through July 1780 shows him reduced to a Private on 7 June.
He served two months in Captain James Burton's Company, of Colonel Francis Taylor's Regiment of Guards, and then from January to February 1780 in Captain May Burton's Company (Captain James Burton's brother), who were guarding the barracks in Albemarle, Virginia, where he continued for some time.

At the breaking up of the barracks, he accompanied the prisoners to Fredericktown in Maryland, at which place he was often guarding the prisoners during the winter. His enlistment was over in February 1780, and he returned home to Orange, Virginia. His name last appears on an undated record, which shows that a certificate for the balance of his pay was issued on 6 September 1783 for £48. S15. D6.

He moved to Monroe County, Virginia (now West Virginia) on 24 December 1793, where he lived briefly on his brother Larkin's farm on Blue Lick Run, Monroe County, Virginia. In 1802, he was awarded a land grant posthumously for his service in the American Revolution, 600 acres on Indian Creek in Monroe County, Virginia.

The Patriot died on 14 September 1799. He was visiting his daughter Mollie, who had married Michael Kessinger and lived on a farm adjoining the Old Billy Ballard place on Indian Creek. William became ill and died there within a short time.


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