Established "Ball Ranch" on Friant Road

Harry met Pearl while she was working at the Floyd Gibson Store. He built their honeymoon home at the present location of the Clovis Veterans Memorial Building (5th and Hughes). He built a grain mill directly west of his home (5th and Clovis) and grain storage near third and Clovis Ave.

In 1916 Harry moved his family (Azalea, Willis, Isaac and Helen) to a ranch located on Friant Road. There were no buildings on the property. Father-in-law Frank Drury moved into a small house eventually built on the property. The Ball family all shared a one room house on the property for a time.

1880USC Washington, Warren, IA -

Abraham R(euban) Ball H 41 M B IN F VA M NY Farming,

Mary (Ann) (nee Fouche) W 40 M B IN F/M KY,

Cora (Adell) (md Ashe) D17 S B IA,

(Achsan) Ella (Eleanor) (md James W Sherwood) D15 B IA,

Isaac (Roscoe) S11 B IA,

Henry (Willis) S8 B IA

Established "Ball Ranch" on Friant Road

Harry met Pearl while she was working at the Floyd Gibson Store. He built their honeymoon home at the present location of the Clovis Veterans Memorial Building (5th and Hughes). He built a grain mill directly west of his home (5th and Clovis) and grain storage near third and Clovis Ave.

In 1916 Harry moved his family (Azalea, Willis, Isaac and Helen) to a ranch located on Friant Road. There were no buildings on the property. Father-in-law Frank Drury moved into a small house eventually built on the property. The Ball family all shared a one room house on the property for a time.

* The 1870 census lists Abraham 31, and his wife, Mary 32, daughter Cora 8, Attie 6, Isaac newborn, living with John and Sarah Steele Washington, Clarke, Iowa, Oceola post office. Abraham and Mary were wed in 1861.

* The 1880 census lists Abraham, now 41, born in Indiana, his wife Mary 40, children all born in Iowa - Cora [Adell] 17, Ella 15, Isaac [Roscoe] 11 and Henry [Willis] 8, living in Washington, Warren, Iowa. Abraham's birthplace is Indiana, his father from Virginia, his mother from New York. 

* The 1900 census lists Abraham age 62, his wife Mary [Mary A. Fouch] age 64 and children Harry W Ball age 28 and Adell C [Cora Adell] aged 37, all living in a mortgaged home in Fresno's township 2. It gives his birth as June of 1837 in Indiana, and he married in 1861.