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John Carter Ball (Carter County, Kentucky, farmer and QM 40th KY Inf)

b. 1806-11-20 d. 1897-07-14

Carter County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Virginia native. Married to Julina W. Ball. Father of Susan Ball, John Ball, Rebecca Ball, Elizabeth Ball, Henry Ball, Sarah "Sally" Ball, Thomas Ball, Robert C. Ball, James Ball, George Ball, and Alice Ball. Farmer in Carter County in 1850. Employed Edwin Colegrove as a laborer in Carter County in 1850. Farmer in Carter County in 1860. Served in the 40th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as quarter-master from July 3, 1863, to March 20, 1864.

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Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Carter County, District No. 2, p. 215A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Carter County, p. 254.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Missouri, Clinton County, Lafayette Township, p. 74A.

Records of the Internal Revenue Service, NARA RG 58, Microfilm Series M768, Roll 21, 1864.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 424.

Find A Grave, "John Carter Ball (1806-1897)," Memorial #17630875, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17630875 (accessed January 13, 2020).

Citation

Ball, John Carter. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32204660 (November 12, 2026).

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