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Louise Cabois Berthe Ballard (Louisville, KY, resident - Widow of slave trader Rice Carter Ballard)

b. 1826 d. 1896-08-23

Louisville, Kentucky, resident. Natchez, Mississippi, native. Married to Rice Carter Ballard. Mother of Ellen Ballard, Ann Carter Ballard, and Chalotte Berthe Ballard. Resident of Louisville, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned seven enslaved persons in Louisville in 1850. Resident of Louisville in 1860. Household owned four enslaved persons in Louisville in 1860.

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Sex
Female
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District No. 1, p. 7B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District No. 1.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, 3rd Ward, p. 124.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, 3rd Ward, p. 6.

"A Beloved Woman's Death," Courier Journal (Louisville, Ky.), August 24, 1896, p. 2.

"Collection Overview," Rice C. Ballard Papers, 1822-1888, The Southern Historical Collection at the Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, http://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/04850/ (accessed August 7, 2017).

Find A Grave, "Louise Berthe Ballard (1826-1896)," Memorial #67121164, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67121164/louise-ballard (accessed August 7, 2017).

Citation

Ballard, Louise Cabois Berthe. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32207312 (November 12, 2026).

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