Re: Joseph T. Ballenger (1818-1883) wife Mary Irvin Steele - Calhoun Cty, MS
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Re: Joseph T. Ballenger (1818-1883) wife Mary Irvin Steele - Calhoun Cty, MS
Carol McMichen 2/17/06
Carol & Kandis:
Now you guys have almost completed my entire BALLENGER-STEELE family line, including Mary IRWIN Steele's middle name("I" looks like "S" in old handwriting), have any of you EVER found or figured out what PETER C.BALLENGER's wife SARAH's maiden name was? My aunt died in Jackson MS. (b.1902, Bruce MS., Calhoun CO.) after 50 years of searching, still not knowing Sarah's maiden name. Thomas Ballenger in OK.(who published his family line as he knew it) and she began to think it was "Pledger" or "Fletcher", without ever telling me what they based that on.(I recently tossed out all their correspondence. Perhaps I should have held on to it?) Kandis, I'm sorry that I didn't finish going thru her numerous family records by 2005 to answer your question about the names of all the children of Joseph Tarpley and "Granny" (M.I.) Ballenger. She made charts on them all.
Bettye Bennett Speed