Thanks to Mary Ann McCutcheon we have some old photos of the Ballou family. They are from a photo album that belonged to Ellen Maybell Ballou Baker, daughter of Silas Ballou and Mary Jane Smith. She was known as Ella. Ella's daughter, Lillie Baker Johnson, wrote the names in the album, probably in her later years. You can click on any photo to see a larger version.
These photos are from my own album. Earl F. Ballou was grandson and son of the two Andrews at the top of the page. He and Beula Marguerite Harrison were married 6 December 1917. Earl and Marguerite left Iowa, first for Chicago and then California. In the 1940s they operated a gas station and fruit stand on Highway 66 near Glendora. They raised collies on a ranch near San Bernardino. After that they lived in Glendora for many years in a little house at the end of the P.E. line and across the street from the city park, and Earl worked at Rainbird. Eventually they retired to a mobile home in Yucaipa.
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William H. BALLOU and his wife, Lucy WOODARD, were both born in New
York as was their son Cassius M. BALLOU. Cassius was born ca. 1847. He
appears in the censuses of 1885, 1895, 1910 and 1925. In 1925 he was 78,
a widower and living in Onslow with his divorced daughter, Nellie (or
Nettie). Cassius married Elizabeth M. Smith and they had three
children—Lillie (born ca. 1876), Nellie (born ca.1882) and Jessie (born
ca. 1893). In 1910, Elizabeth claimed 3 births and 3 living children.
She listed herself as LDS while her husband was Presbyterian. Nellie
BALLOU married George ALBERY on 23 August 1898, at the home of her
father. Cassius and Elizabeth are buried at the Canton Cemetery, Clay
township.
Joshua A. BALLOU is buried at Canton Cemetery, Clay
township.
Ena E. BALLOU is buried at the Olin Cemetery, Rome
township.
John BALLOU is buried at the Diamond Cemetery, Hale
township.
Amos J. BALLOU was born in Connecticut about 1852 and
appears in the 1885 Iowa state census. His wife, Adele, was born about
1858 in Jones county. They had three children: Grace, born about 1877 in
Crawford, Iowa; Cecil, born about 1881 in Linn, Iowa; and William, born
1885 in Jones, Iowa.
Kenneth BALLOU, born November 19, 1929 in
Jones, Iowa.
LOCATED! Thanks to Sue Ballou Lieske we now know
"Kenneth Ballou is the son of J. H. Ballou, first born grandson of Lloyd
and Hattie (Lathrop) Ballou. He is a "neighbor" of yours and first
cousin to me and the rest of the cousins."
Robert BALLOU, born
about 1853 in Ohio, appears in the 1885 census as 32 years old, widower,
a lodger living in Clay township.
William BALLOU, about 40, and
his wife Clara E., about 27, both born in Illinois, are listed in the
1885 census. They had one daughter, Nellie E., born in 1885.