Rosa Selina Ball
b. circa 7 September 1893, d. 2 March 1927
- Father: Benjamin B. Ball b. 14 February 1861, d. 17 March 1917
- Mother: Sarah Elizabeth Shortes b. 1859, d. 1896
- Rosa Selina Ball was born circa 7 September 1893 in Texas.
- Benjamin B. Ball and Amanda P. Page appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Montague County, Texas. Other members of the household included Rosa Selina Ball, Willie Ball, Mary Ball, Odie Seline Ball, James Samuel Ball, Horace Ball, Annie Bell Ball, Nellie Ball and Samantha Gowing.
- Benjamin B. Ball and Amanda P. Page appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Bowie, Montague County, Texas. Other members of the household included Rosa Selina Ball, Willie Ball, Horace Ball, Nellie Ball, Carrie Ball, Lula Ball, Ida Ethel Ball, Dewey M. Ball and Floy Elsie Ball. It The identity of Jane Ball (age 21) remains to be discovered.
- She married James Frank Poore on 1 May 1913.
- Rosa Selina Ball died on 2 March 1927 in Wellington, Collingsworth County, texas, . Informant was Carl McDonald.
- She was interred at Wellington, Collingsworth County, Texas.
- The following appeared on 6 March 1927 in the Wellington Leader: Mrs. Rosy Salina Poore died in Wellington on Wednesday afternoon at the home of her sister, Mrs. Carl McDonald after an illness of five months caused by Bright's Disease.
Mrs. Poore was born in Texas September 7, 1894, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ben D. Ball. She was married May 1, 1913, to J. F. Poore and two children who survive her were born to the union. They are: Margaret, aged 11, and Adren, aged 4. Besides her husband and children, Mrs. Poore is survived by two brothers and three sisters, who are: Horace Ball of Wichita Falls, Sam Ball of Terrell, Okla., Mrs. Carl McDonald of Wellington, Mrs. Willis Scarbough of Bowie and Miss Annie Bell Ball of Knott, Texas.
Mrs. Poore had been in a hospital at Childress, where she underwent an operation. She had never fully recovered when her husband brought her to the home of Mrs. McDonald in Wellington where a local doctor was called but due to the headway of the disease she could not recover and succumbed Wednesday afternoon.
Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon from the Carl McDonald home, with Rev. C. R. Joyner of the First Baptist Church in charge. Scott & Thomas conducted the funeral.
- Last Edited: 13 Nov 2012