Willie Ball

b. October 1883, d. 15 January 1966
  • Willie Ball was interred at Briar Creek Cemetery, Montague County, Texas.
  • She was interred at Briar Creek Cemetery, Bowie, Montague County, Texas.
  • Willie Ball was born in October 1883 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 Willie Ball, Mary Ball, Odie Seline Ball, James Samuel Ball, Horace Ball, Rosa Selina 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 Willie Ball, Horace Ball, Rosa Selina 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 William Riley Scarber on 5 February 1911 in Montague 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.
  • Willie Ball became a widow at the 1959 death of her husband William Riley Scarber.
  • Willie Ball died on 15 January 1966 at age 82 in Bowie, Montague County, Texas, . Informant was Johnnie scarber.
  • Last Edited: 14 Nov 2012

Family: William Riley Scarber b. 1872, d. 1959