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Family tree▼ Children
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30 Jun 1968 |
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29 Jan 1962 |
References
- Yeah, Frank Ball was married to mother's sister, Maud. Maud had six kids--I believe Eliza Mae is the only one still living. She was Morgan's age as I remember.
Frank was considered sort of a con man, etc. Had he been smarter he would have really done well. Some old folks told me when I was a kid in Jellico that when the fire alarm sounded, people would say, "Must be one of Frank Ball's lots; he's already burned all his houses." (For insurance money.) He was an alcoholic most of his life and abused his family also. Then he finally quit drinking and was a complete control freak. Wanted to handle all the money and his kids and all would turn over their pay to him and he would dish it out. Daddy wouldn't do it of course. Finally, the Ball family stopped following the Wing family (well not completely; the kids moved to Covington and Cincinnati area when we lived there).
Wiley, the second boy was shot by a policeman in Williamsburg for supposedly resisting arrest. The policeman was given 5 years in prison for the shooting. That was in 1944, I think. Kathleen, the third girl, was killed walking down the highway from going to the store around 1960 I think. Jeanette, the oldest girl married Uncle Ralph Wing (her second marriage). She and the next girl, Marie, were also alcoholics. Buster, the oldest boy finally stopped drinking and became a preacher, but not a school learned preacher. He did construction work, etc. Frank Ball build the folks' house in Jellico and did a real sorry job as daddy knew they would, but mother insisted that they let Frank do it. In Gibsonton, when I bought them a carport to go by the side of the carport that they had enclosed, mother insisted that they have Buster pour the concrete. Dad told mother that he would give Buster what he would charge to do it but he wanted to get someone else. Mother insisted, so Buster did it, and it was of course a mess. Water always stood on it, etc. Hey, I didn't know I could remember all this and I'm just hitting some of the highlights. So enough.
Love, Uncle Fred
-Fred Wing, 19 February 2003
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