Person:Melissa Ball (7)

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Melissa Chardon Ball
b.1 May 1894 Boonville, Mendocino, California, USA
d.20 Oct 1975 Ukiah, Mendocino, California, USA
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m. 30 Nov 1886
  1. Melissa Chardon Ball1894 - 1975
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m. 19 Dec 1920
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m. 21 Oct 1970
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Name[1][2][3][4] Melissa Chardon Ball
Gender Female
Birth[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13] 1 May 1894 Boonville, Mendocino, California, USA
Residence[5] 1900 Boonville, Mendocino, California, USA
Residence[18] 20 May 1910 Ukiah, Mendocino, California, USA
Residence[19][17] 12 Jan 1920 Ukiah, Mendocino, California, USA
Marriage 19 Dec 1920 Ukiah, Mendocino, California, USAto Mark Aurelius Carpenter
Residence[20][25] 2 Apr 1930 Ukiah, Mendocino, California, USA
Marriage 21 Oct 1970 Ukiah, Mendocino, California, USAto Otis Arthur Kendrick
Residence[9][26] 20 Oct 1975 Ukiah, Mendocino, California, USA
Occupation[16][17] Stenographer for a law office in 1920
Death[9][14][7][8][23] 20 Oct 1975 Ukiah, Mendocino, California, USACause: Urenuia, due to chronic Pyelonephritis. Other significant conditions Peni Rectal abscess - Paraplegia
Burial[15][8][9][24] 23 Oct 1975 Russian River Cemetery, Ukiah, Mendocino, California, USACremated: Y

Mark and Melissa Ball Carpenter were very close to their Aunt Grace and Uncle John Hudson. When Grace died in 1937 she left her home, The Sun House, all of her remaining paintings, Indian artifacts and furnishings to Mark and Melissa. They continued to live in the house until Melissa's death in 1975. Melissa left all of Grace Hudson's belongings, including The Sun House to the city of Ukiah as a memorial to Grace. Melissa's name is still well known and revered at The Grace Hudson Museum.

Ukiah Daily Journal 21 October 1975

Mrs. Kendrick, county pioneer dies at age 81

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Eversole Mortuary for Melissa Kendrick, 81, who made her home at Sun House on N. Main Street in Ukiah.

Inurnment will be at the Chapel of the Chimes in Santa Rosa, and her ashes will be placd in the Hudson plot at Ukiah Cemetery.

Mrs. Kendrick, who died Monday, was born Melissa Ball, daughter of Minnie and Shardon [sic] Ball on May 1, 1894 in Boonville. She married Mark Carpenter, nephew of Grace Hudson, famous painter of Pomo Indian portraits, and survived him. In later years she married Otis Kendrick, who now survives her.

She also is survived by a foster brother, Ed Lambert and a number of cousins: Leila Romer, Thelma Gibson, Mae Miller and Irving Ball of Ukiah; Hazel Kingwell and Meta Granillo of Cloverdale, and Everett and Lester Rose of San Leandro.

References
  1. ↑ Blanche Brown. Grass Roots of Anderson Valley. (1981 AVA Printing Shop, Boonville, CA)
    p 8.
  2. ↑ Death certificate for Mark A. Carpenter 2300. (File Num: Book 40, page 536 Location: Original on file at Mendocino County Recorder, Ukiah, CA)
    Spouse Melissa Carpenter.
  3. ↑ Minnie Lambert Taken by Death; Boonville Rites. (Ukiah Daily Journal).
  4. ↑ 1930 U. S. Census (8). (Location: http://content.ancestry.com/iexec?htx=View&r=an&dbid=6224&iid=CAT626_177-1017)
    Melissa B. Carpenter.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Probate of J.D. Ball Roll 55. (File Num: Reg 3 Estate #1249 Location: Mendocino County Courthouse, Ukiah, CA)
    Melissa Ball, aged 4 years, residing at Booneville, California, and being a daughter of Chardon S Ball.
  6. ↑ Interview with Ronald Dumas. (Location: Notes in possession of Ronna Dumas).
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Rootsweb. California Birth Records. (URL: http://userdb.rootsweb.com/ca/birth/search.cgi)
    KENDRICK MELISSA B 05/01/1894 F CALIFORNIA MENDOCINO 10/20/1975 557-10-2564 81 yrs.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Grave of Melissa Ball Carpenter Kendrick.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Death certificate of Melissa Ball Kendrick 2300-417. (File Num: Book 47 page 548 Location: Original on file at Mendocino County Recorder, Ukiah, CA).
  10. ↑ Mellissa Ball Carpenter. Famiily Group Sheets. (Ukiah, Mendocino, California, USA)
    Says born 1 May 1895.
  11. ↑ Mrs. Kendrick, county pioneer dies at age 81. (Ukiah Daily Journal).
  12. ↑ 1920 U. S. Census (7). (Location: http://www.ancestry.com/search/io/browse.asp?c=3&state=California&county=Mendocino&township=Ukiah&ed=126&roll=T625_121&STAbrv=CA&startimg=518&endimg=543&rp=543&hash=443951955&width=2313&height=1709&levels=5&colorspace=Grayscale)
    Age 24 born California.
  13. ↑ 1930 U. S. Census (8). (Location: http://content.ancestry.com/iexec?htx=View&r=an&dbid=6224&iid=CAT626_177-1017)
    Age 39 born California.
  14. ↑ Interview with Ronald Dumas. (Location: Notes in possession of Ronna Dumas)
    1975.
  15. ↑ Phil Carnahan. Mendocino County Cemetery Index. (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mendocem/cemetery/ceml.txt).
  16. ↑ Phil Carnahan. 1920 Mendocino County Great Register. (URL: http://www.pacificsites.com/~pcarna/)
    11 Ball, Miss Melissa C., Ukiah No. 4, Stenographer, Ukiah.
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 1920 U. S. Census (7). (Location: http://www.ancestry.com/search/io/browse.asp?c=3&state=California&county=Mendocino&township=Ukiah&ed=126&roll=T625_121&STAbrv=CA&startimg=518&endimg=543&rp=543&hash=443951955&width=2313&height=1709&levels=5&colorspace=Grayscale).
  18. ↑ California, Mendocino. 1910 U.S. census, Ancestry.com, Digital images (13). (http://search.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=View&r=an&dbid=7884&iid=CAT624_88-1294&fn=Melissa&ln=Ball&st=r&ssrc=gr_t7636459_p-1061969123_g32796&pid=1347083: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.)
    T624, roll T624_88, Ukiah, enumeration district (ED) 68, sheet 31A, dwelling 303, family 307, George Lambert, accessed 27 Aug 2009.
  19. ↑ Phil Carnahan. 1920 Mendocino County Great Register. (URL: http://www.pacificsites.com/~pcarna/)
    11 Ball, Miss Melissa C., Ukiah No. 4, Stenographer,Ukiah.
  20. ↑ 1930 U. S. Census (8). (Location: http://content.ancestry.com/iexec?htx=View&r=an&dbid=6224&iid=CAT626_177-1017).
  21.   Ronna Dumas. Dumas-Morris Ged File from RootsWeb.
  22.   Probate of Grace Hudson. (File Num: 6020 Location: Superior Court of Mendocino County, Ukiah, CA).
  23. ↑ Mendocino County Hospital
  24. ↑ Block M-4, Lots 12 & 13, cremated
  25. ↑ East Clay Street
  26. ↑ 431 S. Main St.
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