{"id":102761,"date":"2025-05-08T10:26:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T14:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=102761"},"modified":"2025-05-09T10:43:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T14:43:39","slug":"mayflower-descendants-whos-who-part-44-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/mayflower-descendants-whos-who-part-44-part-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Mayflower Descendants: Who\u2019s Who, Part 44 (part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction:<\/em><\/strong> In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry continues her series on Mayflower descendants, featuring the family lines of Oregon pioneers who descend from Mayflower passengers John Howland, Elizabeth Tilley, William Bradford, Richard Warren, Edward Doty, and Isaac Allerton. Melissa is a genealogist who has a website, americana-archives.com<\/a>, and a Facebook group, New England Family Genealogy and History<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Today I continue my series on \u201cMayflower Descendants: Who\u2019s Who,\u201d featuring the family lines of Oregon pioneers who descend from Mayflower<\/em> passengers John Howland, Elizabeth Tilley, William Bradford, Richard Warren, Edward Doty, and Isaac Allerton.<\/p>\n

\"Photo:
Photo: National Monument to the Forefathers, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Credit: Eric Mcarthy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To recap: My last story featured Abigail (Howland) Ball (1812-1900) and Isaac Ball (1812-1895), who made the journey on the Oregon Trail, arriving in Oregon in early October 1848. They built a log cabin four miles east of the Willamette Valley in a locale that would be named Ballston, after Isaac Ball. See the full lineage and history in \u201cMayflower Descendants: Who\u2019s Who, Part 44 (part 1)<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Photos:
Photos: Isaac and Abigail (Howland) Ball. Credit: Oregon Historical Society.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I tracked another Mayflower<\/em> connection to the Ball line when I came across this 1931 newspaper article. In it, Emeline Blair (Connor) Woodley (1851-1939), daughter of Oregon Trail pioneers, was interviewed by Fred Lockley of the Oregon Journal<\/em>. Information about Isaac Ball was revealed in the interview. This family has a slew of scions!<\/p>\n

Emeline is a direct descendant of Mayflower<\/em> passengers William Bradford, Richard Warren, Edward Doty, and Isaac Allerton. Her sister married Isaac Ball\u2019s grandson (see more below).<\/p>\n

\"An<\/a>
Oregon Journal (Portland, Oregon), 26 January 1931, page 4<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This article reads:<\/p>\n

Issac Ball<\/a> was born in England in 1812. He was one of a family of 12 children. He came to the United States in 1833, working in a brickyard near Albany, N. Y., and from there moving to New Orleans. Later he lived for a while in Wisconsin and still later in Illinois. In 1838 he married Abigail Howland. They moved to Missouri in 1840 and crossed the plains to Oregon in 1848. Mr. Ball served as county commissioner of Polk County for some time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A son born to Isaac and Abigail, William Henry Ball (1838-1873), married Mary H. Fawk (1844-1905). Their son, James Isaac Ball (1860-1904), married Jerusha Buell Connor (1861-1903), sister to Emeline. The couple had children and left descendants.<\/p>\n

Below is lineage for Jerusha and her sister Emeline.<\/p>\n

Lineage:<\/strong><\/p>\n