Sarah "Sallie" Ellen Ball
Cincinnati Post, Thursday, 17 October 1935, page 1
Little Sally Lawson looked across the room in a Kentucky country school about 84 years ago, into the eyes of Jimmy Ball and a romance started is responsible for a 70th wedding anniversary celebration today. Mr. and Mrs. James L Ball, of Ball Heights near California Ky. are receiving friends today at the home of their daughter, Mrs. Albert Hauss, 305 Southern avenue, Mt. Auburn. Mrs. Ball carried a bridal bouqet of red roses and a baby breath against the black silk of her dress as she cam into her daughter's flower decked living room this morrning.
"You're sweeter than you ever were," her husband said as he kissed her. Mrs. Ball dimpled and smiled and her husband put his arms around her to lead her to a chair to have their picture taken. Mrs. Hauss said her mother and father had been sweethearts since their very first years in Beech Grove School, near Flagg Springs, Ky. where the Lawson family lived. When he was 21 and she was 20, there was a pretty wedding after which they went to their new home on Ball Heights. They still live there and so does romance, they say.
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Kentucky Post, 3 November 1941
California Ky-Mrs. Sallie E Ball, Ball Heights, California Ky. who had celebrated her seventieth wedding anniversary in 1935, will be buried in Ball Cemetery near her 40 acre estate, Thursday. Services are to be conducted in the residence at 2:30 pm with T P White funeral home, New Richmond O. in charge.
Ill for a short time, Mrs. Ball died Monday at her home where she lived with a daughter, Mrs. Albert F Hauss. She also leaves another daughter, Mrs. Clarence F Hauss, living in Milan, Italy. The two daughters had married brothers. Shortly after observing the anniversary six years ago, her husband, James L Ball, retired farmer, died. He had operated the farm which had been in the Ball family for many years. Their romance was given publicity in Cincinnati newspapers when they celebrated the wedding anniversary here.
The had become acquianted when they both entered the old Beech Grove School near California as children. Mrs. Ball was born and reared in Flagg Spring Ky. and her husband in California. During their youth both were experienced horseback riders and up until his death, Ball was a family figure riding through California. The Ball estate formerly contained sugar maple tres and later tobacco was raised, but it had been used to grow hay in later years.
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Kentucky Post, Wednesday, 5 November 1941, page 1
Mrs. Sallie Lawson Ball, 96, California Ky. died Monday at her home after a long illness. She leaves two daughters, Mrs. Charles Hauss, Milan Italy, and Mrs. Albert Hauss, Ball Heights, Campbell County.
Services will be held at 2:30 pm Thursday at the residence with burial in the family cemetery. The White Funeral Home, Mt. Washington O. is in charge.