Most likely the son of Thomas Ballard (1783-1829) and Sarah Katy Ramsey (1783-1862), and an older brother of Abner Harrold Ballard (1819-1901) and Byron D. Ballard (1822-1893), Barth was first married in 1829, in Hendricks Co., Indiana, to Polly Osborn; he was next married in Jackson Co., Iowa, in June 1850 to Mary Ann German; the 1850 federal census includes 6 children aged 5-20. The 1850 agricultural census details his extensive farm holdings, but when he next appears -- in the 1860 census for San Jose, Santa Clara Co., CA., near Abner & Byron -- he was widowed and a farm laborer, with only one of his previous children (actually most likely an adopted nephew) then living with him. He was again listed as a farmer, however, in 1875 & 1877 voter registrars of Tulare County (residing in Tipton). Barth died at Sacramento County Hospital of "general debility" under the care of Dr. White.
Most likely the son of Thomas Ballard (1783-1829) and Sarah Katy Ramsey (1783-1862), and an older brother of Abner Harrold Ballard (1819-1901) and Byron D. Ballard (1822-1893), Barth was first married in 1829, in Hendricks Co., Indiana, to Polly Osborn; he was next married in Jackson Co., Iowa, in June 1850 to Mary Ann German; the 1850 federal census includes 6 children aged 5-20. The 1850 agricultural census details his extensive farm holdings, but when he next appears -- in the 1860 census for San Jose, Santa Clara Co., CA., near Abner & Byron -- he was widowed and a farm laborer, with only one of his previous children (actually most likely an adopted nephew) then living with him. He was again listed as a farmer, however, in 1875 & 1877 voter registrars of Tulare County (residing in Tipton). Barth died at Sacramento County Hospital of "general debility" under the care of Dr. White.
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