"Eli Ballard was born May 24, 1837, New York, died Jan 21, 1920, Salem, Oregon, buried Hampton. Settled in Hampton 1857 on farm; mustered age 25 in Co F 7th Minn. Infantry from Hampton on Aug 15, 1862; discharged Aug 16, 1865; married Julia in May 1866; chronic diarrhea, disease of liver, sunstroke resulting in disease of the eyes, pension $8; Julia died Sept 16, 1895 in Hampton; Eli moved to Salem, Oregon in 1910; one daughter."
[Submitted by Sasha A in 2017: Source is from a biographical book titled Civil War Veterans Documented Biographies by Shirley Dalaska & Cindy Thury Smith.]
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From the book - HISTORY OF DAKOTA COUNTY,MN. published in 1882:
HAMPTON TOWNSHIP. Eli Ballard was born in Erie county, New York, May 24th, 1837. At the age of twelve years he moved with his parents to Otto, Cataraugus county, and received a liberal education. In 1855 came to Minnesota and settled on his present place. Three years later, he went for a short time to Waseca county, Minnesota. While there, February 20th, he was captured, through mistake, by the Winnebago Indians. They supposing him to be the man "Alcott," whom they were dispatched by the agent to capture, for the offense of selling liquor to the Indians. They started with him for the agency about 4 o'clock in thle afternoon, and after going sixteen miles, stopped for "refreshments" and for the night at a little Indian village, called "Little Thunder Town." Having stolen about twenty gallons of whisky, they soon became quarrelsome, and before morning all were more or less drunken. One, however, in the morning, separated himself from the company and conducted Mr. Ballard to the agency, where he was thrust into an open log calaboose, being obliged to remain eight hours, at which time he was rescued by one of the neighborhood. His hands and feet were frozen, and he was sleeping, which slumber would have been his last, had it not been for his timely rescue. In August, 1862, enlisted in Company F, First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, until the fall of 1864; was in the Indian campaign, then in August, 1865, at Fort Snelling. Returning home, he in 1872, went to Redwood county and took a homestead on which he lived two years. then returned to his former home in Hampton. Married Miss Nettie McCune in 1861, who died three years later. Married his present wife, Miss Julia Cain in 1866. One daughter Fannie S. blessed this union.
[Submitted by Sasha A in 2017: Source is from a biographical book titled Civil War Veterans Documented Biographies by Shirley Dalaska & Cindy Thury Smith.]
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From the book - HISTORY OF DAKOTA COUNTY,MN. published in 1882:
HAMPTON TOWNSHIP. Eli Ballard was born in Erie county, New York, May 24th, 1837. At the age of twelve years he moved with his parents to Otto, Cataraugus county, and received a liberal education. In 1855 came to Minnesota and settled on his present place. Three years later, he went for a short time to Waseca county, Minnesota. While there, February 20th, he was captured, through mistake, by the Winnebago Indians. They supposing him to be the man "Alcott," whom they were dispatched by the agent to capture, for the offense of selling liquor to the Indians. They started with him for the agency about 4 o'clock in thle afternoon, and after going sixteen miles, stopped for "refreshments" and for the night at a little Indian village, called "Little Thunder Town." Having stolen about twenty gallons of whisky, they soon became quarrelsome, and before morning all were more or less drunken. One, however, in the morning, separated himself from the company and conducted Mr. Ballard to the agency, where he was thrust into an open log calaboose, being obliged to remain eight hours, at which time he was rescued by one of the neighborhood. His hands and feet were frozen, and he was sleeping, which slumber would have been his last, had it not been for his timely rescue. In August, 1862, enlisted in Company F, First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, until the fall of 1864; was in the Indian campaign, then in August, 1865, at Fort Snelling. Returning home, he in 1872, went to Redwood county and took a homestead on which he lived two years. then returned to his former home in Hampton. Married Miss Nettie McCune in 1861, who died three years later. Married his present wife, Miss Julia Cain in 1866. One daughter Fannie S. blessed this union.
"Eli Ballard was born May 24, 1837, New York, died Jan 21, 1920, Salem, Oregon, buried Hampton. Settled in Hampton 1857 on farm; mustered age 25 in Co F 7th Minn. Infantry from Hampton on Aug 15, 1862; discharged Aug 16, 1865; married Julia in May 1866; chronic diarrhea, disease of liver, sunstroke resulting in disease of the eyes, pension $8; Julia died Sept 16, 1895 in Hampton; Eli moved to Salem, Oregon in 1910; one daughter."
[Submitted by Sasha A in 2017: Source is from a biographical book titled Civil War Veterans Documented Biographies by Shirley Dalaska & Cindy Thury Smith.]
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From the book - HISTORY OF DAKOTA COUNTY,MN. published in 1882:
HAMPTON TOWNSHIP. Eli Ballard was born in Erie county, New York, May 24th, 1837. At the age of twelve years he moved with his parents to Otto, Cataraugus county, and received a liberal education. In 1855 came to Minnesota and settled on his present place. Three years later, he went for a short time to Waseca county, Minnesota. While there, February 20th, he was captured, through mistake, by the Winnebago Indians. They supposing him to be the man "Alcott," whom they were dispatched by the agent to capture, for the offense of selling liquor to the Indians. They started with him for the agency about 4 o'clock in thle afternoon, and after going sixteen miles, stopped for "refreshments" and for the night at a little Indian village, called "Little Thunder Town." Having stolen about twenty gallons of whisky, they soon became quarrelsome, and before morning all were more or less drunken. One, however, in the morning, separated himself from the company and conducted Mr. Ballard to the agency, where he was thrust into an open log calaboose, being obliged to remain eight hours, at which time he was rescued by one of the neighborhood. His hands and feet were frozen, and he was sleeping, which slumber would have been his last, had it not been for his timely rescue. In August, 1862, enlisted in Company F, First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, until the fall of 1864; was in the Indian campaign, then in August, 1865, at Fort Snelling. Returning home, he in 1872, went to Redwood county and took a homestead on which he lived two years. then returned to his former home in Hampton. Married Miss Nettie McCune in 1861, who died three years later. Married his present wife, Miss Julia Cain in 1866. One daughter Fannie S. blessed this union.
[Submitted by Sasha A in 2017: Source is from a biographical book titled Civil War Veterans Documented Biographies by Shirley Dalaska & Cindy Thury Smith.]
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From the book - HISTORY OF DAKOTA COUNTY,MN. published in 1882:
HAMPTON TOWNSHIP. Eli Ballard was born in Erie county, New York, May 24th, 1837. At the age of twelve years he moved with his parents to Otto, Cataraugus county, and received a liberal education. In 1855 came to Minnesota and settled on his present place. Three years later, he went for a short time to Waseca county, Minnesota. While there, February 20th, he was captured, through mistake, by the Winnebago Indians. They supposing him to be the man "Alcott," whom they were dispatched by the agent to capture, for the offense of selling liquor to the Indians. They started with him for the agency about 4 o'clock in thle afternoon, and after going sixteen miles, stopped for "refreshments" and for the night at a little Indian village, called "Little Thunder Town." Having stolen about twenty gallons of whisky, they soon became quarrelsome, and before morning all were more or less drunken. One, however, in the morning, separated himself from the company and conducted Mr. Ballard to the agency, where he was thrust into an open log calaboose, being obliged to remain eight hours, at which time he was rescued by one of the neighborhood. His hands and feet were frozen, and he was sleeping, which slumber would have been his last, had it not been for his timely rescue. In August, 1862, enlisted in Company F, First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, until the fall of 1864; was in the Indian campaign, then in August, 1865, at Fort Snelling. Returning home, he in 1872, went to Redwood county and took a homestead on which he lived two years. then returned to his former home in Hampton. Married Miss Nettie McCune in 1861, who died three years later. Married his present wife, Miss Julia Cain in 1866. One daughter Fannie S. blessed this union.
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