Marie J (Ballard) Smith was the daughter of Clergy A Ballard & Gertrude Emma Barber.
She was the wife of Ralph Edward Smith (born c.1897 MA)
They were the parents of James R Smith, who was 10 in the 1940 census. They may have had other children before Marie died in 1947.
When she was only 11 years old, Marie's father was murdered. On the night of Independence Day 1908, Clergy Ballard, a respectable mining engineer was stabbed 11 times by a black man who had broken into his daughter Blanche's bedroom - he died the next day. [Source: 'In Lincoln's Shadow: The 1908 Race Riot in Springfield, Illinois' By Roberta Senechal De La Roch] The murderer was hanged in Oct 1908.
The 1900 Census in Springfield, Sangamon, IL Shows Clergy and Emma Ballard, both aged 37, with 4 children: Homer E 16, Charley C 14, Blanche A 9, Marie J 2.
She was the wife of Ralph Edward Smith (born c.1897 MA)
They were the parents of James R Smith, who was 10 in the 1940 census. They may have had other children before Marie died in 1947.
When she was only 11 years old, Marie's father was murdered. On the night of Independence Day 1908, Clergy Ballard, a respectable mining engineer was stabbed 11 times by a black man who had broken into his daughter Blanche's bedroom - he died the next day. [Source: 'In Lincoln's Shadow: The 1908 Race Riot in Springfield, Illinois' By Roberta Senechal De La Roch] The murderer was hanged in Oct 1908.
The 1900 Census in Springfield, Sangamon, IL Shows Clergy and Emma Ballard, both aged 37, with 4 children: Homer E 16, Charley C 14, Blanche A 9, Marie J 2.
Marie J (Ballard) Smith was the daughter of Clergy A Ballard & Gertrude Emma Barber.
She was the wife of Ralph Edward Smith (born c.1897 MA)
They were the parents of James R Smith, who was 10 in the 1940 census. They may have had other children before Marie died in 1947.
When she was only 11 years old, Marie's father was murdered. On the night of Independence Day 1908, Clergy Ballard, a respectable mining engineer was stabbed 11 times by a black man who had broken into his daughter Blanche's bedroom - he died the next day. [Source: 'In Lincoln's Shadow: The 1908 Race Riot in Springfield, Illinois' By Roberta Senechal De La Roch] The murderer was hanged in Oct 1908.
The 1900 Census in Springfield, Sangamon, IL Shows Clergy and Emma Ballard, both aged 37, with 4 children: Homer E 16, Charley C 14, Blanche A 9, Marie J 2.
She was the wife of Ralph Edward Smith (born c.1897 MA)
They were the parents of James R Smith, who was 10 in the 1940 census. They may have had other children before Marie died in 1947.
When she was only 11 years old, Marie's father was murdered. On the night of Independence Day 1908, Clergy Ballard, a respectable mining engineer was stabbed 11 times by a black man who had broken into his daughter Blanche's bedroom - he died the next day. [Source: 'In Lincoln's Shadow: The 1908 Race Riot in Springfield, Illinois' By Roberta Senechal De La Roch] The murderer was hanged in Oct 1908.
The 1900 Census in Springfield, Sangamon, IL Shows Clergy and Emma Ballard, both aged 37, with 4 children: Homer E 16, Charley C 14, Blanche A 9, Marie J 2.
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