Ella Woodward was the daughter of William H. P. and Keziah (Bray) Woodward. 15 Oct 1868, she married John Dayton Ballard and together they had three daughters, Lura Sarah (Ballard) Nordyke, Jessie (Ballard) Roberts Wherry, and Nellie (Ballard) Old. John was the son of Sarah (Shanafelt) and Asa Ballard of Mooresville, Morgan County/Hendricks County, Indiana.
John was a farmer, Republican and Friend; their homestead sat in a grove of pine trees located in a Quaker community, religiously known as Fairfield Meeting of the Society of Friends. John Dayton and Ella (Woodward) Ballard moved from Indiana to Parsons, Labette County, Kansas and there spent the remainder of their lives.
It was in this home located at 1624 Washington Avenue in the City of Parsons, Kansas, that Mrs. Ballard assisted by her daughter Mrs. Jessie Ballard Wherry organized the Hannah Jameson Chapter, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Mrs. Ballard passed on in 1915 and in May, 1917, the Chapter presented St. John's Episcopal Church with a beautiful silk flag as a memorial to their beloved Organizer and First Regent, Mrs. Ballard. Mrs. Lura Nordyke, who preceded her mother as a member of the D.A.R. had the honor of making out her mother's application papers for membership in the National Society and of writing the letter asking that Mrs. Ballard be granted authority to organize a Chapter at Parsons.
Mrs. Ballard was a woman of much charm, with an unassumed dignity of manner, though capable in all she undertook. Old Homesteads and Historic Buildings - Genealogy and Family Lore, Manhattan Chapter N.S.D.A.R., New York City, Lura Ballard Nordyke, Historian, Manhattan Chapter, D.A.R., 1930, pp. 33-36.
John was a farmer, Republican and Friend; their homestead sat in a grove of pine trees located in a Quaker community, religiously known as Fairfield Meeting of the Society of Friends. John Dayton and Ella (Woodward) Ballard moved from Indiana to Parsons, Labette County, Kansas and there spent the remainder of their lives.
It was in this home located at 1624 Washington Avenue in the City of Parsons, Kansas, that Mrs. Ballard assisted by her daughter Mrs. Jessie Ballard Wherry organized the Hannah Jameson Chapter, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Mrs. Ballard passed on in 1915 and in May, 1917, the Chapter presented St. John's Episcopal Church with a beautiful silk flag as a memorial to their beloved Organizer and First Regent, Mrs. Ballard. Mrs. Lura Nordyke, who preceded her mother as a member of the D.A.R. had the honor of making out her mother's application papers for membership in the National Society and of writing the letter asking that Mrs. Ballard be granted authority to organize a Chapter at Parsons.
Mrs. Ballard was a woman of much charm, with an unassumed dignity of manner, though capable in all she undertook. Old Homesteads and Historic Buildings - Genealogy and Family Lore, Manhattan Chapter N.S.D.A.R., New York City, Lura Ballard Nordyke, Historian, Manhattan Chapter, D.A.R., 1930, pp. 33-36.
Ella Woodward was the daughter of William H. P. and Keziah (Bray) Woodward. 15 Oct 1868, she married John Dayton Ballard and together they had three daughters, Lura Sarah (Ballard) Nordyke, Jessie (Ballard) Roberts Wherry, and Nellie (Ballard) Old. John was the son of Sarah (Shanafelt) and Asa Ballard of Mooresville, Morgan County/Hendricks County, Indiana.
John was a farmer, Republican and Friend; their homestead sat in a grove of pine trees located in a Quaker community, religiously known as Fairfield Meeting of the Society of Friends. John Dayton and Ella (Woodward) Ballard moved from Indiana to Parsons, Labette County, Kansas and there spent the remainder of their lives.
It was in this home located at 1624 Washington Avenue in the City of Parsons, Kansas, that Mrs. Ballard assisted by her daughter Mrs. Jessie Ballard Wherry organized the Hannah Jameson Chapter, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Mrs. Ballard passed on in 1915 and in May, 1917, the Chapter presented St. John's Episcopal Church with a beautiful silk flag as a memorial to their beloved Organizer and First Regent, Mrs. Ballard. Mrs. Lura Nordyke, who preceded her mother as a member of the D.A.R. had the honor of making out her mother's application papers for membership in the National Society and of writing the letter asking that Mrs. Ballard be granted authority to organize a Chapter at Parsons.
Mrs. Ballard was a woman of much charm, with an unassumed dignity of manner, though capable in all she undertook. Old Homesteads and Historic Buildings - Genealogy and Family Lore, Manhattan Chapter N.S.D.A.R., New York City, Lura Ballard Nordyke, Historian, Manhattan Chapter, D.A.R., 1930, pp. 33-36.
John was a farmer, Republican and Friend; their homestead sat in a grove of pine trees located in a Quaker community, religiously known as Fairfield Meeting of the Society of Friends. John Dayton and Ella (Woodward) Ballard moved from Indiana to Parsons, Labette County, Kansas and there spent the remainder of their lives.
It was in this home located at 1624 Washington Avenue in the City of Parsons, Kansas, that Mrs. Ballard assisted by her daughter Mrs. Jessie Ballard Wherry organized the Hannah Jameson Chapter, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Mrs. Ballard passed on in 1915 and in May, 1917, the Chapter presented St. John's Episcopal Church with a beautiful silk flag as a memorial to their beloved Organizer and First Regent, Mrs. Ballard. Mrs. Lura Nordyke, who preceded her mother as a member of the D.A.R. had the honor of making out her mother's application papers for membership in the National Society and of writing the letter asking that Mrs. Ballard be granted authority to organize a Chapter at Parsons.
Mrs. Ballard was a woman of much charm, with an unassumed dignity of manner, though capable in all she undertook. Old Homesteads and Historic Buildings - Genealogy and Family Lore, Manhattan Chapter N.S.D.A.R., New York City, Lura Ballard Nordyke, Historian, Manhattan Chapter, D.A.R., 1930, pp. 33-36.
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