Died

On Friday, the 26th lnst., at the residence of ber daugbter, Mrs. Lewis. in Atlanta, Ga., Mrs. Lucy Bfill, widow of James Ball, Jr., formerly of the townshlp of Webster, in this county. Mrs. Ball was bom January 12, 1803, and henee was in her ninetieth year. She carne to this State with her husband and young children in 1836, and settled in the township of Webster, then almost a wilderness, where she lived until some time af ter the death of her husband, in 1852. With the vigor and fortitude characteristic of the mothers of olden times, she battled with the hardships attending life in a new country in those days, with her own hands doing all the work of her household, and the rearing of lier children, even to spinning and weaving much of the cloth worn by her family. No labor was too great nor hardships and dangers too severe for her to undergo, that she jnight do her utmost for the comfort and well-belng of her family and the nurture and education of her children. Amidst all her home cares, she found much time also to minister to the needy and sick of the neighborhood, and there may yet be some who will recall the comfort she at times brought to those suffering with the malarial diseases so prevalent in those early days. She was always an active worker, together with her husband, in whatever tended to the social and religious advancement of those among whom she lived, and particularly the young. Not only her own children, but many others have arisen to cali her blessed. In 1804 she went to Marquette, where she made her home with her son, D. H. Ball, for several years. In 1871 she went to live with her daughter, Mrs. Lewis, then lately married and settled in Atlanta, Ga., where she spent the remainder of her life, eujoying, in the filial devotion8 of her daughter and her children, and in tokens of affection from her sons, the fruits of her early struggles. She leaves two sons, D. H. Ball, living at Marquette, Lucius Ball, at Poplar Bluff, Mo., and Mrs. Lewis (formerly Phebe Ball), at Atlanta, Ga.