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Temperance Anne Tabitha Unknown (Ballard)
1785 - 1865

Temperance Anne Tabitha Unknown (Ballard) was born about 1785 somewhere in South Carolina and died about 1865 in Butler County, Alabama. Dates for birth and death are estimated. She lived to be about 80 years old.

Census	1/1/1830	AL (Montgomery County)	45 yrs old
Silas Ballard - Home in 1830 - Montgomery, Alabama one Male - 5 thru 9, one Male - 10 thru 14, one Male - 15 thru 19, two Males - 20 thru 29, one Male - 30 thru 39, one Male - 40 thru 49, one Female - Under 5, one Female - 5 thru 9, one Female - 20 thru 29, one Female - 40 thru 49
Census	1/1/1840	AL (Covington County)	55 yrs old
Pg.17 -Temperance Ballard - two Males - 10 thru 14, one Female- 20 thru 29, one Female - 50 thru 59
Census	11/4/1850	AL (Covington County)	65 yrs old
#411 -Temperance Ballad (age 65), Tabitha Ballad (32), Ivins Ballad (29), Mantha Ballad (10). Temperance was born in SC, Tabitha in NC and the other children in AL. Ivins works on the farm Temperance's son Ben lives next door
Census	2/17/1855	AL (Montgomery County)	70 yrs old
Page 49, line 4 - Silus Ballard - four males under 21, one male over 21, one female over 21, one slave, total inhabitants 7.
Graveyard/Tombstone	1/1/1865	Oakey Streak AL (Butler County)	80 yrs old
Temperance T. Ballard 1785 - 1865 Oakey Streak Methodist Church Cemetery

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Age	Date	Event
17	1802	Georgia formally cedes western claims for its southern boundary at the 31st parallel -- which will become the north western border of FL and southern border of AL.
18	1803	Between 1803 and 1811 a horse trail is established connecting Milledgeville, Georgia to Fort Stoddert, American outpost north of Mobile. This is expanded into a road and called The Federal Road by 1811.
20	1805	Indian cessions opened up large portions of western (Choctaw) and northern (Chickasaw and Cherokee) Alabama to white settlers.
26	1811	Tecumseh visits the Creek Indians living in what will become Georgia and Alabama to try to persuade them to join his fight against the flood of white settlers. Some towns join forces with Tecumseh and become known as "Red Sticks".
27	1812	The Creek tribes in southern Alabama and Georgia find themselves under increasing pressure from white settlers. Led by Chief Weatherford, they accepted an alliance with Tecumseh and are nicknamed "Red Sticks".
28	1813	Two battles begin the Creek Indian War: (1) Fort Mims Massacre - Fort Mims is attacked on August 13 by the Red Sticks while the inhabitants are eating their noon meal. The massacre brings an immediate response from the whites and soldiers are recruited from Tennessee, Georgia and other territories, and (2) The Battle of Holy Ground on December 1813.
28	1813	During 1813-14, Muskogee-speaking Creeks leave AL and move into areas in Northern FL in response to the Creek Civil War (also known as the Red-sticks War).
29	1814	The Treaty of Fort Jackson is finalized on August 9, 1814. William Weatherford (Red Eagle) surrenders to Gen. Andrew Jackson and cede their lands to the federal government. This opens approximately half of present-day AL to white settlement.
29	1814	Battle at Horseshoe Bend on March 27, leaves the Creek Red Sticks scattered and unorganized. Those that survive the battle flee south into northern Florida and band together as the Seminoles. Red Eagle (Billy Weatherford) surrenders to General Andrew Jackson at Fort Jackson later in the year.
32	1817	Alabama Territory is created when Congress passes an act to divide the Mississippi Territory and admit it into the union as a state. Alabama will remain a territory for two more years.
34	1819	Alabama admitted to the United States
50	1835	Alabama gold rush begins in the east-centrl hill country.
52	1837	The Second Creek war begins in 1836. In 1837 The Battle of Hobdy's Bridge becomes the last indian battle in AL.
55	1840	Alabama reports a total population of 590,756 on the 1940 Federal Census. This includes 335,185 whites, 255,571 blacks, 253,532 slaves, zero Native Americans, and others.
65	1850	State population=771,623. The 1850 Federal Census reveals the White population=426,514; African-American population=345,109; Slave population=342,844; Free black population=2,265; Urban population=35,179; Rural population=736,444; Cotton production in bales=564,429; Corn production in bushels=28,754,048; Number of manufacturing establishments=1,026.

Age	Date	Event
8	1793	The cotton gin was invented by Whitney.
14	1799	The Rosetta Stone was discovered
15	1800	The first battery was invented by Volta
22	1807	The first steamboat was invented by Fulton
29	1814	The first locomotive engine was created by Stephenson
45	1830	The first railroad is constructed between Liverpool and Manchester, England
54	1839	Goodyear invents vulcanized rubber, opening the door for tires and other rubber products.
59	1844	The first telegraph message is sent by Morse, who later invents the Mores Code
68	1853	The process of creating steel is invented by Besermer in Britain and Kelly in the U.S.
71	1856	The first Neanderthal fossils are found near Germany
74	1859	Charles Darwin publishes "Origin of Species" and begins the evolution theory.
80	1865	Mendel publishes his papers on genetics and introduces the concept to the public.

Age	Date	Event
15	1800	NEWS HEADLINES: Seat of U.S. government moves from Philadelphia to Washington DC
26	1811	NEWS HEADLINES: Tecumseh's emerging Indian Confederacy is defeated at the Battle of Tippecanoe in Ohio. Afterwards, Tecumseh and his brother travel from their Shawnee homes in the north to recruit and unify the southern Indians.
27	1812	NEWS HEADLINES: War of 1812 begins and will continue for until 1814. Some call it the Second War of Independence because the US fights Great Britain to a stalemate, Americas independence was assured.
43	1828	Gold is discovered in Georgia.
49	1834	July 9 - The S.S. John Randolph, the first successful iron steamship, is launched in Savannah
76	1861	NEWS HEADLINES: American Civil war begins at Ft. Sumter, located in Charleston Harbor, VA.
77	1862	NEWS HEADLINES: May 20, 1862 the US government passes the Homestead Act to provide cheap land for settlement of lower Southeast and West.

Age	Date	Event
3	1788	South Carolina joins the United States of America. State government is moved from Charleston to Columbia two years later.
45	1830	South Carolina becomes the first state to secede from the Union, setting the stage for the creation of the Confederacy.
75	1860	About 63,000 men from South Carolina served in the Confederate armed forces.

Age	Date	Event
2	1787	Constitution of the United States is signed
8	1793	Alexander McGillivray, the head of the Creek Indian Nation, dies. A restlessness begins to grow among the Indians in what is now Georgia, Alabama and Northern Florida as town chiefs via for the vacant leadership role.
9	1794	The United States establishes the Navy
13	1798	Mississippi Territory organized from Georgia's western land claims. It includes what will later become portions of Mississippi, Alabama and Northern Florida,
18	1803	Louisiana Purchase from France (who secured it from Spain) gives the US a huge new territory and the port of New Orleans.
19	1804	The Seminole warrior later known as Osceola is born near Tuskegee, AL.
20	1805	Federal Road project begins after the Creek Indians give the U.S. permission to develop a �horse path� through their nation that will provide better mail delivery between Washington City (DC) and New Orleans. Soon settlers are traveling and settling along this path to settle the southern frontier.
21	1806	Lewis and Clark Expedition, which began in 1804, ends. News of the rich lands to the west begins to spread.
26	1811	By 1811 the new "Federal Road" (which started as a horse path) is filled with a steady flow of white settlers into Creek Indian Territories. The Spanish begin to fan hostile sentiments among the Indians.
35	1820	The Act of April 24, 1820 abolished the land purchase credit system, fixed the price of public lands at $1.25 per acre, and set the minimum purchase at 80 acres. After a person purchased land, a final certificate was issued by the land office and sent to Washington DC to be verified and signed by the President -- a time consuming process. Public lands were most typically available through US treaties with Indians who agreed to be removed from their homelands.
45	1830	Indian Removal Act signed and the moving of eastern Indians west of the Mississippi begins.
50	1835	Second Seminole Indian War begins.
52	1837	The trickery used to capture Seminole Indian Chief Osceola (Assi Yohola) creates a public uproar and U.S. General Jesup is publicly condemned.
55	1840	Oregon Trail is established
57	1842	Second Seminole Indian War ends and thousands of Seminole Indians are forced to move west of the Mississippi.
70	1855	Third Seminole Indian War begins. It ends three years later when Chief Billy Bowlegs and his band are forced to move from Florida.
75	1860	Presidential election puts Abraham Lincoln in office. The campaign has heated the issues regarding slavery in the south.
77	1862	May 20, 1862 the US government passes the Homestead Act to provide cheap land for settlement of lower Southeast and West.
78	1863	Abraham Lincoln issues the "Emancipation Proclamation" freeing slaves.
80	1865	American Civil war ends with General Lee's surrender at Appomattox, VA. Reconstruction begins in the "old South"

Age	Date	Event
2	1787	Catherine the Great leads Russia into war with Turkey
3	1788	Russia begins war with Sweden
4	1789	French feudal system is abolished with the Declaration of Rights of Man. Outbreak of hostilities in France with the fall of the Bastille on July 14; Revolution in Austrian Netherlands declares independence as Belgium
7	1792	French Revolutionary Wars begin and the French royal family is imprisoned the following year
8	1793	Marie Antoinette is executed; Fugitive Slave Act passed; Roman Catholic faith is banned in France; France declares war on Britain and Holland.
10	1795	White Terror and bread riots in Paris
11	1796	Napoleon marries Josephine de Beauharnais
12	1797	Napoleon proclaims the Venetian Constitution, founds Ligurian Republic in Genoa
48	1833	Santa Anna is elected President of Mexico

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Silas Ballard
Born about 1781 and died about 1865

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Mary Ballard
Born somewhere in South Carolina on February 12, 1802 and died in Wakulla Co., Florida on August 6, 1890. She was 88 years old.

She was the daughter of Silas Joseph Hardy Ballard and Temperance Anne Tabitha ________ Ballard. Mary married Bennett on 1/1/1824 in Alabama. By 1843 they had moved to Florida. She is buried in McInty...

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