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Personal data Dr. Clay Adra Ball 

  • He was born on November 19, 1877 in Monroe Twp., Delaware Co., IN.
  • (note1) .Source 1
    Source: Lee Russell
  • He died on June 19, 1980 in Westminster Vlg., Muncie, Delaware Co., IN, he was 102 years old.

    Waarschuwing Attention: Age above 100 years (103).

  • He is buried on June 21, 1980 in Beach Grove Cem., Muncie, Delaware Co., IN.
  • This information was last updated on July 14, 2019.

Household of Dr. Clay Adra Ball

He is married to Helen Mauck.

They got married in the year 1916 at Burton, Geauga Co., OH, he was 38 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. James Lewis Ball  1923-2014 


Notes about Dr. Clay Adra Ball

Dr. Clay Adra Ball

Source: Author: Russell, Lee, Title: annotations to Crampton/Pittenger FGS, (Publication location: Muncie IN, Publisher: LR, Publication date: xi Jan 1994) for name = Dr. Clay Ball

Author: NN (family name not given), Jane, Title: "Dr Clay Adra Ball," (Publication location: Muncie, IN, Publisher: Find-a-Grave, Publication date: xxvi Feb MMXI), Repository: The Cloud

Link: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/66161515/clay-adra-ball

"Photo[graph of his stone] added by Jane

Dr Clay Adra Ball Birth 19 Nov 1877 Delaware County, Indiana, USA Death 19 Jun 1980 (aged 102) Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana, USA Burial Beech Grove Cemetery Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana, USA Plot Section N, Lot 31 Memorial ID 66161515

Dr. Clay Adra Ball, a prominent Muncie physician for 65 years and one of the founders of Muncie's first hospital, died Thursday in Westminster Village at the age of 102. He was a former resident of 1015 Linden St.

Dr. Ball was born Nov. 19, 1877, the son of George Mansfield Ball and Susannah Hale Ball, on the family's 120-acre farm in Monroe Township. He attended a one-room country school near his home, and at age 17 attended high school--a room above a grocery store in Cowan--for one year. He later studied under the county Superintendent of Public Instruction in southwest Delaware County. This qualified him to be a teacher, and for the following two years he taught in a one-room school in southern Delaware County.

Dr. Ball enrolled at Indiana University in 1896, one of 500 students at the university. He graduated with an A.B. degree in chemistry in 1902 and taught for one year at a small school in Patriot, Ind., on the Ohio River. He enrolled in the Medical College of Indiana, Indianapolis, in 1903, where he studied until 1906, graduating with a master's degree.

Dr. Ball began his career as a physician in Muncie in 1906 in an upstairs room of a bank building at Mulberry and Main streets, when the population here was 20,000. In 1907, he and two other doctors set up a simple hospital, Muncie's first, on the second floor of the old Star building at Adams and Mulberry streets, where he stayed until 1913 when he left for three months to study at the New York Post Graduate Medical School.

Upon returning to Muncie, he set up practice in his own office at High and Jackson streets, where he remained until 1916. At that time he charged 50 cents for office calls.

Dr. Ball met his wife, Helen Mauck Ball, in 1916 when he vaccinated her against smallpox. They were married in a Burton, Ohio church near the bride's home and honeymooned in New York and Boston.

Upon his return to Muncie, Dr. Ball purchased a home at Adams and Franklin streets, with family living quarters upstairs and the doctor's office downstairs. Dr. Ball practiced medicine in that office until 1971. He also practiced at Ball Memorial Hospital beginning in 1928.

In 1971, at the age of 93, Dr. Ball retired after 65 years in the medical profession. He had been named Indiana Physician of the Year in 1956.

Dr. Ball was a member of First United Presbyterian Church, Delaware-Blackford County Medical Society, Indiana State Medical Assn., American Medical Assn., Delaware Lodge 46 F&AM, Sons of the American Revolution, Muncie Rotary Club and the Indiana University and Purdue University alumni associations. He was reportedly the oldest living alumnus of both universities.

Services will be at 3 p.m. Saturday in Meeks Mortuary with Dr. Laurence Martin officiating. Interment will follow in Beech Grove Cemetery. Friends may call at the mortuary from 1-3 p.m. Saturday.

Family Members
Parents

George M Ball 1844– 1879
Susan Rebecca Hale Burcaw 1850-1932

Spouse

Helen Mauck Ball 1886-1984

Siblings

Walter L Ball 1869-1938
Joseph Hale Ball 1872-1944
Claude Caesar Ball 1873-1957
John W Ball 1875-1925
Maude Matilda Ball Ayres 1879-1968

Half Siblings

Jessie Mae Burcaw Reynolds 1884-1942
Harry Lewis Burcaw 1886-1965
William L. Burcaw 1888-1967
Mary Kennedy 1890-1966
James Curtis Burcaw 1892-1962
Marie M. Burcaw Frandsen 1894-1969

Children

Edward Mauck Ball 1917-1992
Philip Ball 1919-2016
James L Ball 1923-2014
James Lewis Ball 1923-2014
Harold C. Ball 1924-1993

Inscription 102 YEARS AND SEVEN MONTHS OF VICTORIOUS LIFE

Created by: Jane Added: 26 Feb 2011 Find A Grave Memorial 66161515"

His stone includes the title M. D. but that is not verified by his obituary. - D.A. Navorska - xiv July MMXIX - in proximo Grove, OK.
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Ancestors (and descendant) of Clay Adra Ball

Clay Adra Ball
1877-1980

1916

Helen Mauck
1886-1984

James Lewis Ball
1923-2014

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Birthday November 19, 1877

  • The temperature on November 19, 1877 was about 7.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 14 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • From August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
  • In The Netherlands , there was from November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1877: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
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Day of death June 19, 1980

  • The temperature on June 19, 1980 was between 9.6 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 3.2 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1980: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 14.1 million citizens.
    • January 27 » Through cooperation between the U.S. and Canadian governments, six American diplomats secretly escape hostilities in Iran in the culmination of the Canadian Caper.
    • May 13 » An F3 tornado hits Kalamazoo County, Michigan. President Jimmy Carter declares it a federal disaster area.
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    • July 7 » During the Lebanese Civil War, 83 Tiger militants are killed during what will be known as the Safra massacre.
    • July 19 » Opening of the Summer Olympics in Moscow.
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Day of burial June 21, 1980

  • The temperature on June 21, 1980 was between 10.5 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (26%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1980: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 14.1 million citizens.
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