Source: "Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1907" State of AL Dept of Archives and History, compiled by Thomas M. Owen, L.L, D. Director, Brown Publishing Co, Montgomery, AL, 1907 p. 113 Legislative Department, Pike County HERBERT WELDON BALLARD of Troy, Pike county was born at Milo in that county, April 8, 1873 and is the son of Thomas Weldon and Jane C. (Simmons) Ballard and the grandson of John J. and Nancy (McNight) Ballard, and of Issac and Elizabeth (Fowler) Simmons, who emigrated about 1817 from North Carolina to Dallas county, and thence to Milo, Pike County. John J. Ballard lived at Fayettville, Georgia until 1854, when he removed to Milo, Pike county; and served eighteen months in the Army of Northern Virginia and died of a fever in Richmond. Thomas Weldon Ballard, his son, was born in Fayetteville, Georgia and moved in 1854 with his father to Milo. He also served eighteen months in the Confederate army; lost a leg from a wound received in the battle of Murfreesboro, Tenn; and was tax collector of Pike county for two terms. The Ballards are of Scotch descent, the first ancestor settling in N.C. Herbert W. Ballard received his elementary education in the common schools of Pike county; and attended the State Normal School at Troy two years, fininshing his junior year in 1894; in 1895 he took a course in the Atlanta Business College, but was compelled to leave on account of eye trouble, from which, however, he ultimately recovered. In the spring of 1901 he entered upon the life insurance business in which work he canvassed all the adjacent counties. Mr. Ballard has for year taken an active interest in agricultural pursuits. He is a Democrat; and is unmarried.