This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Ball, Copp, McGuire, Croom Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xV.2ADE/331.335 Message Board Post: I just now found your message. Don't know if this will be any help in your research on Calvin Ball, but will post it and let you decide. I am researching John Ball. In the 1850 census of Independence County, Arkansas, there is a John Ball and his wife Anna. One of their children was a son named Cavon H. Ball, age 15, born in TN. The name is probably spelled wrong. Could be Calvin. In the 1860 census of Searcy Co. Arkansas, John Ball and his family are listed, minus this Cavon. In the 1880 census of Newton County, Arkansas, John Ball's widow, Anna was living with her youngest daughter, Anna J. Manus. You have Calvin and Sarah Ball living in Newton Co. AR in 1860. Just wondered if there might be a connection. Mary