Hello Audrey, You mention BALLARDS. I descend from CHARLES BALLARD, born c. 1789 in N. C. He was in Mississippi early in the 1800's - married Jenney (Jane) Brady on 3/11/1821 in Marion County. I have hit the "brick wall" on his parentage. Do you "know" this Ballard???? Thanks, Carroll DiBenedetto I am in a Pennington line also: Abraham?? Absalom, William, Charlotte (m. Calvin Jackson) Mary Jane Ballard to my mother, Victoria Charlotte Ballard.