Hello all, First, I apologize for the cross-posting, as I know many of you are members of the three lists this message is posted to. One of my large-scale projects of late is working with the Virginia Society of the War of 1812 for an upcoming book on burials of veterans of that war in Virginia. I'd like to ask for your help in this, as we near the finish line on adding new people, and start vetting information on those we have identified. This database, to be converted to text for the book, is a compilation of over 4100 men known to have served in the War of 1812, and who are buried in Virginia. To be included, the veteran must be buried in Virginia. Surprisingly, a great many were not Virginia natives. Tombstones tell wonderful stories, and that is the backbone of much of our burial information. Many of the veterans were born in other states, many in the British Isles and Germany and France. Marriage information from these tombstones and burial records is not to be found elsewhere. But I am getting ahead of myself. What I would like to ask all of you is this: (1) Do you have a War of 1812 veteran in your family tree? (2) Do you know where he is buried? Is it in Virginia? (3) If you do not know, I will accept look-up queries to see what we have. You may send these to the list serves here, or email me privately at [email protected] Either way is fine. However, knowing how list serves quickly go off to another topic, I will have to give priority to those who reply to me off list. I am hoping to add/change/ delete information on our current database. I cannot put up the entire database for review. If you are a member or officer of a local historical or genealogical society, please let me know, as we want to send out the information we have for people we have in your particular county for further vetting. The columns we are using are for name, date of birth, date of death, rank, service unit(s), spouse information, parents of spouse, dates of birth, death and marriage, personal information, parents of veteran, place of birth, cemetery, brief description of location of cemetery, county of burial, pension information, and source information for service and burial. In other words, just about everything. We need the best source citations for all of these items that you can provide. The book will be published next year. I am looking forward to hearing from you and about your own War of 1812 veteran ancestor(s) buried in Virginia. Remember, they did not have to be born in Virginia, just buried in Virginia.--If they served from Virginia but are not buried in Virginia, they will not be included in this book.* Yours Trusty Friend, Craig Kilby Lancaster, VA * For purposes of this book, being buried in Virginia means the modern counties of Virginia, and does not include West Virginia

Hi Craig, Here's mine. Horatio Ball, 1785-1872 per transcript of obelisk in cemetery (also quoted in Mt. Olivet book below) Sergeant in Col. Dangerfield's DC Militia under Captain Hugh Minor (per bounty land applications) Married (1) Catherine Marcey (1792-1830), and (2) Elizabeth Marcey (1801-1871) - dates for wives from obelisk mentioned above. Have not had time to research the wive's parents, but various authors mention the two were sisters. Horatio "was a trustee of Fairfax Chapel for many years" per Melvin Lee Steadman, Jr., Historian, Virginia Methodist Historical Society, as quoted in the Mt. Olivet book listed below. He was among the men appointed as "Commisioners to assess land damages, in this county, on the line of the Alexandria, Loudoun, and Hampshire Rail Road" per Alexandria Gazette, 10 Aug 1854 p3. Was also one of the Commissioners chosen to superintend the election of 24 May 1855 per Alexandria Gazette 15 May 1855, p2. Horatio's parents - John Ball (1746-1814, Revolutionary War Veteran) and Mary Ann Thrift (1750-1804) - dates from obelisk Horatio was born in Fairfax County, VA (his father and grandfather were landowners there per patent, deed, etc. Can get details if needed.) Cemetery - The Old Ball Family Burial Ground located behind 3427 Washington Boulevard, Arlington, VA per "Arlington Heritage" book by Templeman, listed below. County of Burial - at the time was Alexandria County, now Arlington County, VA Pension information from NARA Bounty Land Files, Received 40 acres Warrant 28552 under Act of Sept. 28, 1850, and another 120 acres Warrant 3386 under the Act of 1855. Sources include copies of the pension file received from NARA in 2000, transcript of names & dates in Old Ball Family Burial Ground from USGenWeb Site, "Mt. Olivet Methodist; Arlington's Pioneer Church" by Frank L. Ball (grandson of Horatio), and other secondary (or worse) sources including "Arlington Heritage" (journal of the Arlington County Historical Society) October 1977, "Arlington Heritage; Vignettes of a Virginia County" by Eleanor Lee Templeman, "The Balls of Fairfax and Stafford" by Bonnie S. Ball. Sorry about all the secondary sources; constraints of funds and geography have prevented me from verifying the information, but the census records I have do tend to confirm it. Plus you may have him in your database already :-) Susan in Missouri