Our American Family - Person Sheet
Our American Family - Person Sheet
NameCynthia A. HURT 
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26Birth Date1 May 1853
Birth PlaceRussell County, Virginia
Death Date5 Jun 1892 Age: 39
Death PlaceRussell County, Virginia
Burial PlaceGardner, Russell County, Virginia, Haskew Ball Cemetery
FatherMoses HURT Sr. (1804-1865)
MotherMary Kent FLETCHER (~1819-1891)
Spouses
Birth Date28 Aug 1844
Birth PlaceUssell County, Virginia
Death Date26 Apr 1942 Age: 97
Burial PlaceGardner, Russell County, Virginia, Haskew Ball Cemetery
OccupationConfederate Soldier, Co. B 22nd Regt.Virginia Cavalry
Family ID3756
Marr Date21 Sep 1868
Marr PlaceRussell County, Virginia
Notes for Cynthia A. HURT
(1) Sep 2000: RootsWeb WorldConnect East Kentucky Connections Ken Burke
(2) 30 Sep 2000: Ancestral File/Pedigree Resource Files
(2) 30 Sep 2000: Ancestral File/Pedigree Resource Files
Notes for Haskew (Spouse 1)
Haskew Ball (b. 28 August 1844 d. 26 April 1942. Haskew served Co B 22nd Virginia Cavalry CSA and was the last of the Confederate Soldiers buried in Russell Co. Virginia “Haskew Ball, Confederate Soldier was born August 28, 1844 in ‘Balltown Holler’, Russell county, Virginia.
His parents were John Wesley Ball (Turner John) and Rebecca Ball daughter of James Ballard Ball of Gardner, Virginia, and Jane Turnnel Ball of Hawkins County Tennessee. The ‘Turner John’ Ball family moved across the Clinch River from Balltown to a farm south of Honaker near the mouth of Lewis Creek. This John Wesley Ball was called ‘Turner John’ because of his skill at a turning lathe in his furniture shop. Haskew Ball was a schoolteacher before joining the Confederate Army during the Civil war. He was among the lucky soldiers who came back to their homes and families.
In 1865 he returned to his Lewis Creek home near ‘Old Honaker’ Strangely he had not been shot nor wounded. On September 24, 1868 Haskew Ball and Cynthia Hurt of Gardner, were married. They started housekeeping on Lewis Creek where Haskew was working in his father’s carpenter shop, and where their first three children were born; Alphonso (A.C. Ball) August 29 1869; Roundeau, Senior (A.R. Ball) August 7, 1872 and Carrie Ball Mutter, March 14, 1874. Later in 1874 they moved to Gardner where Cynthia inherited some land from her father, Moses Hurt, Senior, and Haskew purchased the share of one of her brothers. Thus, together they had 116 acres. Other children born into this family were: Alonzo, October 2, 1876; Elbert (E.W. Ball) November 22 1878; Arthur July 31 1881, Mary July 7, 1883, and Eunice August 3, 1885. Grandmother Cynthia was only thirty-nine years old when she died on June 5, 1892.
Grandpa never married again. He lived at the home place as long as any of his children lived there with him. Then he closed his house and went to stay around among his children and other kinfolks. In some way he always ‘paid for his keep’ He rented his farm to his sons, A.R. Ball and E. W. He attended reunions of the Russell County Confederate soldiers until only a few of them were left living. During his last years Haskew lived with his daughter, Carrie Mutter, and her husband, Will Mutter, near Blackford, Virginia. Grandpa’s children and grandchildren came to visit him there, and every August a family reunion was held to celebrate his birthday. He lived ninety-seven years and seven months and died with pneumonia on April 26, 1942.
A military funeral was held for him at the Gardner Methodist Church and in his family graveyard. Two soldiers in grey uniforms folded the Confederate flag from his coffin. One of them said, “Never again in Russell County will this flag appear on the coffin of a departed soldier, and never again will soldiers wearing the Confederate uniforms be in charge of a funeral and grave side rites in Russell County!” Then one of the soldiers played Taps for Granpa Haskew Ball, the last of the Russell County’s 1450 Confederate Soldiers” – submitted by Roundeau Ball, Jr
On Find A Grave.
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(1) 30 Sep 2000: Ancestral File/Pedigree Resource Files
His parents were John Wesley Ball (Turner John) and Rebecca Ball daughter of James Ballard Ball of Gardner, Virginia, and Jane Turnnel Ball of Hawkins County Tennessee. The ‘Turner John’ Ball family moved across the Clinch River from Balltown to a farm south of Honaker near the mouth of Lewis Creek. This John Wesley Ball was called ‘Turner John’ because of his skill at a turning lathe in his furniture shop. Haskew Ball was a schoolteacher before joining the Confederate Army during the Civil war. He was among the lucky soldiers who came back to their homes and families.
In 1865 he returned to his Lewis Creek home near ‘Old Honaker’ Strangely he had not been shot nor wounded. On September 24, 1868 Haskew Ball and Cynthia Hurt of Gardner, were married. They started housekeeping on Lewis Creek where Haskew was working in his father’s carpenter shop, and where their first three children were born; Alphonso (A.C. Ball) August 29 1869; Roundeau, Senior (A.R. Ball) August 7, 1872 and Carrie Ball Mutter, March 14, 1874. Later in 1874 they moved to Gardner where Cynthia inherited some land from her father, Moses Hurt, Senior, and Haskew purchased the share of one of her brothers. Thus, together they had 116 acres. Other children born into this family were: Alonzo, October 2, 1876; Elbert (E.W. Ball) November 22 1878; Arthur July 31 1881, Mary July 7, 1883, and Eunice August 3, 1885. Grandmother Cynthia was only thirty-nine years old when she died on June 5, 1892.
Grandpa never married again. He lived at the home place as long as any of his children lived there with him. Then he closed his house and went to stay around among his children and other kinfolks. In some way he always ‘paid for his keep’ He rented his farm to his sons, A.R. Ball and E. W. He attended reunions of the Russell County Confederate soldiers until only a few of them were left living. During his last years Haskew lived with his daughter, Carrie Mutter, and her husband, Will Mutter, near Blackford, Virginia. Grandpa’s children and grandchildren came to visit him there, and every August a family reunion was held to celebrate his birthday. He lived ninety-seven years and seven months and died with pneumonia on April 26, 1942.
A military funeral was held for him at the Gardner Methodist Church and in his family graveyard. Two soldiers in grey uniforms folded the Confederate flag from his coffin. One of them said, “Never again in Russell County will this flag appear on the coffin of a departed soldier, and never again will soldiers wearing the Confederate uniforms be in charge of a funeral and grave side rites in Russell County!” Then one of the soldiers played Taps for Granpa Haskew Ball, the last of the Russell County’s 1450 Confederate Soldiers” – submitted by Roundeau Ball, Jr
On Find A Grave.
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(1) 30 Sep 2000: Ancestral File/Pedigree Resource Files