Surnames: BALL HENDREN

----Source: CLARK COUNTY REPUBLICAN & PRESS (Neillsville, Wis.) 11/27/1902

Ball, Emma Hendren (9 OCT 1871 - 12 NOV 1902)

Emma Hendren Ball was born Oct. 9th, 1871, on the day of the great Chicago fire. On Pleasant Ridge, Clark County and in Neillsville were spent the days of her childhood and youth. Her school days were all spent in Neillsville until her graduation at the age of sixteen, when her clear sweet voice rang out to the farthest extremity of that great crowded hall as never before or since.

In 1880 she presented herself for holy baptism in the beautiful new church, of which her father was pastor for 18 years. At the age of 12, she began her career as Sunday School teacher in Juvenile department, where she continued until her class of more than 50 clung to her as to no one else until 1891, when she removed to Greenwood, Clark County, Wis., to be again the darling of the home and the helper in all manner of church work, in the Sunday School, at the organ, at the Christmas tree, in the concert, at the church fair and at the funeral.

For a few months in 1891 she undertook the completion of her education at Galesville University. But too much zeal and too much haste in preparing for her former graduation forbade her continued efforts at college. Consequently fond parents furnished her with gold opportunities in other directions, with marked success.

Nov. 15th, 1900, she passed through Neillsville at midnight as the bride of F.A. Ball of Stevens Point, Wis. She was married in Greenwood by Rev. W.T. Hendren at 8 o'clock p.m., in the evening; and at 3:00 the next morning entered he own beautifully furnished cottage home, where nearly two full years of happy joyful days were spent in the very midst of the dearest friends that this earth affords.

But the end came suddenly and without warning on the evening of Nov. 12th, six days after the birth of a daughter who was called Genevieve Joyce from the first.

The funeral was attended by Rev. L.C. Smith of Waukesha, on Sunday afternoon, in the presence of friends from Greenwood and Neillsville and Stevens Point, a weeping multitude. Floral offerings and other tokens of affection and esteem came from Greenwood, Loyal, Neillsville, Medford and Madison, while relatives and personal friends in Stevens Point sent tokens of love and tenderness in the richest profusion until the very last.

The home will not be broken up; the sweet babe will get the most tender care in the home and also in the church, while the sweet memories of the past, and the bright hopes of the future shall be cherished until others likewise shall be called away to be "forever with the Lord."