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10, 1829. in Southampton county. \'irginia, son of Jarratt Wallace and Content (White- head) Judkins, and his mother was Alary Gray (Ball) Judkins, daug-hter of William Wearing and Dorothy (McCabe) Ball. Rev. William Elliott Judkins is a Methodist c!erg\man and Doctor of Divinity, and is prominent as a preacher in Virginia and the South, having been a graduate of Ran- dolph-Macon College, of which he has been for many years a trustee. William Waring Ball had eight sons: Mottrom McCabe. Summerfield, John Henry, William Waring, Lewin Turberville, Charles Tebbs, Alfred Clifton and Isaac Lauck. Six of these were soldiers in the Confederate army, namely : Summerfield, John H., Mottrom Mc, Wil- liam W., Lewin T. and Charles T. The first two were killed in battle. He had a daugh- ter, Martha Corbin Turberville, who mar- ried her cousin, William Selwyn Ball, with no issue.

The first ancestor of the well-known Ball family of Virginia was Colonel W^illiam Ball, who was born circa 1615, died Novem- ber, 1680, at "Millenbeck," Lancaster coun- t}, Virginia. He came with his family in 1650, and settled at the north of the Coro- tonian river in Lancaster county, Virginia. One of his sons was Joseph, later known as Colonel Joseph Rail. He was born January 2 1641, died in Lancaster county, Virginia, September 30, 1694. In 1687 he was ap- pointed to lay ofT a boundary between Lan- caster and Northumberland counties, Vir- ginia. He was a justice of the peace in 1680 and burgess in 1685. He married three times, and by his third marriage circa 1675, with Margaret, daughter of Rawleigh Down- man, had Joseph, later Captain Joseph Ball, of "Coan," Northumberland county, Vir- ginia, who was born 1680, died in Septem- ber, 1721. He married Mary, daughter of Colonel Nicholas Spencer, and they were the parents of Mary Ball, mother of General George Washington. Their eldest son was Colonel Spencer Ball, of Northumberland county, Virginia, who was born circa 1700- 05, died February 11, 1777. He was cap- tain, justice and member of the Northum- berland county court from 1735 to 1757; in- spector of tobacco in 1737; vestryman of St. Stephen's parish in 1738: qualified as lieu- tenant-colonel in 1753; burgess from 1755 to 1758; member of the Westmoreland .Asso- ciation, February 27, 1766, and one of the

signers of the association of 1770. He mar- ried a lady of the name of Mottrom. Their eldest son was Spencer Mottrom Ball, of "Coan," Northumberland county, Virginia, who died in November or December, 1786. He was a vestryman of St. Stephen's par- ish, and one of the signers of the W'estmore- land Association Address of 1766. He mar- ried Elizabeth, daughter of Francis Waring, of Goldsbarry, Essex county, Virginia, jus- tice of Essex county, Virginia, from 1740 to 1760, and son of Colonel Thomas Waring. Their second son was Mottrom Waring Ball, M. D., born at "Coan," March 21, 1767, married Martha Corbin Turberville, born at Hickory Hill, Westmoreland county, No- vember 4, 1778, died March 26, 1865, daugh- ter of Major John and Martha (Corbin) 1 urberville, of Westmoreland county, Vir- ginia. Mottrom Ball was educated at the universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, at the first of which he graduated with the de- gree of M. D. He began the practice of medicine in Northumberland county in 1800. In 1814 his property was destroyed by the P.ritish and he located in Fairfax county, \'irginia. He died at Woodbury, Fairfax county, Virginia, August 23, 1842. His youngest son. William Waring Ball, was born March 21. 1812, and married. May 6. 1834, Dorothy H., born May, 1816, died at "Elmwood," Fairfax county, Virginia, Octo- ber 12, 1889. daughter of Dr. McCabe. of Leesburg, Virginia. His eldest daughter was Mary Gray, born February 12. 1835, died August 3, 1858, married, November 15, 1855, the Rev. William Elliott Judkins, father of \\''illiam Duncan Judkins. Other children of this marriage are: i. Mary Mc- Kenzie Judkins, born at Farmville, Vir- ginia, November 12, 1865 ; married John Summerfield Jenkins, of Norfolk, Virginia, whose father was killed in battle at Ceme- tery Ridge, Gettysburg, during the Civil war; they have three children: John, Jr., Esther Leavens and William McKenzie Jenkins. 2. Lewis McKenzie Judkins, born at Petersburg, Virginia, November 20, 1869; he was the "Father" of the playground movement in Richmond. 3. Esther McKen- zie, born at Lynchburg, \'irginia, June 16, 1P72; married the Rev. Samuel Roger Tyler, of Richmond, \'irginia ; their children are: Esther, Samuel Roger, Jr., John Sanford.

W' illiam Duncan Judkins was educated in I)rivate schools in Virginia, and later attend-