HENRY BALLARD
HENRY BALLARD
by Jay Richard Davis, 2001
Henry Ballard was born
January 27, 1832, to William
and Hannah Ballard in
Thatcham, Berkshire,
England.
Henry’s parents were very
poor and Hannah was
dismayed at the prospect of
another mouth to feed. As a
result, she tried to lose the
baby by working and lifting
too hard. Henry said, “The
harder she tried to lose me,
the harder I clung to life, for I
guess it was destined that I
should be born.” After Henry
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was born, however, Hannah
was very fond of him, and he
became the most beloved of all of her sons. She devoted her life to
him, seemingly trying to make up for the way she felt before he was
born.
Henry recorded that his parents “were poor, but honorable people.”
He also wrote, “ . . . and many times I feel to thank God that I had
good parents to train me in my young days, that I was not dragged
down into the sins and vices of the world. I know that many time
they have thanked God for their youngest son and were proud of me.”
Queen Victoria ascended to the throne when Henry was about five
years old. The whole community celebrated with a free dinner on the
village green. Henry became separated from Hannah in the crowd.
Later Henry would laugh about how excited his mother became and
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said, “I wasn’t far. I was enjoying myself eating all I wanted of all
that good food.” Henry’s daughter, Rebecca Ballard Cardon, points to
this experience as an indication that Henry did not always have all
he wanted to eat.
Only the better classes could afford an education at the time in
England; but when Henry was about nine years old, he was accepted
into a charity school called “The Blue Coat School.” The following is
copied from the history of Thatcham:
Lady Frances Winchcombes was a daughter of the Earl of
Berkshire, and in her deed dated 30 June 1707, she gave to the
trustees about a half acre of ground on Chapel Street, Thatcham,
with an old decayed Chapel standing thereon, with directions to
convert the same into a school house for the education of thirty poor
boys - born or to be born, or whose parents should live in the parish
of Thatcham. She directed that funds should be used to buy bibles,
common prayer books and other useful books. The boys were to be
taught to read and understand English, to write and keep accounts,
so as to qualify them for some honest calling.
That small building was still standing in 1957.
Henry left school on June 24, 1845, and the rest of his education was
self acquired. He was a good reader and speller and was good at
math. Despite limited opportunities for formal education, he became
a well education man for his time.
After he left school, Henry went to work on a farm for William
Northaway herding sheep. He worked there most of his remaining
time in England. On the farm he met another farm hand named
Joseph Kimber.
Joseph was a member of the Church and he and Henry often
discussed religion. Henry liked Joseph’s answers to his questions
and began attending church with him. Henry became convinced that
the Church was true and wanted to join. He discussed his desire
with his family but they were opposed to the idea as the “Mormons”
were very unpopular at the time. Henry joined the Church anyway
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and was baptized by Joseph Kimber in February 1849 when he was
17 years old.
Soon afterward, Henry went to London to visit his brother, George.
One Sunday Henry returned to his brother’s house and George asked
him why he hadn’t been to church that night. Henry hesitated but
finally told George that he had gone to the Mormon church. When
George angrily asked him why, Henry responded that it was the only
true church and he was now a member.
George was shocked and scolded Henry for making such a foolish
choice. He called for the minister and asked him to plead with Henry
to repent and leave the Mormons alone. The minister and George
knelt down and prayed but it was no use; Henry would not deny his
testimony. He told them the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day
Saints was the only true church on Earth and he would not leave it.
This made the minister very angry and he left.
After the minister left, George offered Henry a share in his business
if he would forget the Mormons. George was a prosperous coach
maker, and had Henry accepted this offer, he would have never had
to work again. George further offered to build Henry the finest
carriage in London with a team of the finest horses and coachman to
wait on him. He told Henry, “I’ll put kid gloves on our hands, and
you can be a gentleman the rest of your life.”
Despite his love for Henry, George became very angry when Henry
still refused to leave the Church. Henry kindly told George that he
knew he meant well and he appreciated his kindness, but that the
gospel of Jesus Christ was worth more than all earthly gifts and I he
could not deny his testimony that the Church was the only true
church of God on the Earth.
George was enraged; he opened the front door and told Henry to
leave and to never come back. He bitterly told Henry that he never
wanted to see his face again. Henry left his brother’s home penniless
on a cold, stormy, fall night. He never saw George again.
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Henry wandered through the rain until he came to a barn where he
took shelter. The next morning he made his way to his father’s home
in Cold Ash, Thatcham.
Henry’s parents were torn between their sons. Although William
would listen to Henry sometimes, his minister kept him and Hannah
stirred up against the Church.
Typhoid Fever was very common in England at the time, and shortly
after leaving George’s house, Henry became seriously ill. Henry was
so sick that his family feared he might die. He became so weak he
was unable to turn over in bed by himself.
William and Hannah called the doctor who prescribed some medicine
for Henry. However, Henry would not take the medication but
instead begged his parents to call for the elders. They didn’t know
where to find the elders and didn’t believe in them anyway so they
ignored Henry’s pleas.
Henry prayed that the Lord would send the elders to him and one
evening his prayer was answered. Although the elders did not know
that Henry was sick, they felt prompted to visit him. At first they
were refused entrance, but they begged to see Henry. William and
Hannah were so afraid that Henry might die that they invited the
elders in and took them up to Henry’s room.
The elders asked Henry if he had faith to be healed. He said, “Yes, if
you have faith for me.” The elders asked Hannah to leave the room
because she did not have faith in the Priesthood power to heal, but
William stayed and witnessed the blessing. Henry was promised
that he would live, that he would go to Utah, and that if he were true
and faithful to the work of the Lord, that he would do a great work
there and have a numerous posterity.
The elders stayed a short time and by the time they left, Henry was
asleep. He rested comfortably that night and got up early the next
morning, dressed, and went downstairs where he met his mother at
the foot of the stairs.
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Hannah thought Henry had lost his reason and told him to go back to
bed. Henry told her that he had not lost my reason, the fever was
gone, and that he was well. He testified that the Lord had heard the
prayers of the elders and had answered them. He then went to the
living room to sit up for while. Hannah made him comfortable in a
rocking chair, and he asked for a bowl of bread and milk and sat up
for several hours before returning to bed.
Hannah though that it was the medicine the doctor had prescribed
that healed Henry and insisted he continue to take it. When Henry
refused she cried and asked what she should tell the doctor; she
couldn’t lie. Henry took the medicine and pored a spoonful of it into
a washbasin. He told his mother that she had given it to him and he
had taken it, that was all the doctor need know. He told her the
medicine would do the basin more good than it would him, that he
didn’t need it or the doctor. He told her he had a better doctor, the
Lord, and that is was He who had cured him. Within a week Henry
was strong enough to walk in the garden and in a short time was
able to return to work on Mr. Northaway’s farm.
William could not resist the testimony he had received as a result of
Henry’s miraculous healing and Henry’s teaching, and he began to
attend the Church’s meetings. In August 1849, before Henry
returned to work, William was baptized by Joseph Kimber.
Hannah was not converted at this time but her love for Henry and
desire to please him was so great that shortly after William’s
baptism, she consented to be baptized. She confided in her minister
her intention to be baptized by immersion. Her minister took
advantage of Hannah’s lack of understanding and offered to baptize
her himself. An appointment was made, and the minister baptized
Hannah “by immersion” in a nearby river.
When Henry found out he was very upset. He told Hannah her
baptism was a mockery of the holy ordinance. He told her to pray for
forgiveness and that the Lord would open her heart so she could
know the truthfulness of the gospel. Hannah did pray and received a
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testimony of the restored gospel; she was baptized in September 1849
by Joseph Kimber.
Two years later Henry and his parents emigrated to Utah. Henry
made arrangements for his parent’s passage and then left by himself
from Liverpool on January 10, 1852, on the ship Kennebeck. He only
had two boxes of scanty clothing and two shepherd dogs. There were
333 saints on board.
It took 63 days to cross the Atlantic Ocean. It was a long, rough trip
and Henry suffered with a sore throat for two weeks and was seasick
nearly the whole time.
Because the voyage was so slow, their food and water ran out. Henry
and another passenger (George May--he and his family were also
from Henry’s home town of Thatcham) searched the garbage cans in
the bottom of the ship and picked out pieces of dry, moldy bread to
eat.
When they reached the mouth of the Mississippi River, the ship got
stuck in the mud. After ten days the passengers were put on
tugboats and arrived in New Orleans on March 14, 1852. It later
took three large steam tugboats to pull the ship out of the mud.
From new Orleans, the saints traveled to St. Louis on the Pride of
the West. The ship was is such poor shape that it was chained
together to keep it from falling apart. They had to travel near the
shore all the way to St. Louis. The trip took nearly two weeks.
They left St. Louis on March 30, 1852, onboard the Saluda headed for
Council Bluffs. There were 150 passengers onboard, 90 of whom
where Latter-Day Saints under the leadership of Eli B. Kelsey.
After three days they reached Lexington, Missouri. The river was
running too swift to continue on so the boat was tied up for the night.
The next day the river was full of blocks of floating ice, some as big
as two feet thick to 32 feet long. After a week they were able to
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leave, but once they got underway, a piece of ice broke the paddle
wheel, and they were delayed another day while repairs were made.
On April 9, 1852, just before Easter, the Saluda was ready to start
out again. Henry was in charge of the May family (George May and
his oldest son had left the boat with some others to drive stock to
Council Bluffs) and had just brought some provisions on board for
them. He was sitting on some boxes eating breakfast when the
boilers blew up.
The engineers had allowed the boilers to get dry and red-hot. When
the engines started, the pumps forced cold water into the boilers
causing them to explode.
Henry wrote:
I was in the act of taking a drink from a tin cup when the boilers of
the boat blew up, blowing about half of the boat away, killing and
wounding about fifty of the saints and wounding many more. I was
blown about two rods under a bunk where there was a man with
part of his head blown off. I was stunned and made senseless for
about half an hour with a hole cut in my head near the brain. The
sensation, which I had while in this position, was I thought I was
floating down the river upon broken pieces of wood. I finally saw
daylight through a doorway, which was a door by the paddle
wheels. A man ran past me and I followed him and jumped off the
boat into the water, on the side next to the land. This part of the
boat did not sink. When I got off I could not stand up. I lay down
on a board on the shore of the river for some time. While laying
there the blood was streaming down my face from the wound in by
head.
The local newspaper reported,
What a horrible scene, twenty-four dead were found and twice that
many more with limbs broken and torn off; many badly scared,
wives and mothers frantic at the loss of husbands and children,
sorrowing orphans searching among the dead and dying for their
parents, and parents for their children.
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Besides all these many were blown into the middle of the river and
never recovered. Some were blown on the land side, quite a
distance and some killed by flying timbers. The captain of the boat,
Captain Bell, was blown up a steep hill, also the iron safe with the
boat’s papers in it. The safe was blown to bits and killed the
captain.
The ship sank in ten minutes. Although the exact number was never
determined, it is estimated about 100 people were killed. Henry lost
his dogs and extra clothes in the accident.
The people of Lexington were very good to help the survivors and
Henry received enough food to last him and the May family until
they could get to Council Bluffs. A ship called the “Isabell” was just
downstream from the Saluda when it exploded and its captain,
Captain Miller, offered free passage to Council Bluffs to all those well
enough to travel. Henry and the May family accepted Captain
Miller’s offer and arrived at Council Bluffs safely.
While camped at Council Bluffs, Brother May, his wife, and three of
their children died of cholera. Henry and one of the May daughters,
Elizabeth, were very fond of each other and they planned to marry
once they reached the Valley. Her death broke Henry’s heart. Henry
left the May family with the saints in Council Bluffs and headed
west to Utah.
Henry contracted with Lorenzo and Erastus Snow, Franklin D.
Richards, and Eli B. Kelsey to drive a flock of sheep across the plains
to pay for his passage from England so he walked all the way to Utah
herding 200 sheep. He spent many sleepless night and anxious days
while guarding the sheep against predators. He missed his dogs, as
they would have been very helpful. He met many Indians but they
did not harm him. He was delayed by a severe snowstorm in the
mountains but arrived in Salt Lake City on October 16, 1852.
His clothes were so torn when he arrived that they hardly covered
his body, and he was ashamed to be seen. When night fell he
approached a small cottage and knocked on the door. To his relief a
man answered the door. The man gave Henry some clothes and
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treated him well. Henry never forgot this man or his kindness. The
next day Henry found Brother Richards who blessed him, gave him
some money and clothes, and told him where to find his parents.
Henry found his parents on a ten-acre plot of land south of Salt Lake
in an area called Mill Creek (the northwest corner of 3300 South and
500 East). After spending a short time with his parents, Henry spent
the rest of the winter in the hills north of Salt Lake City looking
after the sheep. He passed the time alone reading the Bible. “The
Bible,” he said, “was indeed good company for me. How my heart
rejoiced in the Gospel, and although I was lonely, I always felt the
Lord was very near me.”
In October 1855 Henry was ordained a member of the ThirtySeventh Quorum of the Seventy, and on September 22, 1857, he
started with a company of 40 others under the leadership of Orrin
Porter Rockwell on a ten-week campaign to intercept Johnston’s
army. In May 1858 Henry helped his parents move to Utah Valley
as the Salt Lake Valley was evacuated.
On May 3, 1859, Henry began his move to Cache Valley. On May 9
he reached Maughans Fort (Wellsville)--the only white settlement in
the valley at the time. Henry spent May, June, and most of July
looking for land, building roads, gathering lumber, and planting
crops. On July 27 he recorded in his journal, “We drew our lots[.] I
now concluded to stop in Logan for the present at least, not finding a
better place where there was any settlers so I got my logs and
commenced to build my house.” The lot he drew was on the
northwest corner of 200 West and Center Street, and the house he
built was a two-room log cabin with a lean-to on the back. The leanto had a crude bench with a washbasin, soap, and a bucket of water
for washing. There were also pegs in the wall to hang cups and work
clothes. The floor was dirt, and the roof was made of willows or
rushes spread over the log rafters and covered with about two feet of
dirt. The cabin was heated by a fireplace, which was also used for
cooking.
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In February 1860 Henry returned to Millcreek to get his father.
They returned to Cache Valley and left Hannah with friends for the
winter. They returned for Hannah in June.
Henry met Margaret for the
first time near Ogden in
October 1859. She and her
family had just crossed the
plains and were on their way
to Cache Valley to settle. By
May 1861 Henry and
Margaret has been courting
for “some time” as Margaret
put it even though she was
only 15 years old. When
Henry asked her father for
his consent for them to be
married, Margaret’s father
objected because he could
not afford to lose Margaret’s
help. Henry then agreed to
pay him $5 a month for two
MARGARET REID MCNEIL BALLARD
years as compensation. On
April 14, 1861, Henry was
called as the first bishop of the Logan Second Ward, and he and
Margaret were married on May 5, 1861, by Bishop William B.
Preston.
Henry and Margaret moved into the log cabin Henry had built and
lived with Henry’s parents for a while. Henry recognized that it was
his mother’s home, and it wasn’t fair to Margaret so he built another
log cabin on the corner of 300 West and 100 North. It had a dirt floor
which Margaret would sprinkle with water and tamp down to keep
the dust down, and the roof leaked, but Margaret was happy with
her own home.
Henry was one of the leading members of the community and was
actively involved in new and continuing enterprises. He helped
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organize a cooperative dairy, build roads, bring the railroad to the
valley, and bring lumber from the canyon for the building needs of
the growing community. In 1864 he went east to help poor
immigrants cross the plains, and in 1873 he was called to live the
united order with other members of the community and served as its
president. When not engaged otherwise, Henry was busy planting
and harvesting crops and defending the community from the
constant threat of Indians and grasshoppers. In addition to his own
work, Henry frequently helped others build homes, barns, and other
structures and plant and harvest their crops. In addition, Henry
regularly made the arduous trip to Salt Lake to attend conference
where he received counsel from the leaders of the Church.
In March 1866 Henry began building a 28 by 17 foot adobe house,
which was finished in time for his birthday in January 1867. It had
two rooms and a lean-to where the kitchen was located. The floors
were covered with smooth boards about one foot wide, and the house
had wood doors and glass windows.
Henry, being a bishop, was
counseled by the authorities
to be an example by living the
law of plural marriage. He
told Margaret that she was all
he needed and asked for her
help in selecting his second
wife. After many weeks of
prayer, Margaret suggested
her sister, Emily. Henry
courted Emily and they were
married on October 4, 1867.
Emily moved in with her
sister and Henry added two
rooms to their home so she
could have her own
apartment. Later, Henry
built a house for Emily and
Henry Ballard and his wives, Emily and
Margaret McNeil
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her family at 73 North 300 West (on the same lot as Margaret’s
house). Emily held classes
and taught classes in how to
make flowers of fine wool and
braided hats of wheat straw
and sold them. She used the
money she earned to buy the
materials to paint and
decorate her home.
On May 18, 1877, ground was
Emily's house at 73 N 300 W Logan, UT
broken for the Logan Temple.
On May 28 Henry and others
began plowing and scraping the ground for the foundations, and on
July 10 Henry helped open a sand bank and bring the first load of
sand to the temple site. President Brigham Young died in August
and Henry attended his funeral.
In the spring of 1882, Henry homesteaded land at Cache Junction.
The united order had built section houses to secure land for their
dairy on Bear River, and he was able to make a house of three rooms
in one of them. Emily and her family of five children moved into the
house and stayed there during the summer months.
The united order dairy employed about 20 girls to milk the cows and
two boys to feed and herd them. Emily helped with the cooking and
with making cheese and butter, and she and her family pastured and
milked 100 cows and gave the owners butter and cheese from the
dairy in exchange. They did this for a couple of years, but in the fall
of 1884, just after they had moved back to Logan for the winter, word
came that some people were planning to jump their homestead claim.
To preserve their claim, Emily took her family and the necessary
provisions and returned to Cache Junction to spend the winter.
That winter was severe and the house, which had been built for
summer months, was very poor shelter. Coyotes often came around
the house at night threatening the lives of the pigs, turkeys and
chickens. Sometimes two months or more would go by without them
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seeing a soul except members of the family. Since the children
couldn’t attend school, they studied what books they had and tried to
teach each other. Sunday was always a special day as they would all
dress in their best clothes and have a period of worship and do as
little work as possible.
Henry attended the dedication of the Logan Temple on May 17, 1884.
The next day, while signing recommends for a second day of
dedicatory sessions, Henry received a copy of THE NEWBURY
WEEKLY NEWS, a newspaper published in the area of his
hometown of Thatcham, England. The issue was dated May 15,
1884, and contained the names of many of Henry’s ancestors and
relatives. The miraculous circumstances surrounding the delivery of
the paper, only two days after it was published thousands of miles
away, are too numerous to include here. See THE NEWBURY
WEEKLY NEWS section for an excellent account of the experience,
including the complete text of the article.
Henry spent most of 1885 and 1886 hiding from federal marshals. At
times he hid on the ranch in Cache Junction, but he was away from
his family much of the time. By October 1886 he had decided to
escape the persecution by serving a mission in England. Henry left
Halloween night in 1886 in a fierce storm, which prevented him from
being caught by the marshals, and arrived in Liverpool, England, on
November 17, 1886. His first efforts were among his own family.
His brothers had all died, but he spent time in Thatcham recording
names of deceased relatives and visiting his brothers’ families.
Henry wrote the following letter to his wives and children on June 4,
1887, from London, England, after he had received their pictures:
My Dear Wives and Children,
When I put the two photos together and see how the Lord has
blessed me an old man with such young women and so many fine
children, besides those dear ones that are gone before us, I can
hardly help shedding tears of joy and praise to my Father in
Heaven for his kindness to me that I ever heard this glorious gospel
and that I had the courage to embrace it’s glorious principles in my
youth and gathered in hardships to the bosom of the church, and
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that he has
blessed me with
such a family,
and I feel that I
have something
worth living
faithful for and
that are worth
suffering for in
this life and my
earnest desire
is that we each
may prove true
to our
covenants and
that none of us
may go astray
Henry and Margaret Ballard Family: (back row)
Rebecca, Melvin, Henry William, Thomas; (front
and that each of
row) Lettie, Margaret, Mary, Ellen
our loved ones
may grow up to
be bright and
shining
ornaments in
the Kingdom of
God and how
any man with
the spark of the
Gospel in his
heart can go
back on his
family in his
heart or
affections I
cannot see if he
can not carry it
out in his
actions for the
time being.
Henry and Emily Ballard Family: Lydia, Willard
Now dear ones,
Emily, Amy, Jennie, Franklin, Ernest
one and all,
God bless you
for I love you from the depths of my heart. If I should never see
your faces again in this life God knows that I am telling the truth
with all of my weaknesses and follies not withstanding and I felt to
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give vent to my feelings in these few words, now cheer up and go on
your ways rejoicing from your kind Husband and father - H.B.
Henry received word of his release in December 1888 and arrived in
Logan on January 17, 1889. On January 29 he surrendered to the
authorities and subsequently served two months in prison for
“unlawful cohabitation.” Even after serving his sentence, Henry was
arrested on several occasions, but he was never sent back to prison.
When Henry returned
from his mission,
Margaret’s home was in
need of repair so she had
a builder come to look at
it. He convinced her to
raise the roof and add
three new bedrooms
upstairs. Emily’s room
was torn down and the
Margaret's house at about 100 N 300 W Logan, UT
kitchen was enlarged.
The outside was covered
with siding and the house retained this appearance until it was
remodeled after Henry and Margaret’s death.
A law was passed after President Wilford Woodruff issued the
Manifesto that, even though he was the father of children by his
other wives, a man could only live with his first wife, unless he
divorced the first wife then legally married the other wife.
Understandably, this was a great trial to Henry and his families.
Edna Cardon Taylor wrote:
Emily was hurt. It was hard for her to watch her husband and the
father of her children go to Margaret’s home and not be able to
come to hers. This sacrifice was more than she could stand. It was
hard for Henry too, for he loved both his wives and children equally
and to be deprived of half of his family grieved him. No man ever
tried harder to be just and no father ever loved his children more.
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Margaret went to her husband and suggested that he go to Canada
with Emily, so Henry went to Emily and suggested that she move to
Canada where they would not be molested. It was given to her to
choose. Emily said, “No, you were Margaret’s before you were mine
- I have no right to take you from her, you are the father of her
children as well as mine and they need you, too. We’ll live here the
best we can and share our joys and sorrows together.” This verdict
was never regretted and it was a satisfaction to her all her life.
Just before her passing she said, “I’m glad, oh so glad that I did not
go to Canada - I didn’t take Henry from Margaret.”
However their way of life had to be changed. Henry could not be
found at Emily’s home so it was decided that he would divide his
property between his two families. He listed his farms, equipment
and possessions and divided them equally between Margaret and
Emily. He gave them the deeds to their farms and to their homes
and kept nothing for himself. From then on each family managed
their own affairs. Henry worked on both farms as long as he was
able and assisted both wives as much as he could as long as his
health permitted.
The Union Pacific railroad began building a road through Cache
Junction in 1890, and Emily was asked to prepare a noon meal for
the workmen. Later, she built a boarding house close to the railroad
station. This house became the family’s home. It was a rest stop for
travelers, a home for railroad employees and their wives, and a
haven for tramps as no one ever left hungry.
The boarding house did well but it was hard work. Emily did all the
cooking for nearly 20 regular workmen in addition to the daily
passengers. The meals were served with platters of meat and bowls
of vegetables and plates of hot rolls and butter, honey, jams, and
pickles. The guests ate all they wanted for 50 cents a meal. Lydia
who was about 13, and Jennie, 11, waited on the tables.
By 1900 Henry’s health had deteriorated to the point that he
resigned as bishop after serving for 39 years and 8 days. He was
released on April 26 and on April 30 he was called as stake patriarch.
Emily’s daughter, Amy, died October 15, 1901. Her death was
almost more than Emily could bear as there was a very strong bond
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between them. She never recovered from the loss of this lovely
daughter and soon her own health broke.
Emily suffered a thousand
deaths from cancer but
refused help from the doctor.
Henry longed to be with her
during her suffering, but by
the time the persecution for
polygamy had died out, his
own health was too poor for
him to be left alone for even
an hour. Emily died May 7,
1903 in the home she worked
so hard to maintain, alone,
except for her children who all
loved her so very dearly and
suffered to see her suffer. She
was only 54 years old. As per
her request, she was buried
by Amy’s side in the Newton
Cemetery.
EMILY REID MCNEIL BALLARD
Henry died on February 26, 1908, in Logan, Utah, and was buried in
the Logan Cemetery on March 1. The Deseret News reported that he
passed away at 11 p.m. from old age. He was 76 years old.
Sermons and Missionary Services of Melvin Joseph Ballard by Bryant S.
Hinckley, pgs 11-14
Incidents in the Life of my Father, Henry Ballard by Rebecca Ballard Cardon
Henry Ballard, the Story of a Courageous Pioneer by Douglas O. Crookston
The Ballard-McNeil Connection compiled by Edna Cardon Taylor, 1987