Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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JUDGE G. A. BALL 
 
was born at Ball's Bluff, Maryland, in 1839, a son of James and Nancy 
(Greenwood) Ball. His mother died when he was less than a year old, and his 
father when he was less than two. He was reared and educated by his uncle, S. 
Greenwood, in Georgia. He served four years in the Confederate army, being in 
the Fifteenth Alabama Infantry. He fought at Manassas and the first battle of 
the Wilderness, and many others, and was surrendered at Appomattox. After the 
war was over he went to Bastrop County, Texas, and taught school for awhile, and 
was married there, in 1870, to Miss Penelope Willett, a native of Tennessee and 
the daughter of John Willett. He practiced law for several years in Bastrop 
County, and was judge for one term. He came to Los Angeles County in 1886 and 
bought a small ranch three miles southeast of Norwalk, where he is practically 
retired from active business life. Socially he affiliates with the Masonic 
order.
 
An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, California �  Chicago, The Lewis 
Publishing Company, 1889   Page 710
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler