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B. F. BALLARD, farmer and stock-raiser, Sec. 33; P. O. Bloomington. Baptist; Democrat. One of the old settlers of McLean Co.; born in Jessamine Co., Ky., April 30, 1828 ; he was a son of Henry Ballard, who was born in Virginia in 1792, and emigrated to Kentucky in 1806, and to McLean Co. in 1856, and made his home with his children until his decease, which occurred in 1871, at the advanced age of 79 years. The subject of this sketch lived with his parents until he attained his majority; the following six years, he was engaged in building fences, in Kentucky, and, in 1855, he came to Illinois and engaged in the wagon and pump business, in Bloomington, for four years, under the firm name of D. D. Haggard & Co.; he then purchased 120 acres of land in Old Town Township, improved the same six years, when he purchased his present place of 160 acres, in 1865, where he has since lived. His marriage with Sarah F. Hardesty was celebrated in December, 1850; she was born in Bourbon Co., Ky.; they have nine children now living — Henry F., David W., Asa H., Charles, Herman E., Ida B., Mary A., Benjamin F. and Lucy C.