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Anna Elizabeth <I>Channing</I> Ball

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Anna Elizabeth Channing Ball

Birth
Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA
Death
14 Jun 1838 (aged 28)
Burial
Berkeley County, South Carolina, USA Add to Map
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Daughter of Walter Channing, Esq. of Boston, Massachusetts; perished in the wreck of the steamer Pulaski on their way from New York to Charleston, drowned at sea

Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988
Name: Anna Elizabeth Channing
Event Type: Marriage
Marriage Date: 22 Feb 1827
Marriage Place: Boston, Massachusetts
Spouse Name: Hugh Swinton Ball

Recollections of the Ball Family of South Carolina and the Comingtee Plantation, by Anne Simons Deas, published 1909, page 140
Transcript: "His wife and himself both perished in the wreck of the steamship Pulaski, on their way from New York to Charleston. The boilers exploded on the night of the 14th of June, 1838;"

(info by Vern Paul) Published notice contained, in part: Lost at sea, about 40 miles southward of Wilmington, North Carolina, during a heavy gale in which the ship sunk an hour after the ship’s boiler exploded. Of the 254 passengers, only 16 survived; of the crew, only the ship’s mate, Hibberd, was saved. Source: “The Baltimore Sun”, Baltimore, Maryland, Friday, 22 June 1838, p. 2. Among those named as lost were Mr. and Mrs, H. S. Ball and child, nurse, and servant.
Daughter of Walter Channing, Esq. of Boston, Massachusetts; perished in the wreck of the steamer Pulaski on their way from New York to Charleston, drowned at sea

Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988
Name: Anna Elizabeth Channing
Event Type: Marriage
Marriage Date: 22 Feb 1827
Marriage Place: Boston, Massachusetts
Spouse Name: Hugh Swinton Ball

Recollections of the Ball Family of South Carolina and the Comingtee Plantation, by Anne Simons Deas, published 1909, page 140
Transcript: "His wife and himself both perished in the wreck of the steamship Pulaski, on their way from New York to Charleston. The boilers exploded on the night of the 14th of June, 1838;"

(info by Vern Paul) Published notice contained, in part: Lost at sea, about 40 miles southward of Wilmington, North Carolina, during a heavy gale in which the ship sunk an hour after the ship’s boiler exploded. Of the 254 passengers, only 16 survived; of the crew, only the ship’s mate, Hibberd, was saved. Source: “The Baltimore Sun”, Baltimore, Maryland, Friday, 22 June 1838, p. 2. Among those named as lost were Mr. and Mrs, H. S. Ball and child, nurse, and servant.


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