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.
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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