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The History of Jackson County, Iowa
pub. Western Historical Company, Chicago - 1879

         [p. 621-622]
         
         LYMAN BALLARD, retired; was born in Georgia, Franklin Co.,
       Vt., Feb. 14, 1798, and learned the trade of carpenter and
       joiner; he lived there until 1848; September 5, of that year,
       he started for Iowa, and arrived in Jackson Co. Sept. 30,
       and located in Maquoketa; the following year, he built the
       house where he now lives, and has lived here over thirty
       years; he engaged in building, and continued until within
       the past four years, and has been connected with that busi-
       ness over fifty years. He married Miss LUCY MEARS, of Georgia,
       Franklin Co., Vt., March 22, 1822; they celebrated their
       golden wedding, March 22, 1872, and have lived together
       over fifty-seven years; they have five children - LEPHA,
       LUCY ANN, FRANCES JANE, AMANDA and WAYLAND L.
       
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