I need documentation that Anson BALDING was the son of John Searing BALDING
and Achsah HOLLISTER to complete an application for DAR. All of my
application has been approved pending this one piece of information.
Anson was the fourth son of John and Achsah. His siblings were: Samuel,
Nathan, Jeremiah, John P., Lucy, George Washington, and one whose name is
unknown. He was born c1816 in OH and died before 1893 probably in Little
Rock, AR. Anson was married first to Margaret/Mary STEVENS on 13 Dec 1838
in Richland, OH and second to Ruth WOODROW on 02 Aug 1849 in Warren Co, OH.
He and his second wife lived in Hanover, Jefferson Co., IN, from 1861 until
after the 1880 census was taken. My ggmo Flora Mae Alice BALDING was born
there on 09 Sep 1864.
This family is found in these census records:
* 1850 Federal Census, Clay/Richland Dist, Richland Co, IL
* 1860 Federal Census, Olney Twsp, Richland Co, IL
* 1870 Federal Census, Hanover Twsp, Jefferson Co, IN
* 1880 Federal Census, Hanover Twsp, Jefferson Co, IN
Sometime after the 1880 census and before the 1893 Little Rock, Pulaski
Co., AR City Directory information was taken, the family moved to Little
Rock and Anson died. Ruth is listed as widow of Anson in the City
Directory and is living in the household of her daughter Flora Balding
Woods, also a widow.
Any help with this problem will be greatly appreciated.
Dixie