BALLOU, Asa

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Family/Spouse: CONSTOCK, Phoebe. Phoebe was born on 13 Apr 1750 in Smithfield, RI; died in 1825 in Foster, RI; was buried in Foster, RI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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About the 10th of Jan. 1813, he left home to go to Cazenovia, N. Y., on b usiness, and never returned. The event was most distressing to his wife a nd young chn. -- to whose number another was added three weeks later. N othing was heard from him, except that he was seen near a certain house i n the outskirts of Cazenovia by some one who knew him. There was natura lly much excitement in the general vicinity of Fenner, where he had res ided during the last ten years. Wild suspicions, surmises and rumors pr evailed for a considerable period. At length the new inhabitants of the h ouse near which he was last seen discovered the remains of a human bein g in a shallow grave of their cellar. On exhumation and examination of t he skeleton, the remnants of a man's coat were found with metal buttons b earing certain initials. These were finally recognized as those once wo rn by Silas Ballou, and were considered by his wife and intimate acquai ntances as conclusive evidence that he had been foully murdered. But fo r what reason, and by whom, is still a gloomy mystery. So we must take f or granted that Silas6 died by the hand of a murderer about the middle o f Jan. 1813, in the 37th year of his age. Mrs. Phebe (Pray) Ballou, his w idow, d. in Mattison, Mich., age not given.

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Silas married PRAY, Phoebe Ann on 25 Sep 1794 in Glocester, RI. Phoebe (daughter of PRAY, Rev. John and WADE, Deborah) was born on 18 Oct 1778 in Foster, RI; died on 8 Nov 1846 in Mattison, MI; was buried in Bronson, MI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]