E. D. BALLARD , farmer, post office, Richland, was born in Madison county, Kentucky, in 1825. Son of James A. and Paulina (Davis) Ballard, a native of Kentucky. Was married in Madison county, Kentucky. There was a family of six children - three sons and three daughters - E.D. being the only one of which is living. His brother, Richard, was a soldier in the Union army - Twenty-sixth Illinois Volunteer Infantry - and was killed at the battle of Lookout Mountain, November 25, 1863. Also his brother Clifton, was in the Confederate army, and was killed at Iuka. James A. is still living in Kentucky, at the advanced age of seventy-nine. Mr. James A. Ballard was again married to Miss Lucy Martin, of Kentucky. She died February 10, 1881, in the seventy-first year of her age; mother died September, 1835. The subject of this sketch was reared on a farm, and received a common school education. In 1849, came to Morgan county, where he mad3e his home with Lloyd Brown, of Morgan county, where he remained until 1857, when he married Miss Cynthia Ann, a daughter of M. K. Anderson. She was born in Cartwright Township, December 10, 1840. The fruits of this union was three children, viz: Hattie, born June 2, 1858; James A., born June 9, 1860; Clifton D., born October 5, 1863. Mr. Ballard, in politics, is a Democrat. Has one hundred and thirteen acres of land, eighty acres of which are under a high state of cultivation, valued at $50. Mr. Ballard came to the State when a young man, with nothing but a strong constitution, and willing to work, accumulated a fine property and home. Mr. and Mrs. B. are members of the Christian Church.