Jan.. Edward Ball is white.. I thought you might have already heard about
the book.. I checked the index and found no Cariethers or Mary Elizabeth
Ball.. here is what is written on the sleeve of the book:

Slaves in the Family is the story of one man's exploration of his families'
slave-owning past and his search for the descendants of the people his
ancestors kept as slaves..

In 1698 Elias Ball traveled from his home in Devon England to Charleston SC
to take procession of his inheritance: part of a plantation and 20 slaves.
Elias and his progeny built an American dynasty that lasted for 6
generations, acquiring more than 20 plantations along the Cooper River
selling rice known as Carolina Gold and enslaving close to 4000 Africans &
African Americans until 1865 when Union soldiers arrived on the lawns of the
Ball estates to force emancipation..
This is the story of black & white families who lived side-by-side through
300 years etc...

I recently went back through my McComb wills from Abbeville to get the names
of the enslaved McComb.. this book sort of spurred me on.. I had promised
Sonia Walker I would give her these names in the past to list on her
Abbeville Enslavement Site.. finally did it..

Visit the Abbeville Enslavement Data Page at
http://members.aol.com/scabbegen/index.html
[email protected]

-----Original Message-----
From: Jan McChesney 
To: Jane McCombs Gillespie 
Date: Saturday, May 23, 1998 10:33 AM
Subject: Re: CARITHERS


I do not believe so..but cannot prove any of the Ball connections..all I
>have is that Mary Elizabeth Ball of Laurens co., Ga. married my ancestor,
>James Yancy Carithers (caruthers) about 1858. Their son, was my
>grandfather..and we are not connected to any slaves that I know of..we are
>white (I think!!!) Thanks for the tips...Jan
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