I am researching the history of slave trading in
KY and saw your post. There was a slave trader in
Boyle County named
Elias D. Ball (1820 - ?). He sold enslaved men, women and children to several Lexington slave traders in the 1850's. Ball seems to have been a buyer for these large interstate traders.
His parents were William and Martha Ball and they all lived in the part of
Lincoln County that was split off to partially form
Boyle Co. in 1842. William Ball was a prosperous farmer. In the 1841 Tax List for
Lincoln Co. he was assessed for 544 acres on Clark's Run and 19 slaves. His total assessment was $30,970.
Elias D. Ball was still living in
KY in 1880.
Pen
Bogert
