Grainger, Emily Clarkson Ball, 1916-

Alexander Ketsall Ball (1883-1958) was born in Cordesville, S.C., and lived in Virginia and North Carolina. His wife Emily Heyward Clarkson (1889-1968) was the daughter of Emily Barnwell Heyward (1855-1928) and Alexander Garden Clarkson (1854-1924), son of William Clarkson (1807-1858), a Richland District, S.C., plantation owner whose slaves were ministered to by Rev. N.B. Screven at a chapel established on Clarkson land called Wateree (a church later to be known as Zion). Alexander Garden Clarkson (1854-1924) was also the father of William Anderson Clarkson (1886-1930), an attorney of Columbia, S.C., who received a citation for bravery during his military service in Europe in World War I. Alexander Ketsall Ball (1883-1958) was the father of Isaac Rhett Ball (b. 1912), Alexander Ketsall Ball, Jr. (b. 1913), Emily Clarkson Ball (b. 1916), Garden Clarkson Ball (b. 1920), and Nathaniel Heyward Ball (1920-1944), who was killed in action in the Philippines during World War II. A relative of Alexander Ketsall Ball, Jane Ball (b. 1823), daughter of Isaac Ball and Elizabeth G. Poyas, married John Gibbes Shoolbred (1821-1842). Emily Clarkson Ball (b. 1916) was dean of women at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia. She married Rev. John Cameron Grainger in 1948.