ID: I0839
Name: Margaret HIGHLAND 1 2 3
Sex: F
Birth: 16 DEC 1816 in Pennsylvania
Death: 28 FEB 1908 in Iowa Point, Doniphon Co., Kansas
Burial: 1908 Iowa Cemetery, Iowa Point, Doniphon Co., Kansas
Event:
Cemetery Head stone reads wife of Amos
Census: 1870 Iowa Point, Doniphon Co., Kansas census shows Margaret living there.
Census: 1875 Shows Charles Egan, age 38, a laborer, Margaret, age 47, George Shields, age 19, Ella Ball, age 9?, Alpheus Ball, age 11, all living in Agouay Point, Doniphon Co., Kansas
Census: 1880 Kansas, Doniphan Co., Iowa Point. See notes for details.
Census: 1900 Kansas, Doniphan Co., Iowa Point; Margaret Hagen, age 70, Widowed, b. PA, Alpha Ball, age 35, Single, a Day Laborer.
Census: 1905 Kansas, Doniphan Co., Iowa; A Ball, age 41; Margaret Ball, age 78
Note: 1870 Census, Kansas, Doniphan Co., Iowa Point; James Ball, age 59, Day Laborer w/ 250 acres; Margaret Ball, age 43; Alphous Ball, age 6, b. Iowa; Ella Ball, age 3, b. Iowa; Franklin Shields, age 17, b. Pennsylvania, a Teamster; George Shields, age 15, b. Illinois, at home; Clark Smith, age 23, b. Illinois, a Teamster; Eliza Smith, age 19, b. Illinois; Danny Smith, age 2, b. Iowa; Infant Smith, age 1/12, b. May 1870, Missouri
1880 Census, Kansas, Doniphan Co., Iowa Point; Margaret Eggan, age 50 widowed; Eli Shields, age 20, son, Farm Hand, b. Iowa; Alpheus Ball, age 17, son, Day Laborer, b. Iowa; Ella Ball, age 15, daughter, at home, b. Iowa; John Swains, age 26, nephew, Teamster, b. Pennsylvania; George Shields, age 24, son, works on R.R., b. Iowa
The 1900 census shows Margaret Agen widowed. On one side of her two doors away is Mary Shields and her daughter Effie, boarding with them is Calvin Ball and his son Roy. Mary Shields is Margaret's daughter-in-law.
Three doors away on the other side of Margaret is Milo Ball and his family.
Marriage 1
James SHIELDS b: ABT 1824 in Pennsylvania
- Married:
ABT 1847
in Pennsylvania
Children
 John W SHIELDS b: ABT 1848 in Pennsylvania- Eliza Jane SHIELDS b: 1850 in Limestone Township, Clarion Co., Pennsylvania
- Franklin Pierce SHIELDS b: 28 AUG 1853 in Clarion Co., Pennsylvania
 George W SHIELDS b: ABT 1856 in Illinois- Eli J SHIELDS b: 1859 in Iowa
Marriage 2
Amos James BALL b: 3 JAN 1811 in Woodbury, Washington Co., Vermont
- Married:
17 MAY 1863
in Cedar Co., Iowa 4
- Event:
Officated
in P. Cowlan J.P.
Children
- Alpheus BALL b: 22 JAN 1864 in Massilon, Cedar Co., Iowa
- Ella BALL b: ABT 1865 in Iowa
Marriage 3
Charles EGAN b: ABT 1837 in Ireland
- Married:
BET 1870 AND 1875
in Kansas
Sources:
- Title: 1880 Iowa Point, Doniphan Co., Kansas, Series: T9, Roll: 379, Page: 490
- Title: 1900 Census, Kansas, Doniphan Co., Iowa, Series: T623, Roll: 478, PG: 72
- Title: 1905 Kansas State Census. Microfilm reels K-1 - K-181. Kansas State Historical Society - Margaret Ball
- Title: Cedar Co., Iowa Marriage Records, Name: Amos Ball, Margaret Shields, Book E, PG 174
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