The Colyer Family of Pulaski County TN shows this as John Perry Colyervs. James Perry.

A twin of Nannie

Sam Colyer diary records Leon's aunt Hattie coming to visit and stay withthem in Somerset May 7, 1949 and Leon and Aunt Hattie go to Greenwood Kyfor visit May 8, 1949.

Joseph Ballou, 1239 Ormsby Court, Louisville, KY 1953: cited in LafayetteTN Smith County TN newspaper column by Cal Smith Oct 1, 1953--- saidthat James Ballou settled near the Falls of Cumberland River, at a placecalled Sawyer. Later he located at Point Isabella, now Burnside in1850. He reared his family there and in the latter par of his life,removed to Indiana where he died.

The book Ballous in America by Hawley says that James was a minister ofthe Regular Baptists, but attended largely to farming interests. Helived first in Ashe County NC then a while in VA, then in Pulaski CountyKY. But in 1861 removed to Boone Co. Indiana where he died of pneumoniain 1863 at about 64 years. His wido died in 1869 at 63 years

quote from James W. Arnett: "...James died 1863, Boone Co., Indiana. Dr.James L. Ballou was a physician and surgeon and benefactor of the Univ.of North Carolina. He corresponded with Eleanor Baker Reeves of UNC incompiling his genealogy as listed above. He and Frankey moved back toPoint Isabel, Pulaski Co., KY in 1832..."

lived in Tatesville KY 1953

Lived at 1372 South Sixth Street, Louisville KY

FROM Ballous in America by Hawley 1937: that sometime during theRevolutionary War Leonard2 took a drove of beef cattle to Philadelphiafor sale, where he was attacked by small pox and died; and that later hiswidow and several of her chn. emigrated to West Tennessee.

Leonard Ballou and his brothers fled France during the FrenchRevolution.2 of these brothers were col's in Army.

Letter from T.C. Ballou obtained by Edith Colyer Curtis

This Letter is in response to numerous inquiries forinformationconcerning the heirs of Leonard Ballou and his two brothers,James andWilliam, who left France during the great social and politicalupheaval,the French Revolution.

When the National Convention of 800 members came into completecontrol ofthe government it was utterly hostile to the monarchy andnobility.

It declared France a Republic in 1792, tried and beheaded the Kingin1793: and took vigorous action to defend itself against the coalitionofEuropean autocrats aimed at its overthrow and the restoration oftheBourbons. In this it was successful.

After hundreds of priests and royalists had been butchered by theParisCommune, in those terrible September Massacres. The reign ofterror waspouring in a steady stream of noble heads into the basket oftheguillotine: after Lafayette had fled to Austria, the Bamouriez, whohadopposed the execution of Louis, had deserted to the enemy, thesethreeBallou brothers (two of whom were Colonels in the army) decided toleavetheir unhappy country and come to America.

On their way to America, they stopped in Dublin, Ireland, andLeonardmarried a lady of rank by the name of Meridith.

These brothers at first settled in Bottetourt county, Virginia.Soonafterward, Leonard, my great grandfather exchanged his Virginia homeforvast tracts of land among the smiling hills and valleys of WesternNorthCarolina. It is said he was influenced to do this, not alone bythevisions of vast mineral wealth, but because that land of the longleafpine--that summer land where the sun doth shine---appealed moststronglyto his poetic fancy.

Here lived and died, on the hills overlooking New River, hisson,Meridith, whose life was long, busy and useful, and who reared afamilyof ten boys and girls. These children are scattered to the fourcornersof the globe---many of them in Kentucky.

Meredith left a mane and example of which his family and fellowcitizenswere justly proud. At the time of his death he had acquiredover thirtythousand acres of land, much of it stored with the vastmineral wealthstill in the family. Here, in the land he loved, he wasgathered up to hisfathers, and sleeps beneath the mumering pines high upon the New Riverhill that commands an extensive and beautiful view overthe wide domain heonce called his own.

The legend of a vast estate in France has been recited among us formany,many years; but, if we never act that, let us take pleasure inthereflection someone else enjoys it. A proper investigatin wouldbeattended, perhaps with extreme difficulty.

There is no probate court in France, no central office where willsarefiled; and it is possible---if not probable---that an estate ofthemagnitude I have been lead to believe the Ballou's would befoundoutlawed by the statutes of limitations.

While our forbears in France were Bourbons of the Bourbons,theirmigration to America and long sojourn among the crags and peaks ofthefree Alleghenies transmuted the dross of theiraristocratic,monarvhistic, political and social faiths into the finestgold of modernconstitutional and representative democracy.

A heritage this, it seems to me, we should all be glad to hold inlife.

T.C. Ballou

Burial - [place: 13 miles southeast of Lafayette TN]