Maude was born June 21, 1864, in Marshall, Michigan, to Dr. Alexander Rawson Ball and Delilah née Weld. She was the youngest of their ten children. Maude’s father was a well-regarded homeopathic physician until his death at the age of 79 in 1902. Her sister Hannah became a homeopath like her father and sister Fannie trained as a teacher.
By
1880, the Ball family was living in Mason, Shiawassee County, Michigan. Maude herself graduated with a teaching
degree in 1882 and eventually became an educator of teachers at Michigan State
Normal School (now Eastern Michigan University) for several years. She then transferred
to Whitewater Normal School (now University of Wisconsin--Whitewater) around
1897and served as secretary of the teachers' association.
Maude’s
sister Delilah had married George Homer Jones in 1874. On December 12, 1898, he died suddenly at the
home of his mother in Michigan. By September
1899, Maude was suffering from tubercular laryngitis, so her widowed sister
Delilah accompanied her to Phoenix, Arizona Territory.
Like so
many others who came to Phoenix during that time, Maude had been hoping that
she would recover in the warm Arizona climate.
However, she died on December 26, 1899, at the home of her sister
Delilah in Phoenix.
- by Patricia
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