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Son Collister does not marry and has a list ofheirs – and there is also a will – the list of heirs is very long and need tosort through the whole documenthttps://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/8800/images/005116858_00041?usePUB=true&pId=8816692Here is the will – starts at the bottom righthttps://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/8800/images/005116946_00051?usePUB=true&pId=1375222 Son Collister Ballard did not marry. In his willwritten 8 October 1892 (proved 2 July 1894), C. M. Ballard made bequests to hisniece Harriet Weeks of Orangeville who is wife of Henry Weeks; nephew CollisterM. Head of Orangeville; children of Collister M. Head who are Mabel, Olive, Anna,and Albert; Carrie Hall, Maud Cook, Annie Hall, and Burton Hall of Orangeville;sister Caroline Head of Orangeville; nephew Ralph Ballard of Niles, Michigan; andtwo daughters of deceased nephew Sidney Ballard who are Caroline and Hannahliving in Oregon and California. David Hall and Edward T. Wolcott were namedexecutors.[1]The following heirs-at-law were identified at the time of probate: CarolineHead, sister; Collister M. Head, nephew; Elizabeth Head, legatee; Mabel Head,grand-niece; Harriet Weeks, niece; Henry E. Weeks, possible legatee; Charles E.Weeks, legatee; Caroline R. Hall, legatee; Maud M. Cook, legatee; Anna G. Hall,legatee; and Burton D. Hall legatee, all of the above of Warsaw, New York;Jarvis A. Head, nephew; Rebecca Seymour, niece; Delia Ann Dunhain, niece; LadumaBallard, nephew, Ophelia Owen, niece; John L. Blair, nephew; and Mary Ann Billings, theselast all of Lebanon, New York; Addison E. Head, nephew, San Francisco; WilliamS. Head, nephew, Camp Verde, Arizona Territory; Calista R. Gardner, niece,Hamilton, New York; Hannah S. Baker, niece, Earlville, New York; Otis W.Ballard, nephew, Niles, Michigan; Cornelia M. Freed, niece, Niles, Michigan; RalphBallard, legatee, Niles, Michigan; Carrie L. French, legatee, Corvallis,Oregon; Hannah Brown, legatee, Milpitas, California; Clarissa S. Morse, niece,Detroit, Michigan; Morris Ballard, nephew, Bay City, Michigan; Elliot Stuart,nephew, Lake View, New York; Alvin Stuart, nephew, Mesa City, ArizonaTerritory; Susan Burt, niece, DeRuyter, New York; S. Porter Ballard, nephew,Willis, Michigan; Clarinda B. Pierson, niece, Stony Creek, Michigan; Augustus Blair, nephew,Attica, New York, Mary Baker, niece, Grant Park, Illinois; Edward T. Wolcott,executor, Johnsonburg, New York; David Hall, one of the executors; and threeminors who are Olive Head, Anna Head, and Albert Head of Orangeville.[2] John L. Blair and Augustus Blair are both childrenof John Dick Blair and Achsa Lindsey and born in the 1813 to 1815 range – how arethey nephews? – they may be related through Anna McMillen and her first husbandGeorge Linsey[1] NewYork Probate, Wyoming County, Wills Volume 018, pp 41-43[2] NewYork Probate, Wyoming County, Petitions, Proofs of Wills