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personID
Randolph Warburton 1865-1936
Robert Watkins 1912-1969
new person 1912-1988
Robert Wilkinson 1884-1966
Martha Warburton 1891-1970
William Watkin 1888-1964
John Kirsch 1880-1948
Mary Ballard 1885-1961
Joseph Solow 1889-1956
Anna Ginsberg 1892-1983
Sidney Borenstein 1895-1986
Rose Gottlieb 1898-1968
Catherine Huxley 1877-1941
Test Person 1947-2010
Peter Kirsch 1852-1919
Louis Poullain 1810-1887
Sam Ginsberg 1870-1930
first last 1900-1800
Thomas Ballard 1848-1914
Louis Poullain 1810-1887
Catherine Bohn 1858-1930
Mary Bohn 1823-1915
Stanley Solow 1921-2013
Mary Dole (Daul) 1816-1886
Katherine Kolb 1850-1913
Morris Borenstein 1919-2010
Mary Warburton 1865-0
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Mary Barbara Ballard, Bruce's grandmother, was born in [Arkwright, New York](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkwright,_New_York) in 1885. Arkwright is about an hours drive south of Buffalo, near Dunkirk. She died 75 years later in 1961 in Williamsville, NY. Mary, known as Mamie, was one of twelve children of Thomas Ballard and Catherine Bohn. She also had three half siblings from her father's first marriage to Katherine Krebs. In 1907, when she was 22, Mary married Theodore J Heintz, a Buffalo NY butcher. They lived in a home on the west side of Buffalo, a block away from Theodore's butcher shop on Delavan Avenue. Theodore died of cancer in 1915. Two years after Theodore's death, when she was 32, Mary married John Benjamin Kirsch, a widower. Their marriage license was announced in the @Buffalo Enquirer@(Marriage License Announcement|http://brucewatkins.org/ancestry/newspaper/1917.marriage.lic.kirsh.jpeg) on September 15, 1917. They were married on the 18th in St. Peter's French church. John's father Peter Kirsch owned the@Frontier Hotel@(Frontier Hotel business card|businessCard.700.jpg) at [981 Niagara Street](link.php?id=5) in Buffalo until his death in 1914. Mary and John lived at the hotel at least until 1920, renting out rooms to boarders. Their first two children, John and Thomas, were born there. Later they moved to a house at [228 Englewood](link.php?id=6), where Bruce's mother Delores was born in 1924. Shortly after that they moved to [84 West Royal Parkway](link.php?id=7) in Williamsville. John Kirsch died in January of 1948 when he was 67 and Mary was 62. She sold their house and moved into the [Kensington Village](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kensington_Gardens_Apartment_Complex) apartment complex, where her daughter Delores and her son-in-law Robert Watkins were living. During the 1950s she moved to Montana and lived with her son John who was ranching and building a log cabin home. After her return to Buffalo, she lived with her son Paul and his wife Ethel, and later with her daughter Rita and her husband Mike. She was at Rita and Mike's apartment in Williamsville when she passed away in February of 1961 at age 75.
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