Wilma Ball, Powers Cemetery, Diamond, MO - Homemade Tombstones on Waymarking.com

There is no biographical information in the FindAGrave entry for Wilma Ball, since this poster just had to add the entry! We can only infer that this is another sad case of a child dying at the tender age of 7, way too soon to have experienced much happiness in this life. The inscription on this slab of concrete is very crude, consisting of a mix of capital and small letters, and reads thusly verbatim:

Wilma Ball
Borned aPril
10 1911died
may 4
1918

It took me a while to figure out the second line because the r joines directly to the n in "Borned", and that runs directly into aPril, just as 1911 runs into died. So to make it a little clearer, here's what it means:

Wilma Ball
Born April 10, 1911
Died May 4, 1918

There are other Ball family members buried here. Wilma may have been the daughter of Walter Ball (1874-1952) when he was about 37; and of Rhoda Ann Rimmer Ball (1879-1952) when she was about 34. But this would need confirmation.

Date of Birth: 4/10/1911 Date of Death: 5/4/1918 Material: Concrete Web Site: [Web Link]

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