Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 467-468 [McCracken]

     LEE BALLOWE, who owns and resides upon a nice farm near Paducah,
Kentucky, is a native of the neighboring state of Tennessee, where he was
born in the year 1868.  His parents, William and Martha (Brown) Ballowe,
also were natives of Tennessee, and his father was a carpenter and farmer
in Tennessee and Kentucky, owning several large farms.  He passed the
latter part of his life in McCracken county, Kentucky, where he died at
the age of fifty-six years.
     The Ballowe family moved up into Kentucky when Lee was quite young,
and in McCracken county he received his education.  When he started out
in life to do for himself he was at first engaged in the lumber
business, and from this he directed his attention to agricultural
pursuits, in which he has been very successful.  He is the owner of a
fine farm of one hundred and eighty acres, and in connection with his
farming is interested in stock raising.  Like his father before him, Mr.
Ballowe is a Democrat and a public spirited citizen, abreast with the
times and well posted on public affairs.
     In 1897 Mr. Ballowe married Miss Larah Collier, daughter of Thomas
Collier, a prominent and wealthy farmer of McCracken county.  Their
marriage has been blessed in the birth of two children, Jewel Ethel and
Earl.

Ballowe Brown Collier
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TN

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