Iron County Record | 1933-02-16 | Page 7 | George Washington

George Washington First President of 0 the United States n Mt t t oats 4 roe M t X y iL Gf t i 4 t I t It ti r t if k nh a t w WASHINGTON'S FAMILY George Washington's mother was Mary Ball said to have been a lineal descendant from John Ball medieval champion of the rights fights of man Her lIer mother was Mary Montague Montague Mon Mon- tague who as the widow Johnson John John- son was married to Colonel Joseph Ball BaIL Her lIer grandfather was Colonel William W Ball who emigrated emigrated emi emi- grated to Virginia in 1650 and settled set tied in Lancaster county George Washington's father was Augustine Washington the grandson of Lawence Lawence Law Law- ence enco Washington and the great great- grandson of John Washington who came from England about 1650 and settled in Westmoreland county Virginia The English ancestry has been traced back through Laurentia Lauren Lauren- tia Washington father of Lawrence several generations to the Sulgrave branch of the family