BALLOU, James Madison (1816-1888) and Hulda Amelia (1820-1903)

Born in Vermont, James Ballou came to western New York while a child and married Hulda Hart in 1840 or 1841. Both joined the Millerite movement in the early 1840s. Hulda is said to have become a Sabbathkeeper in 1847. James Ballou is listed in the Review as a subscriber and contributor from 1851.1EGWLM 786.3

Ballou's obituary relates that “for many years the meetings of the Pulaski [New York] church were held at his house.” There is only one extant mention of J. M. Ballou in Ellen White's correspondence. J. N. Loughborough, however, recounts how he visited the Ballou home near Mannsville, New York, in 1858, along with Ellen and James White, and how in answer to prayer Ellen was healed there from a serious inflammation of her face.1EGWLM 786.4

See: Obituary: “James Madison Ballou,” Review, June 12, 1888, p. 383; obituary: “Hulda A. Ballou,” New York Indicator, July 29, 1903, pp. 3, 4; Adin Ballou, An Elaborate History and Genealogy of the Ballous in America (Providence, R.I.: Press of E. L. Freeman & Son, 1888), pp. 1186, 1187; “Receipts,” Review, Nov. 25, 1851, p. 56; Ellen G. White, Lt 20, 1860 (c. 1860); J. N. Loughborough, The Great Second Advent Movement, p. 336.1EGWLM 786.5