Mom's famous 7th cousin, once removed

Do we see any resemblance between these two women taken when they were both about 18 years old?   One of them is a famous red-headed comedian of the 20th century and the other is my Mom.  While tracing my Mom's new family ancestry, I came across the surname Ball.  At first I was focused on trying to just trace the family line and not who else has the surname Ball?  Then watching a television show with Lucie Arnaz, I wondered could we be related to Lucille Ball?  There is a website called Famous Kin which has the ancestry of famous people from actors to athletes and it contains sources for documenting each generation.

I was able to trace Lucille Ball's ancestry back to our common ancestor, John Ball of Watertown, Massachusetts.   She is my Mom's 7th cousin, once removed.  I grew up watching the old reruns of I Love Lucy to Here's Lucy.  She really was a great actress and comedian.

My mother and Lucille Balls' ancestor John Ball was born in 1585 in England and arrived in New England between 1630-1635 and settled in Watertown, Massachusetts with two of his sons.  He was made a freeman of the colony in 1650.  He later removed to Concord, Massachusetts where he died in 1655.  It appears he did not bring a wife and probably was a widower when he left England.

The 2nd generation was also named John Ball, who came with his father when he was a teenager, having been born about 1620 in England.   He also settled in Watertown, Massachusetts where he was a tailor and married 1) Elizabeth Pierce and they had 5 children together.   About 1655-6, his wife was said to have become "violently insane" and their children were apprenticed out to family and neighbors.  Elizabeth (Pierce) Ball died before 1665, when John remarried to 2) Elizabeth Fox of Concord, Massachusetts.  That same year, he sold his land in Watertown and moved to Lancaster, Massachusetts and had one son, Joseph with his second wife.  Sadly, when King Philip's War broke out, the Indians attacked the town of Lancaster on February 20, 1676 and John, his second wife, Elizabeth and his youngest son, Joseph were all killed.  His two youngest daughters, Esther and Abigail were taken into captivity and never heard from again.

Lancaster Attack 1676

Our next common generation is also a John Ball, born in 1644 in Watertown, Massachusetts.  He was sent to live with his grandfather, John Pierce in 1655 in Watertown and may have been what saved him the same fate as his father and siblings in 1676 in Lancaster, Massachusetts.  John married Sarah Bullard in 1665 and died in Watertown in 1722. This is where our family lines diverge.

4th generation
Benjamin Ball (1676-?)                            siblings              James Ball (1670-1729)

5th Generation
Isaac Ball (1700-1789)                          1st Cousins           James Ball (1694-1756)

6th Generation
Isaac Ball (1747-1790)                          2nd Cousins          John Ball (1738-1756)

7th Generation
Isaac Ball (1787-1865)                          3rd Cousins           Eunice Ball (1778-1840)

8th Generation
Clinton M. Ball (1817-1893)                4th Cousins            Levinia Carter (1804-1864)

9th Generation
Jasper C. Ball (1852-1933)                   5th Cousins            Frances Hatch (1845-1924)

10th Generation
Henry D. Ball (1887-1915)                  6th Cousins             Florence Bickmore (1870-1941)

11th Generation
Lucille Desire Ball (1911-1989)           7th Cousins             Harold Strout (1903-1985)

12th Generation
                                                               once removed         Shirley A. Buzzell