George William Ball was born June 1849 in Lake Luzerne, Warren County, New York, United States to George F. Ball (1818-1893) and Eliza M. Randall (1819-1879) and died after 1920 of unspecified causes. He married Sarah Unknown (1854-aft1920) 1870 .
The 1900 census says that George and Sarah had been married 31 years. However, at the 1870 census "William" was living with his parents and apparently single (there is a Sarah Ball, married that February, but she appears to have been married to George's older brother Philip (she is a different age from George's wife; and in 1880 Philip's oldest child is too old to have been borne by his wife of that time, Nellie)