Hi Victoria,
The Balon that I am looking up, was Bartime. He was a Frenchman that married (in Washington Co. AL) Anne Richardson <my ggggrandmother> after the children were born and before they reached age 6 he disappeared and was 'spied' by one of the Sullivans (also of my line) to have become a preacher in Texas and with a whole new family. No one knows what became of him.
Wendy
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