William Ball was engaged to Nancy’s sister Martha, but when Martha died he was engaged to another sister Unity, and apparently the couple was married since a 1950 reading of the Hardy Cemetery in Clay Co., Mississippi records her grave marker as reading "Unity Elizabeth Ball, consort of William F. Ball". After Unity died William Ball next married “Nannie”, Unity’s sister, Nancy Jane Hardy. She married Wes Harvey after William Ball died “during the war” fide a letter from Kate Hardy to Sallie Ila Hardy in 1947.