Homer S. Ballard was born in Iowa in 1878. He came to Larrabee Township in 1900. He married Fannie Barber. Homer was the owner of "Olive Dairy Farm" and commissioner from the Third District at the time the courthouse was built. Shortly thereafter, the family left Foster County to homestead in Bowdon County.
They had two children.
Source: A History of Foster County 1983 Page 59B