Ernest Ball

interviewed 21 March 1977
Ernest Ball (born 1902) lived in Montgomery County all his life. He started working at the Old State Bank (later Elston Bank) in his early 20s, earning $10.00 a week. He has many bank stories from all around the county, and seems to remember all the bank robberies, including the one where he was forced at gunpoint to gather some money ("Well, he had his gun in his right hand in my back and he said 'Get it all!'").

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