Theresia was the step-daughter to the Hans Adam Ball family from Au/am/Rhein/Rastadt/Germany, who in 1808 emigrated to South Russia, and became a founding family of the village of Elsass in the Kutschurgan Colony. another has her name as Theresia PETER so in lieu of above being a step-daughter her maiden name must have been PETER? and yet another had her surname spelled BOLL