Dates of birth, death, & marriage from pedigree chart for Mary Frances Quesenberry Kell.

Her given name is also sometimes seen as Melina, Maline, Pauline, Perlina, Palina, and Polina. They were probably all variants on the same name, following the common pattern of using P as a familiar form of M in feminine names, such as Polly for Mary, Patsy for Martha, Peggy for Margaret, etc.

Cemeteries of Carroll Co., VA, p. 14, from which her dates of birth and death are taken. Note that the date of birth, 3 May 1842, is in conflict with that on her brother Obediah’s gravestone, which is given as 14 Dec 1842. One of the stones must have the wrong birth year. Census records suggest that it is Paulina’s date that is correct, and Obediah’s that is wrong. (See his notes.)

Ballard and Malina were first cousins, as Malina's father and Ballard's mother were siblings.

1870 census of Carroll Co., Virginia, Pine Creek district, Hillsville P.O., p. 128, lists as family #226/232 (next door to his widowed mother):
Quesenberry, Ballard, 28, farmer; Melina, 25; Susanah, 9; Emesetta, 6; Mary Ellen, 4; Jas C., 2; Josephus, 4/12, b. Jan; Duncan, Jesse, 19, labors on farm. All born in Va.

1880 census of Carroll Co., Virginia, Pine Creek district, p. 154, lists as family #397/404:
Quesinberry, A. P., 40, farmer; Polina, 38; Susiana, dau, 19; Emmazetta, dau, 16; Mariettia, dau, 14; James C., son, 12; Josephous, son, 10; Triphana, dau, 8; Lee Fayett, son, 5; Malichi, son, 3. All born in Virginia.

1900 census of Carroll Co., Virginia, Pine Creek district, enumerated 8 June, lists on p. 7A as family #83:
Quesinberry, Amos B., 59, b. Oct 1840, farmer; Paulina, wife, 57, b. May 1843, married 40 years, mother of 9 children, 9 living; Lisco P., son, 17, b. June 1882; Emmasetta, dau, 36, widowed, mother of 2 children, 2 living; Oder, granddau, 12, b. May 1888; Asa R., grandson, 10, b. Oct 1889. All born Va Va Va.

1910 census of Carroll Co., Virginia, Pine Creek district, enumerated 20 April, lists on p. 5A as family #79/80:
Quesenberry, Ballard, 70, farmer; Paulina, wife, 68, first marriage for both, married 51 years, mother of 9 children, 8 living; Emmazetta, dau, 45, widowed, mother of 2 children, 2 living; Liscoe P., son, 28, married 1 year; Acy R., grandson, 19, single. Marshall, Mattie, granddau, 7. Quesenberry, Gomez, grandson, 7/12. Matilda A., dau-in-law, 29, married 1 year, mother of 1 child, 1 living.