When Mary Jane Ballard was born in February 1838, in Goss, Marion, Mississippi, United States, her father, Charles Ballard, was 53 and her mother, Marie Jane Brady, was 38. She married Carter Dalton on 2 December 1855, in Marion, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Lawrence, Mississippi, United States in 1860 and Beat 3, Lawrence, Mississippi, United States in 1880.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Mississippi became the second state to leave the Union at the start of the Civil War in 1861.
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
English: from Middle English ballard ‘bald-headed man’ (compare Bald 3).
French: from the ancient Germanic personal name Balhard, composed of the elements bal, presumably meaning ‘torment, spitefulness’, and hard ‘hard, strong’. Compare Ballor .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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