Thomas Henry Ball

Brief Life History of Thomas Henry

When Thomas Henry Ball was born on 23 November 1889, in Williamsburg, Whitley, Kentucky, United States, his father, Addison Valentine Ball, was 38 and his mother, Sarah C Jones, was 35. He married Nora Lee Lay on 3 February 1909, in Whitley, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Ohio, United States in 1940 and Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, United States in 1940. He died on 21 June 1940, in Mansfield, Richland, Ohio, United States, at the age of 50, and was buried in Mansfield, Richland, Ohio, United States.

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Family Time Line

Thomas Henry Ball
1889–1940
Nora Lee Lay
1889–1980
Marriage: 3 February 1909
Willie E Ball
1908–
Erma B. Ball
1910–1998
Estel Henry Ball
1912–1992
Homer Ball
1913–
Marie Ball
1917–1996
Viola Ball
1920–1993
James Dillard Ball
1922–1987
Louis Ball
1925–

Sources (25)

  • Thomas Bail, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Thomas, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1786-1965"
  • Thomas Henry Ball, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"

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World Events (8)

1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.

1892 · The Radio is invented

Kentucky native Nathan Stubblefield invented the radio in 1892

1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor

A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.

Name Meaning

English: from Middle English bal, ball(e) ‘ball, sphere, globe, round body’ (Old French balle or Old English beall(a)), a nickname for a short, obese person.

English: topographic name for someone who lived on or by a knoll or rounded hill, from the same Middle English word, bal(le) as in 1 above, but applied topographically.

English: from a Middle English adjective ball (weak form balle) in the sense ‘bald’, from ball ‘white streak, bald place’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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