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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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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