Brief Life History of Samuel
When Samuel Ball was born on 17 August 1880, in Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, United States, his father, Abram Bal, was 35 and his mother, Elizabeth Adriana Van Popering, was 35. He married Katherine B Stuit on 20 May 1908, in Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Detroit Ward 2, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1920 and Bay City, Bay, Michigan, United States for about 10 years. He died in 1955, at the age of 75, and was buried in Oakwood Memorial Mausoleum, Saginaw, Saginaw, Michigan, United States.
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- Samuel Ball, "United States Census, 1910"
- Samuel Ball, "Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925"
- Samuel Ball, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1888
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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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