Brief Life History of Sarah Mildred
When Sarah Mildred Ball was born on 23 March 1833, in Fauquier, Virginia, United States, her father, John Ball, was 40 and her mother, Nancy Ann Carver, was 39. She married Franklin B Rector on 15 October 1860, in Culpeper, Culpeper, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 7 daughters. She lived in Culpeper, Virginia, United States in 1860 and Marshall, Fauquier, Virginia, United States in 1910. She died on 21 December 1914, in Fauquier, Virginia, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Orlean, Fauquier, Virginia, United States.
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- Mildred Ball, "United States Census, 1860"
- Mildried Rector, "Virginia, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Birth Records, 1853-1896"
- Sarah Mildred Rector, "Virginia, Death Certificates, 1912-1987"
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1844 · Lumpkin's Jail
In 1844 when Robert Lumpkin bought land in Virginia, this would be the spot of the Infamous Slave Jail (or Lumpkin’s Jail). The slaves would be brought here during the slave trade until they were sold. Lumpkin had purchased the land for his own slave business.
1861 · The Battle of Manassas
The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run.
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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