When Priscilla Ball was born in 1843, in Ohio, United States, her father, John William Ball, was 24 and her mother, Jane Hazelton, was 24. She married George William Trimmer on 20 March 1870, in Perry, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Warren Precinct, Henderson, Illinois, United States in 1880 and Washington Township, Pickaway, Ohio, United States in 1900. She died on 17 January 1907, in Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Forest Cemetery, Circleville, Pickaway, 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’.
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