When Carrh Erastus Ball was born on 8 June 1870, in Brandon Township, Oakland, Michigan, United States, his father, James Ball, was 34 and his mother, Nancy Ellen Beach, was 34. He married Hannah Maria Marshall on 24 August 1897, in Flint, Genesee, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Stephenson, Rock Island, Illinois, United States in 1910 and Sacramento, Sacramento, California, United States for about 20 years. He died on 24 May 1948, in Sacramento, California, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Sacramento Memorial Lawn Cemetery, Sacramento, Sacramento, California, 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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