When Charles Cummings Ball was born on 23 March 1849, in Honaker, Russell, Virginia, United States, his father, William Lee Ball, was 28 and his mother, Sidney Jane Fletcher, was 26. He married Mariah Frances Dye on 14 September 1876, in Honaker, Russell, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. In 1880, at the age of 31, his occupation is listed as farming. He died on 24 August 1903, in Russell, Virginia, United States, at the age of 54, and was buried in Honaker, Russell, Virginia, United States.
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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.
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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.
Possible Related NamesFamily Bible Record of William L. Ball Births William L. Ball was born December 20, 1820 Sidney J. Ball, his wife, was born November 22, 1822 Polly A. Ball and Celia E. Ball, their daughters, were bo …
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