Charles Cummings Ball

Brief Life History of Charles Cummings

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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Family Time Line

Charles Cummings Ball
1849–1903
Mariah Frances Dye
1856–1940
Marriage: 14 September 1876
Mattie Jane Ball
1877–1969
Minnie Frances Ball
1878–1945
Maude Ellen Ball
1880–1969
Zora Alice Ball
1883–1953
Walter Frank Ball
1885–1966
Rose Anise Ball
1887–1966
Roy Lee Ball
1889–1973
Luther Henry Ball
1892–1979
Ball
1895–1895
Estil William Ball
1898–1984

Sources (44)

  • Charles Ball in household of William Ball, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Charles C Ball, "Virginia, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Birth Records, 1853-1896"
  • Chas, "Virginia, Bureau of Vital Statistics, County Marriage Registers, 1853-1935"

World Events (8)

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. 

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1864 · Arlington Cemetery

Arlington Cemetery is a military cemetery. It was originally a plantation owned by George Washington Parke Custis. This is the location of Robert E. Lee, 16,000 Civil War soldiers, William Howard Taft, John, Jackie, Robert, and Edward Kennedy. The tomb of the unknown soldier is also located here it was dedicated on November 11, 1921. It contains the remains of those soldiers unknown from WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam.

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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Family Bible Record of William L. Ball

Family 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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