When John Ball was born in 1839, in Buncombe, North Carolina, United States, his father, Eaton Ball, was 31 and his mother, Susannah Reese, was 19. He lived in Beaverdam Township, Cherokee, North Carolina, United States in 1860. He died in April 1862, in Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 23, and was buried in Knox, Tennessee, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Tennessee was known as the Volunteer State because during the Mexican War the government asked Tennessee for 3,000 volunteer soldiers and 30,000 joined.
The first state fair in North Carolina was held in Raleigh and was put on by the North Carolina State Agricultural Society in 1853. The fair has been continuous except for during the American Civil War and Reconstruction and WWII.
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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