Brief Life History of Retah May
When Retah May Ball was born on 6 May 1878, in Delavan, Walworth, Wisconsin, United States, her father, Charles Selden Ball, was 34 and her mother, Mary Elizabeth Walker, was 33. She married Marcus Henry Butler on 19 June 1911, in Perry Center, Wyoming, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Perry, Wyoming, New York, United States in 1915 and Perry, Perry, Wyoming, New York, United States for about 20 years. In 1910, at the age of 32, her occupation is listed as nurse to private family in Perry, Perry, Wyoming, New York, United States. She died on 1 January 1945, in Warsaw, Warsaw, Wyoming, New York, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Perry Center, Wyoming, New York, United States.
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- Rita M Buttler in household of Marcus Buttler, "United States Census, 1940"
- Retah M Ball, "New York, County Marriages, 1908-1935"
- Retah M Butler, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1883 · The Newhall House Hotel Fire
A fire erupted on January 10, 1883, at the Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee. The fire began at 4:00 am in an elevator shaft and raced up through the building. The fire spread so quickly that many could not escape. General and Mrs. Tom Thumb, stars of P.T. Barnum's circus, were guests in the hotel at the time of the fire. A firefighter reached them by ladder and they were able to escape safely. The exact number of deaths remains unknown as the hotel register was destroyed in the fire, however, the death toll is estimated between 75-90.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
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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