When Clarissa Jane Ball was born in 1852, in Mississippi, United States, her father, John Nimrod Timothy Ball, was 27 and her mother, Mary Perninah Leach, was 17. She married Francis Orestus McReynolds on 28 September 1869, in Winston, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 8 daughters. She lived in Justice Precinct 6, Denton, Texas, United States for about 20 years and Justice Precinct 7, Denton, Texas, United States in 1910. She died in 1910, in Denton, Denton, Texas, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Lloyd Cemetery, Lincoln Park, Denton, Texas, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1857: Denton, Texas, 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’.
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