Brief Life History of May Etta
When May Etta Ball was born on 21 May 1882, in McKean, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, George Ball, was 31 and her mother, Anne Charters, was 21. She married William Edgar Minue on 27 September 1922, in Fredericton, York, New Brunswick, Canada. She lived in York, New Brunswick, Canada in 1901. She died in 1972, at the age of 90, and was buried in New Maryland, York, New Brunswick, Canada.
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- Mary Ball in household of George Ball, "Canada Census, 1901"
- Etta May Ball, "Pennsylvania Delayed Birth Records, 1941-1976"
- Mae Etta Ball, "New Brunswick Provincial Marriages 1789-1950"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1905 · The Movie Theater
The world’s first movie theater was located in Pittsburgh. It was referred to as a nickelodeon as at the time it only cost 5 cents to get in.
1906 · Saving Food Labels
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
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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