When Lydia Ballard was born in 1806, in Bedford, Virginia, United States, his father, Johnson Ballard, was 30 and his mother, Mary Ann "Polly" Douglas, was 17. He died on 13 January 1816, in his hometown, at the age of 10.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
The Monumental Church was built between 1812-1814 on the sight where the Richmond Theatre fire had taken place. It is a monument to those that died in the fire.
English: from Middle English ballard ‘bald-headed man’ (compare Bald 3).
French: from the ancient Germanic personal name Balhard, composed of the elements bal, presumably meaning ‘torment, spitefulness’, and hard ‘hard, strong’. Compare Ballor .
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