Statira Ball

Brief Life History of Statira

When Statira Ball was born about 1787, in Bethany, Woodbridge, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Timothy Ball, was 36 and her mother, Abigail Hitchcock, was 36. She married Truman Davis on 18 March 1832, in Woodbridge, New Haven, Connecticut, United States. She died about 1850, in Naugatuck, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 65.

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Truman Davis
1787–1868
Statira Ball
1787–1850
Marriage: 18 March 1832

Sources (4)

  • Statira Ball, "Connecticut Marriages, 1630-1997"
  • Statira Ball, "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850"
  • Statira Ball, "Connecticut Marriages, 1630-1997"

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World Events (8)

1787 · The Making of the U.S. Constitution.

The Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.

1788 · Connecticut Becomes the 5th State

Connecticut became a state on January 9, 1788. In 1650, before it was a state, the boundary of Connecticut ran north from the westside of Greenwich Bay and the coast of the Pacific Ocean. During the 1600s, Westmoreland County was in Connecticut when the boundaries were changed Westmoreland County went to Pennsylvania.

1804

Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis, MO to explore the West.

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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