When Thomas Samuel Bales was born in 1852, in Virginia, United States, his father, Enoch G Bales, was 24 and his mother, Elizabeth Victoria Wilson, was 22. He married Elizabeth A Griffith on 28 December 1877. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Honaker, Russell, Virginia, United States in 1870 and Magisterial District 1, Pike, Kentucky, United States in 1900. He died on 5 July 1923, in Pikeville, Pike, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Pikeville, Pike, Kentucky, United States.
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English: either a variant of Bale , with excrescent -s, or a variant of Bayliss .
English: habitational name from Bayles in Alston, Cumbria.
Slovak and Czech (Báleš, rarely Baleš): from a pet form of Bal, a short form of the personal name Baltazar (Slovak Baltazár).
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