Brief Life History of Rebecca Catherine
When Rebecca Catherine Ballard was born on 29 October 1865, in Maury, Tennessee, United States, her father, James Milton Ballard Jr., was 28 and her mother, Mary Elizabeth Runions, was 29. She married William Otey Morrow on 21 January 1892, in Hampshire, Maury, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Civil District 10, Maury, Tennessee, United States in 1910. She died on 13 January 1916, in Hampshire, Maury, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 50, and was buried in Hampshire, Maury, Tennessee, United States.
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- Becky Balard in household of James Balard, "United States Census, 1880"
- R C Ballard, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- Rebecca Catherine Ballard Morrow, "Find A Grave Index"
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1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
1878 · Yellow Fever Epidemic
When a man that had escaped a quarantined steamboat with yellow fever went to a restaurant he infected Kate Bionda the owner. This was the start of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the end of the epidemic 5,200 of the residence would die.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Name Meaning
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 .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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