When Edward Gresham Ball was born on 21 March 1888, in Northumberland, Virginia, United States, his father, Thomas Ball, was 51 and his mother, Lalla Rook Gresham, was 32. He married Ruth Arwin Latham on 17 June 1933, in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. He lived in Election Precinct 29, Duval, Florida, United States in 1930 and Jacksonville, Duval, Florida, United States for about 9 years. He died on 24 June 1981, in Jefferson, Louisiana, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware, United States.
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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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