Lucile Ballard

Brief Life History of Lucile

When Lucile Ballard was born on 31 October 1900, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States, her father, Melvin Joseph Ballard, was 27 and her mother, Martha Annable Jones, was 26. She married Richard William Madsen Jr on 17 June 1920, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. She lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1920 and Holladay, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1950. She died on 20 November 1992, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Richard William Madsen Jr
1898–1984
Lucile Ballard
1900–1992
Marriage: 17 June 1920
Richard William Madsen III
1921–1985
Gloria Joyce Madsen
Mary Lucile Madsen
1922–2010
Patricia Madsen
1926–2023
Gloria Joyce Madsen
1928–2025
Donna Isabel Madsen
1931–2023

Sources (20)

  • Lucille B Madsen, "United States, Census, 1950"
  • Lucile Ballard birth record
  • Lucile Ballard and Richard William Madsen Jr, "Utah, County Marriages, 1871-1941"

World Events (8)

1901 · Assassination of Mckinley

President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.

1902 · Old Main (Utah State University)

The first building on the Utah State University Campus was named Old Main and is the oldest functioning academic building in Utah. It was built after the current site was approved unanimously by the Board of Trustees for the new college. Construction started in 1889 and the entire building was completed in 1902. During the Spanish Flu Epidemic in 1919, the building was used as a makeshift hospital to take care the effected residents in the surrounding area. Old Main was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. 

1927

Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

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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