Brief Life History of Lorenzo Craig
When Lorenzo Craig Ball was born on 17 February 1887, in Union, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Alfred William Ball, was 30 and his mother, Mary Ann Walker, was 26. He married Hazel Knowlton on 1 October 1913, in Davis, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. He lived in Menan Election Precinct, Jefferson, Idaho, United States for about 5 years and Jefferson, Idaho, United States in 1950. He died on 19 November 1971, in Menan, Jefferson, Idaho, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Lewisville Cemetery, Jefferson, Idaho, United States.
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- Lorenzo Craig Ball, "United States 1950 Census"
- Lorenzo C Ball, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
- Lorenzo Craig Ball, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
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1890
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1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
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1909 · The NAACP is formed
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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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