Serge Frederick Ballif

Male22 November 1859–17 November 1942

Brief Life History of Serge Frederick

When Serge Frederick Ballif was born on 22 November 1859, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, his father, Serge Louis Ballif, was 38 and his mother, Elise Marie LeCoultre, was 34. He married Zelnora Eliza Angell on 23 July 1885, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Utah, United States in 1870 and Logan, Cache, Utah, United States in 1880. He died on 17 November 1942, in Oakland, Alameda, California, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Logan Cemetery, Logan, Cache, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Serge Frederick Ballif
1859–1942
Zelnora Eliza Angell
1858–1924
Marriage: 23 July 1885
Hazel Eliza Ballif
1886–1921
Serge Frederick Ballif Jr
1888–1958
Leonard Humbert Ballif
1894–1954
Zelnora Ballif
1896–1976
Rachel Ballif
1899–1925
Evelyn Ballif
1901–1995

Sources (52)

  • Serge Ballif in entry for Unknown, "Utah, County Birth and Death Records,1892-1951"
  • Serge F Baliff in household of Mary Thatcher, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Serge F. Ballif in entry for Wilford Owen Woodruff and Evelyn Ballif, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    23 July 1885Logan, Cache, Utah, United States
  • Children (6)

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    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (9)

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    World Events (8)

    1863

    Age 4

    Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

    1863

    Age 4

    Jean Henru Dunant founded the Red Cross in Geneva.

    1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

    Age 22

    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

    Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Lupe, Ana Isabel, Armando, Gonzalo, Guadalupe, Hilaria, Jose, Juan, Juan Carlos, Juana Maria, Macario, Mario.

    German and Danish: habitational name from a place so named near Neubrandenburg, Germany.

    Jewish (western Ashkenazic): most likely, metronymic from the hypocoristic form (using the suffix -lin) of the Yiddish female personal name Be(y)le (see Balin 1). Earliest bearers of the name spelling Bal(l)in or Bellin appear in available sources of Switzerland at the turn of the 14th–15th centuries.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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    Yours in the Cause of Truth

    Why him? Missionary work was a young man’s sport. And here Henry Kloepfer, father of seven, was being asked to serve a full-time mission at the age of 50. Most of the elders who were going out into t …

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