Nell Hamilton Ball

Brief Life History of Nell Hamilton

When Nell Hamilton Ball was born on 9 August 1895, in Mason, Kentucky, United States, her father, George Mooter Ball, was 41 and her mother, Lucille Ida Lawson, was 32. She married Henry Milton Pyles in 1923, in Mason, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Winchester, Clark, Kentucky, United States in 1930 and Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, United States in 1976. She died on 19 October 1992, at the age of 97, and was buried in Mentor, Campbell, Kentucky, United States.

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Henry Milton Pyles
1890–1976
Nell Hamilton Ball
1895–1992
Marriage: 1923
Elizabeth Luella Pyles
1923–2014

Sources (12)

  • Nell B Pyles in household of Henry M Pyles, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Nell H Ball, "United States Social Security Death Index"
  • Mrs Nell Ball Pyles in entry for Dr Henry Milton Pyles, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"

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World Events (8)

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

1900 · Governor Shot

On January 30, 1900 Governor William Goebel of Kentucky was assassinated. He took a bullet to the chest, outside the Old State Capitol. He died on February 3, 1900.

1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack

Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.

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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