Brief Life History of Lucy Ann
When Lucy Ann Ball was born in April 1839, in Davidson, North Carolina, United States, her father, William Ball, was 23 and her mother, Margaret Rebecca Essick, was 19. She lived in South Fork, Forsyth, North Carolina, United States in 1860. She died in 1917, in Stockdale, Wilson, Texas, United States, at the age of 78.
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- Lucy An Ball in household of William Ball, "United States Census, 1850"
- Lucy A Ball in household of William Ball, "United States Census, 1860"
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World Events (8)
1844 · German Immigration to Texas
Over 7,000 German immigrants arrived in Texas. Some of these new arrivals died in epidemics; those that survived ended up living in cities such as San Antonio, Galveston, and Houston. Other German settlers went to the Texas Hill Country and formed the western portion of the German Belt, where new towns were founded: New Braunfels and Fredericksburg.
1853 · First State Fair
The first state fair in North Carolina was held in Raleigh and was put on by the North Carolina State Agricultural Society in 1853. The fair has been continuous except for during the American Civil War and Reconstruction and WWII.
1861 · Texas Secedes from the United States
On February 1, 1861, Texas seceded from the United States. On March 2, 1861, they had joined with the Confederate States of America.
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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