Brief Life History of James Ballard
When James Ballard Bryant Jr. was born on 8 January 1922, in Danville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States, his father, James Ballard Bryant, was 39 and his mother, Lottie Francis Myers, was 33. He married Ivah Mae Merricks on 22 December 1945, in Roanoke, Virginia, United States. He lived in Danville, Boone, Virginia, United States in 1940. He died on 15 December 2007, in Danville, Virginia, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Highland Burial Park, Danville, Virginia, United States.
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- James B Bryant, Jr, "United States 1950 Census"
- James Ballard Bryant, "Virginia, Marriage Certificates, 1936-1988"
- James Ballard Bryant, "Virginia, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
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1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
1941 · Pentagon is Built in Arlington
The Pentagon was developed as the Department of Defense had outgrown the other buildings were it was previous located.The groundbreaking for the Pentagon was on September 11, 1941. When the Pentagon was being built, it was determined that it could be no taller than four stories high. Colonel Leslie R. Groves was the supervisor of the project, he would later become known for helping on the Manhattan Project.
1945 · Peace in a Post War World
The Yalta Conference was held in Crimea to talk about establishing peace and postwar reorganization in post-World War II Europe. The heads of government that were attending were from the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union. Later the Conference would become a subject of controversy at the start of the Cold War.
Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): from the Celtic personal name Brian (from brigo- ‘high’ + the suffix -ant-), with excrescent -t. Breton bearers of this name were among the Normans who invaded England in 1066. They went on to settle in Ireland in the 12th century, where the name mingled with the native Irish form Briain (see O'Brien ). The latter had also been borrowed, as Brján, by the Vikings, who introduced it independently into northwestern England before the Norman Conquest.
Breton: very rare variant of Briant (see Briand ) and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this.
History: The American poet William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) came of a New England family, being descended from Stephen Bryant, who had settled in Plymouth Colony in 1632.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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