[wardaddy]

Lucy was a New Yorker but her surname Ball was a huge Deep South plantation era name

Very big in South Carolina Georgia and Mississippi

[Vigilanteman]

Another interesting detail about Lucille Ball is that she is a descendant of Rev. John Crandall, one of the early settlers of Rhode Island as are thousands of other Americans including myself, my wife and Dezi. This makes us both distant cousins to our spouses.