A person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another. Classified under: Nouns denoting people. Synonyms: heir; heritor; inheritor. Hypernyms (heir is a kind of...): receiver; recipient (a person who gets something)
Ella Jane Fitzgerald was born on April 17, 1917, in Newport News, Virginia. Her parents were William and Temperance (Tempie); they divorced shortly after she was born. Ella and her mother moved to Yonkers, New York, where they eventually moved in with her mother s boyfriend, Joseph Da Silva.
Ella Baker was born in 1903, in Norfolk, Virginia and when she was age 9 her family moved to rural North Carolina. Her grandmother, a former slave who had been whipped because she refused to marry the man selected by her owner, relayed stories of slave revolts that greatly impressed the child.