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. Courtesy of the Library of Congress (LC-USZ62-110575). Baker, Ella Josephine(13 Dec. 1903-13 Dec. 1986), civil rights organizer, was born in Norfolk, Virginia, the daughter of Blake Baker, a waiter on the ferry between Norfolk and Washington, D.C., and Georgianna Ross. In rural North Carolina where Ella Baker grew up she experienced a strong sense of black community.