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Born
Ella Jane Fitzgerald was born in Newport News, Va. on April 25, 1917. -
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Ellla Fitzgerald
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Ella movs to New York and her half sister is born
Ella and her mom moved to Yonkers, N.Y, where they eventually moved in with he mom's longtime boyfriend Joseph Da Silva. Ella's half-sister, Frances, was born in 1923 and soon she began referring to Joe as her stepfather. -
Ella's mother dies
Ella's mother dies and she moves back to Virginia with her aunt.
