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Facts and Events
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Butcher, Bernard Lee, and James Morton Callahan. Genealogical and personal history of the upper Monongahela Valley, West Virginia. (New York, New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1912).
[Vol 2, p 457 - ]
HALL - The remotest ancestor of this family, of whom anything definite is known, is Thomas Hall, who was descended from Scotch-Irish ancestors. There is a tradition in the family that this branch was started from a marriage between a Hall and a Spencer, one of whom was Scotch, the other Irish. Thomas Hall was born September 24, 1724, and he had two brothers, Moses, whose son Jesse was a soldier in the revolution, and David, an old sea captain. Early representatives of the Hall family settled at Snow Hill, Maryland, and in Delaware. Thomas Hall died at or near Duck Creek Cross Roads, Delaware, May 29, 1772. He married Rebecca Story, a woman of English birth, who long survived her honored husband, her death having occurred December 15, 1812.
After the death of Thomas Hall, in 1772, his widow remained with her children in Delaware until the close of the revolutionary war. In 1781, Isaac Mason, who had married the eldest child, and Jordan Hall, the third child, emigrated westward, and in the following year, 1782, the family followed to the forks of Cheat river, a few miles below Morgantown, West Virginia. Those who left Delaware, were Rebecca Hall, Asa Hall, with his wife and the latter's mother, Mrs. Margaret White, Nathan, Jordan, Rynear, Allen, and Rebecca. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hall : Parthena : Asa, mentioned below : Jordan, Rynear, Nathan, Allen, Rebecca.
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[Identifies Rebecca as a daughter of Thomas Hall and Rebecca Story.]
- ↑ Miller, Richard S. The Hall records: genealogical and biographical. (Newburgh, WV: Printed by the Author, 1886)
13, 15, 93.
[Letter from Hon. E. B. Hall, SANTA BARBARA, CAL., Dec. 26, 1878.]
... Rebecca married John Courtney, and lived and died on Scott's run, below Morgantown, Monongalia county. ...
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[Letter from James Hall (son of Jordan Hall). Browns Mill, W.Va., Dec. 31, 1878]
... Aunt Rebecca married John Courtney, and raised three sons and six daughters. She lived and died on Scott's run, Monongalia county. She had one son-in-law a Methodist preacher. She died September 22d, 1854. ...
Rebecca (Story) Hall. She came with her mother, brothers, and sisters, to the forks of Cheat river, in 1782, being then a child of eleven years. They came to Monongalia county, Virginia, in 1784, married John Courtney, at the age of twenty-six years, and moved to Scott's Run, in the same county, and lived there until her death, in 1854, at the advanced age of 83 years. She was the mother of nine children, six of whom were girls. Mr. Courtney was a farmer. He was born in Ireland, and emigrated to America at the age of nineteen; a poor boy, by industry and economy, he had accumulated property to the amount of 400 acres of good land, which went to his children. He died October 3, 1839, respected by all. His wife survived him 15 years, and died September 22, 1854. They are both buried in the family burying ground, on the home place.
Following are the inscriptions on their tombstones:
JOHN COURTNEY, died October 3, 1839, aged 72.
"Servant of God, well done!
The glorious warfare past:
The battle's fought, the victory 's won,
And thou art crowned at last."
REBECCA COURTNEY, wife of John Courtney, died
September 22, 1854, aged 83 years, 4 months.
"Redeemed from earth and pain,
O, when shall we ascend?
And in Jesus' presence reign,
With our translated friend?"
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