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Facts and Events
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 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 wife of Thomas Hall and mother to named children.]
- ↑ Miller, Richard S. The Hall records: genealogical and biographical. (Newburgh, WV: Printed by the Author, 1886)
12, 21, 22.
[p 12 - Letter from Hon. E. B. Hall, SANTA BARBARA, CAL., Dec. 26, 1878.]
... Thomas Hall and Rebecca, his wife, who lived in Delaware. Thomas Hall died in Delaware, leaving his widow, Rebecca, with five children, to-wit, Jordan, Asa, Rynear, Nathan and Rebecca Hall. With these children she came via Braddock’s Trail and settled on or near Cheat river. After a short time she moved with her family to a place on west side of Monongahela river, a few mile above Morgantown, in Monongalia county. I have often seen the farm where they lived - pointed out by my father and others. Here she lived and reared the family, and I think she died there. ...
[p 15 - Letter from James Hall (son of Jordan Hall). Browns Mill, W.Va., Dec. 31, 1878]
... Grandmother Hall came with the family to Monongalia county, and died at her daughter, Rebecca Courtney's, December 15, 1812, after being blind for twelve or fifteen years. ...
[p 22 - Extract from letter of Thomas C. Hall]
OMAHA, NEB., Sept. 8, 1885
... Of Thomas Hall's widow, who came to the West with her children, we have some information. Her maiden name was Story an English name, and we have the information from our fore-parents, that she was an English lady. She was of a dark complexion, slender, and some of her descendants are said to favor her a great deal. When her family emigrated to the West, she was 52 years old, and made the entire trip on horseback, in company with Mrs. Margaret White, Asa Hall's wife's mother. She made her home with her daughter Rebecca, where she died, December 15, 1812, after being blind for 12 or 15 years. She must have lived a part of the time with her son Asa, for she was remembered very distinctly by my grandfather. She was a very proud woman. ...
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