by Wesley E. Hall
Publication date: March 4, 2002
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Nonfiction trade paperback. Size: 6X9.
Length: 418 pages.
ISBN: 0-595-21750-8.
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Synopsis:
Exciting last-minute news from the Tyree Hall Branch of Madison County, Arkansas: Until just a short time ago, our farthest-back ancestor was John Hall, who was born in South Carolina in 1769. Now, we know that his father was John Washington Hall, who was also born in South Carolina. His father was John Hall, who was born in Scotland. This John Hall had been a border (English/Scotland) clansman that had been forced to emigrate to Northern Ireland by the English. In the Scots-Irish emigation to S.C. there is a record of a Reverend William Martin who brought around four hundred parishioners to South Carolina in the mid 1700's. On the passenger lists of those five ships that made the crossing there was a John Hall, a brigantine Freemason. According to the record, John Hall had lived in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland; and his occupation was 'town serjeant' (sergeant), which meant that he was an attorney of the highest degree. He settled in the Craven District of S.C. (the English 'Carolinas'), and evidently practiced law here in the States.
Our branch of this family descends from
Hiram Hall (b. 1769 near Charlestown, South Carolina), who moved to Carroll County, GA, about 1820 and married a local girl there named Charity. They had eleven children, most of whom this book traces through several generations: 1. Mary Elizabeth Hall (ca.1821 or 1822) [Not fully substantiated as the first. Some information about her children]
2. Arminda (Armindy) Hall (1823-1915)[Settled in Alabama, substantial info)
3. Murry John Hall (1824-1898) [Settled in Texas, substantial info]
4. Nancy Hall (1829-) [Some info]
5. William Newton Hall (1831-1921) [Nine generations rather complete]
6. Emeline Hall (1836-) [Some info]
7. Tyre [Tyree] Hall (1838-) [Substantial early info]
8. Green B. Hall (1842-1930) [Substantial early info]
9. Elander (Ailey) Hall (1843-) [Some info]
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Published 2011
Digging up information about the Halls of Carroll County, Georgia, was a ten-year treasure hunt. Actually, the hunt is still going on. I love to go 'graveyard hunting' on Sunday afternoons (Many old abandoned graveyards are near churches, but some are way out in cow pastures). Most of my 'Old Folks' were buried in the old Ledbetter Cemetery near Drake's Creek, in Madison County, Arkansas. Once a very clannish bunch, the Halls this book is about have scattered all over the country and married into a number of ethnic groups: Native American, Hispanic, Italian, Armenian, to name a few. It is important to remember that the paternal side, in this case Hall, is only half to blame (or exonerate). We don't know what the maternal surnames are of Mary (John's wife) or Charity (Hiram's wife), but we descended from them just as much as we did John and Hiram. |
