by Wesley E. Hall
Publication date: March 4, 2002
Retail price at : $25.95
Nonfiction trade paperback. Size: 6X9.
Length: 438 pages.
The new ISBN is 978-1-257-03591-5.
On-demand publishing (LULU.com).
Available soon at all chain bookstores, especially Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.
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 Hiram Hall, who was born in South Carolina in 1769. Now, we know that his full name was George Hiram Hall, that his father was John Washington Hall, who was also born in South Carolina, and his father was John Hall, who was born in Perthshire, Scotland (in or near the city of Perth). 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 this Georgh Hiram Hall 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
This new edition is a considerable imporovement over the first: For one thing it deals with the mystery of William Newton Hall in a much more informed way (He is still very much a question mark, but now we know that he was not an officer in the Georgia Cavalry (Or, at least, we're pretty sure.) Also, there are many additions to the nine (and soon to be eleven) generations. |
