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abt 1863, Kentucky |
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Sarah Jane Hall, 2C3R |
| Birth |
21 Feb 1864, Menifee Co., Kentucky |
| Death |
16 Jan 1941 |
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Cordelia Hall, 2C3R |
| Birth |
Jul 1865 (?), Menifee Co., Kentucky |
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Jacob Hall, 2C3R |
| Birth |
abt 1875, Menifee Co., Kentucky |
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Clay Hall, 2C3R |
| Birth |
abt 1878, Menifee Co., Kentucky |
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| Notes for John Hall |
The birthdate of March 1843 is from the 1900 census. It might be off by one year, since he was listed as age 8 in 1850 and age 18 in 1860.
Information that John Hall who married Amanda Donohue is the same person as John the son of Jacob Hall and Nancy Brown is from email correspondence with Jackie Pottle, a great-granddaughter of Francis M. "Frank" Hall and Mollie Cox. I had already conjectured that he might be, since Jacob and Nancy had a son named Francis M. Hall, and John might have named a son after his brother. Also this John had a son named Jacob. But since John Hall is such a common name, I did not link him in that way until I got confirmation from a descendant. |
| Census |
1870 census of Menifee Co., Ky, Beaver precinct (2), lists as family #46:
Hall, John, 26; Amanda, 24; Sarah, 6; Cordelia, 4; William, 2.
1880 census of Menifee Co., Ky, Beaver precinct (2), p. 28, lists as family #164:
Hall, John, 39; Manda, 36; Sarah J., 15; Cordelia, 14; William, 12; Frank, 11; Jake, 5; Clay, 2; May, 2; Lee, 1. All born in Ky.
If the ages are correct, then Clay and May must be twins. The next three households are those of Amanda's brother Thomas, her brother Jess, and her first cousin William Wells Donahue (all listed with the unusual spelling Donyhue.)
1900 census of Rowan Co., KY, Pearce precinct, p. 208A, lists as family #57:
Hall, John, 57, b. March 1843, Ky Ky Ky, married 13 years; Rebecca, 55, b. April 1845, WV Va Va; married 13 years, 1 child, 1 living.
The next household is that of Frank Hall age 26 with wife Mollie. Note that there are no children living with the family, so Rebecca's one living child is likely to be an adult. There is no "2" indicating a second marriage in the marriage column for either spouse, but it was almost surely a second marriage for both of them.
In 1910 Rebecca is listed as Beccie age 60 with the family of Frank and Mollie Hall. Her relationship is written as mother-in-law, but then there is an X through the "in". This suggests that Rebecca is either Frank's mother or step-mother, and thus that Frank's father is John.
This hypothesis was confirmed in June 2002 by a post on the Rowan County Message Board at Rootsweb in response to the obituary posting for Orbie Newton Hall, a son of Frank M. Hall. The poster, Jackie Pottle, is a granddaughter of Orbie Newton Hall, and thus a great-granddaughter of Frank M. Hall. She posted that Frank's parents were John Hall and Amanda Donahue, and that John's second wife Rebecca was the mother, from her first marriage, of Frank's wife Mollie. So Rebecca was both Frank's stepmother and his mother-in-law! |
| Notes for John & Amanda S. (Family) |
Information that the first wife of John Hall was named Amanda Donahue is from a post by Jackie Potter dated 25 June 2002 on the Rowan County Message Board at Rootsweb.
There is no marriage record for John and Amanda in Morgan County. They were probably married in either Rowan Co., where Amanda was living with her parents in 1860, or in Menifee Co., where they were living as a family in 1870. (Marriage records for Rowan County do not exist between 1862 and 1879; I don't know about the availability for Menifee Co.) |
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