52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week 3 # 10 Arthur R Hall ( 1863 - 1891 ) of Moffat, Colorado

Arthur Hall is my (1861 - 1891) is #10 on my ahnentafel, my great grandfather who married 

#11 Mabel Jane Coleman (1872 - 1946) on 28th of August 1891 in Colorado.  

I am descended through their daughter # 5 Alta Louisa Hall (1892 - 1944) who married # 4 

Perry Glenn Zion (1886 - 1958) in Taylor Loup Nebraska. 

Arthur R. Hall was born to George Wilbur Hall and Louisa Marie Reynolds in Evansville, 

Wis., September 19, 1863, where he spent his boyhood days until he graduated from the 

Evansville Seminary in 1884. 

Arthur was the second born of six children who were Charles Norton, Florence Mandania, 

Mark Alonzo, George Ephriam and Agnes Marie.

He was married to Miss Mabel J. Coleman, at Denver, Colorado, August 28, 1891, at which 

time he moved to Chicago, where he lived seven years. During this time in Chicago it is 

believed he was a carpenter and worked on the Chicago World's Fair in 1893.  In 1898, he 

moved to Nebraska, and in the spring 1919, settled near Crawford. there were three

daughters born, Mrs. Alta Zion, of Craig, Colo., Mrs. Belle Sturm and Miss Pearl Hall

, of Crawford.

Mr. Hall died at the home of his eldest daughter Alta in Craig, Colo., July 8, 1919, where he 

and Mrs. Hall and their daughter Pearl, were visiting.

The remains were brought back to the home in Crawford, where funeral services were 

conducted on Saturday afternoon, July 12, by Rev. Mearl C. Smith, and the body was laid 

to rest in the Crawford cemetery.

 In 2014, Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post  52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog. I have worked on this weekly theme very little I be attempting to post this theme on a weekly basis with a goal of hopefully getting to know my ancestors better.

This is post #3 of this series to read other posts click on 52 Ancestors

Surname Saturday Hall Family Arthur R Hall

It's Surname Saturday, and I am counting down  my Ancestral Name List each week.

 I am working on my great grandfathers and up to #10 who is Arthur Hall

GENERATION 4

1. Grace Zion
2. Dad Zion
3. Mom ( Day)
4. Grandpa Perry Zion
5. Grandma Alta Hall born June 26, 1892 Evansville Wisconsin to Arthur R and Mabel (Coleman) Hall. Alta married Perry June 11, 1913 in Taylor, Nebraska. They had 5 children, John, George, Alice , Arthur ( my dad) and Joe . Grandma Alta died February 21, 1944 in Winlock Wisconsin.

10. Arthur Reynolds Hall was born September 19,1863 in Evansville, Wisconsin to George W and Louisa Maria Reynolds.
Arthur married Married Mabel Jane Coleman August 28, 1891.
They had 3 children Alta my grandma, Mae Bell, and Pearl Myrtle.

20. George Wilbur Hall born June 13, 1832 in Hardwick, Vermont to John Hall Jr. and Sally Grimes.

George married Louisa Maria Reynolds November 29, 1860.
They had 6 children, Arthur, Charles Norton, Florence , Mark Alonzo, George Ephriam and Agnes Maria.
George died July 27, 1892.

40. John Hall Jr. was born February 4, 1802 to John and Elizabeth (?) Hall.
He married Sally Grimes May 10, 1825.
They had 7 children Hepizbah Maria, Caroline Augusta, George Wilbur, John Alonzo, Harriet Sophia, Mary Elizabeth and Sally Rebecca.
John died October 22, 1838.

80. John Hall born July 25, 1767 in New Hampshire. Married Elizabeth ?

As of this time this is all I know about the HALL family.

Sadness Fills My Heart 1910 Census 2nd Great Uncle Found Wisconsin Insane Asylum

Sadness Fills My Heart As I Search Records For My Ancestor George Ephriam Hall my 2nd great uncle brother of my great grandfather Arthur R Hall.

Recently I was working on the Hall family line filling in information and when I came to George.  I saw that he never married and died when he was 44 years old.

George was born in Union, Rock, Wisconsin to George Wilbur Hall 1832 - 1892 and Louisa Maria Reynolds Hall 1832 - 1899.

George was one of six children, Charles, Arthur, Florence, Mark and Agnes.

On July 27th 1892 his father passes away and almost 7 years later on the 11th of March 1899 his mother passes away.

In the 1900 census George is 31 years old, single and renting a farm.  Living with him is his sister Florence 35 years , sister Agnes 28 years and an uncle Theodore Phillips.age 80 years.

In 1905 he is still living with his two sisters but uncle Theodore is no longer living.

By 1910 George's health is failing and he is in the Rock County Insane Asylum listed as an inmate.

George passes away the 07th of Aug 1913 of tuberculous.  He is buried in the Maple Hill cemetery where other members of the family are buried.

Thanks for stopping by, happy hunting . You can read other posts on the Hall family here

Amanuensis Monday Post 11 Obituary Arthur R Hall 1884 -1919

Genea-blogger John Newmark (who writes the Transylvanian Dutch blog) started a Monday blog theme years ago called "Amanuensis Monday."  John offers this definition for "amanuensis:"

"A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another."

Today's posting is the obituary of Arthur R Hall my great grandfather.

Arthur R. Hall was born in Evansville, Wis., September 19, 1863, where he spent his boyhood days until he graduated from the Evansville Seminary in 1884. He was married to Miss Mabel J. Coleman, at Denver, Colorado, August 28, 1891, at which time he moved to Chicago, where he lived seven years. In 1898, he moved to Nebraska, and in the spring 1919, settled near Crawford. there were three daughters born, Mrs. Alta Zion, of Craig, Colo., Mrs. Belle Sturm and Miss Pearl Hall, of Crawford.

Mr. Hall died at the home of his eldest daughter in Craig, Colo., July 8, 1919, where he and Mrs. Hall and their daughter Pearl, were visiting.

The remains were brought back to the home in Crawford, where funeral services were conducted on Saturday afternoon, July 12, by Rev. Mearl C. Smith, and the body was laid to rest in the Crawford cemetery.

Thanks for stopping by, you can read other posts on my hall family here

Searching the Lives of my ancestors from birth to death Grace M Hall Brunsell 1893 - 1983 1st Cousin 2 times Removed

Tonight my quest was to find out information for one of my ancestors through the line of my great grandfather Arthur R Hall

Tonight's choice was his niece Grace, all I had when I started was her parents names and that she was born about 1894.  She is the daughter of grandpa Arthur's brother Mark Hall and Mary Cassady Hall.

So off the ancestry I went. There was a leaf that told he I had a hint.

What I found was the record of her birth and christening which gave me her birth date of  05 Nov 1893.

This is the record found


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Next leaf was to find a distant relative 's tree that gave me her married name of Brunsell.

Grace married Carl Oscar Brunsell the 24th of  February 1916 Stoughton Dane Wisconsin

They had 5 children during their marriage.

This information gave me the census reports and find a grave site

I ended the night at Maple Hill Cemetery with the only picture showing is the cemetery entrance post.
No pictures of the head stones have been taken as of yet.

Grace died 24 of February 1838 and Carl passed away 19th of July 1930

I wish that the picture of the grave was posted.
Buried in this same cemetery is Grace's father Mark Alonzo
I will be spending some time searching more information on Grace and her husband.  Plus finding out who else is buried in this cemetery.

Grace is my first cousin 2 times removed

Thanks for stopping by..Happy hunting for your roots.

Wordless Wednesday #22 New Found Photos of Great Grandparents Arthur Hall and Mabel Coleman Hall

Wordless Wednesday is her but I can not ever be totally wordless

Cousin shared two photos of my great grandparents Arthur Hall and Mabel Jane Coleman Hall.
So nice to see photos of them in their early married years.

I think that they are so adorable.

Mabel and Arthur Hall

 Grandma Alta and her little sister Mae

Arthur, Belle, Mabel, Alta and Mae

To read more about the Hall family click here or the Coleman family click here

Treasure Chest Thursday Photo Of Great Grandparents Arthur and Mabel ( Coleman ) Hall

Just this week a cousin of mine shared this wonderful old photo of my great grandparents Arthur and Mabel (Coleman) Hall and their three beautiful daughters my grandma Alta and her sisters Mae Belle and Pearl.  Want to read more about the Hall family clink on the Hall Link.

I know my cousin Judy granddaughter of  Mae Pearl treasures this old picture and I am so happy to now have a copy for my records.
Family Line
me ( Grace)
Arthur Zion 1921 - 2008 married Muriel Day
Alta Louise Hall Zion 1892 - 1944 married Perry Day
Arthur Reynolds Hall 1863 -1919  married Mabel Coleman
George Hall 1832 - 1892  married Louisa Mae Reynolds
John Jr. Hall 1802 - 1838 married Sally Grimes
John Hall 1767 - 1842 Elizabeth Stamford

AMANUENSIS MONDAY 08 Sudden and Sorrowful GEORGE HALL of Janesville Wisconsin Dies of Sun Stroke

Genea-blogger John Newmark (who writes the TransylvanianDutch blog) started his own Monday blog theme many months ago called Amanuensis Monday.What does "amanuensis" mean?John offers this definition:"A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another."

Amanuensis Monday Sudden and Sorrowful George Hall of Wisconsin Dies of Sun Stroke.

I found two newspaper obits on ancestery recently. I already knew some of this information about my great great grandfather George Hall but gained more information from these newspaper articles.

August 2nd from the Eveansville Weekly review
Died of Sun Stroke George Hall
The funeral of Mr. George Hall who died of sun stroke Wednesday July 29, 1892 was held at his late residence, near Evansville, Saturday at half past ten o'clock am services by Rev J E Coleman of the Evansville Seminary. Mr Hall was in town Wednesday, apparently in his usual health, and saying as he left that he must hurry home for he had two loads of hay to get in that afternoon. Having completed his work and helping the boys drive out some cattle that had broken into the lot, he sat down a few moments in the barn to rest before going into the house, and on rising walked a short distance, and after speaking a few words to the boys in relation to the cattle, fell unconsciously to the ground He was carried into the house and Dr. Spencer sent for. The doctor found his patient , as he hope, not in a comatose condition, not feeling satisfied in his own mind had Dr. T F Stair called, but it was soon found that the vital spark had forever gone.

Mr Hall was an early citizen coming here some years ago and going into the grocery business with Mr. Stephen Fairbanks whose wife was Mr. Halls sister. Mr Hall leaves beside his wife, three sons, Arthur, Mark and George, and two daughters, Florence and Agnes. His age was 60 years. Mr. hall was an excellant citizen and a forehanded farmer.

Sudden and Sorrowful from the Enterprise Evansville Wisconsin 5th of August 1892

Considerable excitement prevailed in our little city Friday morning over the sudden death the previous evening of Mr Geo Hall, residing on a farm about two miles west.  He was assisting in haying in his field when some stock broke into his enclosure and he helped to get them out, which over heated him, but he returned to the the barn in which he fell dead about 4 o clock P M.  Dr Spencer was with him all night, as well as neighbors and friends, using every effort possible for the unfortunate man's recovery, but all was of no avail. Dr. Stair was sent for Fri. morning, but he says that Mr. Hall was dead before he got there and he thinks he fell dead at first. The deceased was born in Hardwick, Vermont ( newspaper reported New Hampshire in error) on June 13, 1832, was the third of a family of seven children. When but six years old his father died, and two years later he went to live with an aunt, his mother's sister, where he remained until 1846 at that time he went to reside with his uncle Isaac Hall. In January 1856, he emigrated to Madison, Wisconsin, where he resided until the fall of 1860 when he came to this place and entered into the grocery business.  In 1864 he disposed of the grocery stock and rented a farm which he operated for a year and then purchased eighty acres of land on Sec 19, Union Twp with a small log cabin upon it, but soon replaced it with a small frame building and that in 1885 was replaced by his present commodious residence.  On the 29th day of November 1860, he was married to Miss Louisa Reynolds, who is now his widow.  This union was blessed with six children five of who are now living.Arthur, Florence, Mark, George and Agnes.

Mr and Mrs Hall have always ranked amongst our best and most honored citizens as well as their family. He was one of the self made men of this community, reared without the guiding council of a father, he started out in life with a cash capital of $100 and from such a beginning has become one of our most well to do farmers,and his sudden death caused many sad feelings to many hearts.  A large number of relatives and friends gathered at the house on Saturday, July 30th, 1892, to listen to the last sad rites perforned over the remains by Rev. J E Coleman, and the interment was made in the Evansville cemetery.

So much can be found in a persons orbituary and can be a great find. Newspapers can make mistakes as the state my grandfather was born, but in all is a wonderful source of family history.

Thanks for stopping by, if you find someone you think you are related to, I would love to hear from you. Grace

On Or About This Day In My Family History

On or about this day John Hall Jr was born and Francis Burrell died

Francis Burrell is my 5th great grandfather and I know very little of him. I have not yet worked on that line. He was born the 9th of October in 1760 in Maryland and married Sarah Ward. I only know of one child Rebecca. Francis passed away on the 04 February 1852.

John Hall Jr was born February 04 in 1802 and passed away the 22nd of October in 1838. He married Sally Grimes. They had seven children with son George being my ancestor.
John is my 3rd great grandfather.

Treasure Chest Thursday My Grandmother Alta Zion's Letters

I never knew my Grandmother Alta Louise Zion, my father's mother. She was born to Arthur Hall and Mabel Jane (Coleman) Hall on June 26, 1892 in Evansville, Wisconsin.

She married Perry Zion on February 21, 1944 and had five children John, George, Arthur ( my dad) and his twin sister Alice and Joe. She died from cancer 1944 and I was not born till September 1948.
I have very little of what she owned. I have a few pieces of china, an autograph book that is priceless to me ( my grandfather wrote in it ), a souvenir that her mother received from her father from the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and I have a few letters she wrote to my father and mother.
Tonight for Treasure Chest Thursday I am scanning and sharing one of them.
Winlock Washington Nov 22, 1943
Dear Art and Muriel
Thanks alot for you pictures, I know you would be happy by the pictures. I love my daughter in law and God Bless you both.
Mrs. Day ( my mom's mother) I thank you for writing me a card telling me the word, I had been worried about him, although I never should of have worried , I trust the Lord. I looked them up Fort William and Sue Canal. We have found them. It was something to see them.
Leona Francy had the appendix operation on Sat. She came thru. Cecil was going to see her Sun.
My cousin Grace Brunsell is living at Evansville Wisc ???? but I don't know the number.
Dad had lived at Bemidji the county seat. He was at Wilton the p office at Minnesota.
Grandma is staying with me as Etta is going to Tacoma. She just phone to Winlock that she was at the Depot.
She stayed about 2 weeks.
The weather is warm and foggy till noon. It is about usual weather. The sun shone at two or three. And be foggy about dark.
Joe had his birthday he was 21. Lola Allen had a birthday the same day only she was a year younger. She was 20.
Alice and John gave the supper. Joe said his thank you for your pretty birthday card.
I've got a bad cold and I can think of any thing to write.
Lot of love Mom

They are just short and newsy but I love to see her hand writing. They are real treasures to me.

Thanks for stopping by. Grace

Tombstone Tuesday George W Hall & Louisa Marie Reynolds

For Tombstone Tuesday I am remembering George W Hall and Louisa Reynolds Hall. George is my great great grandfather. He was born to John Hall Jr and Sally Grimes. He married Louisa Marie Reynolds.

George was born 13 June 1832 in Vermont and died 27 July 1892 in Wisconsin.

He and Louisa had six children. Charles, Arthur ( my great grandfather), Florence, Mark, George and Agnes.

The 1870 and 1880 census has him living in Wisconsin with an occupation of a farmer.

Agnes was born 1832 in New York to John Gilbert Reynolds and Mandania Grover. She passed away in 1899. This is a nice large stone that not only names George but also his wife and mother Sally.

http://myfamilyrootsrundeep.blogspot.com/2010/08/tombstone-tuesday-sally-grimes-hall-of.html

Thanks for stopping by.. hope to have you visit again soon. Grace

Tombstone Tuesday Sally Grimes Hall of Wisconsin

This Tombstone Tuesday I am featuring Sally Grimes Hall my great great great grandmother. Sally was the daughter of Nathan and Hephizibah ( Lovejoy) Grimes. She was born 18 November1800. She was born in New Hampshire.

She married John Hall Jr 10 May 1825 and passed away 17 January 1873 age 72 years old at Evansville, Wisconsin. She is buried in the Mapel Hill Cemetery. She shares a gravestone with son= George W and daughter in law Louisa.

John and Sally had seven children. They were the following.

Hephizibah Marie 10 May 1826 who married Stephen Fairbanks, Hephizibah passed away 18 July 1858 age 32 years

Caroline Augusta born 9 May 1830 who married a Mr. Jones, Caroline passed away 10 August 1865 age 35 years

George Wilbur Hall born 13 June 1832 and married Louisa Maria Reynolds 29 November 1860 ( this is my ancestor) George passed away 27 July 1892 age 60 years

John Alonzo born 17 February 1834 and died 28 Nov 1871 age 37 years

Harriet Sophia born 20 October 1835 who died 21 September 1849 age 23 years

Mary Eliza 30 March 1837 and died 7 March 1910 age almost 73 years old

Sally Rebecca born 18 October 1838, 4 days before her father passed away. She married a Mr. Foye and passed away 16 Nov 1878.

Sally out lived her husband and four of her seven children. The 1860 census has Sally living in Madison Ward 2, Dane, Wisconsin. Living with her is daughters Mary E Hall age 23 , Sally R Hall age 21 and Judora M Fairbanks. I would guess that Judora is the grandson of Sally. Her daugher Hephizibah Fairbanks died in 1858. Judora was 9 years old at this time.

The 1870 census has her living with George W and his family. Listed is I M Fairbank age 19, this is probably Judora listed in the 1860 census.

There is more to learn about this ancestor and her family in the future.

Antique Family Bibles Are Such Great Treasures

Here is another of my family treasures. At one time I had the pleasant task to be the keeper of our family bibles. Within the last year I have passed on one to each of my sons and my sister nows has two others at her home. But I have for now kept two of my favorites. Some day they will be passed on to my boys.

The smallest bible belonged to Louisa Marie Reynolds who married George Hall.
They had a son Arthur Reynolds Hall who married Mabel Coleman He passed it down to their daughter Alta Louise Hall.
Alta married my grandfather Perry Zion.
My father Arthur passed this down to me.
So this bible belonged to great great grandmother. She owned this when she was married to George Hall since she has signed it Louisa M Hall Evansville Wisconsin.

She has recorded her parents name and 7 sister's name with their birth dates. Her parents were John G Reynolds born 1800 and Mandania G Grover born 1815. She had amazingly beautiful handwriting.
The second bible belonged to my grandmother Alta Hall Zion. Inside there is this small note with my father's name and his address when he was in the merchant marines in 1943. She must of given it to him at that time.

The smallest bible is dated 1844
My grandmother's bible is not dated itself. She has written her name and my grandfather's name and the date 1911. She married grandpa Perry in 1913.

I love family bibles. Only one had family information written in it. What a treasure to have that written family history.

Thanks for stopping by... Hope you stop by again .. Grace

Who Were My Great Grandparents Part 7

I am now at Great Grandparent number 7... This is my great grandfather Arthur Reynolds Hall.

He was born September 19, 1863 to George and Louisa ( Reynolds) Hall in Evansville, Wisconsin.

He was the oldest child of four children. His siblings were Florence, Marcus and George.

Arthur attended the School at Union Township at the Stone School House built in the 1870's. He graduated from from the Evansville Seminary in 1844. After his adventures in Denver, Colorado he married Mabel Coleman on August 28, 1891.

They had three children the oldest my grandmother Alta. They moved to Chicago, Illinois and lived there for seven years. This was during the time of the Chicago World's Fair. He had a small heart shaped souvenir that he gave to Mabel. This has been passed down to me and is one of my most prized treasures..

He was a carpenter most of his life and may of worked on building the fair.

In 1898 he moved to Nebraska and lived in Geneva and Taylor and in 1919 moved to Crawford.

Shortly after he died of hardening of the arteries around the heart while visiting his daughter Alta in Colorado.

He was brought back to Crawford, Nebraska and buried there.

Putting depth to the history of my Ancestor

I love searching around the Internet for anything relating to genealogy that I can add to my own research.
I am blogging and searching my great grandfather Arthur Reynolds Hall this week. He was my father's grandfather. He was born September 19, 1863 in Evansville Rock County, Wisconsin to George Wilbur and Louisa Marie( Reynolds) Hall
What was happening around this happy event in my ancestors family.
In my searching I found this site http://blogs.ancestry.com/circle/?p=870&o_iid=23560&o_lid=23560. From there I found the year in question.
this is copied from their site so not only can you read what happened but you also can have the link to more information.

The Year Was 1863
The year was 1863 and the U.S. was embroiled in the Civil War. Notable battles that year included those at Chancellorsville, Vicksburg, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, and Chattanooga. One of the most well-known battles of the Civil War, 1-3 July 1863, the Union Army, led by General George G. Meade met General Robert E. Lee and the Army of Virginia at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to engage in one of the largest battles to ever take place on American soil involving more than 160,000 men.

The battle would result in more than 23,000 Union casualties and between 20,000 and 25,000 Confederate. Later that year, President Abraham Lincoln was invited to speak at the consecration of a cemetery where he would deliver his famous Gettysburg Address, on 19 November 1863.

Earlier that year, on 1 January, Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that all slaves held in Confederate states were to be free, and further declared that they “be received into the armed service of the United States.” Following this proclamation, the 54th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer infantry became the first northern all-Black Union regiment.

Not all of the Civil War soldiers of 1863 were volunteers. In March of that year, the National Conscription Act began a draft registration for men between twenty and thirty-five. The conscription process allowed for wealthy men to hire substitutes or buy exemption for $300. The process angered those who couldn't afford to get out of service, and following the news of devastating casualties from Gettysburg, when a list of draftees was listed in New York papers, rioting ensued. Mobs attacked the armory and then took to the streets, targeting blacks and abolitionists in a horrific manner. Federal troops, many of them fresh from the fields of Gettysburg, had to be called in to quell the riots.

In partitioned Poland, Lithuania, and Belarus, another protest of a draft, in this case into the Russian Tsarist army, resulted in an insurrection known as the January Uprising. After the uprising failed, the Russian government executed hundreds, and more than 18,000 people were exiled to Siberia.

Another proclamation by President Lincoln would be of a more peaceful nature. On 3 October, he issued a proclamation calling for a national day of Thanksgiving to be held on the last Thursday of November. (The full-text of the proclamation appeared in the 13 October 1863 issue of the “Adams Sentinel,” which can be found on the blog entry for this article and in the Ancestry Historical Newspaper Collection. (Click on the newspaper image in the upper right corner to enlarge it.)
In other U.S. news in 1863, Arizona and Idaho were organized as U.S. territories, and West Virginia was admitted as the 35th state.

The International Committee of the Red Cross was founded in 1863, inspired by a book written by Henry Dunant, a Swiss man who had visited an Italian battlefield and asked “Would it not be possible, in time of peace and quiet, to form relief societies for the purpose of having care given to the wounded in wartime by zealous, devoted and thoroughly qualified volunteers?”
In London, crowds gathered in January hoping for a ride on the first underground train, a project aimed at cutting down on the congestion on London streets.

There is a printer friendly copy of this which I copied and put in my genealogy binder with his other information. As I am showing my grand children and others this book, not only are they looking at recording of births, deaths, children , the census reports and pictures of my great grandfather Arthur and family, there is history around this period of time for them to read.

An interesting foot note to me is less than one hundred miles away in Fon du lac, Wisconsin my great great grandfather John Lockwood was courting and soon would marry Betsey Jane Eddington on September 25th, 1963. John would enlist in the 2nd Calvary Wisconsin on August 29th, 1964 to join the war. John is an ancestor on my mother's side. http://www.mapquest.com/maps?1c=Evansville&1s=WI&1y=US&1l=42.7803&1g=-89.299202&1v=CITY&2c=Fond+Du+Lac&2s=WI&2y=US&2l=43.773102&2g=-88.446899&2v=CITY. Of course there were no freeways or cars then. Wagons were the method of travel. Cars did not come till later.

Plan of Action Investigate a Sibling or Cousin

My plan of action was to learn more about my Great grandfather Arthur R Hall. I have spent several hours on http://www.ancestory.com/ and have gathered the census for Arthur and his wife, and his daughters including my Grandma Alta.
I found a small genealogy book my aunt Alice wrote about the Hall family and learned some things about Arthur and on his father George. We will go into George at a later post.
Arthur was born in Evansville Wisconsin in 1805. His father was George and his mother was Louisa ( Reynolds ) Hall. As a child he attended school at Union Township Section 20 at the stone school house built in 187? He then attended and graduated from the Evansville Seminary in 1884. I have not found as of yet that he practiced in the ministry.
He helped build the third home, a 2 story house on his parents farm and at least 2 other that were similar about town.
He went on a adventure to Denver Colorado where he married Mable Jane Coleman August 28, 1891. I know nothing about their romance at this time. When did they meet and where. Did he visit Denver earlier and return to marry her or was living in Denver for a period of time part of the adventure.
After marrying the couple moved to Chicago, Illinois and lived there for seven years. ( Other records have it as 4 years so I am not sure.)
This would of been during the Chicago World's fair in 1893. I have in my possession a souvenir from that fair. This souvenir was passed down to me from my grandma Alta who was their daughter. I wonder if he help build this magnificent fair.
This was an exciting time in Chicago. I read the fiction / non fiction book " Devil in a White City " by Erik Larson http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/devilinthewhitecity/home.html. It was a great read about this time.
Arthur was a carpenter and fathered 3 daughters. They were living in Chicago when my grandma was conceived , she was born in Evansville Wisconsin. They must of gone there to visit family just before her birth. They returned to Chicago where the second daughter Mae Bell was born in 1895. In 1898 they moved to Nebraska and lived in Geneva where in 1901 the third daughter Pearl was born. They also lived in Taylor Nebraska for awhile. In 1919 they moved to Crawford Nebraska. While visiting his daughter Alta ( Hall ) Zion in Craig Colorado he passed away of hardening of the arteries around his heart.July 8 1919. He was returned to Crawford and buried. I am on a search for his grave. Notes on his wife my great grandma Mabel say that she died in Arkansas and she also was buried in Nebraska so they are probably together.
I need to get the census reports for Mabel (Coleman) Hall his wife, this hopefully will tell me where she was living shortly before they married. Was she in Chicago with her family during that period. But that is for another day in my search for my great grandfather Arthur Hall and my great grandma Mabel Coleman Hall.

Plan of Action Investigate a Sibling or Cousin

My plan of action for this next week is to find information on a sibling or cousin of one of my ancestors. We often can get tunnel vision in our search to find our ancestors, and we overlook extended family members.

So this week I will search for information on my great grandfather Arthur Hall who married Mabel Jane Coleman. I know so little about him. I hope to find more information by not only searching him but looking for information on his brothers and sisters.

This picture is of Arthur Hall and his wife Mabel Coleman Hall with their children Mae Belle, Alta Louise and Pearl Myrtle. Alta is my grandmother.

Lets see if I can find anything new on this family.