When Theodore Hall was born on 24 October 1836, in Rising Sun, Randolph Township, Ohio, Indiana, United States, his father, Levi North Hall, was 32 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Miller, was 28. He married Manerva Harker on 12 October 1857, in Spencer, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Luce Township, Spencer, Indiana, United States for about 10 years and Grass Township, Spencer, Indiana, United States for about 20 years. He died on 10 January 1912, in Rockport, Spencer, Indiana, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Mount Zion Cemetery, Santa Claus, Clay Township, Spencer, Indiana, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
The town of Santa Fe was denied their application for a United States Postal Service as a town of Santa Fe, Indiana, was already established. Several meetings were held and the name was changed to Santa Claus, Indiana. The United States Postal Service granted their application. Due to the name, the post office in Santa Claus continues to receive thousands of letters to Santa Claus from children around the world each December.
English, Scottish, Irish, German, Norwegian, and Danish: from Middle English hall (Old English heall), Middle High German halle, Old Norse hǫll all meaning ‘hall’ (a spacious residence), hence a topographic name for someone who lived in or near a hall or an occupational name for a servant employed at a hall. In some cases it may be a habitational name from any of the places called with this word, which in some parts of Germany and Austria in the Middle Ages also denoted a salt mine. Hall is one of the commonest and most widely distributed of English surnames, bearing witness to the importance of the hall as a feature of the medieval village. The English surname has been established in Ireland since the 14th century, and, according to MacLysaght, has become numerous in Ulster since the 17th century.
Swedish: ornamental or topographic name from hall ‘hall’ (a spacious residence), or a habitational name from a placename containing the element hall ‘rock’ (from Old Norse hallr).
Chinese: variant Romanization of the surnames 何 and 賀, see He 1 and 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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