Cora Tatum Hall

Brief Life History of Cora Tatum

When Cora Tatum Hall was born on 14 September 1906, in Alleghany, Virginia, United States, her father, Charles Richerson Hall, was 31 and her mother, Nealie Francis Hayslett, was 20. She had at least 1 son and 1 daughter with Elmer Lee Craft. She lived in United States in 1949 and Dale Parish, Chesterfield, Virginia, United States in 1950. She died on 19 February 1990, in Colonial Heights, Virginia, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Covington District, Alleghany, Virginia, United States.

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Family Time Line

Elmer Lee Craft
1905–1966
Cora Tatum Hall
1906–1990
Elmer Lee Craft
1928–1957
Vedah Frances Craft
1932–1985

Sources (14)

  • Cora T Craft, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Cora Tatum Hall - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Cora Tatum Hall
  • Mrs Cora Hall Craft in entry for Mr Elmer Lee Craft, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"

World Events (8)

1907 · Not for profit elections

The first act prohibiting monetary contributions to political campaigns by major corporations.

1917 · Camp Lee Training Facility

Camp Lee was the sight of where Europeans first came face to face with the Powhatan Confederation. Than during the Civil War  the Union forces used it as a surprise attack and blocked Lee’s army from the supply base. When World War II started Fort Lee became Camp Lee and was used as a training facility.

1929

13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.

Name Meaning

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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