Brief Life History of Sarah "Sally"
When Sarah "Sally" Hall was born in 1769, in Frederick, Virginia, British Colonial America, her father, William Hall Jr., was 27 and her mother, Elizabeth Lucas, was 34. She married Sergeant Abner George Powell on 24 September 1803, in Shenandoah, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 31 August 1838, in Graysville, Washington Township, Monroe, Ohio, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Graysville, Washington Township, Monroe, Ohio, United States.
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- Sarah Hall, "Virginia, Marriages, 1785-1940"
- Sally, "Find A Grave Index"
- Sarah Hall in entry for Abner Powell, "Virginia, Vital Records, 1715-1901"
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1775
"Patrick Henry made his ""Give me Liberty or Give me Death"" speech in Richmond Virginia."
1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1788 · The First Presidential Election
The First Presidential election was held in the newly created United States of America. Under the Articles of Confederation, the executive branch of the country was not set up for an individual to help lead the nation. So, under the United States Constitution they position was put in. Because of his prominent roles during the Revolutionary War, George Washington was voted in unanimously as the First President of the United States.
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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