Sallie Etta Hall

Brief Life History of Sallie Etta

When Sallie Etta Hall was born in 1891, her father, Virgil Miller Hall, was 39 and her mother, Sarah A Tigrett, was 27. She married Leonard Lowrey Smith in Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Ripley, Tippah, Mississippi, United States in 1920 and Tupelo, Lee, Mississippi, United States in 1930. She died in 1978, at the age of 87, and was buried in Tupelo, Lee, Mississippi, United States.

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Family Time Line

Leonard Lowrey Smith
1887–1934
Sallie Etta Hall
1891–1978
Marriage:
Allen Murry Smith Sr
1909–1985
Sarah Ann Smith Parker
Leonard Roger Smith
1911–1946
Matt Adelaide Smith
1914–1986
Sarah Ann Smith
1916–1996
Jack Robert Smith
1921–1979

Sources (13)

  • Sallie E Smith in household of James A Helums, "United States Census, 1910"
  • Sallie Etta Hall, "Mississippi, County Marriages, 1858-1979"
  • Mrs Sally Smith in entry for Leonard R Smith, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"

World Events (8)

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

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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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