Brief Life History of Eliza Elzira
When Eliza Elzira Hall was born on 4 April 1869, in Mechanicsburg, Sangamon, Illinois, United States, her father, Preston Hall, was 31 and her mother, Sarah Letcher Davis, was 28. She died on 22 June 1940, in Mechanicsburg, Sangamon, Illinois, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Pickerell Cemetery, Mechanicsburg, Sangamon, Illinois, United States.
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- Eliza Hall in household of Preston Hall, "United States Census, 1870"
- Eliza Elzira Hall, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
- Eliza Elzira Hall, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1886
Historical Boundaries: 1886: Sangamon, Illinois, United States
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
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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