Ara Corina Hall

Brief Life History of Ara Corina

When Ara Corina Hall was born on 27 December 1890, in Lewiston Woodville, Bertie, North Carolina, United States, her father, John L. Hall, was 24 and her mother, Dice or Dece A Tillery, was 17. She married Samuel David Jernigan on 27 January 1907, in Bertie, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. She lived in Halifax, North Carolina, United States in 1935 and Scotland Neck, Halifax, North Carolina, United States in 1940. She died on 30 August 1961, in Norfolk, Norfolk County, Virginia, United States, at the age of 70.

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Family Time Line

Samuel David Jernigan
1883–1919
Ara Corina Hall
1890–1961
Marriage: 27 January 1907
Myrtle Deane Jernigan
1908–2000
Ruby Lee Jernigan
1910–2009
Mary Mildred Jernigan
1912–2010
Annie Gertrude Jernigan
1913–2002
Samuel Leroy Jernigan
1915–1985
Corina Mabel Jernigan
1917–1990

Sources (38)

  • Era Jernigan in household of Samuel D Jernigan, "United States Census, 1910"
  • Ara Corina Jernigan, "Virginia, Library of Virginia State Archive, Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1853-1900"
  • Ara C. Hall, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "

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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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Second Marriage was not good

According to my Great Aunt Grace, after my Great Grandfather (Daniel Jernigan) passed, Great Grandma Ara remarried this Cook fella. Because Ara had so many children, when Grace was 6 months old he wa …

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