When Mary M Hall was born on 30 January 1855, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, her father, Joseph Hall, was 36 and her mother, Rachel Goodwin, was 27. She married Alborn Currey Powers on 2 December 1871, in Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 7 daughters. She lived in Marion Township, Newton, Missouri, United States in 1880 and Sarcoxie, Jasper, Missouri, United States for about 20 years. She died on 15 October 1929, in Carthage, Jasper, Missouri, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Sarcoxie Cemetery, Sarcoxie Township, Jasper, Missouri, United States.
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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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