Brief Life History of William Richard
When William Richard Hall was born on 10 June 1813, in Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee, United States, his father, Benjamin Franklin Hall, was 27 and his mother, Lucy Christian Hansard, was 16. He married Mary Ann Dowell on 16 December 1833, in Knox, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Knox, Tennessee, United States for about 10 years. He died on 26 August 1863, at the age of 50, and was buried in Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee, United States.
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- William Hall, "United States Census, 1860"
- William Hall, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- William Hall in entry for James W. Hall, "Tennessee Death Records, 1914-1963"
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1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
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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