Brief Life History of Porter Braswell
When Dr. Porter Braswell Hall was born on 8 March 1859, in Texas, United States, his father, Peter S. Hall, was 39 and his mother, Susannah Heaton, was 33. He married Moletnie Mame Lettie Sessions on 16 October 1879. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Duncan, Chickasaw Nation Reservation, Indian Territory, United States in 1900 and Township 2, Chickasaw Nation Reservation, Murray, Oklahoma, United States in 1900. He died on 14 July 1935, in Marlow, Stephens, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Marlow, Stephens, Oklahoma, United States.
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- P. B. Hall, "United States Census, 1880"
- P B Hall, "Texas, County Marriage Records, 1837-1965"
- Porter Braswell Hall, "Find A Grave Index"
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1861 · Texas Secedes from the United States
On February 1, 1861, Texas seceded from the United States. On March 2, 1861, they had joined with the Confederate States of America.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1881 · Construction of the Fort Worth & Denver Railway
Grenville M. Dodge oversaw the construction of the Fort Worth & Denver Railway. Work began at Hodge Junction, and eventually extended to the New Mexico border by 1888. Service began on April 1, 1888, with trains travelling between Fort Worth and Denver.
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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