Brief Life History of Alvira A
When Alvira A Hall was born on 7 January 1840, in Vassalboro, Kennebec, Maine, United States, her father, Robert E Hall, was 28 and her mother, Wealthy O Farrow, was 21. She married William S B Runnels on 22 April 1860, in Vassalboro, Kennebec, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Winslow, Kennebec, Maine, United States in 1880. She died in 1885, in Waterville, Kennebec, Maine, United States, at the age of 45.
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- Alvina Runnels, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Alvira A Hall - birth: 7 January 1840;
- Almira A Hall in entry for Unknown and Unknown, "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921"
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1842 · Webster–Ashburton Treaty
The Webster-Ashburton Treaty was signed on August 9, 1842 and resolved the border issues between the United States and British North American colonies which had caused the Aroostook War. The treaty contained several agreements and concessions. It called for an end on the overseas slave trade and proposed that both parties share the Great Lakes. It also reaffirmed the location of the westward frontier border (near the Rocky Mountains) as well as the border between Lake Superior and Lake of the Woods. The treaty was signed by Daniel Webster (United States Secretary of State) and Alexander Baring (British Diplomat, 1st Baron Ashburton).
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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