Brief Life History of Mary Josephine
When Mary Josephine Hall was born on 28 June 1854, in Leon, Decatur, Iowa, United States, her father, Miles William Hall, was 28 and her mother, Sarah Ellen Johnson, was 21. She married Mahonri Moriancumer Green on 1 January 1872, in Portage, Box Elder, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Center Township, Decatur, Iowa, United States in 1860 and Fielding, Box Elder, Utah, United States in 1900. She died on 7 November 1941, in Portage, Box Elder, Utah, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Portage Cemetery, Portage, Box Elder, Utah, United States.
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- Josephine Hill, "United States Census, 1910"
- Mary Josephine Hall, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1964"
- Mary Josephine Hall Green in entry for Mrs Sylvia Harris, "Utah, Brigham City Family History Center, Obituary Collection, 1930-2015"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1867
Historical Boundaries: 1867: Box Elder, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Box Elder, Utah, United States
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
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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Life Sketch of Josephine Hall
Mary Josephine Hall was born 20 June 1854 in Leon Decatur Co., Iowa. She was the first child of Miles Hall and Sarah Ellen Johnson. She left Iowa with her family in the year 1862. They were with th …
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