Brief Life History of Etta May
When Etta May Hall was born on 22 September 1878, in Coon Rapids, Carroll, Iowa, United States, her father, John William Hall, was 31 and her mother, Leah Ellen Hardesty, was 19. She married Peter George Spracklin on 1 January 1896, in Calhoun, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Emmet, Iowa, United States in 1935 and Westford Township, Martin, Minnesota, United States in 1940. She died on 7 September 1972, in Crosby, Crow Wing, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in East Side Cemetery, Estherville, Emmet, Iowa, United States.
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Sources (33)
- Etta May Hall in entry for Harriet Spracklin, "Iowa, Delayed Birth Records, 1850-1939"
- Etta West in household of Robert J West, "United States Census, 1920"
- Etta M Spracklin, "Minnesota, County Marriages, 1860-1949"
Spouse and Children
1872–1957 Male
1878–1972 Female
Children (6)
1896–2001 Female
1898–1969 Female
1899– Female
1905–1975 Male
1907–1977 Male
+1 More Child
Parents and Siblings
1847–1931 Male
1859–1931 Female
Siblings (8)
1875–1949 Male
1878–1972 Female
1880–1979 Female
1880– Female
1881–1919 Female
+3 More Children
World Events (8)
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Age 3
1884 · There is now a Capital Building
Age 6
1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
Age 25
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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