Sarah Jane Hall

Brief Life History of Sarah Jane

When Sarah Jane Hall was born on 12 October 1846, in Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, United States, her father, Edward Hall, was 32 and her mother, Nancy Eleanor Ballinger, was 19. She married Philip Houtz on 1 May 1864, in Springville, Utah, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Utah, Utah, United States for about 70 years. She died on 8 May 1922, in Springville, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Springville City Cemetery, Springville, Utah, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Philip Houtz
1838–1922
Sarah Jane Hall
1846–1922
Marriage: 1 May 1864
Philip Edward Houtz
1865–1941
Christian Watson Houtz
1867–1939
Sarah Rozenia Houtz
1869–1944
John Thomas Houtz
1871–1871
Nancy Eleanor Houtz
1871–1871
Lettie May Houtz
1872–1956
Susan Inza Houtz
1875–1966
Mary Catherine Houtz
1877–1904
Heber Hall Houtz
1879–1953
Esther Jane Houtz
1881–1892
Pearl Houtz
1884–1954
James Elvan Houtz
1887–1941

Sources (80)

  • Sarah Johnson, "United States, Census, 1920"
  • Sarah Jane Hall, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
  • Utah, U.S., Death and Military Death Certificates, 1904-1961

World Events (8)

1851

Established in 1851,

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1866 · The First Civil Rights Act

The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.

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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BIOGRAPHY OF SARAH JANE HALL HOUTZ JOHNSON

Sarah Jane Hall was born on 12 October 1846 in Des Moines, Polk, Iowa to Edward and Nancy Eleanor Ballinger Hall. Se was the third of eleven children, six girls and five boys. Her father Edward w …

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