Brief Life History of William Fleet
When William Fleet Hall was born on 10 August 1878, in Calhoun, West Virginia, United States, his father, Robert M. Hall, was 33 and his mother, Sarah "Sally" White, was 32. He married Lillie Margaret Westfall on 2 March 1909, in Calhoun, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. He lived in Otter District, Braxton, West Virginia, United States for about 20 years and Birch District, Braxton, West Virginia, United States in 1940. He died on 28 February 1943, in Frametown, Braxton, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Belfont, Braxton, West Virginia, United States.
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- William F Hall, "United States Census, 1920"
- William Hall, "West Virginia Births, 1853-1930"
- W.F. Hall, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"
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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.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
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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