Robert Dorsey Hall

Brief Life History of Robert Dorsey

When Robert Dorsey Hall was born on 3 March 1933, in Laredo, Webb, Texas, United States, his father, Lyman Speer Hall, was 35 and his mother, Myra Margaret Dorsey, was 31. He married Margie Arbell Gupton on 11 April 1952, in Taylor, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Campbellsville, Taylor, Kentucky, United States for about 58 years. He registered for military service in 1952. He died on 18 February 2007, in Campbellsville, Green, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Campbellsville Memorial Gardens, Campbellsville, Taylor, Kentucky, United States.

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Family Time Line

Robert Dorsey Hall
1933–2007
Margie Arbell Gupton
1935–2005
Marriage: 11 April 1952
William Dorsey Hall
1956–2018
Margaret Delene Hall
1958–2017

Sources (10)

  • Robert D Hall, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Robert Dorsey Hall, "Texas, Birth Certificates, 1903-1935"
  • Robert Dorsey Hall, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"

World Events (8)

1935 · The FBI is Established

The Bureau of Investigation's name was changed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to help citizens know that the Government is helping protect from threats both domestically and abroad.

1936 · The Last Public Hanging in Kentucky

The hanging of Rainey Bethea on August 14,1936, in Owensboro, Kentucky was the last pubic hanging in the state and the United States. Anywhere from 15,000-20,000 people showed up for this event. The media was all over the hanging since the Sheriff of Davies county was a female, even though she did not pull levers. Because of the media coverage and the circus it caused, this was the last hanging.

1954 · Right to Serve on Juries

In 1954, women finally won the right to serve on juries.

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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