The Hall Family
Genealogical Archive
Ten generations of one family, from Greenwood Township to Meadville and out across the country — 829 documented lives, the earliest born in 1793, gathered from a book compiled by Carl Hall and the obituaries, photographs, census sheets and diaries that stand behind it.
From the record
John Hall Sr.
Generation two
The named head of the line, and the man the whole archive is reckoned from. His son John, born 1793, is the earliest Hall here with a date.
Open the archive →Alden Clarence Hall
1915 – 2005
Two diaries, kept five years apart — hauling hay to Kentucky in 1940, and servicing A‑26s in England in 1945. Both in his own hand, and retold.
Read the diaries →Benjamin Sutton Hall
1829 – 1910
Left Pennsylvania for Colorado and farmed in El Paso County. His eighty-one years span the whole westward movement of the family.
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