AMERICA THE GREAT MELTING POT
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| Ira Hall | ||||
| Born: 10 Dec 1772 Lebanon, Grafton, NH
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| Married: 17 Dec 1795
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| Died: 1816 Middle Granville, Washington Co., NY | ||||
| Buried: Masonic Yard Cemetery, Granville, Washington Co., NY |
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FATHER
MOTHER
WIFE
CHILDREN
1. Ira Hall
b. 1798
2. Silas Hall
b. 1800
3. Edwin Hall
b. 1802
d. 08 Sep 1877
4. Lyman Hall
b. 1806
d. 16 Feb 1829 23rd yr
5. Sidney Hall
b. 1812
6. Storrs Hall
b. 11 May 1814
m. 30 Sep 1840 to Mary Elizabeth Scribner
d. 13 Jan 1905
History of Washington Co., NY 1878
"Dr. Ira Hall, a graduate of Dartmouth, settled, about 1795, at Middle
Granville, having married the daughter of Peter Parker. He owned at one time the
present farm of E. B. Temple and laid off from it a Masonic burial place, of
which he is said to have been the first occupant, dying in 1816. In company with
Nathaniel Hall and Roger Wing, he established and sustained a select school in
the upper story of the old brick school-house. His children were Ira; Silas, a
justice of the peace for many years; Edwin, the distinguished theologian and
president of Auburn theological school; Lyman, who died young; Sidney, who is
still living in Granville; and Storrs, for many years a teacher, and afterwards
a practicing physician at Rosendale, Wis."
From The Storrs Family by Charles Storrs, 1886
Storrs Hall, the son of this Ira Hall, told the author,
"There is a story in the family concerning the sons of Mehitable Storrs and
Nathaniel Hall to this effect: 'They grew very tired of their buckskin breeches,
which would get greatly soiled before they were worn; and one day in the absence
of their parents the boys took turns in turning the grindstone and riding it
until their breeches were worn thin. then, to conceal their work, they
smeared them with dust from a blacksmith's shop; and their parents thought it a
difficult matter to keep the children clothed when even buckskin was so soon
tattered.' "