Family/Spouse: Louisa Bragg. Louisa died in Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: 9WL9-GXQ
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 7492871

Notes:

From Jeff Hall:
http://www.designscience.com/Genealogy/richardhall/Descendants%20of%20Richard(1)%20Hall.htm

Silence was born in Hubbardston, MA on Great Farm No. 1. This was a 500 acre farm at the exact eastern corner of Hubbardston (a diamond shaped town). Great Farm No. 1 was later ceded to the town of Princeton, MA (Princeton Town History). The farm today is very swampy and has only dirt roads crossing it. Her father moved the family back to Shrewsbury not long after Silence's birth,  where he was originally from. The Parker's had a large family place there. The Parkers were some of the earliest denizens of the area although they were not founders. She is related to Capt. John Parker of the Minute Men and the family can trace its origins back to Lexington and Reading MA.

Her brother, Amos Parker, was the long-time postmaster and Doctor of Bolton, MA and his house still stands to this day (2005).

Silence died just a few days after giving birth to her seventh child at the age of 46. The girl was subsequently called Silence Maria Hall.  Her name is spelled as Silance in the Parker family genealogy. She was the first to be buried in the Hall plot at the Mountain View Cemetery in Shrewsbury, Mass.

FamilySearch ID:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/9WL9-GXQ

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7492871

Silance married James Hall about 13 Oct 1811 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, Massachusetts. James (son of Timothy Hall, Jr. and Sarah Keyes) was born on 7 Jan 1787 in Wilton, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire; died on 22 Aug 1841 in Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts; was buried after 22 Aug 1841 in Mountain View Cemetery, Shrewsbury, Worcester County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Group: Hall Direct Descendant
• Group: Halls of Bradford - DNA Family 002

Notes:

From Jeff Hall:

She is said by William Edgar Hall to have married a cranky old seac aptain whose last name was Saltus, and they moved to Odell. Illinois (Ohio?). where they died and had no children.

There is at least one book of Albert E. Hall's that is inscribed to Albert from Aunt Louisa.

In the Parker family genealogy book she is said to have been a school-teacher in Northborough, Mass.

Group:
A person who is a direct descendant of any colonial New England Hall Family

Group:
Descendants of Deacon Richard Hall of Bradford, Massachusetts

Family/Spouse: Mister Saltus. Mister died in Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Group: Hall Direct Descendant
• Group: Halls of Bradford - DNA Family 002
• FamilySearch ID: LLMR-R74
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 139856579

Notes:

William Eustis Hall is the second and youngest son of James Hall and Silence Parker. His middle name of Eustis may be from one of the early governors of the State of Maine whom his father, it is said, held in high regard. I think there is a town in Maine called Eustis, and this name is a lead that should be followed regarding the origins of James Hall. 

He apparently took up the carpenters trade along with his father, and according to William Edgar Hall's oral history of the family, he may have been present on the job site when his father James died. 

He is said to have left Shrewsbury after his father's death in 1841, and first worked in Worcester then he went to Connecticut. It was from here that he got the idea from an associate to move to the Chicago area for work and opportunity. He apparently found both in abundance. Working first on the detailed woodwork on the interior of railroad passenger cars and later opening his own sash and blind business he seems to have amassed a sizeable fortune.

During the Civil War he paid one of his workers $500 to serve in his stead which was a commonly accepted practice of the time. William Edgar Hall related that the employee was killed in one of the early engagements of the war.

The family lived in Englewood, Illinois, a section of Chicago until they returned to Worcester, Mass. in embarrassment, it is said, from the divorce of their son Albert Eustis from his first wife Elizabeth Sarah Behrs. 

William Edgar Hall noted that his parents fought or did not get along well. Story has it that William Eustis and his wife encouraged Elizabeth to "go away" or leave her husband which she eventually did.  Also William Eustis is the one that was supposed to have negotiated and paid for the removal of William Edgar from his mother so that he might return to Worcester and be raised by Hall family. A sum of $600 dollars was involved in the transfer on the train, a move that would result in William Edgar never seeing his birth mother again.

Upon removing himself to Worcester, William Eustis apparently lived the life of a gentleman farmer with a property at 98 Woodland Street on what is now the grounds of Clark University. His house was for a time the faculty house until it was torn down. The date of sale of the house to Clark University was about 1920. It was demolished and a dormitory stands there now. William Edgar relates wrestling pigs at the place and that grandfather had buggies and a surrey with a fringe for traveling. His obituary indicates that he was not much of a joiner of clubs or organizations but did belong to the Pilgrim Church in Worcester.

Group:
A person who is a direct descendant of any colonial New England Hall Family

Group:
Descendants of Deacon Richard Hall of Bradford, Massachusetts

FamilySearch ID:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LLMR-R74

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/139856579

William married Miranda Sarah Wood on 3 Jul 1849. Miranda (daughter of Judson Adoniram Wood and Louisa Stimpson) was born on 15 Nov 1827 in Westborough, Worcester County, Massachusetts; died on 20 May 1902 in Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts; was buried after 20 May 1902 in Hope Cemetery, Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Group: Hall Direct Descendant
• Group: Halls of Bradford - DNA Family 002

Notes:

From Jeff Hall:

I do not have Ida listed as a child of James and Silence Hall by the V.R. of Shrewsbury, but William Edgar Hall said she existed and married a James Montague, and they went to California and had an orange grove in Riverside, California. They had a son "Jimmy" Montague who became a very successful lawyer on the West Coast (where?).

William Edgar Hall said that James and Silance had 9 children and I can only account for 7 of them at this time. I do think that Wm. Edgar was confused about Ida as the will of William Eustis Hall listed as one of his heirs Edna Montague, James M. Hall's daughter, as the person who moved to Riverside Calif and had a son who was a successful lawyer. I do not think at this time that there was an Ida Hall daughter of James and Silance Hall.

Group:
A person who is a direct descendant of any colonial New England Hall Family

Group:
Descendants of Deacon Richard Hall of Bradford, Massachusetts

Family/Spouse: James Montague. James died in Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Group: Hall Direct Descendant
• Group: Halls of Bradford - DNA Family 002
• FamilySearch ID: 9NG4-JQX
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 139856606

Notes:

From Jeff Hall:

Could be one of the more interresting Halls. His parents had a good deal of wealth through hard work and he grew up in this environment. It is said that he was supposed to have attended Lake Forest School but may not have started or finished. 

At the age of 26 he apparently eloped with Elizabeth Behrs, a little educated first generation daughter of German immigrants. They went to Milwaukee, Wisconsin to be married by a judge in 1881. It appears that this significantly displeased his parents. They had two boys within two years. 

As a result of fighting or the parents wish to separated them or because his mother wanted him to marry his cousin, Albert was packed off to Leadville, Colorado, to live on the range for two years.  When he returned the divorce was apparently begun and he and his parents removed to Worcester because of the scandal of divorce.

In Worcester, he eventually married his cousin, Mabel Fiske, and worked as a bookkeeper.

His wife died pregnant in April 1900 of uremia and he followed suit about three and a half months later. His obituary claimed that he died of grief and he apparently failed terribly after his wife's death. He had even enlisted the help of clairvoyants to contact his wife in death. He is buried in the family plot at Hope Cemetary in Worcester, Mass.

In recent conversations with Gloria Brown Engle, Elizabeth Behrs grand-daughter, she felt that Albert was of poor health and may even have had Tuberculosis. We know his obituary said that he had asthma.

Also Gloria thought that Elizabeth Behrs worked as a domestic, possibly cook, for the Wm. Eustis Hall family in Chicago. Elizabeth's father John Paul Behr was employed by the Pullman Company which is exactly where Wm. E. Hall worked when he first came to Chicago.

Group:
A person who is a direct descendant of any colonial New England Hall Family

Group:
Descendants of Deacon Richard Hall of Bradford, Massachusetts

FamilySearch ID:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/9NG4-JQX

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/139856606

Albert married Elizabeth Clara "Lizzie" Behrs on 17 Sep 1881 in Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, and was divorced about 1885 in Illinois. Elizabeth (daughter of John Paul Behrs and Sabina Elisabeth Mertes) was born on 7 Jul 1854 in Albany, Albany County, New York; died on 13 Nov 1920 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah; was buried on 15 Nov 1920 in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Albert married Mabel Estella Auduboro Fiske on 12 Jan 1892 in Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts. Mabel (daughter of Isaac Fiske and Clarissa Mariah "Clara" Wood) was born on 1 Aug 1860; died on 17 May 1900 in Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts; was buried after 17 May 1900 in Hope Cemetery, Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Group: Hall Direct Descendant
• Group: Halls of Bradford - DNA Family 002
• FamilySearch ID: LLMT-MC5
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 7483075

Notes:

Group:
A person who is a direct descendant of any colonial New England Hall Family

Group:
Descendants of Deacon Richard Hall of Bradford, Massachusetts

FamilySearch ID:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LLMT-MC5

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7483075

William married Annie L. Hovey on 13 Dec 1888. Annie (daughter of Eben J. Hovey and Margerett C. [--?--]) was born on 24 Jan 1866 in Hallowell, Kennebec County, Maine; died in 1949; was buried after 1949 in Mountain View Cemetery, Shrewsbury, Worcester County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]