Please excuse me for jumping in here, I have quietly been reading all the emails. My name is Debbie Hall Daugherty. My father, Byron Hall, was from Van Zandt County, Texas, and was not in the Navy. He was in the United States Marine Corp for 30 years. He fought in WWII, Korea and Viet Nam and was a recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross. He lived with me the past seven years and has just passed away. Thus my journey into trying to find information about my dad and his family. At first blush, it seems my family lines go up through a Joshua Hall in Macon County, North Carolina. He was born in Ann Arundell, Maryland in 1765. I admit I am a novice but am quite pleased with what I have discovered so far. If anyone has any information regarding Joshua Hall or his father John Hall, also from Maryland would you kindly email me? If this is the wrong forum to ask for help, please forgive my intrusion. Many thanks. Debbie >From: [email protected] >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [HALL] Hall >Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:56:07 EDT > > >In a message dated 7/15/2007 8:48:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time, >[email protected] writes: > >There may be something in so many Halls being sailors. I myself was in >the Navy during WWII. Wherever I was in the Navy, there were many >Halls. In fact, there was a Hall who always lined up in back of me. >Not too long ago I found out that he was a first cousin. However, he is >now dead. My ancestor, whose name I do not know, was a sailor. He and >his brother worked on a freighter. > > >This is interesting to me since I just went to my husband's uncle's funeral >yesterday (who wa a Hall). Guess what? Yup, he had a naval burial with >the >sailors in white and all. It was awesome. > >It's funny - my husband's mother was a Hall. His father a Leighton whose >sister married a Hall, and his father re-married another woman with the >maiden >name Hall. (That's three different Hall families in his tree!). No DNA >work >has been done that I know of, all of his mother's brothers are dead, and >his >Hall cousins on the Leighton side all live out of state and I don't know >them well enough to even ask. I would love to persuade one of his cousins >on >the Hall side to test though!! > >Bonnie Leighton > > > >************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL >at >http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in >the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ http://newlivehotmail.com