This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YAB.2ACI/1913.1.1 Message Board Post: Kenneth, I saw your posting about your Aunt Nancy. I am a Hall descendant. I have no idea if we are related, but I would like to ask you... do you have any Hall ancestors that came from Ireland? -OR- a Henry M. Hall b. in Alabama? My gr gr grandfather, Henry M. Hall b. 1842 Alabama, descended from parents that came from Ireland. I don't know the names of his parents. Also, Henry M. Hall went to KY at some time before 1879. That is where he married my gr gr grandmother, Ellen Slayback in 1880. He was married once before he married Ellen and a son was born in 1879 in KY from that 1st mrg The following is a possibility for his first mrg, but I can't prove it. Henry M. HALL b: 1842 in Alabama d: 1913 +Anna M. ? b: Abt. 1852 probably d: Bef. 14 Nov 1880 .......... 2 [1] George Russell HALL b: 1879 in Boone Co., Kentucky d: 1943 .............. +Mary Florence "Mamie" EASTHAM b: 1881 in Ohio d: 1978 Henry and his second wife, Ellen, were mrd when George was abt 11 mos old. George didn't know any other mother. This makes me believe Henry's first wife died in childbirth or from complications of childbirth, since Ellen raised George. George returned to AL as an adult after he mrd Aunt Mamie. Henry went to visit his son George in AL and died there. Does any of this fit into your Hall family genealogy? Besides not knowing Henry's parents, I think there is possibly an entire first family of Henry's that I don't have (except for his son George). Henry was considerably older than his second wife, Ellen. They had 11, possibly 12 children. Ellen always considered George her son, so the twelfth child could be George or one born and died between census and therefore I have no record of him/her. I know this is a long shot, considering how common the Hall surname is, but had to take a chance. Thanks for any help!! Please contact me privately. Joyce Franz jfranz@fuse.net