This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hall and Bates Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/pAB.2ACI/5079.1 Message Board Post: Dan, Good Morning! I am so excited to see someone doing geneology study on the Hall family. I am a direct relative. Big Ed Hall is my great, great grandfather's (Lee Hall, Sr.) brother. Lee Hall, Jr. is my great grandfather. I too am doing geneology. I will see if I can locate any pictures for you. I do have alot of information that I am compiling together. In fact, I was just reading about Big Ed Hall and Cat (Franklin) Hall last evening. I am a direct relative to the World's Largest Married Couple. Captain Martin Van Buren Bates and wife, Anna Swan Bates. He is my great, great, great, great uncle on my dad's mother's side. On my mother's mom's side ~~~ Martin's brother (John Wallis Bates) was married to my great, great, great, great, grandfather's (Wash Hall - Lee Hall, Sr.'s dad) sister (Elizabeth Hall). So John Wallis Bates is a great, great, great, great, uncle by marriage. I located this geneology on both sides and I am just really excited about this. The giants were like 8ft tall. He goes back 4 generations back on both sides of my family of the Bates and the Halls. rdtmusicworld@yahoo.com or rdtmusicworld101@aol.com