Rev. George Hall & Almira Rosette
Married 11 March 1834 in Essex County, New Jersey
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Rev. George Hall & Almira Rosette are the 2nd great grandparents of my husband.
Almira was the daughter of Abraham Rosette & Susan Boylston.
See this post from yesterday TOMBSTONE TUESDAY - Abraham & Susan Rosette - died 1815 & 1847
The Rev. George Hall was the son of Cornelius Clark Hall & Elizabeth Conick. He was the only son born to the couple. He had 4 sisters. I bet he had fun growing up in that household.
Here is an excerpt from the Encyclopedia of the Presbyterian Church in the Unites States of America, page 289.
The Rev. George Hall was the Pastor of the Peterboro Church in Smithfield, New York in about 1850. This church was the site of the first complete meeting of the New York State Anti-Slavery Society in 1835. The building is now on the New York State and National Historic Registers. In 2004 it was named as one of 24 sites on the New York State Underground Railroad Heritage Trail. The site became home of the National Abolition Hall of Fame in 2005. Source: Donna Burdick, Smithfield Town Historian
George & Almira’s children were
George F. Hall born 1836, New Jersey
Cornelia B. R. Hall born 1838, New Jersey
Charles A. B. Hall born 1842, New York
Thomas Cornelius Hall 1845-1897, married Cora E. Brown and are my husband’s great grandparents
Susan C. Hall born 1846, New York, married John H. Griffing
I learned a lot about the Rev. George Hall from various reports printed by church associations. One of those was the Necrological Report presented to the Alumni Association of Princeton Theological Seminary at it’s Annual Meeting 29 Apr 1879. Here are the pages from that report:
Sadly the report above tells us that Almira died in Sep 1858 in West Stockholm, St. Lawrence, New York, at age 52. I haven’t yet located her death record or burial. Having at least 3 children still at home, the Reverend remarried on 6 Oct 1859 to Mary A. Bolles.
Rev. Hall died during the Yellow Fever plague of 1878. Here is a link to a book about this plague: https://archive.org/details/65030600R.nlm.nih.gov
And here is a link to the Rootsweb site about Claiborne County, Mississippi and the list of deaths from Yellow Fever: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~msclaib3/yellow1878.html
Here is a link to Rev. Hall’s memorial on FindAGrave #56354940
Headstone for Rev. George Hall courtesy of William Sanders - used with permission |
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