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My maternal grandparents
were Hall / Wertz . . .
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Clarence R. Hall
My Maternal Grandfather |
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| 1880 - 1920 |
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CLARENCE RICHARD (WERTZ) HALL: His Bio-Father
was Taylor Wertz and his Bio-Mother was Taylor's wife Phebe Hall. They gave him in adoption to their siblings,
i.e. Taylor's sister, Emma Wertz, and her husband, Phebe's brother Everett Hall. Hey, a brother and sister team married
a brother and sister team.
I wish I had a good picture of my grandfather Hall. He died twenty years before
I was born. I think my cousin Carol Clarey Messina has a photo of him. I'll have to ask her for a
copy.
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Alice T. Hall
My Maternal Grandmother |
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| 1877 - 1932 |
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Clarence Richard Hall married
ALICE THEA DOWNS on 9 October 1905 in Williamsport, Lycoming county, PA. Let's complicate this further, she was
the daughter of Matilda Wertz Downs - yes, Taylor Wertz' sister! That's right, he married his first cousin. There
were only about two families up Hall's Run, the Halls and the Wertz. I think there were several Hall/Wertz marriages
up there. Yep, we all look alike too. Ha.
They had three children,
Emma Louise Hall (Hammond), Bell Evelyn Hall (DeFilippo), and Pearl Madeline Hall (Poorman-my mother).
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I never met either of my maternal grandparents.
Clarence died when my mother was only 7 years old, and Alice died when Mom was only 19.
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| Aunt Belle Hall DeFilippo |
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| Pearl Madeline Hall |
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| My Mommy's Baby Pic |
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| Pearl Madeline Hall |
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| I think Mom was a cool teenager |
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| Pearl Madeline Hall (c) |
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| Mom with her Mother & Sister Belle |
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| Pearl, Belle & Emma Hall |
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My Mom with her sisters, Belle & Emma
(Lit a candle for you tonight at Mass Mom - 11/7/2010) |
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| My Great-Grandfather, Everett Franklin Hall |
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| CLARENCE HALL TREE |
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| CLICK TO ENLARGE |
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| Hall-Wertz Reunion 8-9-2008 |
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| Crystal, Steve, Diana, Didi, Ken |
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| Hall-Wertz Reunion 2007 |
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| Steve Poorman & Ken Poorman |
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| Hall Wertz Reunion 8-12-2004 |
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| David, Mildred Hall Humes & Doug |
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The Hall Homestead was Point
Breeze, up Pete's Run in South Renovo. It was located just below the reservior. It was beautiful in its glory
days, but today it is in shambles. When I was a kid, it had a guest house, servant quarters, an ice house, smoke house,
carriage house, etc. I found a note that Mom wrote many years ago, and she remembered her dad's horses names.
I remember when they ripped the guest house down, and the carriage house, then the second floor porches, then the 1st floor
porches. Mom, Aunt Emma and Aunt Belle sold it to Frank and Helen Stagoff in the 1950's. They lived in it for
a few years, then rented it out. The current owner ripped the entire front section of the house off, added
forward gables to each end, and made it into two apartments. It doesn't even look like the same house now.
The spring is still there by the bridge. I stop by every few years to take a look.
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