Friday 15 November 2019

Adeline's Five Kids


From the previous post, Adeline Dean married Philip Wells Hall and had five children - Circa 1937 - Seated l-r - Winthrop, Marvin, Philip Jr; back - Pauline & Mathew (pictures courtesy of Tara Corneluis - Ancestry)
courtesy of Tara Cornelius - Ancestry
Marvin Dean Hall, the oldest, married Georgia Hansel and had 3 children - Marvin Jr, George & Hansel.  I couldn't find an obit for either Marvin, died 1987 or Georgia who died in 1989 but according to the censuses, Marvin was a Stock Exchange Broker.

Philip & Catherine c1966
Next was Philip 'Wells' Hall Jr. He married Catherine Parish Kepner and they had 3 children - Judy, Philip III & Evelyn. 

Again, no obits and according to the census, Wells was a manager at an insurance company.  Wells & Catherine are buried at the Fairview Cemetery in NJ.
Edna McClure, c1948

Winthrop Huntington Hall, the 3rd child, married Edna McKinley McClure and had 3 children - Winthrop Jr, McClur & Stella.  

Edna died in 1983

Westfield (NJ) Leader, Thurs, 2 Apr 1981
Dr Winthrop Huntington Hall
Winthrop Huntington Hall, MD, 76, died Saturday, March 28, at Rahway Hospital of cancer. He was born in Cranford in 1904 and was a graduate of the Pingry School and the University of Virginia Medical School. He practiced medicine in Westfield for 45 years. Survivors include his wife, Edna Hall; two sons, Dr Winthrop H Hall Jr of San Francisco; and Dr McClure H Hall of Seattle, Wash; a daughter, Stella Hall Winslow of Fairfax, Cal; seven grandchildren; two brothers and a sister. Gray Funeral Home, 318 East Broad St handled arrangements.

Mathew & Elizabeth, c1974
Mathew Dean Hall married Elizabeth Plummer Crane and they had 2 children - Adelene & Robert. Mathew died in 1974, Libby in 1997.

Unknown Paper, Jun 1974
Mathew D Hall, 68, of 8 Normandie Pl, died yesterday at home after a brief illness. A life-long resident of Cranford, Mr Hall was president of the Bunbury Co and the Windham Foundation with offices in Summit and Grafton, VT. He was a graduate of Pingry School and the University of Virginia. Mr Hall was a member of the Cranford Historical Society and the First Presbyterian Church and was director of the Louisiana Land Corp. Surviving are his widow, Mrs Elizabeth Crane Hall; a son, Robert C Hall, and a daughter, Mrs Adelene Vogel, both of Cranford; three brothers, Philip Wells Hall of Cranford and Dr Winthrop H Hall and Marvin D Hall of Westfield; a sister, Mrs Pauline Dickison of Grafton, and four grandchildren. Private services will be conducted today at the First Presbyterian Church by Rev Frank Goodlake. The family has requested that in lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Cranford Historical Society.

Pauline Hall, c1927
And the baby of the group and the only girl, Pauline Hall married Frank Herbert Dickison Jr and they had 3 children - Frank III, Charles, & Polly. Frank died in 1988 & Pauline in 2007
Frank Dickison Jr, c1945
Brattleboro Reformer, 9 May 2007
BRATTLEBORO -- Pauline Hall Dickison, 96, died suddenly late Tuesday night, May 1, 2007, of massive heart failure. She is survived by her three children, Frank H. Dickison III of Phoenix, Md., Charles T. Dickison of Grafton and Polly Lake of Peru, N.Y.; their spouses, 12 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. Mrs. Dickison was born in Cranford, N.J., on May 3, 1910, and moved full-time to Grafton in 1967 with her husband of 52 years, Frank H. Dickison Jr., who died in 1988. The past five years Mrs. Dickison had spent in a retirement community near her daughter in Plattsburgh, N.Y., and last summer moved into the Thompson House nursing home in Brattleboro. A memorial service will be held later in the summer. Donations may be made in her name to Grace Cottage Hospital in Townshend.

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  1. Philip 'Wells' Hall Jr. had only two children, my father, Philip III, and Judy, whose given name was Evelyn. An obit for my father can be found here (https://pwhallmd.wordpress.com/), and as of this writing (Oct 12, 2020), my "Aunt Judy" is still alive in Ithaca, NY.

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