Plummer Fitch Hall (1843 - 1922)

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Plummer Fitch Hall was born on 3 August 1843 in Ohiopyle, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, the son of Samuel Hall and Mary Morrison.

Henry Clay Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, 28 September 1850
Samuel Hall (28), farmer, owned real estate with a value of $800, and his wife Mary A (30), in household with their children: Plummer (8), George (6), Delila (4), and Josiah (2) and also Samuel's brother Josiah (20) and his wife Jane (20). All were born in Pennsylvania. ^[1]

Stewart Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, 29 August 1860, Farmington Post Office

Saml Hall (35), day laborer, owned personal property valued at $100, and his wife, Mary A (37), in household with their children, Plummer (17), Geo (15), Delilah (13), Josiah (11), Joseph (8), Sophronia (6), Amanda (4), and Thos (1). All in household were born in Pennsylvania.^[2] Neighbors were William Thorpe, Harvey Morris and James Gilmore.

Plummer Fitch Hall served as a Corporal in the Pennsylvania 140th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, Company E, during the Civil War. He enlisted on 22 August 1862, was promoted to Corporal on 12 December 1864, and mustered out with Company 31 May 1865.^[3]

Stewart Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, 26 August 1870, Connellsville Post Office
Plummer Hall (25), tannery worker, and his wife Elma (21), owned personal property valued at $100, in household with their daughter Mallzena (2). All were born in Pennsylvania.^[4]

Plummer Fitch Hall, of Falls City, married Martha A Holliday Wildey, widow of John Wildey, of Farmington, on 3 September 1874 by Francis Morrison, JP. Present as witnesses were Sady Hall of Falls City, and Josiah Woodmancy of Falls City.^[5]

Stewart Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, 2 June 1880
Plummer Hall (36), laborer, and his second wife Martha (27) in the household with children, Joseph (9), Eva (7), Mary (4) and Gorgie, 1 month old, born in April. All were born in Pennsylvania.^[6]

Stewart Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, 2 June 1900
Plummer Hall (56), farmer, born August 1843, and his wife, Martha A (47), born May 1853, married 25 years and owned their farm mortgage free. Martha reported she had 11 children, 9 living, and in household with their children, Georgia A (20), house laborer, born April 1880, Maggie E (15), born May 1885, Amanda (12), born November 1887, Judson N (9), born August 1890, Edith P (6), born August 1893, and Norman M C (4), born September 1895, and also Joseph M Wildie, (28), step son, born February 1872. All in household were able to read, write and speak English, all were born in Pennsylvania, Martha reported that her mother was born in Maryland and Joseph Wildie's father was born in Germany.^[7]

Stewart Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, 2 May 1910
Plummer F Hall (67), farmer, and his wife, Matty A (54), married 36 years, a second marriage for both, and owned their farm mortgage free. Matty reported she had 10 children, 8 living, and in household with their children: Edith P (16) and Norman M (14), who both attended school within the census year. All in household were able to read, write, and speak English and all were born in Pennsylvania. ^[8]

Stewart Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, 9 February 1920
Plummer F Hall (76), laborer, and his wife Martha A (65), on Belle Grove Road, in household with their son Norman M (24), coal mine motorman. All in household were able to read, write and speak English and all were born in Pennsylvania.^[9]

Plummer Fitch Hall died 24 September 1922 in Ohiopyle, Fayette County, Pennsylvania of fatty degeneration of the heart and senility, and was buried at Irwin Memorial Cemetery, Ohiopyle, Fayette County, Pennsylvania.^[10]

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Research Notes

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4HD-LGZ : 22 December 2020), Plummer Hall in household of Samuel Hall, Henry Clay Township, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.)
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXPG-F7T : 18 February 2021), Plummer Hall in entry for Saml Hall, 1860
3. ↑ 140th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, Company E Bates, Samuel P. History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1865 , Harrisburg, 1868-1871
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZPQ-LDJ : 29 May 2021), Plummer Hall, 1870
5. ↑ "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VF9W-HDW : 10 March 2021), Plummer F. Hall and Martha A. Wildey, 3 Sep 1874; citing Marriage, Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States, multiple County Clerks, Pennsylvania
6. ↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MWF8-PW8 : 14 January 2022), Plumer Hall, Stewart Township, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm
7. ↑ "United States Census, 1900", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3SL-89R : 2 December 2021), Plumer T Hall, 1900
8. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MG88-X1H : accessed 17 April 2023), Plumer F Hall, Stewart, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 77, sheet 10B, family 155, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1345; FHL microfilm 1,375,358
9. ↑ "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFRT-6TX : 3 February 2021), Plummer F Hall, 1920
10. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/59359271/plummer-fitch-hall: accessed 17 April 2023), memorial page for Plummer Fitch Hall (3 Aug 1843–24 Sep 1922), Find A Grave: Memorial #59359271, citing Irwin Memorial Cemetery, Ohiopyle, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, USA; Maintained by Bess Jr (contributor 48590548)