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Dela A. Hall

Female 1865 - 1866  (1 year)

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  • Name Dela A. Hall
    • The OGS transcription document shows her name as Della A. but a very close inspection that I made yesterday, Nov. 17, 2011, verified that the spelling was actually DELA A. I traced each letter very carefully with my finger several times to verify there were only 4 letters in DELA. I thought her name might have been DELIA instead of DELLA since there is at least one DELIA in the family that might have been her father Josephs' mother, grandmother or aunt. The connections in that part of the Hall family are not yet clear. Also, in the photograph I sent you of her headstone it looks a bit like the name might be DELIA but what looked like what might have been a capital "I" was actually just the coloring of the stone. The space between the tops of the capital L and capital A was large enough to hold another letter but it was just an artifact of the shapes of the L and the A. At the bottom of the two letters they are actually almost touching.
      -- Bob Betts, Ontario, Canada.
    Birth 20 Jan 1865  Harwich Township, Kent, Ontario, CAN Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • I went back to the cemetery today and double checked her age. The O.G.S. documentation said she was 4 years, 6 months and 29 days when she died but in the photo I took of the headstone it did not look like a 4. Again I carefully looked and traced the number with the tips of my fingers and it is definitely a 1, not a 4. So that would make her birth year 1865, not 1862.
      --Bob Betts, Ontario, Canada.
    Gender Female
    Death 18 Aug 1866  Harwich Township, Kent, Ontario, CAN Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • From date on her headstone.
    Burial Craford Cemetery, Cedar Springs, Chatham-Kent, ONT, CAN Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • From: Craford Cemetery Transcriptions, Kent County Branch, OGS, (1979), Stone 23. (white slab - rose motif)
      Gone so soon / Della A. / dau of / Joseph & Eliza M. / Hall
      died 18th Aug. 1866, / aged / 4 yrs. 6 mo. 29 d's /
      This lovely bud so young and fair
      Call'd home by early doom
      And came to show how sweet a flower
      In paradise could bloom
    Dela A. Hall Gravestone    		 Dela A. Hall Gravestone
    Photo by Bob Betts
    Person ID I30972  Bisbee
    Last Modified 18 Nov 2011

    Father Joseph Hall,   b. 13 Jun 1829, , , , Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Apr 1869, , Kent, Ontario, CAN Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 39 years)
    Mother Eliza Melissa Bisbee,   b. 12 Dec 1832, London Township, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Jul 1915, , Kent, Ontario, CAN Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years)
    Marriage 28 Feb 1850  , Sanilac, Michigan, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Family ID F9852  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 20 Jan 1865 - Harwich Township, Kent, Ontario, CAN Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 18 Aug 1866 - Harwich Township, Kent, Ontario, CAN Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - Craford Cemetery, Cedar Springs, Chatham-Kent, ONT, CAN Link to Google Earth
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    Pin Legend  : Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  • Notes 
    • All information on this child submitted by Bob Betts.

  • Sources 
    1. [S2689] County Clerk, Marriage Records, Sanilac Co, 1849-1887, (LDS IGI).