by Wesley E. Hall
Publication date: March 4, 2002
Retail price: $25.95
A family history. Size: 6X9.
Length: 418 pages.
ISBN: 0-595-21750-8.
In paperback.
Available at Barnes & Noble Bookstores, Amazon.com, Borders, etc.
 The Hall Family Crest
"Three black Talbot hounds' heads on a silver background"
The Hall coat-of-arms (originally designed by John Hall of London) is an enormous shield made of burnished copper with the following crest: At the top a defiant Talbot hound's head, with open mouth (and a long tongue lolled out threateningly), and below, in the center of the shield, three hounds' heads (also with mouths open and tongues lolled out). Beneath all of this there was a scroll with the words Sauviter sed Fortiter.
The Hall family motto, then, translated from Latin: "Agreeably but powerfully."
Synopsis of the Book:
This is the true and unexpurgated story of nine generations of the Halls who planted tobacco in South Carolina, cotton in Georgia, corn in Arkansas, and peanuts in Oklahoma, from which the adult males made white mule, moonshine, white lightning, and rotgut likker. As a sequel I plan to tell the ungarnished and naughty little handed down stories of the family under the title "Skeletons in the Hall Closet; or, The Outrageous Truths That Grandpa Tried to Hide."
Click the link below to see THE FIRST GENERATION. I have uploaded only the first, second, and third generations of nine. To see the other six check with Barnes and Noble (or any large bookstore chain) for the paperback version of The Hall Tree.
|  William Newton Hall (1831-1923)Susan Elizabeth Woods (1851-1918) These two lovebirds met during the War Between the States, and as soon as Sherman had done his thing and the war in Georgia had died down, they took a covered wagon to Madison County, Arkansas, and raised a big family. My father, Greeley Teeman, was their third son. |
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