Gravestone of Ellen Foley Hall
St. John's Catholic Cemetery
Foley, Benton, Minnesota
Photograph courtesy of Jim Childers ©2011
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| Parents: Marriage: |
John Foley Johanna O'Brien William Hall February 13, 1872 |
| Children: | Mary (Mamie) E. | Mar. 1873 | † 1966 |
| William Edmund | Aug. 19, 1874 | † Jan. 17, 1963 | |
| John F. | July 3, 1876 | † Nov. 9, 1957 | |
| Johanna (Anna) | Oct. 19, 1878 | † Mar. 20, 1937 | |
| Ellen (Ida) | Dec. 18, 1880 | † June 30, 1956 | |
| George Allen | Feb. 27, 1883 | † Apr. 25, 1918 | |
| Katherine (Kate) Agatha | June 24, 1885 | † July 23, 1980 |
| Notes: | The original house in which William and Ellen Hall lived is still standing and occupied. The conveyance deed |
| selling the property to William Hall from Timothy and Thomas Foley in 1881 included the
sawmill, house of squared log construction, a bunkhouse/stable and seven acres of timberland for a price of $7,000
(equal to approximately $100,000 in current U.S. dollars). The Foley's homestead had been directly across the road
from the mill.
At the time of the 1881 Canadian Census, Ellen was 30 years old and living with her husband William and their five eldest children in Darling, Lanark North, Ontario. William was working as a lumberman, and the family was of the Catholic faith [Source: NA Film No. C-13233, Dist. 112, Sub-district F, p. 22, Household no. 86]. After the death of William Hall, Ellen Foley Hall moved back to Almonte, Ontario where the family lived until 1897. When she and her seven children moved to Benton County, it was with the assistance of her brother John Foley, for whom Foley, Minneseota is named. At the time John Foley was in charge of the logging and mill operation for Foley Bros. Construction Co. |
| Ancestry: | The Thomas Foley Line |
| The Nicholas Hall Line [through marriage] |
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