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    • Hall family

    This page collects the documented 1900 Barney census paths to Sion Hall.

    Known 1900 Barney descendants

    Arthur P. Hall

    Sion Hall → Enoch Hall → Bolin Green Hall → Arthur P. Hall
    Secondary Supported. No reviewed original probate names every generation.

    Bolin Green Hall

    Sion Hall → Enoch Hall → Bolin Green Hall
    Secondary Supported. No reviewed original probate names every generation.

    Sion L. Hall

    Sion Hall → Enoch Hall → Sion L. Hall
    Strong probable overall. The 1880 census explicitly identifies the younger Sion as Enoch’s son; Enoch’s parentage is supported by nineteenth-century accounts and the older Hall property record.

    Gornto and Westberry connections

    Enoch Hall married Hannah Elizabeth Gornto on November 23, 1865. Their son Sion L. Hall appears with them in 1870 and is explicitly recorded as their son in 1880. Hannah was a daughter of Joel Gornto and Mary Blair, connecting the younger Hall household to the Gornto family.

    Sion L. Hall married Malpha Westberry on December 3, 1889. Martha Westberry’s 1880 household records G. J. as her son and Malpher as her daughter. The 1920 Hall household identifies Martha as Sion’s mother-in-law.

    The 1900 census identifies Emerson Westberry as General and Etta Westberry’s son. General is the strong-probable G. J. of Martha’s household and Jack of the 1910 Barney household. That chain makes Emerson Malpha’s probable nephew and Sion’s nephew by marriage. His identification as councilman W. E. Westbury remains strong probable.

    Sion is documented as Barney’s mayor in January and June 1904. The full dossier follows his family, store, justice-of-the-peace service, and mayoral record; his grandfather was the separate early settler Sion Hall.

    Evidence grades

    • Census- or vital-record supported: recent parent-child steps are named or placed in compatible households by census, marriage, death, or comparable records.
    • Secondary-supported: a compiled genealogy supplies one or more early generations while local records independently establish the people involved.
    • Strong probable: the relationship is well supported, but one part of the settler claim still lacks direct settlement-era proof.

    Each generation is judged separately. Marriage, surname, proximity, or a shared household does not by itself establish descent.