Nathan P Hall and Mary Ella Strout (son 13, daughter of 14)

[Jen's maternal GGGrandparents]
[Madelyn Hall > Orrin O Hall > son 13, daughter of 14]

Nathan, Mary, Harriet Hall, c. 1906

Nathan Pulsifer Hall
BIRTH: 30 May 1847, Columbia,Washington,Maine
DEATH: 7 May 1923, Milbridge, Washington, Maine, United States


Mary Ella Strout
BIRTH: 20 Mar 1862, Washington, Maine, United States
DEATH: 20 Dec 1914, Milbridge, Washington, Maine, United States


Nathan Pulsifer Hall
Nathan P was born in 1847 in Columbia, Maine to Orrin O Hall (1806-1885) and Abigail Willey (1810-1882).  Columbia is just the other side of Harrington from Milbridge.

Orrin (45), worked as a millman in 1850, with Abigail F (38) running the house, and his sons Abram W (19) and Zemro S (16) working alongside him at the mill.  The younger children, Abigail (14), Warren L (7), Harriet A H (5), Nathan P (3), and Sophronia W (infant) would have been a house full of activity.  Orrin's real estate value was $300, which could have been his house and small farm.

Sawmills were an important part of Maine's industry.

Lawrence Lumber Co, nearby Jonesboro, ME

Abigail (14) was the only child in the house to attend school that year.


By 1860, the two oldest boys, Abraham and Zemro had moved out.  Orrin (54) and Abigail  (47) were still in Columbia with their daughter Abby (22) at home, along with Warren L (17), Harriet A (14) Nathan P (13), Sophronia W (11), and two additions since the last Census, Irene N (8) and John J (5).


Nathan Hall's Siblings

Lumber on the Naraguagas, Cherryfield, ME.

1. Abraham S (1829-1907) m1. 1847 Bathsheba Randall (1827-??)  m2. 1851 Lucy P Carter (1830-1898) 
2. Zemro Small (1834-1910)  m1. 1854 Hannah Russells (1836-??) m2. 1866 Rosilla Martha Buzzell (1848-1935)
3. Abigail H (1837-1914) (C'60) m. 1857 Jeremiah L Randall (1837-1912)
4. Warren L (1841-1864) (C'60) died in Civil War at Siege at Petersburg
5. Sophronia W (1845-1881)  (C'60) m. 1869 Vandeluer Low (1835-1920) died at 36.
6. Harriet A (1845-1933) (C'60) m. 1864 George S Anderson (1849-1921)
7. Nathan Pulsifer (1847-1923) (C'60) m1. 1867 Athlona Adelia Low (1843-1879) m2. 1880 Mary Ella Strout (1862-1914)
8. Irene H (1853-1923) (C'60) m1. 1870 William W Walsh (1827-1907) m2 1886 William Philander Frye (1865-1948)
9. John J (1855-1882) (C'60) m 1876 Harriet A Allen (1858-1880)

Memorial at Petersburg, full size here.

On June 18, 1864, Nathan's brother Private Warren L Strout died as a result of the siege at Petersburg at age 22 years, 10 months.  He was a member of Company H, Regiment 1, Maine Heavy artillery.  His body was buried at the Hall-Randall Private Cemetery in Columbia, ME.


Nathan married Athlona Adelia "Delia" Lowe (1843-1879) in 1867, and lived in Columbia, and had 5 kids through that marriage.

Children of Nathan and Delia
Lillian (1869-1870) (confirmed birth record)
Pulsifer D (1871-1884) (living with Nathan in 1880), died at 13.
Nora H L (1874-1912) (marr. records parents as Nathaniel/Cedelia)
Lucy Helen (1874-1943) (Madelyn met Lucy)
Simeon B (1879-??) (on 1900 census)

After Nathan began his family, the 1870 Census records Orrin (64) was working as a laborer, with his real estate valued at $236 and personal effects at $121.  Abigail (57) was keeping house with just Irene (18) and John (15) at home.  As with the previous decade, they are still listed as living between the Frye's and the Randalls.

Nathan's first wife Delia died in August 1879, and he joined households with his sister, Sophronia and her husband, Vandeluer Lowe. A few weeks after Delia died, Sophronia's oldest boy, Philander (1869-1879) passed away (10 Sep 1879).  Then, a few months after Nathan's second marriage to Mary Ella Strout (Sep 1880), Sophronia passed away (March 1881), leaving Vandeluer with two surviving boys , Milton (1871-1946), Edgar (1873-1942).

During these tumultuous years, family helped take care of the younger children, as only Pulsifer (9) was living with Nathan in 1880.

Abigail (67) and Orrin (74) lived long lived in Columbia in 1880, maintaining their house and doing some farming.  Next door to them was their son John J Hall, working as a carpenter (age 24) and his wife Hattie (22) and their baby Freddy A.  Hattie died later that year (1880, age 22).

Nathan's mother, Abbie F. Hall died on 21 November 1882 in Columbia, and was buried in the Hall-Randall Private Cemetery.  There may have been a sickness in the house, because John J died a couple of weeks later on December 5, 1882, leaving Freddy orphaned.  Fred A Hall is listed in the 1900 census with his maternal grandmother, Lydia Allen in Milbridge. 

Orrin continued to live a few years until June 2, 1885, and was buried in the same cemetery.


Mary Ella Strout
Mary Ella Strout was born in 1862 to Otis Smith Strout (1818-1892) of Harrington, ME and Eliza S Joy (1828-1890) of Addison, ME (village next door) .  They had married in 1848 and had 7 children, of which Mary was the 5th.  They lived in a part of Milbridge that was almost all Strouts.

In 1870, Otis (50) and Eliza (42) had 6 kids at home.  The farm they worked was valued at $600, with another $200 in personal effects.  Their oldest son Gleason was a seaman.

1. Gleason C (1849-1906) m1. 1879 Abigail Ann Carver (1856-1887) m2. Emma W Burke (1869-1927)
2. Augusta Jane (1852-1915) m1 1885 John J Robinson (1817-1888), m2. Harlan P Allen (1844-??) m3. 1911 Darius D Sprague (1836-1913)
3. Everett Bucknam (1856-1892) m. 1880 Abigail S Pinkham (1860-1927)
4. Herbert O (1859-??) m. 1880 Arvilla M Strout (1864-1892)
5. Mary Ella (1862-1914) m 1880 Nathan Pulsifer Hall (1847-1923)
6. Benjamin Franklin (1864-1922) worked as hired man for Charles Grace.
7. Phoebe Ann (1872-1950) m. 1897 Forest Griffin (1872-1956)

In 1880, Mary lived with her parents Otis (60) and Eliza (53) Strout, four siblings, and a niece in Milbridge.  Otis was a farmer.  Her two older brothers Everett and Herbert were Sailors.

When Eliza died in 1890, and Otis died in 1892, they were buried in a family cemetery, known as the Otis Strout Family Cemetery. Also in that plot are Abigail Joy and Isaac Strout, Otis's parents, and Joseph Strout (1719-??).  I believe it's located here.

Life Together
In 1880, Nathan was widowed, and he went to live with his brother-in-law, Vandeluer Lowe's family in Columbia, along with his son Pulsifer D, as of the June Census.   Later that fall, he remarried Mary Ella Strout of Milbridge on September 18, 1880, and commenced his life with his "second family".

Children of Nathan Pulsifer Hall and Mary Ella Strout
1. Edgar Matthew (1881-1912)  "Eddie", m. 1905 Mary Louis Lucier (1885-??) died at Charlestown, NH, lived at Bellows Falls.  Was a plumber, died of accidental drowning on July 4.
2. Leverett George (1882-1973) "Leverett" m. 1950 Louise J Cote (1886-??)
3. John James (1884-1951) "John", a telephone lineman m. Lillian Helen McAllan (1893-1971)
4. Charles Herbert (1885-1951) "Charlie" m1. 1907 Bernice Hattie Smith (1883-1908) m2. 1910 Laura Harriet Young (1890-??)
5. Naldin Abram (1889-1971) "Naldin", a sailor m. 1910 Louise Lillias Robinson (1895-1963)
6. Minnie Mabel (1890-1989) "Minnie" m1. 1911 Fred Oakes (1887-1919) m2. 1922 Milton DUncan (1889-1961)
7. Hattie F (??) (1891-1891) (unknown link) unnamed.  Casket purchased 1891.
8. Orrin Otis (1892-1985) "Orrin" m. 1913 Judith Sprague (1893-1963)
9. Lillian Edith (1893-1930) "Lillian" m. 1911 Ira Smith (1888-1969)
10. no concise records
11. Leorance Eliza (1894-1972) "Eliza" m. 1913 Chase Wentworth Fickett (1891-1986)
12. Harry  (1896-1896) died at 6 weeks, died of "spasm"
13. male Hall (1898-1898) (stillborn)
14. Mary  (1900-1900) "Mary" died as 4 month old
15. Harry Everett  (1901-1902)  died as 14 month old of pneumonia.
16. Harriet Bernice (1904-2003) m. 1925 Reginald Sampson Booker (1901-1987)

As of 1885-1912, the documents are fairly consistent that Nathan was a

ship carpenter.  An brief article with the historical society about this time period is linked here. More about Sawyer Shipbuilding here.  NOAA info sheet.

As of 1900, in their first 20 years of marriage, Nathan (50) and Mary (39) had 14 children, 10 survived.  In the next ten years until the 1910 Census, two more children were born, but two others died.

Nathan P (60, m2) and Mary E (48, m1), in the end, had 16 children together, of which 10 were living (the bold children above were alive at the time of the 1900, 1910 census).  Their son Orrin worked at the sardine factory that year, and his siblings had other various odd jobs (hiring out to do housework, sailors, telephone linemen, etc).  Also worthy of interest, that year, Darius D Sprague, (74 wd), who was Mary Ella's brother-in-law (via Augusta Jane Strout) lived with them.  Darius's 1st cousin was Lafayette Sprague, Judith's father.  Lafayette's family lived 3 households down the street in 1910.  Judith would become a their daughter-in law in 1913 when she and Orrin married.

Mary Ella died in 1914 at age 52, she is buried at Forest Hill, Harrington, Maine.  While the rest of her children were grown and married at the time, their youngest, Harriet, was 10 years old at the time.

 Nathan (71) was head of the house in 1920, retired, with his daughter Lillian and her husband Ira Smith and their three children.  They lived next door to Orrin and Judith Hall. 

Nathan Pulsifer Hall died in 1923 at age 75.