| Hall
Family Tartan |
Hall Family kilt
patch. The hound is a Talbot. The Latin motto, "Vive ut vivas,"
translates to, "Live so that you might live," or in
modern slang, "Party on, dude!"
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Hall Family Coat
of Arms. Again the Talbot hound appears. Beneath that, the helmet
signifies knighthood, while the red banners signify that we fought
in the war of Scottish independence from England (see Braveheart).
The jagged edges of the banner represent the split from England.
The three Scottish thistles on the shield are the symbol of
Scotland. The motto, "Turpiter desperatur," means
roughly that only a desperate person would dare challenge a Hall
to combat.
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Jesse Hall,
Revolutionary War Veteran
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John Grigg
Hall, who served in the Confederate Army and was present at
Picket's Charge.
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The
Hall Family is originally from Viking lands. My ancestors invaded
Scotland sometime in the 10th century. We blended with the Scots
until my family's branch left Scotland in the 1700s. We settled in
Halifax, Virginia after a 70+ year stay in Barbados. The first
written record in the U.S. is dated 1738. Some of my ancestors
fought in the American Revolution. Sometime before the Civil War,
the family was granted lands in the Carolinas and we left Virginia
for South Carolina. A was born in Abbeville, South Carolina in
1959. My family has been in either Abbeville or Anderson
county, SC, or both, since before the Civil War.
