SECOND GENERATION

3. Virginia May LYONS was born in Jun 1860 in Greene Twp., Iowa Co., Iowa.

She was married to Henry Clay HALL (son of John Wesley HALL and Eliza Ann WILLIAMS) on 18 Aug 1874 in Greene Center, Iowa Co., Iowa. ^(11)(12) Virginia May (called "Jennie" by her family) was only 14 years old when she married Henry Clay Hall, her step-mother's brother. They moved to Dorcester, Saline County, Nebraska, near the farm of Clay's brother Melvin. There Clay (as Henry was known) started a freight line taking supplies to Deadwood, South Dakota. After the birth of son Grant, Virginia's cousin, Mary Ellen Murray, came to help Virginia care for the children. Mary Ellen was a tiny young woman, scarcely five feet tall, and a year younger than Jennie.

Shortly after the sale of their property on 1 January 1883, and perhaps because of a relationship that had developed between Clay and Mary Ellen (Clay's daughter was born to Mary Ellen on 28 May 1883), Virginia took her infant daughter Emma and traveled by train to Wellman, Iowa, accompanied by Clay's brother, Asa Hall. She appeared at the home of Martin V. and Mary E. Polton, family friends, and asked if they would care for the child while she went into town. She never returned. In approximately 1930 Clay received a letter from Virginia, but burned it after he read it, never revealing the contents.

Clay and Mary Ellen had several other children, but did not marry until some years later, probably around 1891. [NOTE: According to the family of Grant Alvin Hall, Clay and Mary Ellen never did marry. Recent information about Virginia indicates that there was never a formal divorce, and if Virginia did marry Charles Chancy Huckins in 1887, she claimed to be a widow].

Henry Clay HALL⁽¹³⁾ was born on 19 Jan 1853 in Salem Twp, Tuscarawas Co., Ohio. He died on 4 Mar 1937 in Bassett, Rock Co., Nebraska. The complete history of Henry Clay Hall, and the entire Hall family, can be found in the book "Hall-ing In The Family Line," a history of the descendants of John Wesley and Eliza Ann Williams Hall, compiled and written by Margery Brandsberg Kovacic Bruce, and published by Walsworth Publishing Co., Marceline, Mo. (1980). Virginia May LYONS and Henry Clay HALL had the following children:

13 i. Roy Wesley HALL⁽¹⁴⁾ was born on 24 Sep 1878 in Dorchester, Saline Co., Nebraska. He died on 14 Jan 1965 in Bassett, Rock Co., Nebraska. Roy left home at age 16 to escape the frequent beatings of his father. He never married, and worked as a farmer from that time and throughout all of his adult life near Ainsworth, Brown County, Nebraska. When he became old and infirm, he moved to a nursing home in Bassett, where he died at the age of 86 years, 3 months, 20 days. He is buried in a cemetery southwest of Ainsworth.
+14 ii. Grant Alvin HALL.
+15 iii. Emma Eliza HALL.

She was married to Charles C. HUCKINS on 1 Nov 1887 in Benkelman, Dundy County, Nebraska. ⁽¹⁵⁾ The wedding was performed by County Judge, Frank Israel. The witnesses were Miss Sadie Steed and Miss Gertie Fisher (a possible relative?). The Affidavit and Application for Marriage License, completed the same day as the wedding, indicates that Mrs. Jennie Hall is 27 years old, and Charles C. Huckins is 37. Born in Iowa, she is listed as the daughter of David Lyons and Sarah Fisher; he the son of Samuel S. Huckins and Lucy Chapman. The only real curiosity is that the bride's name is listed in one place as "Jennie June." Charles C. HUCKINS was born about 1850 in New Hampshire.