Isabella Hall

✦ direct ancestor — my children's 4×-great-grandmother · Jarrell line, the Woodall–Ramsay side — their mother's people

Marriage & children

Records behind this page

1880 U.S. census, population schedule, District 85, Jefferson County, Georgia, enumeration district 67, sheet 280C (NARA T9; image via FamilySearch)

1880 census, District 85 (ED 67), Jefferson Co., Ga., sheet 280C, dwelling/family 60, Allen Ham; FamilySearch 1:1:M8GC-1KF, image 324 of 809

[Read on the image 12 Oct 2026 (register K1018), in full for the household, parent-nativity columns included.] Allen Ham, 35, farmer; Isabelle, 37, Wife (her father born Ga., her mother born N.C.); Annie, 12, Daughter, laborer; Sarah, 9; Martha, 6; Charlie, 3; Vianna, 5/12, born January. Next dwelling: Patsy Hall, 78.

The Macon Telegraph (Macon, Georgia), Wednesday 12 January 1949, page 8: obituary, "Mrs. Eben Watkins" (image via Newspapers.com, image 826680236)

Macon Telegraph, 12 Jan 1949, p. 8, obituary of Mrs. Eben Watkins; Newspapers.com image 826680236

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[Read on the image 12 Oct 2026 (register K1016); the paragraph listing her sons ran past the crop and was not read.] Mrs. Eben Watkins, 81, died in a local hospital ... Monday ... formerly of Wadley ... home here ... with her daughter, Mrs. William Donovan, at 3448 Forsyth Road ... funeral ... Coleman's Chapel Methodist Church near Wadley ... a native of Jefferson County, the daughter of the late Allen Ham and Mrs. Isabelle Hall Ham, both of Jefferson County. Surviving besides Mrs. Donovan are three other daughters, Mrs. J. [F.] Jarrell, Moultrie; Miss Pearl Watkins, Washington; [and Mrs. A.] H. Few, Atlanta ...

Research notes

Working notes from the research, kept verbatim — what was read, what it proved, what stays open. Many open with a line grading the parentage; what the grades mean.

Research note · 12 Oct 2026

AUDITED 12 Oct 2026 - ISABELLA (HALL) HAMM (about 1843 - 1905), of Jefferson County, Georgia, wife of Allen Hamm. In the 1880 census, District 85, sheet 280C (read on the image, K1018), she is Isabelle, 37, Wife, her father born in Georgia and her mother in North Carolina. Her daughter's obituary, Macon Telegraph 12 Jan 1949 (K1016), names her "Mrs. Isabelle Hall Ham". The Find a Grave index gives an Isabella Hall Hamm, 1843-1905, which fits; the memorial has not been opened. Living next door in 1880 was Patsy Hall, 78, possibly her mother, which has not been tested. Only [3421] Annie is attached as her child in this tree.

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