After her husband was killed in the Civil War, Marilla raised her family as a single mother. She took a job in a cheese factory, presumably close to her home in Richmond Center, Ashtabula County. Cause of death is unknown.∼Daughter of Leonard H. Niles and his second wife, Matilda Lane, natives of Clarendon, Rutland Co., VT, and Buffalo, Erie Co., NY, Marilla was fourth born of seven known children: Clarissa, Barton C., Bolivar, Judd Barlow, Cornelia and Phebe Niles. She also had several half-siblings including Andrew Jackson Niles [b. 1815].
Marilla's paternal grandparents were David and Lydia Niles. David, born in Providence Co., RI, moved to Vermont in the mid-1770s where, during the Revolutionary War, he served in the Clarendon militia. In the early 1800s, the Niles family to Ohio, settling first in Canfield, Trumbull County, then in the South Ridge of what would become Ashtabula Co., OH.
The 1878 Williams Brothers' "History of Ashtabula County" records that David Niles was among three men elected supervisors of highways when the first Salem Township [now Conneaut] meeting was held in 1804. He served five terms as a Salem trustee. In July 1818, he chaired the first Monroe Township election. He also served as a trustee and justice of the Peace in Monroe.
According to the Hall Family Bible, "W. M. Hall married Miss Marilla Niles the First day of June 1853." To their union were born six known children. Hamilton J. "Ham," Thomas H., Ezra B., Isadora J., William M.and Edward George Hall.
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Ohio Deaths and Burials, 1854-1997, LDS Film No. 890260, Vol. 1, p. 108 [LDS FamilySearch extraction]:
Name: Marilla Hall
Residence: Richmond
Death Date: 23 Aug 1875
Death Place: Plymouth, Ashtabula, Ohio
Age: 46; Est. Birth Date: 1829
Birthplace: Monroe, O.
Occupation: H. Keeper
Marital Status: Widowed
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After her husband was killed in the Civil War, Marilla raised her family as a single mother. She took a job in a cheese factory, presumably close to her home in Richmond Center, Ashtabula County. Cause of death is unknown.∼Daughter of Leonard H. Niles and his second wife, Matilda Lane, natives of Clarendon, Rutland Co., VT, and Buffalo, Erie Co., NY, Marilla was fourth born of seven known children: Clarissa, Barton C., Bolivar, Judd Barlow, Cornelia and Phebe Niles. She also had several half-siblings including Andrew Jackson Niles [b. 1815].
Marilla's paternal grandparents were David and Lydia Niles. David, born in Providence Co., RI, moved to Vermont in the mid-1770s where, during the Revolutionary War, he served in the Clarendon militia. In the early 1800s, the Niles family to Ohio, settling first in Canfield, Trumbull County, then in the South Ridge of what would become Ashtabula Co., OH.
The 1878 Williams Brothers' "History of Ashtabula County" records that David Niles was among three men elected supervisors of highways when the first Salem Township [now Conneaut] meeting was held in 1804. He served five terms as a Salem trustee. In July 1818, he chaired the first Monroe Township election. He also served as a trustee and justice of the Peace in Monroe.
According to the Hall Family Bible, "W. M. Hall married Miss Marilla Niles the First day of June 1853." To their union were born six known children. Hamilton J. "Ham," Thomas H., Ezra B., Isadora J., William M.and Edward George Hall.
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Ohio Deaths and Burials, 1854-1997, LDS Film No. 890260, Vol. 1, p. 108 [LDS FamilySearch extraction]:
Name: Marilla Hall
Residence: Richmond
Death Date: 23 Aug 1875
Death Place: Plymouth, Ashtabula, Ohio
Age: 46; Est. Birth Date: 1829
Birthplace: Monroe, O.
Occupation: H. Keeper
Marital Status: Widowed
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