Miriam E. Hale

  General Notes:

See notes on her son, Perry, for 1900 census facts.

The Hales of New River Valley. [http://www.kinyon.com/westvirginia/midnewriver/appendixc4.htm]
The traditional story in the family of these New River Hales is, that the family was quite numerous in Massachusetts and Connecticut, and that some time prior to the beginning of our War for Independence there were in one family of this name seven brothers, all of whom joined the American Army; a part of them served through the war under General Washington in and around Boston, in the Jerseys and in Pennsylvania; that one of the older brothers, who had a family, drifted south to Virginia some years prior to the beginning of the Revolution, and located in what is now Franklin County, Virginia; that this settler had a son Edward, who served in the American Army in the early period of the Revolution, and later, in 1779, came across the Alleghanies into the New River Valley, and later married a Miss Patsy Perdue and settled on Wolf Creek. Edward Hale was born about 1750, was a man of rather small stature, fair complexion and blue eyes, was a man of information and intelligence, and became a prominent figure on the border in his day, engaging in the Indian wars, fights and skirmishes. He was with the party under Captain Matthew Farley, that followed the Indians in the summer of 1783, after their attack on Mitchell Clay's family, on the Bluestone at Clover Bottom, and was in the skirmish had with a part of these Indians on Pond Fork of Little Coal River, in which he killed an Indian at the first fire. From the back of this Indian, killed by Edward Hale, William Wiley, who was in the party of pursuers, took a strip of the Indian's hide, which he gave to Hale and was used by him and a number of his family for many years as a razor strop. Opposite this page is the photograph of Dr. James W. Hale, a descendant of the Captain Edward Hale above mentioned.
Edward Hale marched with Captain Shannon's company to North Carolina, in February, 1781, and was in the engagement at Wetzell's Mills, on the 6th day of March, and at Guilford Court House on the 15th day of the same month. In 1785 Edward Hale married Miss patsy Perdue, a daughter of Uriah Perdue, then recently removed from what is now Franklin County, Virginia. Mrs. Hale was a sister of the wife of the elder Joseph Hare. The names of the children of Edward Hale and his wife are as follows, viz: Thomas, Isaiah, Charles, Jesse, Isaac, Daniel, Elias and William; and the daughters, Mary and Phoebe. Thomas married Miss Lucas, Isaiah married Margaret Lucas, Isaac married Miss Lucas, Jesse married Margaret Watts, Elias married Nancy Peters, William married Miss Williams; Mary married John Williams, and they moved to the state of Missouri, and Phoebe married John McClaugherty, son of James.
Thomas Hale had sons, Charles, Edward, Lorenzo D., Green, Thomas, and Ralph; daughters, Priscilla, who married William H. French; Martha, who married, first David F. Alvis, second William Shannon; Rhonda, who never married.
Isaac had one son, Daniel P.; daughters, Eliza, who married Captain James F. Hare; Martha, who married Russell G. French; Miriam, who married Isaac H. Day; Mary, who married Charles E. Hale; Sarah, who married, first, Rufus Brown, second, Luke Wells; Daniel P., married Martha Shumate.

Miriam married Isaac H. Day on 24 Jul 1849 in Giles Co., VA. (Isaac H. Day was born about 1828 in Virginia and died after 1880 in Giles Co., VA..)

  Marriage Notes:

Virginia Marriages, 1740-1850 <http://www.ancestry.com>
Groom Name: ISAAC DAY
Bride Name: MARIAM E. HALE
Marriage Date: 24 Jul 1849
County: Giles
State: Virginia