Jean Belle Potts and Walter Adair Hall

WALTER ADAIR HALL, son of SARAH ELIZABETH CRANE and WALTER BUELL HALL, was born March 3, 1862 in Fontanelle, Adair, Iowa,^{7619, 3661} and died March 24, 1945 in King County Hospital, Seattle, King, Washington.^{7619, 3661}

He married JEAN BELLE POTTS on September 29, 1887 in Seattle, King, Washington.⁵²¹⁷ She was born December 11, 1866 in Ireland,³⁶⁶¹ and died July 30, 1941 in Seattle, King, Washington.³⁶⁶¹

• Descendant Reports
  • Timothy Hall Descendant Report (Ancestor of Walter A. Hall)
  • Timothy Hall Descendant Report (Ancestor of Walter A. Hall)

Children of JEAN BELLE POTTS and WALTER ADAIR HALL:

1. MAUDE ADAIR HALL, b. July 21, 1888, Seattle, King, Washington;⁴⁵⁶ m. (1) EDWIN JACKSON BOSTOCK on January 9, 1905 in Seattle, King, Washington⁵²¹⁷, m. (2) FRANK ELLSWORTH BANKER on July 5, 1945 in Snohomish, Washington⁵²¹⁷; d. August 10, 1963, Washington.⁷⁵⁶

Personal Information

• Walter Adair Hall and Fred M. Hall was publisher of The Seattle Daily Call.^{7619, 10211}

• Walter Adair Hall was a member of the Washington Pioneers' Association.⁷⁶¹⁹

Obituaries

Seattle Times, March 26, 1945⁷⁶¹⁹

HALL, PIONEER PUBLISHER, DIES

Walter Adair Hall, 83 years old, a Seattle pioneer, who in 1886 founded The Seattle Daily Call, which was later incorporated into The Seattle Times, died Saturday in a hospital. Mr. Hall had liver here 75 years.

Funeral services, under auspices of the Church of Spiritual Unity, will be held at 1 o'clock Thursday at the Home Undertaking Company mortuary. Cremation will follow. The Rev. Loe Elmore will officiate.

Arrived Here in 1870

Mr. Hall, born in Fontanelle, Adair County, Iowa, came here with his parents and sister in 1870. The journey was made over the Union Pacific to San Francisco and from there by the sailing vessel Forest Queen to Port Gamble.

They arrived in Seattle aboard the sidewheeler Eliza Anderson, docking at Yesler's Wharf. Hall was employed as a printer's devil on The Seattle Daily Dispatch, run off on an Army hand press, with a circulation of 250.

In 1886 Mr. Hall and his brother, Fred M. Hall, and a cousin, Frank L. Hall, founded The Seattle Daily Call. They later sold the paper, which was consolidated with The Daily Chronicle, into The Seattle Daily Press, later The Times.

Mr. Hall was the first secretary of the Park Board. He retired from business life in 1910 and for the past 35 years had been living at 316 15th Ave. N. His residence and other buildings occupied a tract of ground which is the last of a 40-acre tract acquired by his grandfather, Daniel M. Crane, in 1868.

He was a member of the Washington Pioneers' Association. His wife, Jean Bette Potts Hall, whom he married September 29, 1887, died four years ago. Surviving is a daughter, Mrs. Maude Bostock of Everett.

Census Records

Date	Location	Enumerated Names
June 18, 18703665	Seattle, King, Washington	Walter Buell Hall Sarah Elizabeth Crane Emma K. Hall Walter Adair Hall Fred M. Hall
June 10, 18803664	Seattle, King, Washington	Walter Buell Hall Sarah Elizabeth Crane Walter Adair Hall Fred M. Hall
June 8, 19003666	Seattle, King, Washington	Walter Adair Hall Jean Belle Potts Maude Adair Hall
April 19, 19103667	Seattle, King, Washington	Walter Adair Hall Jean Belle Potts Maude Adair Hall Edwin Jackson Bostock
January 17, 1920989	Bellevue, King, Washington	Walter Adair Hall Jean Belle Potts Emma K. Hall
April 17, 1930991	Seattle, King, Washington	Walter Adair Hall Jean Belle Potts
April, 19405225	Seattle, King, Washington	Walter Adair Hall Jean Belle Potts