SOURCE: Commemorative biographical record of central Pennsylvania:

Subject: ELLIS I. HALL born 17 Oct 1840 in Lawrence Township, Clearfield County, PA:

His paternal grandparents, James Hall and wife (who was a Miller) were natives of Ireland who, on coming to America, first located in Mifflin County, PA. At an early day, however, they took up their residence in Bald Eagle Valley, Centre County, where both died. For some time the grandfather successfully followed teaching. His children were John, father of our subject; Samuel who died in McKeesport, PA; James, who died in Columbiana County, Ohio; Miller, who conducted a hotel in Milesburg, Centre County, where his death occurred; Benjamin, who lived for some time in Clearfield County, and later in St. Mary's, Elk County, PA; Alexander, who went to California in 1849, and died there; Eliza, who married David Haney, and removed to Jefferson County, PA, where her death occurred; Mary, who wedded Peter Hoover, and died in Clearfield County; Jane, who married first a Mr. McCoy, and later a Mr. Van Volen, and died in Centre County; and Margaret, who married Abraham Estes, and died in Jefferson County.

  John Hall was born in 1800, in Mifflin County, where he was reared, and during his youth he learned the shoemaker's trade in Philipsburg, PA, after which he removed to Lawrence Township, Clearfield County. He was married to Miss Nancy Passmore, a native of that county, and a daughter of Abraham and Susanna (Pierce) Passmore, who were born in Maryland, and died in Lawrence Township, Clearfield County. By trade her father was a blacksmith. She also departed this life in Lawrence Township, and later Mr. Hall was again married Knox County, Ohio,, his second union being with Mrs. Nancy (Horn) Conoway, who now resides in Colorado. The father's death occurred in Cedar County, Iowa, September 8, 1876. He was a lumberman by occupation, for many years served as justice of the peace, and had the confidence and respect of all who knew him.

 Our subject is next to the youngest of the eight children born of the first union, the others being as follows: Margaret, deceased wife of George Boxersox; George H., a prominent business man of Clearfield County; Julia Ann, wife of Levi Dressler, of Union Township, Clearfield County; Elizabeth, who married William Null, and died in Jefferson County; Mary, wife of John Ross, of Clearfield County; Rebecca, widow of Henry Sulsbaugh, and a resident of Pennsylvania; and Caroline, wife of Eli Passmore, of Greenwood Township, Clearfield County.