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The Village of Gill Hall
Gill Hall is a little village in the western part of Jefferson Township. This small village proudly contains a Methodist Church and a United Presbyterian Church. There is also a Fire Department, a service station, and an elementary school called Gill Hall Elementary School which was built by Jefferson Borough in 1954. This village had its beginning back in the days when a man by the name of William McGill took out a land grant of 176 acres. On July 10. 1786, the name of the grant was called “Gill Hall.”
History of Allegheny county, Pennsylvania : including its early settlement...
Chicago : A. Warner Co., 1889
Cushing, Thomas, 1821
Pg. 621
ROBERT M. CURRY, farmer, post office Gill Hall, a son of EBENEZER D. and JANE (McGOWAN) CURRY, was born at Coal Valley, Jefferson Twp., in 1853. His grandparents, ROBERT and NANCY, were both natives of Maryland, and located on Lick Run, in Jefferson Twp., but soon after moved to Coal Valley, where they both died. ROBERT, in 1849, and NANCY about 1854. EBENEZER D. was born on Lick Run, Feb. 5, 1814, and JANE, his wife, daughter of JOHN McGOWEN, was born at Coal Valley. After their marriage they remained in Coal Valley until 1863, when EBENEZER purchased a farm at Gill Hall and moved to it. Their children were WILLIAM R. M., LEMUEL, EBENEZER, ANNA B., JOSEPH and ELIZABETH J. ANNA B. is now MRS. GEORGE SICKMAN. ROBERT M., in 1874, married NANNIE J., daughter of WILLIAM DUFF, of Jefferson Twp., and they have two children: ALVIN E. and CORA B. MR. and MRS. CURRY are members of the U. P. Church.
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