When we went to the 2009 Hall-Wertz Reunion in Halls Run near West Renono PA, we stopped at Mom's old Hall homestead, Point Breeze, in South Renovo to take a look at the renovations.  Here are Then & Now photos.  After Everett Franklin & Emma Louisa Wertz Hall passed on, their adopted son, my grandfather, Clarence Richard Hall and his wife, Alice T. Downs Hall (whose mother was Matilda Florence Wertz, sister to Taylor and Emma Louisa Wertz) moved from their dairy farm up Hall's Run and raised their children at Point Breeze, Emma, Belle and Pearl Hall.  I remember when Mother (Pearl Hall Poorman), Aunt Emma (Emma Hall Hammond) and Aunt Belle (Belle Hall DeFilippo) sold Point Breeze to Frank and Helen Stagoff in the 1950's.  I haven't been in the house since I was a kid when we visited the Stagoff's occasionally.   I remember seeing the guest house, barn and ice house when I was young.  We used to walk up to the old reservoir.  The spring across the bridge is still running. Point Breeze - Before c1900 Photo shows Everett Franklin Hall and his wife Emma Louisa Wertz Hall at Point Breeze (Someone colored that old bush with a little blue paint-ha) Point Breeze - After 2009 photo shows the whole front section of the house removed and the two ends of the rear section gabled, now a duplex.

Doug Humes, our Hall-Wertz family historian, was on vacation in July/August 2009 and had the opportunity to spend time with Joe Black, a Hall cousin who had attended the Renovo reunion for the first time a few years ago.  His grandfather, Samuel Perry Hall, and Doug's grandfather, Ralph Owens Hall, of Beech Creek, Pa, were brothers.  They met for the first time at the Hall-Wertz reunion, and met again when Doug's wife and he went up to New York City to see an off Broadway play that Joe was producing.  They had occasion to spend time with Joe and his wife Sandy in the Sonoma Valley of California.  As they were driving through Napa doing the winery tours, they saw that there was a Hall Vineyard, and so they stopped, took the attached photo, and went in for the tasting.  Doug said it would have been fun to show up at Renovo with a case of Hall wine to share with everyone, but apparently many of the California wineries do not ship to Pennsylvania, Delaware or Utah.  Here’s the Hall Winery website if you would like more info:  http://www.hallwines.com/home.

Halls in Hayes-Fearon Cemetery in Beech Creek PA

Jesse Hall Jr. & Mary Brooks Shaffer Hall

Everett Franklin Hall

Clarence Richard Hall

Clicky to enlarge Clarence Wertz Hall Family

Visit the Hall-Wertz Reunion 2nd Sat in Aug Route 144 South of Renovo PA near Barney Run Road

Jesse Hall Park Map

Hall-Wertz Cemetery Map

Betsy Johnson, wife of Jesse Hall Sr.

Hall-Wertz Cemetery - Halls Run West Renovo, Clinton County PA

ALICE T. (DOWNS) HALL My Grandmother Photo taken in 1928 Alice Thea Downs Hall 1877 - 1932 CLARENCE RICHARD (WERTZ) HALL (my Grandfather "Richard") was born 11/11/1880 in Hall's Run, Noyes Township, Clinton County, PA, and died 10/19/1920 at Renovo PA.  He married ALICE THEA DOWNS (my grandmother) on 10/9/1905 in Williamsport, Lycoming county, PA.  She was born 8/27/1877 and died 12/22/1932 at Point Breeze, South Renovo, PA on the Hall Family Estate.  Her original name was "Anna Althea Downs" and she changed it to "Alice Thea Downs."  ALice was the daughter of John Luther Downs and Matilda Florence Wertz Downs (a sister of Clarence's biological father, Taylor Zachery Wertz). Clarence and Alice are both buried in Hall-Werts Cemetery, Halls Run PA. They lived at Point Breeze, up below the reservoir in South Renovo. They had also lived on the farm way up Barney Run Road near the river, and in Philadelphia.   Richard and Alice had three children:      1) Emma Louise Hall B 9-8-1907 D 10/15/1991 DAR# 405901 (CA)      2) Belle Evelyn Hall B 6-19-1910 D 12/26/1997 (San Francisco CA)      3) PEARL MADELINE HALL (my Mother) B 7-19-1913 D 2-5-1976   Emma Hall Hammond 1907 - 1991 Emma Louise Hall was born 10/8/1907 at 1831 North Mervine Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and died on 10/15/1991 in Manteca California. (DAR# 405901) She married Tyler Frederick Hammond, Sr. on 12/30/1933 at the Washington Memorial Chapel in Valley Forge National Park. He was born on 5/31/1902 at Philadelphia, PA. They had three children: 1) Alice Downs Hammond O'Leary (living) (DAR# 452900) 2) Helena Hammond Rose Swift (living) 3) Tyler F. Hammond Jr. (deceased) Aunt Emma's DAR Info: Patriot Name: Emma Louise Hall Hammond National Number: 901901 Chapter: 8017CA La Peurta de Oro-San Francisco Chapter Chapter website: http://www.cheryldar.com/index.html Belle Hall DeFilippo 1910 - 1997 Belle Evelyn Hall was born 6/19/1910 and died 12/26/1997 in California. She married Valdo "Val" DeFilippo, no children. Pearl Hall Poorman 1913 - 1976 PEARL MADELINE HALL was born 7/19/1913 and died 2/5/1976 in Williamsport PA.  She married KENNETH JOHN POORMAN in 1941 (My Parents). They had two children:      1. Kenneth Richard Poorman (the good one)      2. Stephen Philip Poorman (the bad one) NOTE RE YOUNG TYLER HAMMOND JR: Today, October 15, 2007, I was cleaning out a drawer and found a postcard from my cousin, Tyler Hammond Jr. dated in 1993.  He congratulated Diane and I on our mariage.  He said he was living and working in Amsterdam.  He was staying at the Shelter Jordan Hostel, and asked us to keep in touch.  He stayed with Diane and I for two weeks shortly before he passed away.  He looked pretty ill then.  I took him for a relaxing drive through Lancaster County one day he was feeling up to getting out in the sunshine.  So sorry he died so young.  His father, Tyler "Barry" Hammond was my first cousin, and he was killed at a young age.  Barry was Aunt Emma Hall Hammond's son.  They lived in the Bay Area at San Francisco.  Young Tyler lived with me one summer in Vienna Virginia in the early '80's when he was in college.  He was working for the summer in U.S. Senator Wilson's office.  I told him stories about when his father Barry had lived with us in Pennsylvania for a year when he came East to go to Lock Haven High School his senior year.  I enjoyed getting to know Barry well, and later his son Tyler.  I am still sad about them both - and about Aunt Emma.  I'll hang on to this postcard.

My Hall Line

Wertz

Wertz Family, Renovo PA Area Seated: Taylor Z. Wertz & wife Phebe Ann Hall; and her brother, Everett Franklin Hall 1912

My Wertz Family . . . ZACKARY TAYLOR WERTZ & PHEBE ANN HALL - had 12 children: • John Wertz, Married Maize Haas • Elial McVey Wertz, Married Alice Delia W. Smith • Joseph Wertz, Married Cordie Croak • Beatrice Wertz, Married John Croak (family-Minnie/Joe DeVaul-Ruth/Tom Youngquist) • Deward Wertz, Married Ann Hibler • Myrtle Wertz, Married Alvin Doebler (& 2 G. Goodman) • Lloyd Wertz, Married Jane Askey • Edythe Wertz, Married Arthur Dadd • Elletta Wertz, Married Robert Valentine • Everett Wertz, Married Alice Seese • Martha Wertz • Clarence Richard Wertz (Hall), Married Alice T. Downs (my grandpa)

My Wertz Line

John L Downs & Matilda F Wertz Family in 1891

Click here to see our DOWNS genealogy

Mary Ann Pfoutz of Kettle Creek PA married our John W. Wertz in 1846 . . .

Click here to see our PFOUTZ genealogy

Paternal Side:

My father, Kenneth John Poorman, was born in his grandparents home at 108 Jessamine Street in Lock Haven PA, and he was raised in Lock Haven and Castanea.  He worked at the Paper Mill most of his life.  His grandfather, Robert Curtain Poorman was from Castanea, and worked on the Railroad.  His dad, John Sylvester Poorman, worked at the Paper Mill also, and was building a house in Castanea at 15 East Brown Street when he died, next door to the EUB (United Methodist) Church.  Dad's mother, Maude Ryan Poorman, raised him and his sisters, Frances (Smith) and Kathryn (Moon), on Jessamine Street.  My father finished the house in Castanea after he married my mother, Pearel Madeline Hall of Renovo, and they raised me and my brother Steve.  Although 108 has been torn down, there is a tree of my great grandmother's still standing there, that I visit every time I come to Lock Haven, annually.

My Great Grandpa Robert Curtin Poorman

My Great Grandma Maime Ingram Poorman

Union Throne Cemetery

McElhattan Pennsylvania

My Grandpa John Sylvester Poorman

My Dad Kenneth John Poorman

Me Kenneth Richard Poorman

My Bro Stephen Phillip Poorman

My Poorman Line

My Great Grandparents Daniel & Frances Monroe Ryan	My Great Grandmother Frances Monroe Ryan Quay	My Grandmother Maude Ryan Poorman
My Great Aunt Hazel Ryan Stoddart	My Great Aunt Mary Ryan McNerney	I have no photos of Great Uncles Charlie and Mick (John) Ryan

Dad, Me, Gram & Old Gram

Ken, Kenny, Maude Poorman & Frances Monroe Ryan

M1. Bonnell
Donna's Dad, Ernest Bonnell (Center)	Mabel English Bonnell
Some BONNNELL Genealogy My divorce from Donna R. Bonnell Poorman was final on October 27, 1987; Court of Common Pleas Chester County, Pennsylvania - the annullment was effective March 5, 1998 in Philadelphia.

M2. Hansberry

Frank & Elsie Corson Hansberry

Elsie Corson Hansberry Francis Joseph Hansberry 50th Wedding Anniversary August 2006

The Hansberry Family

Some HANSBERRY Genealogy

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