Mary Etta Hall was born 11 December 1853 in Olympia,
Washington, at Hall's Point, Hall Donation Claim; died
7 November 1923, in Portland, Oregon, and was buried in Riverview Cemetery there. It is reported that she was the first white girl born in Mason County, Washington.
After her graduation from the Portland Academy in 1874, Mary Etta, because she enjoyed sewing and was expert in the use of the new sewing machine, was kept busy helping the well-to-do women of Portland make dresses and layettes. She continued to teach a class in the Sunday school and to sing in the choir of the First Methodist
Church, and it was there she met her future husband, Benjamin Franklin Skolfield from Maine, in 1879, and they were married in 1884. Having arranged with her sister and brother-in-law, Charlotte and Herman Powell, to meet them at Olympia, Washington Territory, they went there with Mrs. Hall for the wedding, but the Powells were unable, at the last moment, to make the trip. Mary Etta and
B.F. Skolfield were married September 19, 1884 in the Methodist parsonage in Olympia by D. W. Cameron, the
pastor. Before their return to Portland they visited the Hall Donation Claim on Puget Sound, where they built a summer cottage about 1895. They made their home with Mrs. Hall on West Park Street in Portland until their own home was built on Glisan Street, between Twentieth and Twenty-First Streets, which they bought on 14 March 1887. They lived there until November 1907 when they moved to a larger house, which Mr. Skolfield designed and built on Omaha Avenue near Portland Boulevard. The children of Benjamin Franklin5 Skolfield and Mary Etta Hall, born in Portland, Oregon,
were:
i. Frank Hall6 Skolfield was born 9 January 1886; married
Flora Lucile Deaton.
ii. Esther May Skolfield was born 25 October 1888; married
Carl Louis August Schmidt.
iii. William King Skolfield was born 1 April 1891; married,
first, Dorothy Margaret Robinson; married, second, Betty
May Ellis.
Taken from a book:
"Decendants of Thomas Skolfield"
1707-1796 by "Ester S. deVries"
Washington, at Hall's Point, Hall Donation Claim; died
7 November 1923, in Portland, Oregon, and was buried in Riverview Cemetery there. It is reported that she was the first white girl born in Mason County, Washington.
After her graduation from the Portland Academy in 1874, Mary Etta, because she enjoyed sewing and was expert in the use of the new sewing machine, was kept busy helping the well-to-do women of Portland make dresses and layettes. She continued to teach a class in the Sunday school and to sing in the choir of the First Methodist
Church, and it was there she met her future husband, Benjamin Franklin Skolfield from Maine, in 1879, and they were married in 1884. Having arranged with her sister and brother-in-law, Charlotte and Herman Powell, to meet them at Olympia, Washington Territory, they went there with Mrs. Hall for the wedding, but the Powells were unable, at the last moment, to make the trip. Mary Etta and
B.F. Skolfield were married September 19, 1884 in the Methodist parsonage in Olympia by D. W. Cameron, the
pastor. Before their return to Portland they visited the Hall Donation Claim on Puget Sound, where they built a summer cottage about 1895. They made their home with Mrs. Hall on West Park Street in Portland until their own home was built on Glisan Street, between Twentieth and Twenty-First Streets, which they bought on 14 March 1887. They lived there until November 1907 when they moved to a larger house, which Mr. Skolfield designed and built on Omaha Avenue near Portland Boulevard. The children of Benjamin Franklin5 Skolfield and Mary Etta Hall, born in Portland, Oregon,
were:
i. Frank Hall6 Skolfield was born 9 January 1886; married
Flora Lucile Deaton.
ii. Esther May Skolfield was born 25 October 1888; married
Carl Louis August Schmidt.
iii. William King Skolfield was born 1 April 1891; married,
first, Dorothy Margaret Robinson; married, second, Betty
May Ellis.
Taken from a book:
"Decendants of Thomas Skolfield"
1707-1796 by "Ester S. deVries"
Mary Etta Hall was born 11 December 1853 in Olympia,
Washington, at Hall's Point, Hall Donation Claim; died
7 November 1923, in Portland, Oregon, and was buried in Riverview Cemetery there. It is reported that she was the first white girl born in Mason County, Washington.
After her graduation from the Portland Academy in 1874, Mary Etta, because she enjoyed sewing and was expert in the use of the new sewing machine, was kept busy helping the well-to-do women of Portland make dresses and layettes. She continued to teach a class in the Sunday school and to sing in the choir of the First Methodist
Church, and it was there she met her future husband, Benjamin Franklin Skolfield from Maine, in 1879, and they were married in 1884. Having arranged with her sister and brother-in-law, Charlotte and Herman Powell, to meet them at Olympia, Washington Territory, they went there with Mrs. Hall for the wedding, but the Powells were unable, at the last moment, to make the trip. Mary Etta and
B.F. Skolfield were married September 19, 1884 in the Methodist parsonage in Olympia by D. W. Cameron, the
pastor. Before their return to Portland they visited the Hall Donation Claim on Puget Sound, where they built a summer cottage about 1895. They made their home with Mrs. Hall on West Park Street in Portland until their own home was built on Glisan Street, between Twentieth and Twenty-First Streets, which they bought on 14 March 1887. They lived there until November 1907 when they moved to a larger house, which Mr. Skolfield designed and built on Omaha Avenue near Portland Boulevard. The children of Benjamin Franklin5 Skolfield and Mary Etta Hall, born in Portland, Oregon,
were:
i. Frank Hall6 Skolfield was born 9 January 1886; married
Flora Lucile Deaton.
ii. Esther May Skolfield was born 25 October 1888; married
Carl Louis August Schmidt.
iii. William King Skolfield was born 1 April 1891; married,
first, Dorothy Margaret Robinson; married, second, Betty
May Ellis.
Taken from a book:
"Decendants of Thomas Skolfield"
1707-1796 by "Ester S. deVries"
Washington, at Hall's Point, Hall Donation Claim; died
7 November 1923, in Portland, Oregon, and was buried in Riverview Cemetery there. It is reported that she was the first white girl born in Mason County, Washington.
After her graduation from the Portland Academy in 1874, Mary Etta, because she enjoyed sewing and was expert in the use of the new sewing machine, was kept busy helping the well-to-do women of Portland make dresses and layettes. She continued to teach a class in the Sunday school and to sing in the choir of the First Methodist
Church, and it was there she met her future husband, Benjamin Franklin Skolfield from Maine, in 1879, and they were married in 1884. Having arranged with her sister and brother-in-law, Charlotte and Herman Powell, to meet them at Olympia, Washington Territory, they went there with Mrs. Hall for the wedding, but the Powells were unable, at the last moment, to make the trip. Mary Etta and
B.F. Skolfield were married September 19, 1884 in the Methodist parsonage in Olympia by D. W. Cameron, the
pastor. Before their return to Portland they visited the Hall Donation Claim on Puget Sound, where they built a summer cottage about 1895. They made their home with Mrs. Hall on West Park Street in Portland until their own home was built on Glisan Street, between Twentieth and Twenty-First Streets, which they bought on 14 March 1887. They lived there until November 1907 when they moved to a larger house, which Mr. Skolfield designed and built on Omaha Avenue near Portland Boulevard. The children of Benjamin Franklin5 Skolfield and Mary Etta Hall, born in Portland, Oregon,
were:
i. Frank Hall6 Skolfield was born 9 January 1886; married
Flora Lucile Deaton.
ii. Esther May Skolfield was born 25 October 1888; married
Carl Louis August Schmidt.
iii. William King Skolfield was born 1 April 1891; married,
first, Dorothy Margaret Robinson; married, second, Betty
May Ellis.
Taken from a book:
"Decendants of Thomas Skolfield"
1707-1796 by "Ester S. deVries"
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