Talk:Josephus Hall House

Requested move 26 September 2019

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The result of the move request was: Consensus to move. (closed by non-admin page mover)  SITH   (talk)   12:41, 12 October 2019 (UTC)

McNeely–Strachan House → Josephus Hall House – I have never once seen it called anything else — Vchimpanzee  •  talk  •  contributions  •  16:08, 26 September 2019 (UTC) --Relisting. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 08:54, 5 October 2019 (UTC)


 *  Oppose  until we see a rationale based in sources. The NRHP calls it by the present title, for two families of residents of the house who were descendents of Mr. Hall.  That part of the history has been omitted. Dicklyon (talk) 04:30, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
 * No further objection to the move, but be sure to include both names and the bit of known heritage per our exchange at User_talk:Dicklyon. Dicklyon (talk) 17:16, 3 October 2019 (UTC)


 * Comment I'll work on getting that information, but not one time in newspaper coverage has the other name ever been used.— Vchimpanzee  •  talk  •  contributions  •  16:10, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment By the way, it's Dr. Hall.— Vchimpanzee  •  talk  •  contributions  •  19:16, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Support per COMMON NAME, which the NRHP forms are notoriously not an indication of. Jonathunder (talk) 15:16, 3 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Support since I removed my oppose above, and it seems to be unopposed but got relisted anyway. Dicklyon (talk) 15:08, 11 October 2019 (UTC)

Ref calls it Josephus W. Hall House
The Ref that I added from NCPedia says that it was called the Josephus W. Hall House.

"The house was purchased by the Historic Salisbury Foundation in 1972 and designated the Josephus W. Hall House."

19:01, 29 September 2019 (UTC) User:G._Moore Talk
 * I feel certain that just making a list, from the custom Google search function, of all the references to "Josephus Hall House" in the Salisbury Post and all the references to "McNeely–Strachan House" in the same newspaper would be sufficient to make the case.— Vchimpanzee  •  talk  •  contributions  •  19:30, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
 * No results.— Vchimpanzee  •  talk  •  contributions  •  19:32, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
 * 1370 results. I think that settles it. When I can, I'll find out what's going on with the name and make sure everything we need to include is there.— Vchimpanzee  •  talk  •  contributions  •  19:37, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
 * More evidence: 18 matches. 0 Matches.— Vchimpanzee  •  talk  •  contributions  •  14:20, 3 October 2019 (UTC)


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On Hall, McNeely, and Strachan names
I collected this info to help us figure out why the names are used, and what to say about them. Sadly, not a ton of clarity in "reliable sources", but a picture emerges:
 * Per this 1919 book, p. 24, Mrs. J. D. NcNeely was Dr. Hall's daughter. A Mrs. Strachan is mentioned on p. 25, and a Mayor (of Salisbury in 1919) W. B. Strachan on p.8 – not clear what the relationship is.  And p. 27 mentions "our young mayor" so we can presume that Mr. Strachan was pretty young at the time (which is relevant as we'll see that he marries Mrs. McNeely's daughter, also named Henrietta; maybe had by then.).
 * This page says Mrs. McNeely was "Henrietta [Hall], who was the wife of Julius D. McNeely."
 * this Library of Congress photo page has "Mrs. W. B. Strachan" as a "related name" for a 1938 photo of the house. Probably the owner at the time.
 * The Wells ref, the NRHP inventory–nomination form, has, across pages 7 and 8, "Descendants of the Halls (among whom were the McNeelys and the Strachans from whom comes the present name of the house) have lived there for over a hundred years."
 * This forum page says Henrietta McNealy (sic) married Waverly Strachan (which other sources verify is the name of the mayor). I don't know if this is the same Henrietta re-marrying, or her daughter, but that can probably be estimated.
 * this Find-a-grave page shows that Henrietta McNeely Strachan was the daughter of Henrietta Hall McNeely. So, Mrs. McNeely's daughter married the young mayor, acquiring the Strachan name among Hall's descendants.
 * This 1919 book sums it up (but doesn't mention the house), showing that Strachan married Henrietta McNeely, daughter of Henrietta (Hall McNeely) and Julius McNeely, in 1901. So maybe he wasn't all that young in 1919.  And the "Mrs. Strachan" mentioned in the first book was the daughter of "Mrs. McNeely" and wife of the absent mayor.


 * Dicklyon (talk) 02:53, 4 October 2019 (UTC)