Difference between revisions of "Elizabeth Marigold Hall"
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| − | '''History:''' | + | '''History:''' Eliza was born the first daughter of Philander and Beatrix in 1942. She is smart and a independent thinker. She was a difficult child for her parent to raise, as she was a tomboy and quite precocious. She broke family tradition when she became the first woman in the Hall Family to go to college against her parents wishes. She graduated with a degree in education and became involved in the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s where she met and fell in love with Cash Williamson. Their racially mixed relationship became a family scandal at the time, but was short lived when Cash was killed during the 1968 Chicago Riots. Shattered by his death, she has remained a single widow for the last thirty-five years. She has taught English for almost forty years and now holds a doctorate in the subject; for the last twenty years she has taught at the [[University of Chicago]]. |
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| + | '''Residence:''' She has long resided in the mixed middle class neighborhood of [[Hyde Park, Chicago]]. | ||
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Latest revision as of 13:44, 22 October 2016
Sobriquet: Eliza or Marie short for Marigold. Her niece, Tremen's daughter Catherine, would later bear her second nickname as a middle name.
Appearance:
Behavior:
History: Eliza was born the first daughter of Philander and Beatrix in 1942. She is smart and a independent thinker. She was a difficult child for her parent to raise, as she was a tomboy and quite precocious. She broke family tradition when she became the first woman in the Hall Family to go to college against her parents wishes. She graduated with a degree in education and became involved in the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s where she met and fell in love with Cash Williamson. Their racially mixed relationship became a family scandal at the time, but was short lived when Cash was killed during the 1968 Chicago Riots. Shattered by his death, she has remained a single widow for the last thirty-five years. She has taught English for almost forty years and now holds a doctorate in the subject; for the last twenty years she has taught at the University of Chicago.
Residence: She has long resided in the mixed middle class neighborhood of Hyde Park, Chicago.
Recent Events:
