Other Events:

• Group: Hall Direct Descendant
• Group: Halls of Wallingford - DNA Family 032
• Obituary: 14 Jun 1987, Hendersonville, Henderson County, North Carolina; The Times-News

Notes:

Group:
A person who is a direct descendant of any colonial New England Hall Family

Group:
Descendants of John Hall and Jane Woolen of New Haven and Wallingford.

Obituary:
Barney Cooke dead at 56

CHARLOTTSVILLE, Va. (AP) -- Barney Cooke, University of Virginia sports information director from 1968 to 1978, died of an apparent heart attack at his home Saturday, He was 56.

A native of Maryland, Cooke attended McDonough School in Lutherville, Md. He graduated from Virginia in 1957 after playing basketball and baseball for the Cavaliers. After a number of years in private business, he joined the staff of The Charlottesville Daily Progress and from there became SID at U. Va.

Six of his U. Va. football and basketball brochures won awards in national competition. He served as officer in various sportwriters associations.

After leaving the Virginia atheltic department, Cooke was employed in the accounty department at the University of Virginia Hospital.

For the past seven years, he served as secretary-treasurer of the Atlantic Coast Sports Writers Association, a part-time position.