Descendants

Irving Bowie Hall, II

b. July 3, 1947

Betty Einfeldt Jerman

b.
m.

Children

Irving Bowie Hall III
b. January 23, 1979

Rebecca Hall
b. January 23, 1979

James Hall
b. January 23, 1979

Bowie with triplets

Standing: Frank Selby, Betty Hall
Seated: Sandy, Agnes Selby, plus triplets

Article: Triplets: "Far out, Mom", by Lauraine Wagner

Elizabeth Hall figures the shock will hit her later, right now she's trying to get used to the idea of being the mother of triplets.

She and her husband, I. Bowie Hall, became the parents of identical twin boys and a girl Tuesday evening at Anne Arundel General Hospital, a birth that defies even the usual statistics on triplets.

The Crownsville couple had though since September that they were to have twins and it wasn't until X-rays were taken about three hours before the birth that the third child was found. Hall was able to watch his first children being born by Caesarean section after driving to the hospital from Virginia where he was working on his route for the Washington Coca Cola Co.

"I like it, I like kids," he said in reaction to the idea of being instant father of three. The family also includes two children of Mrs. Hall's from her first marriage, a daughter, Saundra, 10, who was wishing for a sister, and a son, Robert, 13, whose first words to his mother were "Gee whiz, Mom, far out."

Other than being ready for twins, the family has made no special preparations to fit the new trio into their three-bedroom home. "We have 30 dozen disposable diapers and five dozen real diapers ready," Mrs. Hall said. Her co-workers at the state Department of Assessments and Taxation had gotten the couple a layette for twins, but when they heard about the third arrival, they took up a collection and sent her a card with $127 inside.

The children are all strong and healthy, with little Irving Bowie Hall III weighing in at 6 pounds, 10 ounces at 6:15 p.m.; Rebecca Elmaria weighing 6 pounds, 13 ounces at 6:a6; and the smallest one, James Edward, weighing 5 pounds, 14 ounces when he was born at 6:17.

Loretta McGee of the hospitaql community relations office said triplets are born once in 10,000 births, statistically, but that Ann Arundel is having a veritable run on triplets with three sets in the last 1,700 births there during the past eight months.

The only other multiple births known in Mrs. Hall's family were twins who died when born prematurely to Mrs. Hall's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Einfeldt of Herald Harbor.

Mrs. Hall expects no problem coping with her full house. "The Mother of Twins Cub has been in touch," she said. "They said to call them whenever I have any problems, and I will have, they said."