Marie Bauer Hall

Marie Bauer Hall was born in Germany on June 25, 1904, raised Catholic, trained in a convent to become a teacher, and immigrated to the United States at age 18 as a nursemaid. She authored books like *Foundations Unearthed* (1940) exploring codes leading to a vault in Bruton Parish, Williamsburg, Virginia, linked to Francis Bacon and Shakespeare authorship theories; she married Manly P. Hall in 1950 after her first marriage to George Bauer ended in divorce.[1][2][3]