U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Hall Family ------------------------------------------------------------------- History of Ritchie County by Minnie Kendall Lowther Wheeling News Litho. Co., Wheeling W.Va., 1911 Page 475 The Halls.— The family of the late John Hall have been identified with the business interests of this town since in the early fifties, when he with his wife, Mrs. Frances Patterson Hall, came from Greensboro, Pennsylvania, and entered the mercantile business, which has been held in-tact by his son, J. M. Hall, since his death, on September 27, 1877, at the age of sixty-seven years. Mrs. Hall lost her life on March 12, 1896, when the family residence was destroyed by fire. They were the parents of five children: Harriett Ann died in 1875, and the rest are as follows: J. M., and Miss Frances Hall, of Harrisville; Edward, of Parkersburg: and Mrs. Ella (L. G.) Bennington, of Fairmont. Owing to the loss of the records when the residence was burned, this sketch is very brief; but this family of Halls came from Delaware, and with but little doubt belonged to the same family as Syelus Hall, of Pullman. Though the connecting link is missing. ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Ritchie County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/ritchie/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------