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State of Service: NC
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
Author: Frank Grady Hall, III
The Hall Family initially came to America in 1720 from Donegal, Ireland. John Hall, his wife, two daughters and five sons, Hugh, John, Thomas, Jevel, and James settled in Lancaster County, Pa. There the five sons married and began rearing families. In 1751, two of the brothers, Thomas and James left with their families for the Shenandoah Valley, eventually settling in Rowan and Iredell Counties, N.C. Thomas had a son, Dr. John Hall, born in 1734. John married Sarah Green in 1761.
It is said that John Hall was a doctor and may have been an officer in the Revolutionary War. There is no documentation of the former and the latter appears to be a Colonel John Hall who married a Sarah McMurty. There seems to be much confusion with these two different people in the genealogy data observed on Ancestry.com.
This John Hall provided patriotic aid by being an overseer of roads in Rowan County from Third Creek to McGuire’s Branch on the South Yadkin River. This appointment was made in August 9, 1777 session of the Rowan County Court.
Sarah was born in 1736 and died in 1801 in Rowan County, NC; She and John had four sons and five daughters over a period of 20 years. Their fourth child, a son, was named John Hall who was born on April 24, 1769. He married Sarah Anderson on March 2, 1796 in Rowan County, N. C. John and Sarah Anderson Hall had seven children. The youngest, a son, named John Green Hall, was born in 1815. John Green Hall's parents died before he reached the legal age of twenty one. At that age he married Mary Anderson from South Carolina and moved to Tuscaloosa, Alabama shortly thereafter. John G. and Mary A. Hall had five sons and one daughter. In 1845 they permanently settled in Lamar County, Alabama in the Hightogy Community. Their fourth child and third son was named Soloman Richard Hall who was born on October 22, 1845 in Lamar County, Al. Soloman Hall married a widow, Francis Jane Mobley Johnson and had one son, James David Hall, born on November 27, 1874. James David Hall married Tallulah Jane (Lulu) Ward on March 10, 1897 in Lamar County, Al. They had eleven children, seven daughters and four sons. Written by James Ivan Hall
Their fifth son was Joseph Wells Hall who was born January 1770 in Rowan County, NC; died 5 Jul 1850 in Davie County, NC. On 27 August 1793, in Rowan County, NC, he married Margaret Linster, born 11 Nov 1771 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania; died 1 Nov November 1840 in Davie County, NC John’s wife is listed as Sarah on a land gift to his son Joseph in 1798 but her maiden name (Green) is not well documented.
John Hall died in 1797, and probably is buried at Third Creek Presbyterian Church in an unmarked grave beside his wife who is buried there in a grave with a stone marked “SH.” This grave is located next to Solomon Hall’s grave, one of John Hall’s sons.
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