7. Ellery Robinson, b. February 27, 1834.---Family 35.
[Family 35.]
ELLERY ROBINSON HALL, pedigree as before: was born February 27, 1834, and was married October 27, 1859, to Celinda V. Fleming, who was born June 15, 1840. He died September 23, 1868, and is buried in the Jones cemetery. His widow still lives in Fairmont. During the seven or eight years previous to his death, Mr. Hall had been identified in various capacities with the public affairs of his people. He was secretary of the convention which framed the Constitution of West Virginia, and, subsequently, upon the resignation of William W. Lewis, Esq., became secretary of the Virginia Senate under the re-organized government. Uponthe inauguration of the new State, he was made secretary of the West Virginia Senate, and held the position with great acceptability till the day of his death. In 1864 he was sent as a delegate to the National Convention which re-nominated Mr. Lincoln; and again in 1868, was a delegate-at-large to the convention at Chicago which nominated General Grant. He was chairman of the Republican State Central Committee at the time of his death; and in every position was always equal to the place and occasion. He was possessed of fine literary taste, and talents as a writer of no mean order. He was an elector-at-large, on the ticket which re-elected Lincoln. In the Senate of West Virginia, resolutions of condolence were passed by that body; also by the Bar Association, of Fairmont.
Mr. Hall was, at his death, still a young man, scarcely thirty-five, I think. He left a widow and three children, and a wide circle of relatives and friends. He was a gentleman of more than ordinary intelligence and capabilities; a lawyer by profession and practice; a self-educated man; a genial and companionable associate; faithful alike in his friendships and in his political convictions, being an ardent and inflexible advocate of equal rights for all men. He sustained an unblemished moral character and died in the christian faith, having been a regular worshiper in the Methodist Protestant Church. Peace to his ashes.
