Person:Hezekiah Hull (4)

"Hezekiah Hull, son of Samuel and Mabel Hull, of New Haven, and grandson of Ebenezer and Lydia (Dunbar) Hull, of New Haven, was born in New Haven on August 20, 1796. He joined the United Church in New Haven in January, 1809. He was prepared for College by Elizur Goodrich (Williams Coll. 1806), at the Hopkins Grammar School.

For two years after graduation he taught an academy in Wallingford with much credit. He then spent three years in the Andover Theological Seminary. On October 13, 1819, he was ordained at West Hartford as an evangelist by the North Consociation of Hartford County, having been appointed by the Connecticut Missionary Society as a missionary to Louisiana. He left home in November, and on reaching Cincinnati, was dissuaded from going further, on account of the lateness of the season, and in response to an urgent request he spent a year in Montgomery, about thirteen miles to the northeast, teaching an academy and preaching.

He resumed his journey in November, 1820, and after some months spent upon the way in missionary labor arrived at Alexandria, in central Louisiana, on the Red River, in January, 1821.

Here he was immediately employed as a preacher, and also as the principal of the academy, and continued to be busy with these duties until the summer of 1822. He then returned to New England, and was married on October 13 by the Rev. Dr. Justin Edwards to Sarah Kneeland, daughter of John Love joy and Phebe (Abbot) Abbot, of Andover, and sister of the Rev. John L. Abbot (Harvard Coll. 1805).

In December they arrived in Alexandria, and he resumed his occupations with new ardor and devotedness. He enjoyed uninterrupted health until he succumbed to fever, when his death followed, after nine days' illness, on August 3, 1823, at the age of 27.

His wife married in July, 1825, his older brother, Sidney Hull, of New Haven, and died here on January 8, 1834, aged 36½ years. Sidney Hull next married (as the fourth of his five wives) her younger sister Martha.

His promise of usefulness was great, and his enjoyment of life keen, but he met his fate with manly resignation.

AUTHORITIES. Abbot Genealogical Register, 26. Christian Spectator, vii, 556-60. Conn. Missionary Society's Narrative for 1820, 12."^[1]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Biographical Sketches, 1814, in Dexter, Franklin Bowditch. Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College With Annals of the College History. (New York / New Haven: Holt / Yale University Press, 1885-1912)
   6:664-65.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Hull, in Jacobus, Donald Lines. Families of Ancient New Haven. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1974)
   4:884.

   "Hezekiah (Hull), b c. 1796, d 3 Aug 1823 æ. 27 (at Alexandria, La.) (gravestone, City Burial Ground, New Haven); Rev."

3.   Rev Hezekiah Hull, in Find A Grave.

   This monument is almost certainly a cenotaph.