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William Hall, the progenitor of another prominent Ritchie county family, found a home on the river above Oxford, across what is now the Doddridge county line, as early as 1830, but ere the lapse of many years, he removed to the Flannagan farm above Berea, and later resided at both Pullman and Harrisville. He finally, in his old age, went to Roane county where he died, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Thomas McKinley, during the spring of 1873.
Mr. Hall was born in Loudin county, Virginia, in 1797, and from there he emigrated to Harrison county in his young manhood where he met and married Miss Mary Ann Lowther, eldest daughter of Jesse, and Mary Ragan Lowther, and granddaughter of Col. William, and from West Milford, they came to Oxford. Mrs. Hall survived him by three years, dying at the home of her daughter in Roan county in 1876. And there by his side she lies at rest.
Their children were as follows:
Jesse L. Hall, William, Celina, Lucinda, Mary, Elizabeth, Elias, Robert Hannibal, Lemuel, Smith,
and Judge Cyrus Hall, all of whom have now crossed the tide, with the possible exception of Elias. ...