Person:Amos Hall (21)

MAJ. AMOS HALL was born in Chatham County, N. C., September 9, 1803, and is the second in a family of eleven children born to John C. and Sallie (Strickland) Hall, both of whom were natives of North Carolina and of English descent. ...

Maj. Amos Hall received a fair common school education in youth, for that early day, at the old field schools taught in the rude schoolhouses of the Kentucky frontier, which were of the primitive sort, with puncheon floors and clapboard roofs. He was employed on his father’s farm until he was twenty-seven years old, after which he brought 100 acres of wild land, in the southwest part of Simpson County, Ky., on the waters of Spring Creek, and subsequently improved the farm upon which he still resides. He continued to add to his place from time to time, now owning a well improved farm (one of the best improved places in the county) of some 600 acres.

In early life he was a captain in the State Militia, and was promoted to major.
He married, in March, 1829, Sallie Campbell, a native of Logan County, Ky., ...

In politics Maj. Hall is a Democrat and is one of the early pioneers and enterprising and successful farmers, as well as one of the prominent and respected citizens of the county and district.

1830 U.S. Census, Logan Co. KY, page 67
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John C. HALL
1 white male 10 – 15; [b 1815-1820: son 7]
2 white males 15 – 20; [b 1810-1815: sons 6 and 5]
1 white male 20 – 30; [b 1800-1810: son 4]
1 white male 50 - 60; [b 1770-1780: John C Hall]
1 white female 5 – 10; [b 1820-1825: dau 4]
1 white female 10 – 15; [b 1815-1820: dau 3]
1 white female 15 – 20; [b 1810-1815: dau 2]
1 white female 40 – 50; [b 1780-1790: wife Sallie]
1 white female 70 – 80; [b 1750-1760: Unk female]
Total = 10.

Amos HALL
2 white males 20 – 30; [b 1800-1810: Amos Hall and possibly brother (son 3 of John)]
1 white female 20 – 30; [b 1800-1810: wife Sallie Campbell]
2 female slaves under 10;
Total = 5.