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... Judge Cyrus Hall. -
Judge Cyrus Hall married Miss Amelia Scott, a sister of his brother Smith's wife, and principally spent his long life at Harrisville, Parkersburg, and Charleston. His family consisted of two daughters, and three sons; viz., Flora died in childhood, Louella became Mrs. Chancellor, of Parkersburg, but after the death of her first husband she married H. T. Shffey, of Charleston; the late Judge Cyrus Hall, B. B. and Thomas C., all of Charleston, are his sons.
Judge Hall was one among the prominent men that this county has produced. Born in Harrison county early in the century, he came to this county with his parents in the "log cabin days" and struggled up through the many disadvantages that surrounded the ambitious lad in those days of untold privation and toil.
He was graduated from college, studied law, and at the age of thirty years went to Woodsfield, Ohio, where he was admitted to the bar; and after a brief stay here, he returned to this county and took up his residence at Harrisville, where he practiced his profession for a number of years. He was Ritchie county's first Prosecuting Attorney, and was at one time her representative in the Legislature at Richmond.
He was a member of the Richmond convention that passed the ordinance of secession, and with one exception was the last survivor of that stormy body. He went there as an opponent of secession, but in the heat of the fight, was, won over and cast his vote for the measure - the passing of which sounded the bugle-note for the formation of the "Little Mountain State".
For a number of years after the birth of West Virginia, he was the judge of the County court of Wood county. He practiced in the courts of Virginia and West Virginia for almost sixty years, rising to distinction at the bar. It is said that he never lost a case before the Supreme Court of the State. He died at Charleston early in the year 1909, at the age of ninety years. His wife preceded him to the grave by fifteen years. ...
