Person:James Hall (126)

James Bolton and Allie became Christian Scientists. At one time James was a 'Reader' in the church. After his wife died in 1929, "Papa Hall' lived in an apartment on the second floor of the church building on 7th Avenue in Parkersburg, West Virginia. His daughter has told me that he had a furniture store in Parkersburg, but lost it during the depression years. His children were all raised in a nice home on 19th Street, but by 1930 he was living in that apartment, so perhaps he lost the house also?? It was one of those things the family did not talk about to this little child.

1860 Census Twp n/g; Wood Co., Virginia
Post Office: Bellview, VA
Henry J. Hall 28 M Farmer 700 100 Ohio
Eliza J. Hall 23 F PA
J. W. W. B. Hall 1 M VA (James Bolton Hall)
Philand J. Smith 16 M 16 farm labor PA
and living next hh to Henry is his father.

1870 Census Harris Twp., Wood Co., West Virginia
Post Office: Lubeck
Hall, James H. 39 M W Carpenter 500 700 OH
Hall, Eliza E. 30 F W Keeping house PA
Hall, Emma 13 F W VA
Hall, J. W. W. Bolton 11 M W VA (indexed as J. W. W. Belton Hall)
Hall, Dora 3 F W OH (gender error)
Hall, Olive V. 11/12 F W WV

1880 Census Dist n/s, Wood Co., West Virginia
written along the left side: New England
Hall, Eliza W F 43 Wd Keeping House PA MD PA
Hall, Dora W F 14 dau S at home OH PA PA (gender error)
Hall, James W M 21 son S Carpenter WV PA PA
Hall, Olive W F 11 dau S at home WV PA PA
Hall, Alice W F 6 dau S WV PA PA
Hall, Ella W F 4 dau WV PA PA

West Virginia Marriage Records, 1863-1900 at ancestry.com
Name: James Hall
Gender: Male
Spouse: Alice Leonard
Spouse Gender: Female
Marriage Date: 24 Oct 1887
County: Jackson
State: West Virginia

1900 Census Ravenswood, Jackson Co, WV
Hall, James B. head W M Dec 1859 41 M13yrs OH PA PA merchant (this looked like Dec 1855, but age proves it is 1858)
Hall, Allie wife W F Jan 1866 34 M13yrs 4ch/3 lvg WV OH England
Hall, Anna dau W F Aug 1888 11 S WV OH WV (this looked like Dec 1886, but age proves otherwise)
Hall, Harry son W M Mar 1890 10 S WV OH WV
Hall Grace K. dau W F Feb 1900 3 mo S WV OH WV

Married 13 years = m abt 1887 Conflict: in this 1900 census James Bolton says he was born in Ohio and his parents born in Pennsylvania. Family records say he was born in New England, WV. The 1860 census bares out the truth of a New England, Wood Co., Virginia (now WV) birth. His mother was born in Pennsylvania but his father was born in Ohio. Possibly someone else gave the information to the census taker. When the birth record for James' son, Harry Leonard Hall, was found, it records that James Bolton Hall was born in New England, West Virginia.

(Puzzlement: A birth record has not yet been found but there is a birth record for a Myron T. Hall born on the same day: 30 Dec 1858. There is no census record for Myron. Could the parents have decided to change his name? There is no indication that there was a multiple birth.

West Virginia, Deaths Index, 1853-1973 at ancestry.com
Name: James B. Hall
Death Date: 16 Jul 1936
Death Place: Wood, West Virginia
Marital Status: Married
Father Name: H. J. Hall
Mother Name: Edna E. Smith
Spouse Name: Alice Leonard
FHL Film Number: 1983271

1. ↑ Miihlbach, Carolyn Thomas (Carolyn Sue Thomas). Ravenswood Cemetery : tombstone inscriptions, Jackson County, West Virginia. (Ravenswood, West Virginia: C.T. Miihlbach, 1985)
   21.
2.   Ruth Hall. Hall Family Compilation. (not published).
3.   United States. 1860 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M653)
   Twp n/g; (Bellview) Wood Co., Virginia.
4.   United States. 1870 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publications M593 and T132)
   Harris Twp., Wood Co., West Virginia.
5.   United States. 1880 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T9)
   Wood Co., West Virginia.

   (New England, Wood County, West Virginia)

6. ↑ ^6.0 6.1 West Virginia, United States. Vital Research Records Search Selection. (West Virginia, United States: West Virginia Archives and History)
   Wood County Death Certificate.

   http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=1283832&Type=Death

7. ↑ West Virginia, Deaths Index, 1853-1973.
8.   DAR Member Application of Jane Alice Jackson Kimble, Nat'l 741206
   Nat'l #741206.