... paternal grandparents [of John Will Hall] were John R. and Mary Laffoon Hall ...
... The Hall family came to Missouri in 1828, locating east of Liberty, ...
... Left an orphan at the age of two years, John Will Hall was in the home of his paternal grandparents, on whose farm he lived fourteen years of age. His grandfather then moved to Liberty, and boy was educated in the country schools and subsequently became student at the William Jewell College. ...