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. John C. Hall was educated and married in his native State, where he was engaged in agricultural pursuits until the spring of 1803, when he emigrated with his wife and family to what is now Simpson County, Ky., then almost an unbroken wilderness. Here he bought wild land, moved into a log cabin, and subsequently improved a farm. He continued to add to his real possessions until he was the owner of well improved farms in same neighborhood, accounting in the aggregate to about 1,000 acres, a part of which he afterward deeded to his children. His death occurred September 4, 1847, in his seventy-fifth year, and was caused by his being stabbed by a drunken man with whom he had a dispute concerning the boundary of some lands.
His father, Amos Hall, Sr., the grandfather of Maj. Amos Hall, was a veteran of the Revolutionary war, and was killed at the battle of Lindley’s Mills, North Carolina. ...
