... John Will Hall was born on a farm two miles west of the City of Liberty, January 28, 1845, the only child of Robert E [sic] and Mary (Thomason) Hall. The Hall and Thomason families were pioneers, came to Northwest Missouri from Kentucky, and the work and influence of the various members of those families went into the very fibre of early life and institutions in Clay County. Robert E. Hall was born in Jessamine County, Kentucky, in 1821 and died in 1847. His wife was born in Scott County Kentucky in 1823 and also died in 1847. The grandparents on both sides were natives of Kentucky. The paternal grandparents were John R. and Mary Laffoon Hall, while the maternal grandparents were William and Susan (McQuiddy) Thomason. The Hall family came to Missouri in 1828, locating east of Liberty, while the Thomason family were likewise early settlers and established a seven miles west of the county seat. ...
