OBADIAH HALL, an old and highly respected citizen of Franklin township, Randolph county, Ind., is a native of Tennessee, born in Campbell county, near the town of Jacksboro, March 24, 1820.
On his father's side, Mr. Hall is descended from Irish ancestry, his grandfather, Thomas Hall, having been a native of the Emerald Isle.
Edmund Hall, Jr., father of Obadiah, was a Tennesseean by birth, a farmer by occupation, and he died a number of years ago in the state of his nativity. His wife, whose maiden name was Mary Tudor, was a daughter of Harris Tudor, the latter a son of an Englishman who was shipwrecked while crossing the Atlantic and who was picked up by a passing vessel after floating on a single plank for five days. ...
