9. Phebe, b. on Friday, September 28, 1798.---Family 8.
Family 8.---
PHEBE [HALL] ,pedigree as before: was born Friday, September 28, 1798, in, Monongalia county, Virginia. She was married January 12, 1826, to John Jones, son of Joshua and Jane Jones, who was born May 27, 1798. In all generations there are noble women; among such was Phebe Hull Jones. She received the part of her father's estate on which the old homestead was situated. The old log house was torn down and a new and commodious dwelling was erected. She willed an acre of ground to be used as a private burying ground for the Hall family, reserving a portion for her own children and grandchildren. Her husband died September 14, 1857, after being an elder in the Presbyterian Church for 26 years. She died September 10, 1872, of typhoid fever, at the residence of her son-in-law, Hon. E. B. Hall, Martinsburg, West Virginia, aged 74 years.
The home of the deceased was for the first sixty-eight years of her life, at the place now called Fairmont, and the last six years at Martinsburg. In early life she became an earnest christian, and connected herself with Presbyterian Church, to whose doctrines and polity she was warmly attached until the day of her death.
During the thirty-one years of her married life, their house was continually the abode of love, friendship and family religion; and the kind and cheerful hospitality they so freely extended was enjoyed by many of Christ’s ministers, as well as by hosts of other friends. To them were born seven children, five of whom survive, and all enjoy the blessed hope of meeting their pious parents and two sisters gone before them, in that house where sin and partings are unknown. Never did children regard parents more tenderly, and never was filial affection more deserved. Her last sickness, though painful, was endured without a murmur, and as four of her children and other friends stood by her bed the spirit fled, like a liberate captive, to enjoy rest with Jesus. On the following day her body was taken to Fairmont, and after devotional services, conducted by Revs. Siviter and Hall, in the Presbyterian Church, and a Sermon by Rev. C. C. B. Duncan, on Micah ii: 10---"Arise and depart, for this is not thy rest." it was buried in the family graveyard to await a glorious resurrection.
