... 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. ...