Gone! Gone! Another aged one is gone. This time the grim reaper of death spread his sable wing over our community and claimed the aged grandmother Hall, the mother of S.J. and F.C. Hall, two of Fayette county's well known citizens. The deceased was the daughter of William and Martha Bowles. She was born in Pennsylvania, February 28, 1809 and lived there until she was sixteen years of age. She then moved north with her parents to Ohio, where she lived until 1829, when she was united in marriage to Wm. Hall and went to make her home in Pendleton county, Kentucky, where she lived and raised her family. She was the mother of ten children: S.J., W.L., Martha, Mary Anne, J.W., Elizabeth, F.C., Francis, Willit and Louisa. Three, with the father, have preceded her to the better land. In 1817 she united with the Methodist church and has ever since lived an earnest and zealous Christian. In 1856 her husband died leaving her with the majority of her family only children around her knee; but with all the fortitude of a Christian mother she labored to train her family in the way they should go, ever relying on her Maker for strength, and as she so often said, she was blessed. In 1865 when most of her family had grown to manhood and womanhood she came to Glenwood, Indiana, to make her home. After sixteen years, in 1881, she returned to her old Kentucky home in search of health, as disease had already laid hold of her feeble frame and from that time on she was a martyr to affliction; enduring many times sufferings that seemed impossible for frail humanity to bear. Four years ago she became entirely blind, thus as the writer has often heard her say was deprived of the greatest gift with which God ever endowed mankind. But she bore it all with Christian faith until her mission was finished. One year ago last March she returned to Connersville from Kentucky to spend the few short days of her remaining life among her children that reside near here. She died September 29 at the home of her son, S.J. Hall, living four miles west of the city. Her interment took place at the beautiful little cemetery two miles south of Glenwood. Funeral services conducted by Rev. Scull, of Glenwood.
