Person:Thomas Hall (111)

Research Notes

Working Timeline

• 1820 - born in Harrison County, Virginia. Parents are sourced on his death record.² His father is a preacher.
• 1820-1832 - parents move to Montgomery County, KY

• 1830s
• 1832 - age 12 - his father dies
• 1833 abt - age 13 - moves to Rush/Decatur county, IN
• 1837 - POSSIBLE MATCH - age 17 - marries Rebecca Althiser in Decatur County. Officiator: Rev. John Bush, Baptist. There are no known children of this marriage.

• 1840s
• 1841 - POSSIBLE MATCH - buys land in Decatur County⁹
• 1843 - POSSIBLE MATCH - age 23 - marries Mary Harwood in Decatur County. There are no known children of this marriage.
  • Note of Caution: There was NO Return filed with this marriage license, so it is possible that the marriage did not take place.
• 1844 abt - supposedly his mother dies in Shelby county, Indiana. Age 42.
  • Per family tradition - I have never been able to confirm this. --Cos1776 18:08, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
• 1845 - marries Margaret Ann Logan in Decatur County.
  • 1848 - son James Gordon Hall is born

• 1850 - CENSUS in Fugit Twp, Decatur County. Age 30.
  • 1851 - dau Charlotta Hall is born [with possibly his wife dying in childbirth]'
  • What happened to Charlotta Hall? - She is found living with the family up thru age 16 (1870 census), but then she disappears. I have not been able to determine what happened to her. --Cos1776 18:08, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
• 1853 abt - Thomas Hall moves to Jay County, IN with brothers John Hall and Amos Hall.
  • Why did the Hall Brothers leave Decatur County? My theory is that they moved to Jay County to join their uncle, James Current (he was married to Margaret Johnston, sister of their mother). He had established a settlement in Redkey. --Cos1776 18:08, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
• 1856 - marries Patience Emily Sutton in Jay county, Indiana. Emily was the 15 year old daughter of Rev. Daniel B. Sutton an itinerant minister and a prominent citizen of Redkey and his wife, Mary J.(Roberts) Sutton, who with her family were some of the original settlers of Redkey.
  • 1857 - son (unnamed) is born and dies in infancy. Sourced on both 1900 census and obituary of son John Hall which states that John was the 2nd son born to his parents, so this infant would have been the 1st.
  • 1858 - dau Mary Martha "Mattie" Hall is born in Jay County
  • 1859 - son John W Hall is born in Jay County

• 1860 - CENSUS in Richland, Jay County, IN. Age 40. Farmer.
  • 1862 - son Samuel M Filmore "Phil" Hall is born
• 1863 - registers for Civil War Draft.¹¹ and is chosen, but for reasons unknown, he furnishes a substitute instead¹² (his brother Amos Hall).
  • 1867 - dau Ermina Margaret Hall is born. (?named after 1st wife Margaret)
  • 1869 - son Orange Daniel Hall is born (named after Emily's father).

• 1870 - CENSUS in Richland, Jay County, IN. Age 50. Farmer.
  • 1877 - son James Gordan Hall marries Mary E Smith, an older lady. Not much is known about her.

• 1880 - CENSUS in Richland, Jay County, IN. Age 60. Farmer.
  • 1880 abt - dau Mattie Hall marries Dr. Norris Connor who was working in Redkey at the time.
  • 1884 abt - son Filmore Hall marries Lillian F Mann of Redkey.
  • 1888 abt - son John W Hall marries Libbie Benedict in Nashville, TN.

• 1890s
  • 1890 - dau Mina Hall marries Rev. Monroe L Sheidler of Jackson Township, Wayne County, IN.
  • 1890 - son OD Hall marries Allie Marquell.
• 1895 abt - moves to Dublin, Wayne County, Indiana. Age 75. Lives on Milton St. (per Cambridge City Tribune)
  • Son O.D. has remained in Redkey, Jay county, where he is a "Dealer in Staple and Fancy Groceries" and is still farming the land. In 1898 he writes to his father, "when it comes a bad spell so I can not work I will come down but thare (sic) is so much work needed on the farm I will hafto (sic) put in every minute I can..."

• 1900 - CENSUS in Dublin, Wayne County. Age 80.
• 1903 - age 83 - Thomas Hall passes away in Dublin, Wayne County, Indiana.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Cambridge City Tribune. (Cambridge City, Indiana)
   10 Dec 1903.

   Thomas Hall was born in Harrison county, West Virginia, March 1, 1820. When yet an infant his parents moved to Kentucky, and when he was 13 years old they moved to Rush county, Indiana. For some years he was a very successful farmer in this county. At a later date he moved to near Red Key, Ind., and on February 10, 1856, he was married to Emily Sutton. To this union were born five children, three sons and two daughters, all of whom are yet living. About fifteen years ago he moved to Dublin; all of his children at this time being married. Mr. Hall has been an honorable and most worthy citizen, honest in all his dealings, doing unto others as he would have them do to him. For the last five or six years the infirmities of life became more evident from year to year. On Monday of last week he became worse and the end was daily expected. His children were summoned and were all here when, on Monday, December 7, about 9 o'clock a.m., he peacefully passed away. Funeral services were held at the residence on Wednesday at 10 a.m., conducted by Rev. J.W. Walters of the M.E. church, to which church he belonged.

2.   Thomas Hall, in Jay, Milton T., and M.W. Montgomery. History of Jay County, Indiana: including its world war record and incorporating the Montgomery history. (Indianapolis: Historical Pub. Co., 1922)
   2:251-253.

   ..."The late Amos Hall an honored veteran of the Civil war was a Kentuckian by birth born in Montgomery county in the old Bluegrass state and was eighteen years of age when he came up into this section of Indiana* and became engaged in farming in association with his brothers Thomas and John Hall. That was in 1853."

3. ↑ Death Recorded, in United States. Works Progress Administration (Indiana), and Indiana Works Progress Administration. Index to death records, Wayne County, 1882-1920. (Indianapolis [Indiana]: Indiana State Library, 1983).

   name: Thomas Hall event: Death event date: 07 Dec 1903 event place: Dublin, Indiana age: 83 estimated birth year: 1820 gender: Male race: W source location: County Health Office, Richmond source notes: The source of this record is the book H-12 on page 44 within the series produced by the Indiana Works Progress Administration.

4. ↑ Decatur, Indiana, United States. 1850 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration Publication M432).

   Year: 1850; Census Place: Fugit, Decatur, Indiana; Roll: M432_142; Page: 81B; Image: 169
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   Family Number Surname Given Name Age Birth Year Race Gender Birth Place
   308 Hall Thomas 28 1822 Male Virginia
   308 Hall Margaret A 21 1829 Female Indiana
   308 Hall James G 2 1848 Male Indiana
   308 Hall Robert 14 1836 Male Indiana

   
5. ↑ Jay, Indiana, United States. 1860 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration Publication M693).

   Year: 1860; Census Place: Richland, Jay, Indiana; Roll: M653_269; Page: 100; Image: 100; Family History Library Film: 803269.
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   Name: Thomas Hall Age in 1860: 39 Birth Year: abt 1821 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1860: Richland, Jay, Indiana Gender: Male Post Office: Halfway

   
6. ↑ Jay, Indiana, United States. 1870 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration Publication M593).

   Year: 1870; Census Place: Richland, Jay, Indiana; Roll: M593_327; Page: 155A; Image: 313; Family History Library Film: 545826.
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   Name: Thomas Hall Age in 1870: 50 Birth Year: abt 1820 Birthplace: Kentucky Home in 1870: Richland, Jay, Indiana Race: White Gender: Male Post Office: Red Key

7. ↑ Jay, Indiana, United States. 1880 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration Publication T9).

   Year: 1880; Census Place: Richland, Jay, Indiana; Roll: 287; Family History Film: 1254287; Page: 486D; Enumeration District: 158; Image: 0277.
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   Name: Thomas Hall Age: 57 Birth Year: abt 1823 Birthplace: Kentucky Home in 1880: Richland, Jay, Indiana Race: White Gender: Male Relation to Head of House: Self (Head) Marital Status: Married Spouse's Name: Emily Hall Father's Birthplace: Virginia Mother's Birthplace: Virginia

8. ↑ Wayne, Indiana, United States. 1900 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration Publication T623).

   Year: 1900; Census Place: Jackson, Wayne, Indiana; Roll: 412; Page: 12B; Enumeration District: 146; FHL microfilm: 1240412.
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   Name: Thomas Hall Age: 78 Birth Date: Mar 1822 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1900: Jackson, Wayne, Indiana Race: White Gender: Male Relation to Head of House: Head Marital Status: Married Spouse's Name: Emtee P Hall Marriage Year: 1857 Years Married: 43 Father's Birthplace: Virginia Mother's Birthplace: Virginia

9.   Descendants of Thomas Rosenberry, in Ingenweb.org.

   [cos1776 note: Supposedly this record is for Thomas Hall, s/o Abner Hall and Jane Roseberry, but since it is a record of a Thomas Hall buying land in Decatur county in about the same timeframe as our Thomas Hall, I am including it here for follow up.]
   
   According to information found in a file from the Fauna Mihalko Collection from the Jefferson County Historical Society:
   Thomas Hall bought land in Decatur co., IN in 1841. [Deed book V:268]
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   [To Do: Find and cite original record. It may be in Jefferson county records.]

10. ↑ 69723113, in Find A Grave
    [Includes headstone photo].
11. ↑ U.S., Civil War Draft Registrations Records, 1863-1865.

    National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General's Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865); Record Group: 110, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War); Collection Name: Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865 (Civil War Union Draft Records); ARC Identifier: 4213514; Archive Volume Number: 4 of 6
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    Name: Thomas Hall, Farmer
    Residence: Jay, Indiana
    Class: 2
    Congressional District: 11th
    Age on 1 July 1863: 44
    Estimated birth year: abt 1819
    Race: White
    Place of Birth: Virginia
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    [Note: Same page as brother John Hall, Farmer, age 43, b in VA.]

12.   Montgomery, M. W. History of Jay County, Indiana. (Chicago: Printed for the author by Church, Goodman & Cushing, 1864)
    1:159.

    In 1862 James B. Jaqua was appointed Draft Commissioner for Jay County. He took the first enrollment, and on the 6th of October, 1862, the following persons were drafted for nine months. They were taken to Indianapolis by Provost Marshal Isaac Underwood, where they had the privelege of choosing what volunteer regiment they desired to enter, and were scattered: (Those marked with an asterisk (*) furnished a substitute.)
    
    RICHLAND. Washington Bridgford, James J. Bridgford, G.W. Current, David Current, W.N. Current, D.M. Crumley*, John Clippard, John I. Fires, Calvin Hickman, Thomas Hall*, James Kenton, J.A. Kesaer, J.W. Levally, O.A. Lord, A.P. Mallow*, M.F. McDaniel, D.F. Norris, J.C. Nrris, T.G. Osburn, J.M Resler, C.V. St. Johns*, Benjamin Stover, George Stover, Daniel Sutton, James J. Taylor - 25. ...