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Biographies of Nacogdoches County, Texas Residents
John Hall Sr. and Susanna _____ HallContributed by Sandra Smith Gwilliam, July 2003,Minerva Ann Hall photo property of Sandra Smith Gwilliam, Sarah Susannah Hall photo property of Helen Price, Jackson Hall photo property of Bower and Clegg families: Noreen French Bower, Diane Bower Clegg and Susan Bower-Litzenberger Copyright © 2003, Sandra Smith Gwilliam, All Rights Reserved. Click for a larger image: 
John Hall Sr. and Susanna _____ HallJohn Hall Sr. was born 27 Oct 1780 in North Carolina. Susanna ____ Hall was born 26 Mar 1788 in North Carolina John and Susanna moved to Bedford County, Tennessee sometime before the 1820 Federal Census, most likely before 1812. According to various family records, of their children were born in Tennessee. The family Bible of John A. Hall Jr. lists these children of his parents John and Susanna Hall:
A terrible tragedy afflicted the family in July 1833, because three of their children died. Leander Hall's wife may have died about that time, too, because their daughter, Nancy Minerva Hall Werd (a later probate document in 1855 has Nancy married to an Adams) is listed in John Hall's 1850 probate as an heir because her father, Leander, had died. Leander Hall departed this life July 15, 1833 [age 22 years 10 months] Young S. Hall departed this life July 6, 1833 [age 17 years 10 months] Mary F. Hall departed this life July 6, 1833 [age 14 years 6 months] Elizabeth Jane Hall departed this life Nov 29, 1838 [age 7 years old] We know that John owned land in Bedford, Tennessee because he and three of his sons (Bartlett Marymond Hall, Green Hall and John A. Hall Jr.) are found in several land documents, tax records (1836 Districts 20 and 21) and court documents (an agreement between John A. Hall Jr. and his brother, Bartlett Marymond Hall, because Bartlett borrowed money from John Hall Jr.) in Bedford County, Tennessee until about 1838. There was an opportunity for John and Susanna Hall to obtain land in Texas, so they moved with their family to Nacogdoches County, Texas probably in the early spring of 1839 because the last land transaction for John was in September 1838. Some family stories are told that John and Susanna sent the slaves ahead to set up and plant crops on the plantation which they owned in Nacogdoches, then they came in a wagon train to Texas with Houston and Amy [or Amie] Ogilvie McClure (Bartlett Marymond Hall's in-laws) and several other families. John and Susanna did not live very long after they moved to Nacogdoches. Susanna died 9 August 1840 and is buried somewhere in Nacogdoches County. John followed her in death shortly after, dying 12 Oct 1840. It is said that he is buried on Stripling's farm in Nacogdoches County. I would have thought that they might have been buried on their own farm, but the Stripling family may have bought some of that land. [That is only a guess because I have not searched the land records.] John Hall's probate is found in the Nacogdoches Texas Partitons records Book A pages 31- 42, then again on pages 59 – 64. Joshua Hall "departed this life" 18 May 1853 [He was 44 years old, married to Margaret Swift (the daughter of Flower and Catherine Swift of North Carolina). They had two children, John V. Hall (12 years-old) and William Hall (about 6 years old). They were in the Bedford, Tennessee Federal Census in 1850.] Their son, James Simpson Hall "departed this life" 27 July 1855. He was listed on the 1850 census as idiotic. He lived with his sister, Ebalina Hall McDaniel (her name is transcribed as Caroline on the Nacogdoches Census record, but the original is Ebelina or Ebalina). [These are the only deaths found in the John A. Hall Jr. family Bible, but there are other children who are traceable through census and other records. Probably John A. Hall Jr. lost track of his family because he moved to Alabama and married and died there. Most of the rest of the family moved to Texas and spread out from there.] Minerva Ann Hall married Joseph P. Smith (son of General James and Hannah Parker Smith). After he died, she married Ezekiel Huckabee in Coryell County, Texas. They moved to Sipe Springs, Comanche County, Texas where they are buried. She is apparently a widow in the 1860 census living next door to her mother-in-law, Hannah Parker Smith. The family is missing in 1870, but re-appear in Coryell County, Texas by 1880. Joseph P. and Minerva Ann Hall Smith had four or five children, depending on whether the 1860 census is correct. Bartlett Marymond Hall stayed in Nacogdoches as did many of his descendants. He married Louisa Harriet McClure in Tennessee before they came to Texas. Apparently one of their sons was run over by a wagon on the way to Texas and died. There were eventually 12 children in the family. Bartlett Marymond Hall died about 1866 in Melrose, Nacogdoches County, Texas. Marion Washington Hall went around Cape Horn in South America on his way to California. The trip apparently lasted about six months. Marion W. Hall married Minerva J. Isbell in Vallecito, Calaveras, California. ["HALL/ISBELL--At Vallecito, on Thursday evening August 3d, by Rev. W.J.K. Culp, M.W. HALL to Miss Minerva J. ISBELL." Source: San Francisco Daily Examiner, 8 Aug 1865.] They are found in these records: 1870 California census Calaveras Co. #245 Copperopolis 1880 Texas Census, Sipe Springs, Comanche County, Texas 1900 Comanche Texas census ED 35 sheet 18A Sipe Springs Comanche Co. Cemetery records p. 219, p. 206 They had five children. Jabez Hickman Hall married Zilpha Jane Pike 14 Nov 1858 in Nacogdoches County, Texas. They had two children (Minerva Hall and John Hugh Hall). He must have died sometime before 1870, because he is not listed in that census with his family. Sarah Susannah Hall married Captain Henry Madison Smith on the same day as her sister Ebalina married Eli Sparks — 9 Jan 1840. Sarah and HM Smith moved to Rusk County, Texas by 1850, then to Coryell County, Texas shortly after the 1860 census where they finished raising their family of nine children. They had extra children staying with them in both the 1870 and 1880 census records. Their daughter, Susan Melvina and husband Jesse Ellison with their four children in 1870, then five of Sarah's brother Jackson Lafayette Hall's children in 1880. Sarah died 23 Dec 1885 in Oglesby, Coryell County, Texas and is probably buried in the Post Oak Cemetery near there. [There may be others but these are the ones we have records of as of Jul 2003] First: Bedford County, Tennessee, General Land Grants Book P Page 8 . . .[For] Military Service performed by John Ralphs to the State of North Carolina warrant No. 3103 dated the 8th day of December 1785 for 640 acres and entered on the 1st day of July 1816 for No. 9395. There is granted by the said state of Tennessee, unto John Hall assignee of the heirs of the said John Ralphs. . . A certain tract or Parcel of Land, containing fifty acres part of sd warrant by survey bearing date the 16th day of July 1816 lying in the Second District of Bedford County on the east waters of Sinking Creek- a South branch of Duck River . . .[recorded] 9th day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and of the Independence of the United States, the forty third. Second: 12 Nov 1836 Book GG p. 206 John Hall to John Barrett Deed 110 acres for and in consideration of $1,000. in hand paid the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged by the said John Hall hath this day bargained and sold and by these presents o bargain and sell a certain tract or parcel of land known by the Tract P. Hall, bought of All Balek [?} situate in County of Bedford on the waters of Sugar Creek beginning three dogwoods, the South West corner of William Gammells tract on Thomas and Alexander Greers line of a five thousand acre tract. Then with P. Greers line south one hundred ___ to a suar tree, the south west corner of Joshua Hott's two thousand acre tract. Thence North with said line, one hundred and sixty one poles to William Gammells corner &...containing one hundred and ten acres more or less. To have and to hold the P. described land and premises with all and singular the appertainences there to belonging to the proper use and beh___ of them the P. John Barrett and his heirs forever And the P. John Hall and his heirs shall well and truly warrant and forever defend the above described land and premises to john Barrett, his heirs Executors or administrators forever. I whereunto let my hand on... Third: Hall - Bedford, TN land 4 Sep 1837, Book GG p. 207 Testimony that John Hall executed deed. Witnessed: AS Smith and Thos. Caruthers on 4 Sep 1837. Filed 8 Sep 1837 in Bedford County, Tennessee by Andrew Vannoy Reg of Bedford County. Fourth: John Hall to Roger Snell. Deed 139 ¾ acres This indenture made this seventeenth day of September in the year of our Lord One Thousand eight hundred and thirty eight. Between John Hall of Bedford County, Tennessee of the one part and Roger Snell of the same County and State of the other part Witnesseth that the said John Hall for and in consideration of the sum of eleven hundred dollars to him in hand by the said Roger Snell P. 161 the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged hath given granted bargained sold and? conveyed and confirmed unto the said Roger Snell his heirs and assigns forever a certain tract or parcel of land. Situated lying and being in the County of Bedford and State aforesaid on the West side of Sugar Creek, Witness my hand at office this 17th day of September 1838 William D. Orr Clk. Registered Sept 20th 1838 By Andw. Vannoy Reg of Bedford Cty. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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