Descendants of "Alpha" Hall

Generation No. 1

1.  "ALPHA"¹ HALL was born Abt. 1699 in England?.

Children of "ALPHA" HALL are:

                   i.       JOHN² HALL, b. Abt. 1718, England; d. March 12, 1794, Basking Ridge, Somerset, New Jersey.

2.               ii.       RICHARD HALL, b. Abt. 1727, ,,,England ?; d. February 28, 1812, Benton, Ontario/Seneca, New York.

Generation No. 2

2.  RICHARD² HALL ("ALPHA"¹) was born Abt. 1727 in ,,,England ?, and died February 28, 1812 in Benton, Ontario/Seneca, New York.  He married (1) COMPTON.    He married (2) SARAH ANN BURROWS Abt. 1749 in , Rahway,  New Jersey, or Penn., daughter of JOHN BURROWS and SARAH RUMBILL.  She was born August 19, 1731 in Rahway,  New Jersey, and died Abt. 1795 in near Muncy, Lycoming, Pennsylvania.

Notes for RICHARD HALL:

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From the History of Lycoming Co, PA by John F. Meginnis, 1892

P. 239

1800 census listed in Muncy Twp. are: Joseph Hall, Richard Hall, Richard Hall Sr., Richard Hall Jr. and Samuel Hall.

P.111-112

There is a petition dated Dec. 2 1777 signed by John Hall, among others requesting a magistrate for their part of the ocunty for they feel they are represented.  On the next page, 112, "Richard and John Hall were respectiviely, the great grandfather and grandfather of John B. Hall, of Williamsport.  They were of English origin and emigrated from New Jersey before th Revolution and located above the mouth of Muncy Creek, and assisted Capt. John Brady to build his palisade fort and when he raised a company of volunteer rangers, John Hall was selected his orderly sergeant.  Hall was a blacksmith by trade and was the only smith at the time within a radius of 20 miles.  His shop stood on the bank of the river opposited Butler Ripple, at Micheltree's Landing, and he was in charge of the ferry.  Both Richard and John Hall, father and son, wer buried in Hall's graveyard."

P. 126

Colonel Hepburn's co. of the militia composed of residents from Muncy to Lycoming Creek

Listed as Ensign - John Hall

Private - William Hall

The roster is dated 9 Aug 1778

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From Gary Hafer's website, 27 Feb. 1999

     Richard Hall and his brother John were early English emigrants to this county, Lycoming Co., PA.  they were puritans and came here to enjoy their religious opinions.  The exact date of their arrival is not known, but it was before 1730.  They landed in new England and it is believed they still have kinsfolk in Stratford and Fairfield, Connecticut.  They soon afterward crossed the Hudson River and settled in New Jersey.  John settled at Basken Ridge and Richard at Rahway.  There also were other English emigrants there, among them:  the Burrows' and Hubbles.  John Burrows, the grandfather of the late General Burrows of Montoursville who it is said, arrived as early as 1645.  His son John married the daughter of Rev. Nathaniel Hubbles, who preached to the people of Rahway for 40 years, and very likely married his own daughter to John Burrows, and her only daughter to Richard Hall.  The latter continued to reside in Rahway until his oldest son John had grown to manhood and married Sarah, the daughter of Moses Austin, of Rahway, whose son Moses was sheriff and undersheriff of Elizabeth, New Jersey for 40 years.

     Several years before the Revolutionary War, when there was heavy emigration from Connecticut to Wyoming Valley, Richard Hall, his children and their families---John taking his mother-in-law, two daughters and one son, the father being dead---came to Muncy township, West Branch Valley, and settled.

     After the beginning of the Indian troubles, they formed a company of settlers for defense and chose John Brady their captain, and John Hall, orderly sergeant.  They assisted in building Brady's Fort and what was know as Fort Muncy.  After the death of brady, and when the Indians became more threatening, they collected their families together at night, put them in canoes and silently paddled down the river to Fort Augusta, where they remained until peace was restored.  When the Halls returned they found their houses burned and stock driven away.

     John Hall at once went to work and erected new buildings and commenced life anew.  Being a blacksmith, he put up shop and prepared to work at his trade.  He was the only blacksmith for twenty miles around. This was on the bank of the river at wat was know as Mitcheltree's Landing, and he also kept the ferry at the place know as Butler's ripples.  (According to "Deceased Residents of the West Branch Valley fromthe Earliest Times to the Present," by J.F. Meginness (1889). Printed in the LCGS Newsletter, May/June 1996)

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From an email 6 March, 1999 from John Oyler, he has Sally Ann Burrows (not Sarah).  And he believes that Miss Compton is the mother to most of the Hall children, Richard, Jr. for sure....

More About RICHARD HALL:

Burial: Pulteney St Sec, Glenwood Cemetery, G., New York

Immigration: Bef. 1730, from England with brother, John.

Religion: Puritan

Notes for SARAH ANN BURROWS:

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The parentage of Sarah Burrows is questionable at this time.  We know that her father is John Burrows, but which family ?

More About SARAH ANN BURROWS:

Burial: Friends Cemetery, Hall's Station, Pennsylvania

Children of RICHARD HALL and SARAH BURROWS are:

                   i.       JOSEPH³ HALL, b. December 17, 1752, Basking Ridge, Somerset, New Jersey; d. Fayette?, Seneca, New York.

More About JOSEPH HALL:

Fact 3: He lived between the Cayuga & Senca Lakes, NY

                  ii.       PRIVATE SAMUEL HALL, b. 1754, Basking Ridge, Somerset, New Jersey; d. Abt. 1810, , Lycoming, Penn..

Notes for PRIVATE SAMUEL HALL:

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Samuel and family are listed in the 1790 Pennsylvania Census of Northumberland County next to his brother Joseph as:  1 Free white male over 16 (Samuel), 1 Free White male under 16 (Joseph), and 3 females (wife Hannah, daughter Mary and possibley Hannah's mother).

     He was drafted into the Revolutionary War on March 8, 1776.  He served in Captain Rudolph Bruner's Company, 2nd Pennsylvania Battalion from January 25, 1776 throught November 25, 1776.

                 iii.       RICHARD HALL, JR., b. Abt. September 21, 1755, Basking Ridge, Somerset, New Jersey; d. Abt. March 25, 1849, Muncy Twp, Lycoming, Penn..

More About RICHARD HALL, JR.:

Fact 3: Died on his 45 acre farm.

Fact 4: Lived in Lycoming Co., Penn.

                 iv.       JONATHAN HALL, b. Abt. 1756, , Lycoming, Penn.; d. 1840, Penn Yan, Yates, New York.

More About JONATHAN HALL:

Fact 3: Lived west of Seneca Lake, Yates County, NY

                  v.       MARGARET HALL, b. Abt. 1762, Basking Ridge, Somerset, New Jersey.

                 vi.       MARY (POLLY) HALL, b. Abt. 1781, Basking Ridge, Somerset, New Jersey; d. February 01, 1855, , Canandaigua, Ontario, New York.

More About MARY (POLLY) HALL:

Other-Begin: Abt. 1781, Birthdate ? Lycoming Co.

                vii.       ENSIGN JOHN HALL, b. December 06, 1750, Basking Ridge, Somerset, New Jersey; d. December 04, 1821, Son Mose's home, Geneva, Ontario, New York; m. HEPZIBAH FOLGER, August 05, 1786, Nantucket Court House, Nantucket, Massachusetts; b. Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts.

More About HEPZIBAH FOLGER:

Record Source: P.R. 38 William C. Folger -Nantucket Historical Assoc.

3.            viii.       NATHANIEL HALL, b. Abt. 1760, Basking Ridge, Somerset, New Jersey; d. Abt. 1814, Berlin, Deleware County, Ohio.

Generation No. 3

3.  NATHANIEL³ HALL (RICHARD², "ALPHA"¹) was born Abt. 1760 in Basking Ridge, Somerset, New Jersey, and died Abt. 1814 in Berlin, Deleware County, Ohio.  He married NANCY JONES Abt. 1794 in Pennsylvania.  She was born Abt. February 1776, and died June 25, 1850 in Berlin, Deleware County, Ohio.

Notes for NATHANIEL HALL:

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From the History of Delaware County (OHIO) 1880

     "Nathaniel Hall built the first mill for grinding on Alum Creek and also a saw mill. (near Berlin)"

     " In 1808, Nathaniel Hall, erected the first mill in that section of the county, on Alum Creek.  The structure was a saw-mill, grist-mill, and distillery combined, and was situated on the creek, near the place now spanned by the covered bridge, on the Delaware and Sunbury pike."

More About NATHANIEL HALL:

Cause of Death: Lightening

Notes for NANCY JONES:

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Died 35 Jun 1850 age 74 year 4 month

More About NANCY JONES:

Burial: Luffborrough Cemetary in New Corydon, Adams Co., Indiana.

Other-Begin: June 25, 1776, Ohio Birthdate & place

Children of NATHANIEL HALL and NANCY JONES are:

4.                i.       CHARLES⁴ HALL, b. August 31, 1808, Berlin, Delawere, Ohio; d. March 22, 1842, New Corydon, Jay, Indiana.

                  ii.       CLARISSA HALL, b. Abt. May 14, 1807, Berlin, Delaware, Ohio; d. July 15, 1872, ,Republic, Kansas; m. ELISA O'HARRA.

More About CLARISSA HALL:

Burial: Pleasant Ridge Cemetery, Republic, Kansas

                 iii.       LUCINDA HALL, b. Abt. 1804, , Franklin, Ohio; m. WILLIAM ROBINSON.

Notes for LUCINDA HALL:

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From the Autobiography of James Charles Robinson (1838-1923)

(His father was William Robinson and his mother was Lucinda HALL sister of Charles HALL)

my copy starts on page 2

age of five, before my memory began.  There too my father died in 1839, June 19th.

     William Robinson's roving inclination and his ambition to acquire property made him restless in the little western village.  He would buy horses and stock, and on one occasion took a number of horses to the new and growing town of Chicago to reach a good market.  Sometimes he was very fortunate in business speculations and was considered quite "well to do".  His appetite for strong drink hindered him considerably and troubled his young wife still more, although he drank no more than was a common habit of the time and place, and was never an habitual drunkard. He was energetic and industrious and I have been told was faithfully just to his neighbors in every way.

     His death occurred in one of the periodical ebbs of his fortunes and he left nothing for his family but some household effects and little good jewelry which their days of prosperity had provided.  It was of no great value but proved a help to the young mother who was thus left with her second daughter five and a half years old and a year-old baby, almost penniless but with good strength and dauntless courage.  But she was alone among comparative strangers and felt that she must go to her brothers and sisters, four families of whom were then pioneers in eastern Indiana in Jay and Adams Counties farther up to Wabash River from Delphi near its head.  To these friends my mother, poor and sorrowing, turned her thoughts in the fall of 1839, and with her little children began her lonely, sad and unfortunate journey.  For, arriving as far as Logansport either on the small river steamer or by stage, she was compelled by an attack of scarlet fever to remain there in a hotel, delaying her journey for some weeks. It was a woeful trial for a lone woman with two children, and had it not been for the openhearted pioneer hospitality of her landlord and his family, as not now manywheres to be found, they must have perished.  Mrs. Bowles, a kind woman, poor indeed but generous, took the baby boy into her home and gave him tender motherly care until his own mother recovered.  The new hotel keeper could not turn her out, a kindly physician attended her, and the precious little five-year-old daughter was almost her only nurse through the long trying illness, administering the remedies the doctor left with childish but unremitting care.  When the mother's fever overcame her metal powers the little girl had help from the landlord's family, and the brighter day came in due time when health was restored and the little party was able to continue the journey eastward.  Bills were paid from the sale of jewelry and other small possessions.

     Before leaving Logansport my mother had written to her family and expected some of them to meet her at Huntington, about 45 miles from her destination.  But her people were 15 or 16 miles from a post office and mails were carried on horseback and were irregular and slow, so her letter was tardy in arriving, and she was again stranded by the way for several weary days.  These also passed, and her suspense was ended when she beheld the face of her faithfully affectionate brother-in-law Wade Loofbourrow, who had found his way through the wilderness in a covered wagon drawn by two horses.  You cannot imagine the extent of her joy and relief and may well be thankful that all you can know of her trials is what is here written by the baby she carried on her lap in the covered wagon for forty miles through that dense forest wilderness.  In due time she was in the midst of the kind relatives among whom she was to her home for the next six years.

II   Uncles and Cousins

     Before I write what my recollection carries with it about my mother's privations and struggles after her arrival in Adams County, I must relate the facts which I know from hearsay and tradition about the families of her two brothers and two sisters, already established in the little settlement, a period as remote to me as all former time.

     Uncle Wade Loofbourrow, the husband of Mother's oldest sister Rachel, had "located" on land one mile north of the Adams and Jay county line, 22 miles east by a little south of Bluffton in Wells County, 21 miles south by a little east of Decatur, the county seat, and 2 ½ miles west of the Indiana and Ohio state line.  Besides himself and wife his family at that time consisted of seven children:  Emily, who married William P. Shepherd; John, residing at New Madison, Ohio, the hard-working pioneer who married Maria Shepherd, sister of William; Martha, first married to William Jones and then to David Walter; Sophronia, who taught school and was on several occasions my own teacher before she married Charles Kelley who died in Kansas, his widow moving to the state of Washington.  The others, besides Mary who died about 1850 at the age of 16, were my two favorite cousins, Preston S. ("Pret") and Elias.

     The arrival of Elias, the youngest of the family, in the spring of 1841, was my first definite recollection.  I was just three years old but distinctly remember the wriggling little red-faced newcomer as he lay on his mother's arm.  I also remember that his good sister Martha to my great delight give me a nice piece of pie.  These two impressions firmly set in my mind, together with a few scattered recollections in the next year, mark the beginning of time with me.  After honorable and successful efforts to educate himself Elias moved to California, where he finally died after a romantic and heroic struggle well sustained and encouraged by an excellent wife.

     Preston, born one month before myself in March 1838, was the first little boy of my own age of my recollection.  We attended school together and spent many bright boyhood days in those grand old woods where freedom could never die until they were cut away.  At the time of his death at the age of 60 he was publisher of the Summersville, Texas Co., Missouri, Leader, having been in the newspaper business half of his life and serving also at one time as a member of the Kansas legislature.

     A north and south highway, recently opened through that part of Adams County, divided Uncle Wade's farm about at the middle.  At his south line this crossed the road from the state line to Bluffton,  About 80 rods south of this crossing Uncle Elisha O'Harra had made a home, building a really comfortable cabin of hewn logs, which had a porch with a sloping roof.  His wife was Mother's favorite sister Clarissa, and what time Aunt Clara was not busy at other necessary household duties she was cleaning, scrubbing, and burnishing to the very distress of neatness. They had two children: Sophronia, who within my recollection married Sherburne Lewis, and after his death the Rev. B. F. Bowman, a Methodist minister, when I was about fifteen years old; and Charles Tisdale, a jolly high-spirited little boy (and big one too), born in 1841 and early nicknamed Bonaparte because of his soldierly bearing.

     Eighty rods still further south on the same highway on land now (1898) owned by Mr. Henry Fogle, stood the log cabin of Mother's youngest brother, Charles Hall, but within the year 1842, I think, and on the very border of my memory he died leaving a widow and four children.  His wife (nee Emily Davis) was a delightful sympathetic, tender, motherly woman and always made me feel at home in her house.  Aunt Emily remained a widow for ten or twelve years and married a second husband somewhat younger than herself, William Kelley, a kindly patient man of little thrift but industrious and a good citizen, respected by all his neighbors.  After the Civil War they emigrated to Kansas, where after some years of pioneer experience Aunt Emily was laid to rest and several years afterward William followed her to the grave.  They had two sons, of whom I have known nothing since they moved to Kansas.  Uncle Charles had left two sons and two daughters.  John W. Hall was but 12 years old when his father died, a fine courageous lad, who was for several years the staunch stay of his mother and her younger children.  He married about 1854 or 55 and went to the War, where he was sniped by a sharpshooter while on camp duty.  Lewis D. Hall, the second son, made an attempt to get an education after he was 22, and a fellow student with me at Liber College.  He attended medical lectures in Cincinnati and became a physician.  He married Kate Lewis and I was present at their wedding. Sophronia (I had three cousins of that name) married Chester Lewis, her brother Lewis's brother-in-law.  These all emigrated to Kansas in Cloud and Republic Countries, and from there Dr. Lewis Hall moved to California after his family of seven children were well grown.  Miranda, the youngest of Uncles Charles's family, died when about 8 or 10 years old, an amiable sweet-tempered little girl.  She was the delightful little chum of my stepsister Rachel Tyson, but Rachel never saw her again after our family went to Virginia in 1847.  Chester and Sophronia Hall Lewis had five children and are still living in Norway, Republic County, and within a few months I have had letters from them (1915). They then reported Dr. Hall as still living at about 84 years of age.  All these were friendly and lovable people, with no stain upon them as relatives and citizens.  They were my kindest friends when I most needed friends.

     Following southward on the road above described half a mile across the "Little Run," which provided a surface drain in a wet time but was otherwise dry, we find the home of the Loofbourrow who was called Uncle Eben by all his neighbors, although no relation of mine.  He was a brother of my Uncle Wade, I think older, a kindly, jolly, helpful old man as long as I knew him. He had a family of four sons and two daughters, but I shall mention only two of the sons:  Wade, Jr. was the father of Agnes Loofbourrow, a schoolmate of mine at home and at Liber; and Thomas, the father of Dr. G.W. Loofbourrow, a dentist late of Oak Park, a babyhood, boyhood, manhood friend, faithful and just to me for three-quarters of a century and almost the first one that I can remember.  Except that he lived so long and well, so candidly toward the world, I would sincerely mourn for him, but it is a satisfaction to know that he is at rest after much suffering.  The news of his death did not reach me in time for me to see him in his coffin.  He died December 23, 1914.

     Nearly a mile farther along the road southward from Uncle Eben's home, turning a little to the east and crossing the river, lived Mother's second brother Samuel Hall nearly as long ago as I can remember. Referring to Montgomery's History of Jay County (page 15) it will be seen that it was on Uncle Samuel's land just across the river from New Corydon that the first white settler in that wooded wilderness had made a temporary settlement in 1822.  He was succeeded by another settler who remained there until Uncle Samuel himself followed somewhere between 1832 and 1835.  Halfway between Uncle Eben's house and this early one we crossed the line into Adams County, and here was the second house built by Uncle Samuel, who was well know throughout both countries.  It was a two-story frame house with a one-story kitchen wing, probably in my first recollection the most commodious in the county.  My memories of him and his family are among the dearest of my life.  He was the strongest and best of my mother's brothers, and an appreciative friend of us both as long as he lived.  His earnest, honest character, his ready helping hand always extended toward me and my lonely mother I shall never forget.

     Uncle Samuel had formerly lived in Franklin county, Ohio a few miles west of Columbus, where the oldest brother, Uncle John Hall, had settle. His first wife died there, leaving a son and daughter with their mother's father, John Hunter.  When Mother arrived in that vicinity her widowed mother, Nancy Hall (nee Jones), was making her home with Uncle Samuel. He was then living with his second wife, born Mary Shepherd, a sister of the William P. and Maria before mentioned.  "Aunt Polly Sam" had no equal in faithfulness to her family and friends, and my heart goes out to their children as to brothers and sisters.  William, their eldest, died in early manhood, leaving an unborn infant, who bears his father's name. The other children (still living in 1898) are Samuel E. of Clarinda, Iowa; Mary Matilda Burk of Geneva, Indiana; Martha Ann Brayton, died at Geneva, Ind., March 30, 1907, aged 62 years; Margaret Locher of New Corydon; Clarissa Wiest (who later married another Burk, Perry) of Geneva, Indiana.

     Before returning to my personal story I will add a few more notes descrip-

And ends on Page 4.

Notes from Lewis Hall, Anacortes, WA on this paper are:

P.S. Loofburrow private, Co. E 139 Reg. Ind Volunteers

G.W. Loofburrow, 2n Lt Satne Co

Elias Loofburrow, Co. E. 89 Indiana Regiment (mustered 1862)

Liber College is near Portland, Indiana

                 iv.       RACHEL HALL, b. April 14, 1795, Ohio; d. April 28, 1859; m. WADE DAVIS LOOFBOURROW, June 28, 1815, Ohio; b. June 19, 1788, Harrison Co., West Virginia; d. April 29, 1857, New Corydon, Jay, Indiana.

                  v.       JOHN W. HALL, b. Abt. 1803.

                 vi.       SAMUEL HALL, b. January 15, 1806, Berlin, Delaware, Ohio; d. December 30, 1883, Wabash, Jay, Indiana; m. MARY SHEPARD, August 27, 1838.

Notes for SAMUEL HALL:

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From Walter Hall (who got the information from Melissa McCollum)

Biographical Sketches:

Samuel Hall, one of the old and honored pioneers of Jay County, Indiana, who is now deceased, was born in Delaware County, Ohio , June 15, 1806.

Generation No. 4

4.  CHARLES⁴ HALL (NATHANIEL³, RICHARD², "ALPHA"¹) was born August 31, 1808 in Berlin, Delawere, Ohio, and died March 22, 1842 in New Corydon, Jay, Indiana.  He married EMILY LOOFBOURROW January 06, 1831 in Clark, OH, daughter of JACOB LOOFBOURROW and MARY DAVIS.  She was born March 21, 1815 in West VA, and died February 24, 1872 in Republic, Kansas.

More About CHARLES HALL:

Burial: Luffborrough Cemetery, Adams Co., Indiana

Notes for EMILY LOOFBOURROW:

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Buried in Pleasant Ridge Cemetery

She named it and is its first occupant

More About EMILY LOOFBOURROW:

Burial: Pleasant Ridge Cemetery, Republic, Kansas

Marriage Notes for CHARLES HALL and EMILY LOOFBOURROW:

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Have copy of marriage license.

It states:

The State of Ohio Clark County

I do herby certify that on the sixth day of January last I joined together in the State of Matrimony

Charles Hall and Emily Loofborough according to Law.

Given under my hand and seal this 11th day of February 1831.  Andrew Reyburn

On the side of the license it has Charles Hall Lic. 4th Jany 1831 Emely Loofburrow, her father give written consent, he has no father nor Guardian as stated by him.

Children of CHARLES HALL and EMILY LOOFBOURROW are:

5.                i.       JOSEPH L.⁵ HALL, b. April 09, 1831; d. October 04, 1894, Concordia, St. Cloud, Kansas.

                  ii.       JOHN W. HALL, b. Abt. 1832; d. 1854, ? killed in the Civil War.

More About JOHN W. HALL:

Burial: Believed he was killed in the Civil War.

6.              iii.    DR. LEWIS DAVID HALL, b. May 05, 1834, Franklin County, Ohio; d. WFT Est. 1863-1930.

7.              iv.       SOPHRONIA HALL, b. October 26, 1836, Franklin, Ohio/Franklin, Warren Co., OH; d. July 23, 1920, Republic, Kansas.

                  v.       MARANDA V. HALL, b. June 08, 1841; d. September 05, 1851, , Adams, Indiana.

More About MARANDA V. HALL:

Burial: Luffborrough Cemetery, Adams Co., Indiana

Generation No. 5

5.  JOSEPH L.⁵ HALL (CHARLES⁴, NATHANIEL³, RICHARD², "ALPHA"¹) was born April 09, 1831, and died October 04, 1894 in Concordia, St. Cloud, Kansas.  He married LUCINA ELIZABETH LEWIS December 31, 1854 in Daviess County, Indiana by Rev. Douglas, daughter of THOMAS LEWIS and JANE BOCKOVEN.  She was born September 24, 1839 in Berlin, Ohio, and died December 25, 1915 in Concordia, St. Cloud, Kansas.

Notes for JOSEPH L. HALL:

On May 3`, 2003, I visited Joseph L. Hall's marker, which is a tall  White marble obelisk, on which, the inscription is very faded and hard to read. It does say he was in the Civil War, in the Indiana Vols. Regiment as an Orderly, 49th Indiana Infantry. Private Private 94  E Co., 2 Battalion Veteran Res. Corps. Union.  Grave is in Section 122.9 Block 3 of the Pleasant Hill Cemetary, Concordia, Kansas .

History of the 49th Indiana Volunteer Infantry

During the closing days of August, 1861 and the following month of September, the nucleus of what became the 49th Indiana Volunteer Infantry entered "Camp Joe Holt", a rendezvous for troops, situated on the north bank of the Ohio River, and just west of Jeffersonville, Indiana. The 49th Indiana Regiment was organized at Jeffersonville on the 18th of October, 1861, and mustered into service at the same place on the 21st of November, 1861, with John W. Ray as Colonel.

Beginning it's first march by crossing the Ohio River on the 11th of December, it marched through Louisville, Ky, into the interior of Kentucky, reaching Bardstown on the 13th, where it entered into a camp of instruction.

On the 12th of January, 1862, under orders to reinforce General Thomas, who was watching the movements of the rebel General Zollicoffer, who seemed to threaten another invasion of Kentucky. The 49th reached a point five miles south of of Lebanon, when it received the news that General Thomas had defeated the rebels at Mill Springs, Kentucky, where the southern General Zollicoffer was killed. The Regiment proceeded through Lebanon, Crab Orchard, Mt. Vernon, London, and Barboursville, to Cumberland Ford, Kentucky, arriving there on the 15th of February.

On the 14th of March a part of the regiment was engaged in a skirmish at Big Creek Gap, Tennessee, and on the 23rd of March, took part in an ineffectual attempt to take Cumberland Gap.

It remained at Cumberland Ford for the remainder of the winter, until June, 1862. While at that place the regiment was severely scourged by disease, losing by death a large number of its members. For a time scarcely a hundred men could be mustered for duty.

In April, 1862, Governor Morton of Indiana, received word that 370 men in the 49th were sick and needing food and hospital supplies suitable for sick men. Nothing of that kind could be had there. On this same date, Governor Morton promised to send a good lot of supplies, and additional surgeons. Even with this aid conditions grew rapidly worse. An Agent sent to check on the Unit, in the middle of May sent back a report stating that only 377 men were then fit for duty, and 188 were sick and in camp. 321 were absent and on sick leave. They men needed Fruit, pickles, kraut, and potatoes, but most of all it seemed best to send them on furlough to Lexington. This was never allowed, however. Conditions grew even worse, and Early in June, 229 out of the 900 Officers and men could report for duty. Their camp was in an unhealthy locality, and supplies were meager, and not fit for sick men!

On the 12th of June it marched with General Morgan's forces toward Cumberland Gap, and on the 18th it occupied the Gap, the rebels having evacuated it the same day. The 49th proceeded to add to the strength of the already well fortified position.

In the month of August the rebel General Kirby Smith, with a strong force, came through the mountains, and succeeded in cutting off supplies and all communications in the Gap. At the same time supplies were already low in Cumberland Gap, and the men were in need of clothing.

The regiment remained at Cumberland Gap until the night of the 17th of September, when General Morgan, whose army the 49th was part of, abandoned the works, and started it's retreat with General Morgan leading them through Eastern Kentucky to the Ohio River. During the march the troops subsisted mostly upon green corn. After a march of sixteen days,the regiment reached Greenupsburg, Kentucky, on the 3rd of October, from whence it moved to Oak Hill, Ohio.

Going into camp at Oak Hill, Colonel John W Ray met up with the regiment, having been on detached service, and tendered his resignation on October 17, 1862. He was succeeded by James Keigwin, who continued as it's colonel until the close of the war.

After a few days rest, the 49th started for Western Virginia, going up the Kanawha as far as Coal's Mouth. Returning from this expedition it embarked on transports at Point Pleasant on the 17th of November for Memphis, arriving there on the 30th of that month.

On the 19th of December it embarked, with Sherman's army, on the expedition to Vicksburg, landing at Chickasaw Bayou on the evening of December 26th, and engaging in the five days battle that followed. It lost fifty-six men in killed and wounded. The attempt to storm the rebel works being unsuccessful, the regiment re-embarked on transports and left Chickasaw Bayou on the 2nd of January, 1863, and proceeded to Milliken's Bend. Young's Point, Louisiana, where a change in commanders took place with General John A. McClernand succeeding General Sherman in command.

From this place it started in steamers on the expedition against Arkansas Post, a strongly fortified position held by a force of over five thousand men under General Churchill. On the 11th of January, after a fierce fight, and a gallant defense, the enemy surrendered.

Returning to Young's Point, it assisted in digging the canal across the point, remaining in that vicinity until the 2nd of April. It then moved with Grant's army as part of the 13th Corps on April 2, 1863, and moved down the west bank of the river to a point below Grand Gulf, where it boarded transports, which, with gunboats, had ran past the batteries of Vicksburg and Grand Gulf, and had landed at Bruinsburg, near the mouth of Bayou Pierre. On the 30th of April, 1863, the regiment crossed the river, and marched toward Port Gibson, where on the morning of May 1st, began the battle of Port Gibson, the first on a series of engagements preliminary to the complete investment of Vicksburg. At Champion's Hill, on the 6th of May; and at Black River Bridge, on the 17th, where SGT William W. Kendall won the Medal of Honor for his actions, in which he crossed the enemy works, and leading his company, captured guns, and more men then he had with him.

On May 22, the regiment took part in the Bloody assault on the works of Vicksburg, and that failing, took part in the siege that followed. After several weeks of siege warfare, the garrison at Vicksburg capitulated on July 4, 1863.

After the fall of Vicksburg the regiment marched to Jackson, Mississippi, taking part in the seven day's fighting at that place and vicinity. Returning to Vicksburg, the 49th embarked on the 10th of August for Port Hudson, and from there proceeded to New Orleans, where it was assigned to the Department of the Gulf.

From New Orleans the regiment was transported by train to Brashear City, on Berwick Bay. Moving from Berwick's Bay it took part of the expedition up the Teche, passing through the towns of Pattersonville, Franklin, New Iberia, going as far as Opelousas, Louisiana. Returning to New Orleans, the regiment left in transports for Texas on the 10th of December, boarding the steamer Blackstone, reaching Decroe's Point on Matagorda Peninsula on the 14th. From there it moved to Indianola, where on the 3rd of February, 1864, one hundred and sixty-seven men and four officers re-enlisted.

In March the regiment moved to Fort Esperanza, on Matagorda Island, and remained there until April 19th, when it embarked for Alexandria, Louisiana, to reinforce Banks' army on Red River. Here it was engaged with the enemy for thirteen days with the enemy until the 13th of May, when the army retreated to the Mississippi river. Returning to New Orleans, the regiment proceeded to Indiana on Veteran furlough, reaching Indianapolis on the 9th of July.

At the expiration of its veteran furlough, it was ordered to Lexington, Kentucky, where it remained until the 7th of September, 1865. Leaving there on that day it proceeded to Louisville, where on the 13th of September, 1865, the regiment was mustered out of service. The following day it reached Indianapolis with two hundred and sixty-one men and seventeen officers, where it was finally discharged from service.

The whole distance marched by the regiment during its term of service was eight thousand miles. The Regiment lost during service one officer and 40 enlisted men killed, and mortally wounded, and 3 officers and 192 enlisted men by disease; total 236

More About JOSEPH L. HALL:

Burial: Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Concordia, St.Cloud, Kansas

Military service: Private Indiana 49th Vols Civil War

Notes for LUCINA ELIZABETH LEWIS:

Visited grave site in Concordia, KS  May 31, 2003..It is a Red-Gray Granite tombstone, flush/4 inches to the ground that says "Mother' Lucina Elizabeth Hall."  It sits next to Joseph L. Hall's marker, which is a tall  White marble obelisk, on which, the inscription is very faded and hard to read. It does say he was in the Civil War, in the Indiana Regiment as an Orderly.  They were in the Main COncordia Cemetary in Section 122.  She owned 6 plots, hers, Jospeh's and a daughter Della, whose stone was broken off at the base with no writing...but records show it as hers.  The other 3, according to the records, owned by L.E.HAll,  but with unknown in the graves.

More About LUCINA ELIZABETH LEWIS:

Burial: Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Concordia, St.Cloud, Kansas

Children of JOSEPH HALL and LUCINA LEWIS are:

                   i.       FLORENCE L.⁶ HALL, b. WFT Est. 1853-1880; d. WFT Est. 1885-1963; m. MERWIN CRANS, WFT Est. 1885-1919; b. WFT Est. 1844-1879; d. WFT Est. 1885-1958.

                  ii.       ALICE J. HALL, b. WFT Est. 1853-1880; d. WFT Est. 1885-1963; m. HARRY KEY, WFT Est. 1885-1919; b. WFT Est. 1844-1879; d. WFT Est. 1885-1958.

                 iii.       DELLA J. HALL, b. WFT Est. 1853-1880; d. WFT Est. 1860-1963.

                 iv.       ALBERT L. HALL, b. WFT Est. 1853-1880; d. WFT Est. 1887-1960; m. EMMA WEAVER, WFT Est. 1887-1923; b. WFT Est. 1853-1887; d. WFT Est. 1887-1968.

8.               v.       HATTIE E. HALL, b. WFT Est. 1853-1880; d. Bet. 1940 - 1945, Oakland, California.

                 vi.       CHARLES C. HALL, b. WFT Est. 1853-1880; d. WFT Est. 1887-1960; m. ALLIE ATKINSON, WFT Est. 1887-1923; b. WFT Est. 1853-1887; d. WFT Est. 1887-1968.

9.             vii.       PEARL A. HALL, b. WFT Est. 1853-1880; d. WFT Est. 1885-1963, Oakland, California.

10.          viii.       MYRTLE MAY HALL, b. May 10, 1869, Union City, Indiana; d. June 02, 1956, Santa Ana, California.

6.  DR. LEWIS DAVID⁵ HALL (CHARLES⁴, NATHANIEL³, RICHARD², "ALPHA"¹) was born May 05, 1834 in Franklin County, Ohio, and died WFT Est. 1863-1930.  He married (1) CATHERINE LEWIS October 19, 1858 in New Corydon, Jay County, Ind, daughter of THOMAS LEWIS and JANE BOCKOVEN.  She was born June 18, 1843 in Berlin, Delaware County, Ohio, and died WFT Est. 1865-1937.  He married (2) CATHERINE LEWIS October 19, 1858 in New Corydon, Jay, Indiana.  She was born June 18, 1842 in Berlin, Delaware, Ohio, and died May 01, 1915 in Ellensburg, Kittitas, Washington.

Notes for DR. LEWIS DAVID HALL:

DR. L. D. HALL was born in Franklin County, Ohio, May 5, 1834. In 1838, with his parents went to Indiana. Graduated at Physio-Medical Institute of Cincinnati, Ohio, Febuary 7, 1867, and began the practice of his profession in Jay County, Ind., where he practiced until 1869, when he emigrated to Atchison, Kan., where he remained until 1871, when he went to Republic County, and in February, 1877, to Concordia, Cloud County, where he has remained in practice ever since; he is and has been for two years United States ex-Surgeon for pensions; also appointed Medical ex-Surgeon for the Northwestern Masonic Aid Society, and several other insurance companies. He enlisted in the late war May 2, 1864, in Company E, One Hundred and Thirty-ninth Indiana Volunteers, and was discharged October 8, 1864. He was married October 19, 1858, at New Corydon, Jay County, Ind., to Miss Catherine Lewis, and has seven children--Ella R., Marietta E., Lenna K., Orestus C., Augustus J., Fred. Garfield and Baley Hall.

Index to Marriage Records 1850 - 1920 Inclusive Volume I Letters A to Z Inclusive

Record Location:    Jay County, Indiana

    W. P. A Original Record Located County Clerk's Office Portland Compiled by Indiana Works Progress Administration 1938

Spouse 1:    Catharine Lewis

Spouse 2:    Lewis D. Hall 

Marriage Date:    19 Oct 1858 

County:    Jay