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JOHN HALL

    John Hall was born in central Alabama, in 1777. In early manhood he moved to
Georgia, what is now Baldwin County, settled on a land-grant, about eight miles
south of present site of Milledgeville.

    At the age of twenty-two, he married Miss Mary Johns. They lived at his
home, South of Milledgeville, until their deaths. John Hall died Sep. 22, 1850,
his wife, Mary, died five years later, May 5,1855.

    They were survived by eight children, seven of these moved into different
parts of the State, leaving their youngest son, James Monroe, at the old
plantation of his parents.

    January 15, 1856, James M. Hall and Mary E. W. Havis, of Perry, Houston Co.,
were married. They made their home in Baldwin county, on the old Hall
plantation, operating large farming and milling interests.

    To them were born eight children, the oldest being Mary Sophia, born January
17, 1857, died Mar. 7, 1887.

    The second, Ida Caroline, was born February 6, 1859. On November 6, 1884,
she was married to Charles Franklin Riley, of Haynesville, Houston county,
Georgia. To them were born seven children; Mamie Hattie, born August 24, 1883;
Emmie Louise, born March 8, 1887; Julia Roberta, born February 26, 1889; on
August 20, 1918, she was married to Ernest Lee Gates, of Locust Grove, Ga. They
have two children; Ernestine, age five; Charles Alexander, age three.

    Samuel Hall was born Feb. 1, 1891. On July 5, 1914, he was married to Ethel
Lindsey, of Irwinton, Georgia. They have one child, Julia Claire.

    Claude Franklin was born February 26, 1893. He married Marie Scheel, of
Eatonton, Ga., December 25, 1916. They have two children; Charles Sam, age four;
and Claude Franklin, age three.

    John Willie Riley was born January 23, 1900. He married Eliese Cox, of
Millen, Ga., on October 18, 1923.

Helen Lydia was born August 20, 1903.

Charles Franklin Riley died March 10, 1915.

    John Havis Hall was born January 6, 1861. In early manhood he studied
medicine, in Baltimore. After graduating, he located in Milledgeville, Ga. There
he married Miss Minnie Simms. He died November 23, 1886.

    Minor William was born November 8, 1863. Finishing in law, he located in
Milledgeville, practicing in the firm of Howard and Hall. Later, he married Lula
Rockwell, of Milledgeville. He died August 31, 1893. Two children survive them,
Mrs. Robert McCombs, of Milledgeville, (who has five children; Marie, Camille,
Emette, and twins, Bobbie and Billy. Camille and Bobbie both died in infancy)
and Evan Rockwell Hall, of Raleigh, N. C., who was born November 30, 1891.

    Julia Elizabeth was born July 1, 1866. In November 1886, she was married to
Robert Lee Holloway, of Barnesville, Ga. They had seven children; Julian Lee, of
Atlanta; John Holloway, of Milledgeville, who married Fairie Wright, of
Milledgeville; Emmette William, of Atlanta; Charlie Whitfield, of Chattanooga,
who married Elizabeth McMaster, of Atlanta. They have two children, Elizabeth
and Catherine. Andrew Hall, of St. Petersburg, Florida, and Mabel Pauline, of
Atlanta.

    Julia Elizabeth Holloway died September, 1924,

    Emmagin Ezell Hall was born April 15, 1869. She married James E. Humphries,
of Meriwether. They have seven children: James Hall, of Helena; Maggie, of
Atlanta; Lillian and Carolyn, of Meriwether. Nelle Catherine, Mary Julia, and
Robert, died in infancy. James Monroe was born January 3, 1872—died July 7, 1873.

    Sammie, born February 1, 1876; died June 21, 1881, just a short while after
his parents' death. James Hall, his father, died May 3, 1881. Mary, his mother,
died May 25, 1881.

    The old Hall plantation, in South Baldwin, has been divided into smaller
farms and sold off, all except the old home site, which is owned by Mrs. C. F.
Riley, the second child of James and Mary Hall. This farm is operated by Frank
Riley, her second son.

    On this old farm, stands the old house built by John Hall, in 1800; this is
the Riley home. They preserve it as a curiosity. It was built of hewn timbers,
cut from the original forest there; the nails were all shop made, on the place,
by the old slave who was a blacksmith. The brick are of he old time wedge-shape.
They, too, were burnt in kilns on the plantation.



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Part V

HISTORY of BALDWIN COUNTY GEORGIA

BY MRS. ANNA MARIA GREEN COOK

ILLUSTRATED

ANDERSON. S. C.
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