Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Hall, William 1812 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   William Hall, farmer, Rob Roy, was born in Ross county, Ohio, May 1, 1812. He
was the son of James and Hester (Hilvy) Hall. The former was born in Delaware,
and the latter in Virginia. They were married in Ohio, and lived and died in
Ross county. Mr. Hall's father was a hatter, and from him he learned that trade,
and worked at it from 1828 till 1837, at which time he abandoned the business
and engaged in farming, which he has since followed without interruption. In
August, 1834, he married Sarah Bookwater, and in 1839 emigrated to Fountain
county, and improved the farm where he is living, in Shawnee township. His wife
died in February 1847, and he married again October 14 of the same year. This
wife's name was Sophia Van Gundy, daughter of Samuel Van Gundy, who came from
Ross county, Ohio, to Shawnee township in 1832. She was born March 17, 1817. Mr.
Hall was originally a whig, and has been a republican since that party has had
an existence. He has held communion in the Methodist church thirty years. His
first wife was a member, as the second also is. He has filled the office of
trustee twenty years, and is still discharging the duties of that position. He
has traveled somewhat in the south and west. From 1864 to 1869 he was trustee of
Shawnee township, being elected five consecutive terms of one year each. He owns
a choice, fertile, well improved farm, with handsome residence, picturesquely
located a short distance south of Rob Roy. The place contains 200 acres, all in
cultivation except thirty acres of timber. His first marriage was fruitful of
five children: Elizabeth (deceased), Clinton (deceased), Jeremiah, Isaac, and
James. By his second wife he has had six children: Wallace, Alonzo, Ophelia
(wife of Daniel R. Brown), Alexander, Arphelia, and Ella. His sons, Clinton,
Jeremiah and Isaac, were soldiers in the late war. Clinton belonged to the 22d
Ill. Vols., and fought at Shiloh and Stone River. In the last battle he was
wounded in the leg; gangrene set in, and though the limb was amputated it was
not enough to save his life. His remains were brought home and interred at Rob
Roy. Jeremiah was in the 86th Ind. Vols., and after four months' service in the
field was taken sick and sent to Nashville, and after his recovery was retained
there to nurse in hospital till the end of the war, serving on this detached
duty nearly three years. Isaac was in the 113th Ind. Vols., and served his full
time of six months in East Tennessee.

Additional Comments:

Shawnee Township

HISTORY OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY,

TOGETHER WITH
HISTORIC NOTES ON THE WABASH VALLEY,

GLEANED FROM EARLY AUTHORS, OLD MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS
PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC, THOUGH, FOR THE MOST
PART, OUT-OF-THE-WAY SOURCES.

BY H. W. BECKWITH,
OF THE DANVILLE BAR; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF
WISCONSIN AND CHICAGO.

WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHICAGO: H. H. HILL AND N. IDDINGS, PUBLISHERS.
1881.


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