Ballard County KyArchives Biographies.....Hall, Charles Morgan March 4, 1822 - January 28, 1895
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Source: Kentucky: A History of the State, Volume I
Author: W.H. Perrin, J.H. Battle & G.C. Kniffin

CHARLES MORGAN HALL

Source: Kentucky: A History of the State, Volume I by W.H. Perrin, J.H. Battle & 
G.C. Kniffin, published 1885

CHARLES M. HALL, an old settler and leading farmer and fine stock breeder, was 
born March 4, 1822 where Paducah now stands.  His father was on his way to the 
Purchase from the Green River country, when a storm stopped them at Paducah.  The 
father of our subject raised one crop near Paducah and then returned to 
Muhlenburg County, Ky., where he remained till about 1830; he then returned to 
the Purchase and settled in Ballard County.

The grandfathers of our subject were William Hall and Charles Morgan of English 
and Irish descent, and were both in the Revolution.  The parents of our subject 
were Adam and Eda A. (Morgan) Hall with whom he lived till he was twenty-five 
years old, when he commenced business for himself, running a wood yard, three 
miles below Cairo for eighteen months; he afterward engaged in farming, cutting 
cord wood and piloting flat boats down the river to New Orleans.  He commenced in 
life without a dollar, about 1850 he purchased his first farm of 145 acres at $3 
per acre, which he improved and has added to till he owns 700 acres, but giving 
to his children has reduced its area.  He was the owner of three negroes when the 
war broke out.

The father, Adam Hall, rented lands while in the Purchase, till he moved to 
Missouri in 1837, where he purchased 366 acres of land and resided till his 
death, when Charles M. brought his mother back to Ballard County, where they have 
since lived, Mr. Hall having had the care of the family after his father's death.
C. M. Hall was married March 4, 1856, to Mrs. Mary Hall, widow of B. Hall; she is 
the daughter of Jerman J. and Ann D. Beadles* (sic Wingo), natives of Virginia, 
and of English descent.  They came to Graves County in 1830.  By this union Mr. 
and Mrs. Hall have had born to them eight children:  Ann E. (now Elliott), Nettie 
(now Melton), Jerman A. (deceased), Theophilus A. (deceased), James K., Charles 
M., William A., and Lewis W.

He and wife are members of the Baptist Church.  He is a Mason and has been 
trustee of schools for twenty years.  He cast his first presidential vote for 
James K. Polk, and has voted the Democratic ticket ever since.




Additional Comments:
* Error - should read Jerman J. and Ann Y. Beadles Wingo

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