OBIT: William Peyton Hall, d. 1936, Jefferson Co., Ky

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Submitted by: Pat45324@aol.com
Date: 27 Mar 2001
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Subject: obit - W.P. Hall - June 27, 1936
Death of Deacon W.P. Hall

      Baptists of Louisville and Kentucky have lost one of their best and most valued 
laymen, in the death on last Saturday night at the Kentucky Baptist Hospital of Mr. William 
Peyton Hall, at sixty years of age, following an operation for gall-bladder trouble.
       Since 1904 Mr. Hall has been President of the Hall Seed Company of Louisville.  He 
was actively and warmly interested in the Deer Park Church, where he was a trusted leader, 
as in the life of his denomination.    He was a deacon of his church and president of the 
Men's Bible Class, and for years was a member of the Kentucky Baptist Hospital Board, and of 
the Louisville Baptist Orphan's Home Board.  Also for several terms he ws Moderator of the 
Long Run Association and Chairman of the Kentucky Baptist Board of Missions.
       He was a layman whose large interest in life centered around his church and the 
Christian life.  His faith was warm and bouyant, and his heart devoted to the work of 
winning to Christ those who do not know him.  The Hall Seed Company has its building in the 
market district of Louisville and among many foreigners.  His foreigner neighbors recognized 
in Mr. Hall a sympathetic and understanding friend, and they often came to him to talk over 
matters of their social and religious relationships to native Americans.  He was also 
prominently known in business circles.
       His death while yet in the full strength of manhood, is felt as a great loss by his 
own church and by Baptists of Louisville and beyond.  Also by a large circle of friends in 
the city and elsewhere.  He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Pearl Mae Hall; two sisters, Mrs. 
Annie R. McDaniel and Mrs. Elizabeth Porter, to whom the sympathy of many goes out in their 
deep loss.  Funeral services were held at the Deer Park Church at 3:00 p.m., on Monday, 
June 22, conducted by his pastor, Dr. Samuel S. Hill, assisted by Drs. J.R. Sampey and T.D. 
Brown.