HALL, CAPT. GREEN
                        Lake Charles, LA



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Source: Southwest Louisiana Historical and Biographical by William Henry Perrin
published in 1891; page 161.
Typed by Margaret Rentrop Moore

Capt. Green Hall, Lake Charles. - Capt. Green Hall died November 18, 1890, at
the age of fifty-five years.  He was born on the Teche, in Terrebonne parish,
Louisiana.  His father, John Hall, was a native of Ireland, reared and married
there.  He came to Louisiana when comparatively a young man and followed the
trade of blacksmith.
Capt. Green Hall was but a boy when his parents died.  He was reared in
Hamilton, Louisiana, where he received a common school education.  When quite
young he began steamboating, and was for some time captain of the steamboat
Elephant, on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.  Before the war he went to Texas
and was engaged in steamboating on the Trinity River.  He was here at
the breaking out of the war and in the beginning of the struggle he joined the
Confederate marine department and was made captain of a gunboat on the Calcaseiu
River.  During his service in this capacity he was in every river west of the
Mississippi that empties into the Gulf of Mexico.  Some of his expeditions were
very daring, but nearly always successful.  He was at the battle of Sabine
Pass in 1863, and was in command of the vessel when J. H. Bell was captured. 
One of his most successful feats was running the blockade on the Calcasieu,
alone, with a cotton cargo, when fifteen Federal gun-boats guarded the river. 
He was subsequently taken prisoner asnd detained at New Orleans for six months. 
After the war he was at Matamoros for a short while and returned
to Lake Chalres, where he married Miss Ernestine Nettleroad, and here
permanently located.  He was for many years engaged in the timber business, and
, in 1875, he opened a hotel in Lake Charles.  His first wife died in 1876, and
in 1878, he married Miss Sophia Winterhaulder, of New Orleans.  By the fiist
marriage he became the father of three children, viz: Lily, Emma and Charles
H.  The last marriage resulted in the birth of three children, two of whom are
living, viz; Ludie Wickie and Mary.  Mrs. Hall is a native of Copenhgen,
Denmark, and removed with her parents to this country when quite young.  Capt.
Hall was a most liberal hearted gentleman, and a revered citizen.  Though
leaving a competency to his family, he was not consisdered wealthy.