ORANGE COUNTY, NC - OBITUARIES - Mrs. Martha B. Hall, 17 Dec 1921
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Contributor's Note: Transcribed exactly as the obituary reads.

Obituary of Mrs. Martha B. Hall
The News
Chapel Hill, Orange County, N. C., Thursday, December 22, 1921
Volume XXVII, No. 52
(*Note: The microfilm box reads: The News of Orange County)

AGED WOMAN DIED IN EAST DURHAM
     Mrs. Martha B. Hall died at the home of her son-in-law, Mr.
Jesse Bishop, in East Durham Saturday.
     Mrs. Hall was a native of Orange County, was born five miles
north of Hillsboro on March 21, 1834. She was a daughter of John L.
and Margaret Woods. Her father was a soldier in the was of 1812.
     In her young womanhood she married John W. Hall, who served
four year as a Confederate veteran and died 40 years ago, leaving
Mrs. Hall with 11 children, who lived to be grown. Of these, nine
are living. These are S. R. and D. W. Hall, of this county;
W. H. Hall, of Granville C. B. Hall, of Greensboro; Mrs. W. D.
Jordan, of Hamlet; Mrs. R. L. Davie, of Washington, D. C.;
Miss Annie Hall, of Thomasville; Mrs. Jesse Bishop, and J. D. Hall
of Durham.
     In her early girlhood she joined the church and lived a
Christian life. At the time of her death she was a member of
Mt. Tabor Church in Durham county. For the past nine years she
has lived with her daughter, Mrs. Bishop, of Durham.