Biography of Ira Duane Hall - Pulaski Co. VA


IRA DUANE HALL - son of Luke and Anna (HEATH) HALL, was born in Berkshire
county, Massachusetts, November 4, 1820. He left his native State in August,
1839, and went to Milton, North Carolina, as a peddler of the old "Seth
Thomas" clocks, and from that State came to Virginia, June 10, 1840, and
continued in the same occupation here till 1846. Since that time he has been
farming, except for two years of service he gave the Confederacy during the
civil war. Mr. HALL has been twice married. November 4, 1844, Elizabeth,
daughter of Charles and Jane (SHANNON) KING, became his wife. She was born
in Giles county, April 11, 1821, and her decease occurred July 31, 1859. The
three children of Mr. HALL are the offspring of his first marriage: Charles
Luke, born March 20, 1846, now a resident in St. Louis, Missouri: Ann Jane,
August 4, 1848, lives in Giles county; Allen Bassett, March 25, 1850, lives
with his father in Dublin district. April 17, 1861, Ira D. Hall was united
in marriage with Rebecca J., daughter of Jesse and Anna (CARR) BANE. She was
born in Giles county, Virginia, September 10, 1830. Mr. HALL took up his
residence in this county in 1878, coming from Giles county, and he has here
a valuable farm and a comfortable home. He was a member of Capt. Thomas
JACKSON'S Battery, General ROSS' Brigade, with rank of fifth sergeant while
in the service, and took part in the Shenandoah valley campaigns. His oldest
son, Charles L., was in the same battery from March, 1863, until the close
of the war. He was in the campaigns of the Shenandoah valley, in the raid of
Early into Maryland, and at the burning of Chambersburg, and bears the scar
of honorable service from a wound received over the right eye from a piece
of shell. Ira D. Hall has his postoffice address at Martins Station, Pulaski
county, Virginia.


Submitted by Janet Randell

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