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Biography - JACKSON HALL

Jackson Hall, a prominent farmer of Shaw's Point township, Macoupin County, who owns a well improved farm of 90 acres, situated in section 28, was born in 1827, in Washington County, Tennessee, and is a son of Thomas and Peggy (Hall) Hall.

Thomas Hall was a son of James Hall, who had a family of six children, namely: James, Thomas, Than, Peggie, Eliza and Samuel. His ancestors were from North Carolina. The family was a prominent agricultural one of Eastern Tennessee and there Thomas Hall followed farming all his life, at Baker's Falls, dying at the age of 80 years. He married a distant relative, also a native of Washington County, Tennessee, and they reared these children: John, James, Jackson, Polly and Betsy (twins), Sarah Alexander, Amos, David, Martha, Eliza, Emaline and Samuel. In politics Mr. Hall supported the Democratic party. For many years he was a leading member of the Presbyterian Church in his locality. About 1858 the mother of our subject was killed and several of the family were injured in a tornado that destroyed their house.

Jackson Hall was educated in the local schools in his native place and was a young man of 23 years when he came to Illinois, locating first in Greene County, at a later date, settling on his present farm in Macoupin County. Through energy, industry and enterprise, Mr. Hall has made his property very productive and valuable and has improved it with two dwellings and suitable barns and outbuildings for both. He has given attention to a general line of farming, raises about 2,000 bushels of corn annually and has 30 acres devoted to wheat, sometimes renting land for the cultivation of the latter grain. Mr. Hall has found it profitable to raise swine and keeps about 50 head, and also raises a number of good horses and mules.

Mr. Hall's first marriage was to Martha Sullens, who was born in Tennessee, and who at death left one child, — Margaret, wife of Robert Garrison, who lives in Macoupin County. Mr. Hall's second marriage was to Mary Millhorn who was born September 2, 1844, in Sullivan County, Tennessee, and is a daughter of Jackson and Ann Millhorn, who passed their lives in Sullivan County. Two children have been born to this union, namely: John, born May 9, 1884, and Susie, born October 19, 1885, both of whom are at home.

In politics Mr. Hall is a Democrat, but has taken no very active part in public affairs, having no desire to hold office. The prosperous condition of his farm shows that he has given it careful and intelligent attention, and he is ranked with the substantial men of his township.


Extracted 2018 May 05 by Norma Hass from Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens of Macoupin County, Illinois, published in 1904, pages 103-104.


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