The Times of Long Ago, Barren County, Kentucky. By Frankln Gorin. John P
Morton & Company Incorporated, 1929. Published originally in the Glasgow
Weekly Times, 1870's. pp. 135-136.

SKETCH OF JUDGE JOHN HALL.  John Hall was the first or nearly the first
pioneer that entered the wilderness of Barren County while it was in Warren
County.  He settled on the north side of Beaver Creek below the Elk hole. 
His selection of a home was made with a view to the advantages of a fine
spring which was on the north side of Beaver Creek, and the good land lying
near the Barrens.  When he came he brought several of his children.  We
believe his wife was dead.  Not many years after his settlement he built on
the bank of the creek a large, fine, hewn log house, with near stone
chimneys.  It was commodious, and for years remarkable for its beautiful
finish.  It was destroyed by fire, years after his death, after it had
passed into the hands of strangers.  He entered and took up, besides his
home place, one thousand acres of land two or three miles east of his
house.  It was a rich tract of land known and called Hall's rich grove,
which, together with his home, he owned at his death.  He was a Welshman,
and we suppose and believe his wife was also from Wales, Great Britain.
	He was one of the Judges of the Quarter Session Court of this 
County for ten or twelve years, showing by his good sense and strict 
integrity that he was worthy of his office.  He resigned it and his son, 
Michael W. Hall, succeeded him and discharged the duties of Judge with 
approval of the presiding Judge and his associate Judge until the office 
was abolished.
	Father and son were strong minded, sensible and honest men, 
deservedly esteemed and respected.
	Judge John Hall was a remarkable man in many respects.  He was 
always engaged in some profitable employment, he knew not idleness.  He 
had a room in his house no person but himself had entered for years.  It 
was known he had in that room a bench and mechanical tools; he was often 
heard at work, and it was supposed by his family he had made and had his 
coffin in the room ready to receive him at his death, but it was a 
mistake, he had merely reserved the room for the sake of privacy.  
Another instance of his eccentricity, he had a daughter who died single 
placed in a coffin and put upon a ledge of rocks in a cave, where she 
remained for years without interment, until his death.
	His son, Michael W. Hall, was a remarkable, discreet and 
temperate man.  He was firm as a rock.  He represented this county 
several years in the Kentucky Legislature.  He was a member of the 
Baptist church, and clerk of its meetings and of the Green River 
Associations.
	James Hall, another son, was a merchant, a farmer, Captain of a 
volunteer company raised to assist Gen. Harrison in the Wabash county, 
after the battle of Tippecanoe, and a member of the Kentucky Legislature.  
He and his brother, Michael W. Hall, married sisters, daughters of the 
Rev. Robert Stockton.
	Another brother, Edmund, was Lieut. of his brother's company 
above stated, a commissioned officer of the U. S. Army.  He married 
Nancy Burnam of Warren County, a beautiful and estimable lady.
	John C., another brother, was a merchant, farmer, and constable.  
He married first, Miss Wilson; secondly, Elizabeth Garnett, a daughter of
Judge John Garnett.
	A daughter of John Hall, Jane, married John Dodd.
	Another, Fanny, married Wm. D. Harlow.

Hall Harrison Stockton Burnam Wilson Garnett Dodd Harlow
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