James Henderson Hall (1824 - 1904)

Born 13 Feb 1824 in Spring Creek, Bedford County, Tennessee, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah D. (Collier) Hall — married 1855 (to 1888) in Missouri, United States

Husband of Sarah Dora (Collier) Hall — married 15 Aug 1855 in Oregon, Missouri, United States

Descendants

Died 21 Jan 1904 at age 79 in Pottersville, Howell County, Missouri, United States

Problems/Questions Profile managers: Buffalofish Woodruff [send private message] and Patricia Munroe [send private message]

Biography

This profile is part of the Hall Name Study.

James Hall served in the United States Civil War.
Enlisted: September 15, 1862
Mustered out: May of 1865
Side: USA
Regiment(s): 3rd Regiment, Missouri Volunteer Cavalry

James "Henderson" Hall was born in Spring Creek, Bedford County, Tennessee, on 13 Feb 1824. James Henderson married Sarah D. Collier and had 8 children. He passed away on 1904 in Howell County, Missouri, USA.

Parents:

• James Hall Jr. (1799/1800–1838)
• Unknown

Spouse: Sarah Dora Collier (1831–1888)

Children:

• William Perry Hall 1857–1899
• Nancy A. Hall 1859–1860
• John Thomas Hall 1867–1927
• Grant Hall 1869–1869
• James Henderson Hall 1869–1950
• Dora Matilda Hall 1872–1955
• Elias Hall 1873–1900

Records show that the HALL family were listed on the tax records of Marion County, Arkansas for the year of 1839 but did not appear on the census. Henderson and Thomas were in Marshall County, Tennessee and listed on the tax records there for the last time in 1838.

By the late 1840s JAMES HENDERSON HALL, REBECCA HALL, and SALINA settled near POTTERSVILLE, Missouri. On the 1850 Federal Census records for OREGON County, Missouri, REBECCA's age was given as 53; J. HENDERSON's as 25; LEONARD's (Henderson's cousin) as 23, and SALINA's as 5 (born in Ark.)

Records read: #237

THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT THE UNDERSIGNED DID SOLEMNIZE THE RITE OF MATRIMONY BETWEEN HENDERSON HALL AND SARAH COLLIER, both of the County of OREGON and the state of MISSOURI, on the 15th day of August, 1855. - J.W. OWEN, J.P.

Recorded the 10th day of Sept., 1855. - J. W. Griffith, Clerk

To this union eight children were born. WILLIAM PERRY HALL, JOHN THOMAS HALL, JAMES HENDERSON HALL, JR. and DORA MATILDA HALL were the only ones to reach adulthood. The cemetery at EVERGREEN, outside of POTTERSVILLE, Missouri, contains the early graves of: an infant of J.H and S.D. HALL (no date); Grant, son of J.H. and S.D. HALL (Jan. 10, 1869), and ELIAS, son of J.H. and S.D. HALL (no date, but he was shown to be age 7 on the 1880 MISSOURI Federal Census reports). They also had a daughter, NANCY A. HALL, their second child, who was born in July 1859 and died on November 30, 1860.

In 1860, just five short years after the marriage of JAMES HENDERSON HALL and SARAH (often called SALLY), CIVIL WAR broke out in this country. Unlike many of his neighbors in the WEST PLAINS-POTTERSVILLE area, HENDERSON HALL was a UNION sympathizer.

Company Muster rolls showed that HENDERSON HALL was in the UNION ARMY as a PRIVATE, in Company M of the 3rd Regiment of the MISSOURI CALVARY on the 15th day of September 1862, in ROLLA, MISSOURI, for a period of three years. Company M was commanded by JOHN M. GLOVER. He was mustered into service on November 5, 1862, also at ROLLA, MISSOURI, which was in PHELPS COUNTY.

The HALLS were a UNION family living among people who were more SOUTHERN than NORTHERN. HENDERSON HALL'S family was removed to ST. CLAIR COUNTY, ILLINOIS, for at least part of the war. In the spring of 1864, the A.P.O. office address was given as FOSTERBURGH, ILLINOIS, and the Muster Rolls show that his family was at that address.

All of the Muster Rolls for 1863 indicated that HENDERSON HALL was present. Several of these also indicated that he was paid for the loss of a horse, which substantiates another family story relayed by his grandson, JESSE, which indicated that the shots had come very close to him during the fighting of the war.

In the latter part of 1863, when at JACKSON POST, ARKANSAS, HENDERSON began to develop health problems that would plague him for the rest of his life. The 1864 Muster Rolls for May-June show him absent for 30 days' sick leave. Again in July-August show him absent and on sick leave, (hospitalized part of the time) in FOSTERBURGH, ILLINOIS. Also, Muster Rolls show that he was present with the Company from September 1864 through April 1865. He was then hospitalized in LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS on April 15, 1865. He remained on the rolls until JUNE 14, 1865. He was mustered out of the service by a telegram sent to LITTLE ROCK in May of 1865, signed by W.O. NICHOLS, ATT. GENL. Soon after the war, the family returned to the POTTERSVILLE area. Federal Census records for 1870 show that JOHN T. HALL was born in 1867 and JAMES H. HALL, JR. in 1869, both in MISSOURI.

Also LEONARD HALL, Henderson's cousin, died in 1867 (he a son of David Hall Sr) and was buried in the EVERGREEN CEMETERY (then called LAMONS). HENDERSON, was appointed executor of LEONARD'S estate. Court records show that LEONARD had requested this. In June of 1870, there are records showing that he had not met all of the requirements in settling LEONARD'S debts. A settlement was to be made the following January or a sale to satisfy debtors would occur. In July of 1870, records showed a statement saying that HENDERSON had discharged all of the debts of LEONARD'S estate.

In 1868 court records show that HENDERSON AND SARAH bought 163 acres of land in the POTTERSVILLE area, at auction, in JACKSON, MISSOURI. The land, costing $250.00, was paid for by JOSEPH HALL. Missouri census records show a Joseph Hall living on the land next to HENDERSON. Joseph Hall was the son of Leonard Hall.

No more evidence was found of REBECCA HALL after 1860 the Missouri census. She lived, at that time, with HENDERSON, SARAH, WILLIAM PERRY and SALINA.

HENDERSON HALL and his family were farmers. Their farms, apparently, were close together, on a ridge of land, outside of POTTERSVILLE, MISSOURI. Census records show many of the HALL families were living in consecutive farm numbers.

An 1880 Federal Farm Census for HOWELL County, MISSOURI, showed HENDERSON HALL living on and owning his own land. Under tilled, including fallow and grass rotation (whether pasture or meadow) 65 acres, and under permanent meadows, pastures, orchards and vinyards, 95 acres. He declared the buildings and land to be worth $1,500.00, with implements worth $15.00 and his livestock, worth $300.00. He had made repairs in the previous year to the sum of $790.00 and had sold produce worth $300.00.

The Farm Census further showed that he owned 8 horses and 6 mules. He owned 5 milk cows and 20 other cattle. He had 9 calves dropped in the previous year and had purchased two. It was listed that he sold 12 animals enumerated under meat cattle. Butter that was produced in 1879 amounted to 150 pounds. He had 12 new lambs born in 1879 and had slaughtered 5 sheep. He had shorn 24 sheep, getting 48 pounds of wool. On hand, June 1, 1880, he had 20 swine. On this same date, his poultry numbered 15 and he also listed that his hens had produced 80 dozen eggs in the year 1879.

His crops consisted of 20 acres in Indian corn that produced 600 bushels, 10 acres in oats with a yield of 100 bushels, 5 acres in rye that yielded 10 bushels and 1/2 of an acre in sugar cane that produced 40 gallons of molasses. He also grew a small amount of Irish potatoes and tobacco, with a fairly large crop of apples producing __?__ bushels. It listed the number of cords of wood and the amount that he thought they were worth.

His children all had farms located close to his, some of them smaller than his but all producing similar or complimentary crops to those raised on his farm. For instance, WILLIAM PERRY HALL raised peaches.

In 1881, HENDERSON made petitions for a WAR PENSION, citing chronic diarrhea, lung disease, rupture and an injury to his leg, resulting in varicose veins. Many of his neighbors wrote affidavits attesting to his poor physical health. He drew a pension of $4.00 a month until August 4, 1891, when he received a notice that his pension had been dropped because of an Act of June 27, 1890. He was listed on the SPECIAL SCHEDULE - SURVIVING SOLDIERS, SAILORS, MARINES AND WIDOWS in 1890 from HOWELL County, MISSOURI. He re-petitioned the WAR DEPARTMENT in July of 1890. He received and filled out informational forms in 1898. He apparently collected the pension for a longer period, because after his death, his death was correctly noted in his military files, as PENSION FILE CLOSED.

HENDERSON lost his wife, SARAH D., on July 2, 1888. She was buried in LAMONS Cemetery, later called EVERGREEN. Near her were the graves of her three children that had died previously.

HENDERSON HALL served as a sort of community leader as well as a father to his family in the community that was called the "HALL SETTLEMENT." Although it has been found that he did not write and I would suppose, he could not read, he used the court system often and well.

WILLIAM PERRY HALL, one of HENDERSON'S sons, died on December 22, 1899, as the result of an illness called the fever that was rampant in the area at the time. His wife, MARTHA JONES HALL, followed him in death, a scant 37 days later, on January 28, 1900. HENDERSON helped in the capacity of guardian to the family, for many of WILLIAM PERRY and MARTHA's children were not yet grown.

JAMES HENDERSON HALL, died in his home on Thursday, January 21, 1904.

Not all information is clear, at this point, but it seems that all of William Perry's children did not get along and there was some dispute over what remained of his estate. Several of his children, JESSE HALL among them, loaded themselves into a wagon and went to OKLAHOMA. Oklahoma was still, at that time, INDIAN TERRITORY. Most of the children's aunts an uncles remained in the POTTERSVILLE area at this time.

Today, descendants of HENDERSON HALL live in many of the fifty states, but a loose sort of contact has always been kept. For the last 10 to 15 years, there has been a HALL REUNION. Some of these reunions were held in SAPULPA, Oklahoma and later at the SEQUOYAH STATE PARK at SEQUOYAH BAY near WAGONER, Oklahoma. Now the reunion is always slated for the last Saturday of June.

He was known as Henderson to most people.

Note: There has been a lot written about James Henderson Hall, but upon investigating these writings I find that Henderson had been confused with another man by the name of Thomas Hall, therefore almost everything written was not about Henderson but actually was about Thomas Hall. Henderson and his wife Sarah Collier were close friends with her sister Nancy that married Wm Drinnon. Henderson stated in his pension application that he and Wm were best friends.

James Henderson Hall's relationship with Salina Hall is still unclear: he could be a brother, cousin or an uncle. His relationship with Rebecca Hall is also still unclear; Rebecca could be his mother, cousin or his aunt. More research is needed to be sure. Rebecca & Salina were listed in Henderson's household on the 1850 & 1860 census; no relationship was given.

Event: Union Army. Military 15 SEP 1862. Civil War. Note: Henderson Mustered in at Rolla Missouri Sept. 15, 1862 Private in the Union Army under the command of Col. John M. Glover 3rd Regiment company M - Missouri Volunteer Cavalry. Enlisted for a term of 3 years, was discharged on May 29th 1865. After Henderson enlisted, the Hall family took refuge in St. Clair County Illinois in a place called French Village. In the Spring of 1866, after the close of the war, Henderson and his family returned to Howell County, Missouri to find their homes had all been destroyed. The whole town had been burned; there was but one small cabin left standing in all of West Plains.

Regimental History. Third Cavalry. MISSOURI (3-YEARS)

Third Cavalry. -- Col., John M. Glover; Lieut.-Cols., W. C. Gantt, Robert Carrick, Robert Carrick, T. T. Howland, H. A. Gallup, J. A. Lamon, T. J. Mitchell, J. H. Reed, George S. Avery. The regiment was organized in the fall of 1861, Col. Glover's commission being dated Sept. 4. During the months of Dec.,1861, and Jan., 1862, it was engaged in the suppression of the guerrillas about Palmyra, defeating them at Mountain Store, Sinking Creek, Wyman's Mill, Newtonia, Hartville and other places. It formed part of the Union forces that attacked and defeated Marmaduke at Hartville, and was active in the pursuit of that officer in his expedition into Missouri in August and September. It was in the 2nd brigade of Davidson's division in the expedition against Little Rock, and participated in the engagements at Bayous Meto and Fourche, and Jacksonport. In Dec. 1862 a detachment of the regiment was assigned to Gen. Carr's command in the St. Louis district, and in March, 1864, the regiment formed part of Anderson's brigade of Carr's division in Steele's Camden expedition. It remained in Arkansas the greater part of the year on scout duty. In Jan. 1865, it was stationed at Little Rock, very much reduced by casualties and the muster out of the non- veterans at the expiration of their term of enlistment. Under an order of March 21, 1865 it was consolidated into five companies, and was subsequently consolidated with the 11th Mo. cavalry. It was mustered out with that regiment July 27, 1865. Source: The Union Army, vol. 4, p. 273.

James was born about 1823.

Sources

• Civil War Pension Application gives birth dates and location information. 1850 Federal Census Oregon County Missouri, 1860 thru 1900 Federal Census Howell County Missouri

• Source: S1 1790 - 1930 U.S. Federal Census (Population Schedule), [Online: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2005), subscription database, [Digital scan of original records in the National Archives, Washington, DC], <<http://www.ancestry.com/>> ly.com, Inc., 2005), subscription database, [Digital scan of original records in the National Archives, Washington, DC], <<http://www.ancestry.com/>> ly.com, Inc., 2005), subscription database, [Digital scan of original records in the National Archives, Washington, DC], <<http://www.ancestry.com/>>. TID 0 Footnote 1790 - 1930 U.S. Federal Census (Population Schedule), [Online: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2005), subscription database, [Digital scan of original records in the National Archives, Washington, DC], <<http://www.ancestry.com/>> ShortFootnote 1790 - 1930 U.S. Federal Census (Population Schedule), [Online: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2005), subscription database, [Digital scan of original records in the National Archives, Washington, DC], <<http://www.ancestry.com/>> Bibliography 1790 - 1930 U.S. Federal Census (Population Schedule), [Online: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2005), subscription database, [Digital scan of original records in the National Archives, Washington, DC], <<http://www.ancestry.com/>>. Page [1850], [Oregon], [Missouri], Pg #411, Dewlling #230, Family #230 1860],[Myatt], [Howell], [Missouri], Page 565, Dwelling 167, Family 167 [1870],[Myatt Twp], [Howell],[Missouri], Page 498, Dwelling 79, Family 79 [1880], [Myatt Twp], [Howell], [Missouri], Page 477 B, Dwelling 51, Family 55 [1900], [Howell], [Missouri], Page 179 B, Dwelling 144, family 144

• Find a Grave, database and images (www.findagrave.com/memorial/24074338/james-henderson-hall : accessed 11 August 2021), memorial page for James Henderson Hall (13 Feb 1825–21 Jan 1904), Find a Grave Memorial ID 24074338, citing Evergreen Cemetery, West Plains, Howell County, Missouri, USA ; Maintained by Kathy Barnett (contributor 49242052) .

• United States Census, 1880 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6XH-QRS

• U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/515855:7836

• United States Census, 1870 (Family is shown as being of the white race) https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/682244:7163