Early Settlers Personal History

1. John Anderson Hall

2. Paris, Ark. – R-1

3. Retired minister and school teacher

4. Preaching, teaching and farming

5. September 10^th, 1861

6. Williamson County, Ill. - 10 miles of Marion Co. seat

7. Feb. 5^th, 1882 Louisa Jane Taylor, Johnson County, Ill. - Vienna, county seat- Ill.

8. Not an immigrant

9. Since 1898- (came to Arkansas by train)

10. Same

11. Health of wife

12. Hewn logs & boxed home - clay & split wood . Place Johnson  County - Vienna county seat

13. Tallow candle

14. Heber Springs, Cleaburne [sic] (Cleburne) Co.- Ark- 1898- Nov. 11^th

15. Wood- wooded country

16. Corn bread made with rock burrs flower [sic] (flour) roller mills

17. Home spun wool and cotton by looms

18. None (chiarivaries [sic] - charivaris more commonly referred to as shivarees - were common)

19.Food & clothing were much cheaper

20. The linchpin wagon was used to take food to the needy

21. Corn and some cotton

22. Had the bull tongue plow and the turning plow Vienna town

23. Farming fruit, growing grain, wheat, oats

24. Mullen, sassafras roots (tea), poke salid [sic] (salit)

25. Had all mentioned Indian - no happenings

26. Bucket brigade

27. Wabash river - turkey, prairie chickens, horses & mules

28. Stage coach- from Golconda to Metropolis, Ill. Boat landing at both places

29. School- split log & lumber seats 1867

30. Beach Grove country school- near Vienna, Ill.

31. John Wesley Sullivan

32. By taxation

33. McGuffie [sic] (McGuffey) Readers, Elementary Speller

34. Can’t give any

35. Makanda, Ill.- date

36. Horse cars 1878- trolley cars (can’t say) busses (can’t say)

37. Automobile 1904 Fort Smith

38. Central Illinois - 1867

39. Paris, Ark. 1914

40. 1927

41. Can’t say

42. Can’t say

43-55. None

56. 23 grandchildren, 21 Great grand children

57. Alvin Thomas Hall, Ft. Smith; Oscar Hall, Simms, Montana; Blanche Mition?- Maude Elizabeth Hall.

58. Grandson- Daymon Hall

59. None

Transcribed by Alisha Cary, GHS Class of 2007