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William W. Hall
Wm. W. Hall died Saturday, Decem-
2, 1893, aged 63 years, 5 months and 8
days, having resided all his lifetime on
the farm where his grandfather, William
Hall, sttled in 1815. He was a son of
Henry Hall, who was one of the early
settlers of that part of Madison county
near Collinsville, and has followed the
business of farming on the "old home-
stead" all his life.
William Hall, his grandfather, was one
of the soldiers of the Revolutionary war,
who made his home in Madison county
from 1815 to 1846. He enlisted in the
army when 17 years of age, from South
Carolina, and served until the close of
the war. He was born near Lancaster,
in the state of Pennsylvania. After the
close of the war he removed to Mecklen-
berg county, North Carolina, and from
that place to Rutherford county, Tennes-
see, and from thence to Madison county,
Ill., in 1815, and settled on the land own-
ed by Wm. W. Hall at the time of his de-
cease, where in a cemetery on the old
farm he was buried in May 1846. He
was at the seige of Charleston in May
1780, was teamster in the army of Gen.
Gates, at the battle of Camden, and in
active service at the battle of Eutaw
Springs in September 1781. Mayor Wm.
H. Hall, of this city, has recently traced
the family record and has been furnis-
ed from the official records of the depart-
ment at Washington with the military
record of the old veteran of revolution-
ary times.
William W. Hall was a kind hearted
man, generous to his friends, and loved
by his family, relatives and neighbors.
He was buried by the Masonic fraternity
of Collinsville, in the old family ceme-
tery, with his father and grandfather,
where they, with many of the early set-
tlers and members of the Hall family lie
sleeping, awaiting the promised day,
when pain, parting and death shall be no
more.
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This obituary was found in a scrapbook
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