John Wesley Hall
HALL, JOHN WESLEY
Daily Courier-Gazette, September 19, 1919
JOHN W. HALL EX-CONFEDERATE AND COUNTY RESIDENT SINCE 1852 FALLS DEAD.
John W. Hall, an aged McKinney citizen dropped dead this morning at 7:30 o’clock at his home on the corner of Florence and News street in the northwest part of town. He had been in very poor health for four months suffering from heart disease and his sudden demise was therefore not unexpected. However, he had not been bed ridden and was down town only yesterday transacting some business and talking with friends.
John Wesley Hall was born December 14, 1842 in Bolivar county, Tennessee and was therefore at the time of his death 76 years 8 months and 25 days old. When a lad of only then years his parents moved from Tennessee to Texas and settled near McKinney which has been the home of the deceased for the past 66 years. His father, the late Abraham Hall and wife, settled on their farm about three miles northwest of the McKinney court house, a part of which place became the homestead of the deceased, John W. Hall, who owned it at the time of his death. He was a Confederate veteran and while he belonged to no church yet he was a Presbyterian in faith, his mother being a member of that church and having him baptized in infancy. He was married in 1869 to Miss Elizabeth Bourne of McKinney. Their wedding took place at the bride’s home which is now the property of T. A. Dorsey on South Tennessee street. His wife died February 12, 1913. The deceased is survived by two sons and two daughters as follows: Howard Hall, a merchant of Sherman, Texas, and Jack Hall, who is a traveling salesman for the International Harvester Company and lived at Greenville. The daughters are Mrs. R. H. Cogborn of McKinney, and Miss Mae Hall, who lived with and kept house for her father and tenderly cared for him during his last years of life. The funeral services will be held at the residence at 10 o’clock (tomorrow) Saturday morning and will be conducted by Rev. E. H. Fincher, assisted by the Rev. V. W. Wallace. The interment will follow in old family burying lot in the McLarry cemetery, three miles northwest of McKinney.
The deceased is also survived by one brother, W. A. (Austin) Hall and two sisters, Mrs. W. T. McDonald of Sunset, Texas, and Mrs. Oscar Skidmore of Durant, Oklahoma. Eight grandchildren are also left to mourn the sudden death of their beloved grandfather. The late district clerk, M. R. Hall, who died a few years ago at San Angelo where he had moved, was also a brother of the deceased.
Daily Courier-Gazette, September 19, 1919
JOHN W. HALL EX-CONFEDERATE AND COUNTY RESIDENT SINCE 1852 FALLS DEAD.
John W. Hall, an aged McKinney citizen dropped dead this morning at 7:30 o’clock at his home on the corner of Florence and News street in the northwest part of town. He had been in very poor health for four months suffering from heart disease and his sudden demise was therefore not unexpected. However, he had not been bed ridden and was down town only yesterday transacting some business and talking with friends.
John Wesley Hall was born December 14, 1842 in Bolivar county, Tennessee and was therefore at the time of his death 76 years 8 months and 25 days old. When a lad of only then years his parents moved from Tennessee to Texas and settled near McKinney which has been the home of the deceased for the past 66 years. His father, the late Abraham Hall and wife, settled on their farm about three miles northwest of the McKinney court house, a part of which place became the homestead of the deceased, John W. Hall, who owned it at the time of his death. He was a Confederate veteran and while he belonged to no church yet he was a Presbyterian in faith, his mother being a member of that church and having him baptized in infancy. He was married in 1869 to Miss Elizabeth Bourne of McKinney. Their wedding took place at the bride’s home which is now the property of T. A. Dorsey on South Tennessee street. His wife died February 12, 1913. The deceased is survived by two sons and two daughters as follows: Howard Hall, a merchant of Sherman, Texas, and Jack Hall, who is a traveling salesman for the International Harvester Company and lived at Greenville. The daughters are Mrs. R. H. Cogborn of McKinney, and Miss Mae Hall, who lived with and kept house for her father and tenderly cared for him during his last years of life. The funeral services will be held at the residence at 10 o’clock (tomorrow) Saturday morning and will be conducted by Rev. E. H. Fincher, assisted by the Rev. V. W. Wallace. The interment will follow in old family burying lot in the McLarry cemetery, three miles northwest of McKinney.
The deceased is also survived by one brother, W. A. (Austin) Hall and two sisters, Mrs. W. T. McDonald of Sunset, Texas, and Mrs. Oscar Skidmore of Durant, Oklahoma. Eight grandchildren are also left to mourn the sudden death of their beloved grandfather. The late district clerk, M. R. Hall, who died a few years ago at San Angelo where he had moved, was also a brother of the deceased.
