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Born 1839, Bledsoe county
From The history of Jasper county, Missouri : including a condensed history of the state, a complete history of Carthage and Joplin, other towns and townships : together with numerous portraits of prominen (1883)
A. E. HALL was born in Bledsoe county, Tenn., Sept. 5, 1839, and lived in St. Clair county. 111., ten years; then moved to Jackson county and lived there until 1861; then enlisted in Company K, Fifth Illinois Cavalry, and served three years; was taken prisoner and kept in Libby prison some time; then paroled, and finally joined his regiment at Vicksburg, Miss., and was honorably discharged at the termination of his service, and returned to Illinois, but was not able to do much for two years. He was married Sept. 27, 1866, to Miss Annie Harris, who was born in Washington county Sept. 18, 1846. In 1869 our subject moved to Jasper county. Mo., and located on his present farm of 160 acres, well improved, with small orchard. Mr. and Mrs. Hall are both members of the M. E. Church. Their children's names are Louis A., Wm. S, and Jessie E.
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