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Born 1836
From History of Greene county, Missouri, ... including a history of its township, towns, and villages, together with a condensed history of Missouri ... biographical sketches and portraits of prominent cit (1883)
ISAAC M. HALL.
Mr. Hall is the son of Pleasant and Cynthia A. (McAden) Hall, and was born April 15, 1836, in Halifax, Virginia. His parents moved to North Carolinia, thence to Tennessee,.
and next to Greene county, Missouri. In the fall of 1849 they settled the place where Isaac M. now lives and has remained ever since. Mr. Hall vas a lieutenant in the Home Guards and after the battle of Springfield January 8, 1863, he was elected 2d lieutenant of a company of enrolled militia. After the war he returned home and has since lived quietljr upon hisfarm. He owns several tracts of good land in Franklin township. He was married in this county, December 8, 1864, to Miss Martha A., daughter of Thomas King. Their union has been best with eight children, five sons and three daughters. One son died in infancy. Mr. Hall's father was a native of Virginia, and died August 18, 1854, aged seventy-two years. His mother was also a Virginian and died March 1, 1875. They are buried at Mt. Comfort church. They reared a family of thirteen children, four sons and nine daughters.
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