Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-03-23
MR.. M. c. HALL DEAD.
He Was a Member Of an Old and Hon
ordered Family Had Been Superinten.
dent of St. Georges Sunday School
Thirty Years.

o'clock. Mr.. Hall has been In pad
health for some months, but con-
tinued with wonderful determlna-
ton TO give his attention not only
10 his business, but to his work as
as superintendent of St. Georges
Sunday School: During the
Christmas season when thesechool
was getting reafy for Its annual
celebration Mr.. Hall, though suf-
feriug at the time, was always at
his post of duty. A short time
since be grew worse and with MIS-.
Hall left Fredericksburg to visit
relatives in Montgomery, Ala.
Shortly after arriving thsre his
condition became alarmingly worse
and relatives from here were sum-
moned to accompany him back to
Fredericksburg He arrived here
last week and since that time his
physicians had entertained no hope
of his recovery. Mr.. Hall was
born In Fredericksburg on the 18th
of January 1S43 His father was
DR.. John B. Hall. who conducted
for years the drug store on the cor.
ner of Commerce and Main streets,
which Is perhaps the oldest bust
ness house In the city, having been
established In 1871 bv his father,
DR.. Elisha Hall, and which has
been conducted by some men Der
Of the family ever since, 1t being
the property OF Mr.. Hall at his
death. The eerly lite of the latter
was spent In this city where he OBJ
tanned his education, but the out.
break of the war called him
into the service of the Co..
fe deracy and he volunteered with
that readiness, which always char
acterized him when there was some
duty to be performed He enlisted
as private In Braxton's Battery OF
Fredericksburg artillery and through
out the entire war served with
the same command, ending his ser
vice at Appomattox when General
Lee surrendered the remnant OF his
once magnificent army. Mr.. Hall
was In most of the most important
battles In which tho Army of
Northern Virginia participated and
earned the reputation of brave
soldier in that superb command,
whose characteristic was bravery.
After the war, like other young men
OF the devastated South, Mr.. Hall
returned to this city and after a
brief time spent in Culpeper entered
the drug business then being con.
dacted by his brothers. The bust
ness succeeded, and as his brothers
grew older the deceased was left In
charge of the store and remained
so until his death. Business how
ever, did not absorb his entire time.
Over thirty yaars ago Mr.. Hall be-
came the superintendent OF st.
Georges Sunday School, of this
city, and in this work for his maker
he labored with tireless energy. The
children loved him on account Of his
kind and gentle ways and never
a year passed that he was not
made the recipient of some
remem 5erapce from tue scholars
and teachers. The work was labor
of love with him aud rarely Sab.
bath morning found him absent
from his post of duty, while at each
successive Christmas 1t was his
pleasure to join with the school in
those happy celebrations so dear TO
both scholar and teacher. He was
member of St. Georges church,
taking always, as was the case with
the Sunday School, great interest
In church work. Mr.. Hall was
nothing If not a Christian. Of him
1t can be truly said that he was
ruan OF spotless, stainless character,
untouched by any form of vice and
pure In every sense of the word
His life was an open book from
which all might read, and the ex.
ample set by him Is worthy of emu.
lation.
On the 9th of November, 1881.
Mr.. Hall was married, taking as his
wife Miss Lily Braxton, of Rich.
mond county, who survives him
with two children, Messrs. Carter
and Spottswood Hall. He was de.
voted to his family and the happiest
years of his life were spent In the
midst of Ills loved ones. He leaves,
In addition to bis wife and
children, three brothers. Dr..
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