Union County, Ohio Biographies Project - Abraham Hall
ABRAHAM HALL
Abraham
Hall, a farmer, near Magnetic Springs, was born in Richland County,
Ohio, March 17, 1821. His parents were Caleb and Sarah (Anderson) Hall,
natives of New Jersey, of English descent, and both now deceased, the
former dying at the age of fifty-nine years and ten months, and the
latter at the age of seventy-three years. They resided in Delaware
County for a time, and when Mr. Hall died, Mrs. Hall married Lewis
Evans. Our subject was married July 24,1842, to Catharine Gossage, by
whom he had six children, viz.: Cynthia A., William A., J. W., Edward
A., Albert P. and Rose Estelle, deceased. Mrs. Hall died August 30,
1865, and on June 24, 1866, Mr. Hall married Mary Alexander, a daughter
of Francis and Nancy Alexander, and a native of Virginia, born
September 21, 1820. Mr. Hall owns fifty-two acres of land South of
Magnetic Springs, on which he resides and which he is engaged in
cultivating. He is a member of the Christian Union Church, a Democrat
in politics, and for fourteen years has acted as a School Director. He
resided in Westerville ten or twelve years, and has been on the farm
twenty-five years.