Jul-28-2018                   
             Husband: Lawson Hall    
                Born: Oct- 4-1831           1,2,3
                Died: May-23-1913           1
              Buried:                      in Auburn Community Cemetery, Ritchie Co, WV  4
              Census: 1900                 in Union District, Ritchie Co, WV  
              Census: 1850                 in Doddridge Co, (W)VA   (see note 1)
          Occupation:                      farmer  3
              Father: Elisha Hall 
              Mother: Susannah Tharp   (1790 - 1869) 
                Wife: Sarah J. Sinnett   5  
             Married: Sep- 2-1852          in Ritchie Co, (W)VA  6
                Born: May- 7-1834           1,3
                Died: Mar-23-1924           1
              Buried:                      in Auburn Community Cemetery, Ritchie Co, WV  4
              Census: 1900                 in Union District, Ritchie Co, WV  
              Census: 1850                 in Ritchie Co, (W)VA  
              Father: Abel Sinnett   (1801 -     ) 
              Mother: Elizabeth A. Stuart   (1804 -     ) 
           F Child 1: Sophronia Jane Hall      
                Born: Feb-27-1858          in Ritchie Co, (W)VA  7
                Died: Aug- 3-1901          at Leatherbarke, Ritchie Co, WV  8
              Buried:                      in Auburn Community Cemetery, Ritchie Co, WV  9
             Husband: Charles Fisher Beall  b. Sep-  -1848  d. Sep-13-1917  
             Married: Mar- 6-1884          in Ritchie Co, WV  8
           M Child 2: Alfred N. Hall      
                Born: Sep-22-1860           10
                Died: Mar-31-1861           1
              Buried:                      in Auburn Community Cemetery, Ritchie Co, WV  4
           M Child 3: John Allison Hall      
                Born: Aug-24-1861          in Ritchie Co, (W)VA  1
                Died: Feb- 7-1939          in Auburn, Ritchie Co, WV  1
              Buried:                      in Auburn Community Cemetery, Ritchie Co, WV  4,9
              Census: 1900                 in Union District, Ritchie Co, WV  
                Wife: Frances Eliza "Fannie" Warner  b. Dec- 9-1864  d. Jan-12-1954  
             Married: Nov-18-1883          in Ritchie Co, WV  
           F Child 4: Catherine Olive Hall   11   
       Also known as: Katherine Olive Hall 12
                Born: Dec-31-1864          in Auburn, Ritchie Co, WV  11,13
                Died: Jan-14-1944          in Ritchie Co, WV  11,13
              Buried:                      in Auburn Community Cemetery, Ritchie Co, WV  4
             Husband: Charles Alvin Ward  b. 1858  d. Mar- 5-1944  
             Married: Feb-24-1881          in Ritchie Co, WV  14,15

Sources:
(1) Headstone. 
(2) Susie Davis Nicholson, Davis - The Settlers of Salem, West Virginia, Gordon Printing Co, Strasburg OH, 1979 (Revised & 
Enlarged) < www.wvgenweb.org/harrison/books.htm >, p. 38. 
(3) 1900 Census, Ritchie County, WV (Union District). 
(4) Ritchie County Historical Society (David M. Scott, Editor), Ritchie County, West Virginia Cemeteries through 1993, 
McClain Printing Co, Parsons, WV, 1995. 
(5) Death record of daughter. 
(6) Ritchie County Marriage Records, Harrisville, WV. 
(7) Susie Davis Nicholson, Davis - The Settlers of Salem, West Virginia, Gordon Printing Co, Strasburg OH, 1979 (Revised & 
Enlarged) < www.wvgenweb.org/harrison/books.htm >, p. 142. 
(8) Susie Davis Nicholson, Davis - The Settlers of Salem, West Virginia, Gordon Printing Co, Strasburg OH, 1979 (Revised & 
Enlarged) < www.wvgenweb.org/harrison/books.htm >. 
(9) Findagrave.com. 
(10) Headstone - Date calculated from age at death. 
(11) Ritchie County WV Deaths 1941-1955, Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg, WV 26101 (Dec 1998) 
(12) Death record of son. 
(13) Headstone (year only) 
(14) Minnie Kendall Lowther, Ritchie County in History and Romance (McClain Publishing Co, Parsons, WV, 1990), p. 316. 
(15) Ritchie County WV Marriages 1843-1915, Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg WV 26101 (July 1985) 

Event Notes
Note (1) Listed as a laborer in the household of Franklin Maxwell.







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