Families of Hugh Colbraith Hall

REV. HUGH COLBRAITH HALL, son of PHEBE DUTTON and ISAIAH HALL, was born January 20, 1806 in New York,^{2043, 3807} and died December 28, 1891.⁴⁵⁶ He is buried in West Lebanon Cemetery, Warren County, Indiana.⁴⁵⁶

He married (1) MARIA HORNER on October 18, 1827 in Butler County, Ohio.²³⁷³ She died in March, 1836.

He married (2) SARAH H. HUNT on September 15, 1836 in Wayne County, Indiana.¹⁹³ She was born March 13, 1817 in Wayne County, Indiana,⁷⁵⁶³ and died March 11, 1889.⁷⁵⁶³ She is buried in West Lebanon Cemetery, Warren County, Indiana.^{7563, 456}

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Children of MARIA HORNER and REV. HUGH COLBRAITH HALL:

1. ADALINE HALL.
2. HARRIET HALL, b. 1832; m. DR. GEORGE THOMAS RICHARDSON on November 30, 1858 in Warren County, Indiana⁵³⁶⁹; d. 1870.⁴⁵⁶

Children of SARAH H. HUNT and REV. HUGH COLBRAITH HALL:

3. SARAH OREGON HALL.
4. HENRIETTA HALL, b. March, 1838, Richmond, Wayne, Indiana;⁶⁸⁹⁸ m. JOHN NELSON HOLLOWAY on July 1, 1862 in Warren County, Indiana¹⁶⁷⁵; d. April 13, 1914, Sugar Creek, Montgomery, Indiana.⁴⁹³¹
5. DR. WILLIAM ISAIAH HALL, b. May 18, 1840;⁴⁵⁶ m. ELIZABETH HALL on May 18, 1868⁴⁵⁶; d. February 22, 1897, Vermillion County, Indiana.⁴⁵⁶
6. REV. WHITFIELD HALL, b. February 20, 1840, Indiana;⁴⁹³¹ d. October 26, 1902, Lebanon, Boone, Indiana.⁴⁹³¹
7. JOSEPHINE HALL, b. February 21, 1843, Indiana;⁴⁹³¹ d. February 11, 1911, Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana.⁴⁹³¹
8. HIRAM DUTTON HALL, b. 1847; m. (1) CHRISTIANA S. WESTLAKE on December 29, 1870 in Tippecanoe County, Indiana¹⁶⁷⁵, m. (2) MARY O. MILLS on March 21, 1880 in Warren County, Indiana⁵³⁶⁹; d. September 11, 1882, Pike, Warren, Indiana.¹⁸³
9. MARSHALL S. HALL, b. 1849; d. December 19, 1893, Lafayette, Tippecanoe, Indiana;⁴⁹³¹ bur. West Lebanon Cemetery, Warren County, Indiana.⁴⁹³¹
10. SARAH FLORA HALL, b. July, 1855, Indiana;¹⁴⁸⁶ m. (1) LOUIS R. BILLINGS on December 9, 1875 in Warren County, Indiana¹⁶⁷⁵, m. (2) DUDLEY MCWILLIAMS on October 10, 1900 in Indiana¹⁶⁷⁵; d. March 28, 1934, San Antonio, Bexar, Texas.¹⁴⁸⁶

Personal Information

• Hugh Colbraith Hall was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. ²⁰⁴³

• Sarah H. Hunt was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Indiana. ⁷⁵⁶³

Work History

Newspaper Articles

Newport Hoosier State, September 26, 1888⁷⁵⁵⁸

The Patriarch of Warren County

There lives near West Lebanon, Warren county, Indiana, a venerable person ripe in years and usefulness, who has lived no ordinary life. We refer to the Rev. Colbrath Hall. He is the father of the Rev. Whitfield Hall of the Northwest conference, and of Dr. Wm. I. Hall of Gessie, this county.

Born in the State of New York, where Syracuse now stands, in 1806, he will, if he lives till then, be 83 years old the 20th day of next January. His father moved to Northern Pennsylvania when Colbrath was one year old, and lived there five years. When he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he lived two years. Cincinnati was a place at that time of about one thousand inhabitants. This was in 1812 and Colbrath remembers incidents that occurred during the two years his father lived there, which were connected with the stir and excitement of the war then going on with England. After a residence of two years in Cincinnati his father moved to Lexington, Kentucky, where he resided two years and then moved to Oxford, Butler county, Ohio, in 1816. Oxford consisted at that time of a town plat and one log cabin.

Here his father located permanently and Colbrath grew up to a man's estate. In 1833,, at the age of 27, he was licensed to preach in the M. E. church and traveled Vernon circuit, which consisted of twenty four appointments, extending over several counties. It required four weeks to get around it and the salary was $100. He traveled altogether on horseback. Roads there were scarcely none, and bridges were a luxury only dreamed of.

Fifty years ago on the 14th day of this month he moved to Warren county, where he has been preaching fifty-five years, fifty of them in Warren county. In that fifty-five years he has preached about four thousand times, and traveled about one hundred and twenty-five thousand miles, the greater part on horseback. He has married about one thousand couples and preached some seven hundred funerals. He is now preaching the funerals and marrying the 3rd generation. In addition to all this he has for more than thirty years had to handle with care an invalid wife. This care has been very exacting and but few could have stood up under it from year to year with out any intermission. In 1842 he was elected to the State legislature and was elected four terms in succession. He also served in the legislature in a special session at which the 15th amendment was ratified. In politics he was always a whig, although he voted for Jackson in 824 and 1828. In 1832 he voted fro Clay and since then has voted for every whig and Republican candidate for president. He voted for Harrison in 1836 and 1840. He is an uncompromising believer in freedom. He believes in free speech, free state, and free grace. Always a champion of the slave and of the oppressed, he never failed to raise his voice for liberty of conscience, liberty of person and liberty of labor. He believes in a free ballot and a fair count. He is still hale and hearty and preaching every Sunday and hope to round out his life by voting for Gen. Benjamin Harrison on the 6th of November.

Obituaries

Winchester Journal, April 10, 1889⁷⁵⁶³

Sarah H. Hall, wife of Rev. Colbrath Hall, of West Lebanon, was born March 13th, 1887 [sic], in Wayne County, Ind., in the neighborhood of where the city of Richmond now stands. She was the daughter of the Rev. William and Matilda Hunt. Mr. Hunt was one of the pioneer ministers of the gospel in Indiana. His daughter, the subject of this sketch, seemed to inherit from her father a great love for reading. The inherent vigorous qualities of the mind which she possessed were being constantly cultured and enriched during her long life, by reading choice literature. Her reading was not of that superficial kind, but was accompanied with deep and earnest thought.

Mrs. Hall was converted and united with the Methodist Episcopal church at the early age of fourteen years and lived a faithful member until the day of her death. She was married to her now sorrowing husband, September 14, 1836. They removed to Warren County in 1838, where they have resided ever since. Mrs. Hall was the mother of eight children, six of whom still survive. One daughter, Sarah Oregon, died in infancy, and one son Hiram D., died in the 36th year of his age. One son, Whitefield, is a minister in the Methodist Episcopal church, and a member of the north-west Indiana conference, now serving as pastor of the Chesterton charge in the northern part of the state. One son is a physician, and one a farmer.

Mrs. Hall was greatly afflicted for a long time with spinal trouble. She was confined to her bed, and unable to walk a step for more than thirty years. She bore it all with christian fortitude, and perfect resignation to the Supreme will. She departed this life in the faith of the gospel, March 11th, 1889, aged seventy-one years, eleven months and twenty-eight days. Her funeral was preached by Rev. J. T. Abbett, of Williamsport, her pastor, Rev. J. C. Kemp, being away from home. The funeral was held from the family residence, and attended by a large concourse of friends and neighbors. Her body was interred in the beautiful cemetery at West Lebanon.

Indianapolis News, December 30, 1891³⁸⁰⁷

Aged Minister Gone to Rest.

[Special to The Indianapolis News]

WEST LEBANON, December 30. — Rev. Colbraith Hall, living near this place, died yesterday. The deceased was a native of New York, his birth occurring January 20, 1806. Over fifty-three years ago he settled in this county. Sixty-one years of his life were spent as a local preacher in the M. E. church, and he represented this county in the Legislature five separate terms. He was one of the oldest ministers in the State.

HISTORIC.

Rev. Colbrath Hall

Rev. Colbrath Hall was born in the State of New York, Jan 20, 1806, and died at his home, two miles southwest of Lebanon, Ind., Dec. 28, 1891, at nearly eighty-six years of age. He was licenced as a local preacher in 1833 by Rev. James. B. Finley. Allen Wiley employed him to travel the Lawrenceburg Circuit, 1834. In the fall of 1835 he was received on trial in the Indiana Conference. He succeeded in erect three churches the first year—one at Winchester, and two hewed-log ones in the country. While pastor of this circuit he was married to Miss Sarah Hunt, daughter of Wm. Hunt, of Huntsville, Ind. In 1838 he moved to Warren County, Ind. Here he was appointed to the Pine Creek Circuit, which then embraced all of Warren County. He traveled this circuit two years. Here, as in Randolph County, he found but one church; but in a short time he secured the amount necessary to build a neat frame church in Williamsport, the county seat. At the close of the year 1841, on account of the ill-health of his wife, he requested to be discontinued, and from that time remained a local preacher.

Though sustaining the relation of local preacher, he did not lessen his efforts in behalf of the Church, usually preaching from two to three times every Sabbath, holding protracted meetings at many points in his own and the adjoining counties. He was instrumental in bringing many souls to Christ and building half a score of churches. He hunted up the waste places, where no compensation could be expected, and lived to see his labor rewarded in the conversion of many that attended his meeting in these places. He was appointed at different times, by way of supply, to very important charges; was a faithful pastor and a model citizen. His influence for good was wide-spread. He was four times elected to represent his county in the State Legislature, and served one special session, making five in all. Was a strong champion for temperance, never conceding the right or expediency of licensing the sale of intoxicating liquors. Politically he was a Prohibitionist. His mind was strong and vigorous up to a few hours before his death; and he conversed on, and felt a deep interest in, the affairs of the Church and Nation.

His illness was only of thirty-six hours duration. It being erysipelas, he suffered intensely the greater part of the time, but was perfectly easy for some three hours before his death, which was like falling to sleep on earth to awake in heaven. He had prayed so many times in family prayer that he might have a "peaceful hour in which to die," God granted his request. "He giveth his beloved sleep." He had often expressed a wish that his death might occur in pleasant weather. He had attended so many funerals in inclement weather, and said it seemed doubly hard to lay the dear ones away in storm and cold, and although his own funeral was in midwinter, December 30th, the weather was as mild and balmy as October; so it seemed to us that loved him that God was teaching us to trust him more fully than we had ever done, by giving our dear father "the desire of his heart."

We laid him to rest by the side of his beloved wife, who preceded him to the "heavenly country" two years ago last March. His funeral was perhaps the largest ever attended in Warren County; and no doubt he had preached more funeral sermons and performed more marriage ceremonies than any other minister in Western Indiana. He was the father of ten children, six of whom are living, among them being Rev. Whitfield Hall, of the Northwest Indiana Conference, and Dr. W. I. Hall of Gessie, Ind. The funeral services were held in the Methodist Episcopal Church, of West Lebanon, and were conducted by his pastor, Rev. C. B. Mock, assisted by Revs. Clearwaters, Reeder, Patterson, and Hon. John Gregory.

"Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord, for they rest from their labors and their works do follow them."

Census Records

Date	Location	Enumerated Names
August 3, 18503648	Pike, Warren, Indiana	Hugh Colbraith Hall Sarah H. Hunt Henrietta Hall Whitfield Hall William Isaiah Hall Josephine Hall Hiram Dutton Hall Marshall S. Hall Harriet Hall
July 6, 18607501	Pike, Warren, Indiana	Hugh Colbraith Hall Sarah H. Hunt Whitfield Hall William Isaiah Hall Josephine Hall Hiram Dutton Hall Marshall S. Hall Sarah Flora Hall
July 8, 18703649	Pike, Warren, Indiana	Hugh Colbraith Hall Sarah H. Hunt Josephine Hall Marshall S. Hall Sarah Flora Hall
June 19, 1880493	Pike, Warren, Indiana	Hugh Colbraith Hall Sarah H. Hunt Josephine Hall Marshall S. Hall Guy Colbraith Hall Marshall Z. Hall