Whitfield Hall

REV. WHITFIELD HALL, son of SARAH H. HUNT and REV. HUGH COLBRAITH HALL, was born February 20, 1840 in Indiana,⁴⁹³¹ and died October 26, 1902 in Lebanon, Boone, Indiana.⁴⁹³¹ He is buried in Eugene Cemetery, Vermillion County, Indiana.^{4931, 456}

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Personal Information

• Whitfield Hall was a member of the Methodist Church. ⁷⁵⁶¹

Work History

Obituaries

Indianapolis Journal, October 28, 1902⁷⁵¹⁹

LEBANON, Ind., Oct. 27.—The Rev. Whitfield Hall, a well-known Methodist minister, died Sunday night at his home in this city of dropsy. He left a widow and two children. Mr. Hall was sixty-two years old. He had been in the ministry for thirty-one years. The funeral will be held this afternoon.

Williamsport Warren Republican, November 6, 1902⁷⁵⁶¹

Rev. Whitfield Hall Dead.

This minister of the Gospel was a son of the late Rev. Colbrath Hall. He spent his early manhood in this county his home being near West Lebanon.

He was in ill health many years from chronic heart disease, and the latter part of last June was compelled to give up preaching. He had been in the ministry in the Northwest Indiana Conference for twenty-five or thirty years. He died at Lebanon, Boone county, Ind., last Friday, and the funeral services were held in the Methodist church in that city at 2:30 on Sunday afternoon, and remains were taken to Cayuga, Ind., and laid to rest beside the dest of a child who died several years ago. Decease leaves a wife and a son and a daughter to survive his death. The daughter, Mrs. Edna Frane, resides in Chicago, and the son, Earl, is at home, a pupil in High School and will graduate this school year. Bro. Hall was 62 years of age.

West Lebanon Gazette, November 20, 1902⁷⁵⁶⁰

Death of a Minister.

Rev. Whitfield Hall of Lebanon, Boone county, this state, died one week ago last Sunday evening of dropsy, and was interred in the Eugene cemetery the Tuesday following where one of his children is buried. He is survived by a widow and two children. He was the son of Rev. Colbrath Hall, who died at Williamsport several years ago. He was a brother of Dr. William I. Hall of Gessie, deceased, who was a member of the pension board here a number of years. The surviving wife of Rev. Hall was a former resident of Eugene township, and is a cousin of county Treasurer M. G. Hosford. He carried an insurance on his life for $1,000 in the Macabees. His funeral was preached at Lebanon by Rev. Demetrious Tillotson, a well known minister of this state, who is a native born citizen of Holt township, this county.—Newport Hoosier State

Rev. Hall will probably be remembered by many of our citizens as he formerly resided on the old Hall farm southeast of town.

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