Sacramento County Biographies

R. B. HALL

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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GEORGIANA TOWNSHIP. 
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	Lives on Grand Island, seven miles below Courtland, his Post 
Office; was born in Rockport, Indiana, in 1825; moved from there to Kentucky, 
and lived there until the Mexican War; he served during that war, and at its 
close returned to Kentucky. He came to California across the Plains in 1850, and 
lived a few years in El Dorado County; he then came to this county; owns 
ninety-three acres of land. While in Kentucky Mr. Hall was engaged in the 
tannery business; of late years he has followed farming. He was married in 1864 
to Miss E. D. Hawkins, a native of Vermont; they have had born to them nine 
children, six of whom are living, one son and five daughters. 
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.