BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, BELMONT COUNTY, OHIO

"History of the Upper Ohio Valley" Vol. II, 1890.

Presented by Linda Fluharty from hard copies provided
by Mary Staley & Phyllis Slater.

Pages 732-733.

JOB HALL, a prominent citizen of Washington township, and one of the old
residents of the county, was born in Richland township, about two miles
from St. Clairsville, Ohio, April 20, 1824. He is the grandson of Dennis
Hall, one of the pioneers of Belmont county, who was born in Loudon county,
Va., and with his wife Rachel, a native of the same county, and their
children then born, came to Ohio, and settled on Wheeling creek in 1805.
Rachel Hall died in 1832. Their son, William, the father of the subject
of this sketch, was born in Loudon county, January 9, 1795, and died January
13, 1870. In early manhood he was married to Nancy Dillon, who was born in
Washington county, Penn., in 1800. Her parents, Job and Catherine (Colly)
Dillon, were also among the old settlers of Belmont county, settling in the
wilderness, and taking a leading part in the development of the country's
material and social development. In the primitive log school-houses, with
greased paper windows and slab seats, the parents of Mr. Hall, and he also,
were educated, and he is able to recall many interesting incidents of the
early days. He followed farming until thirty years old when his father sold
out and removed to Iowa, after which Mr. Hall learned the carpenter's trade
and that of boss millwright, which he still follows. He is prominent as a
contractor and builder, and has built nearly all the school-houses in
Washington township and many in Smith, Wayne and Richland. For a number of
years he manufactured coffins, and in August, 1887, he and his son, Omar,
engaged in business as undertakers at Armstrong's Mills. Mr. Hall was married
November 19, 1849, to Elizabeth Hendershot, who was born October 13, 1824,
daughter of Daniel B. and Mary (Brewster) Hendershot, the former of whom was
born in New Jersey, in 1797, and died in 1881, and the latter of whom was
born in l801. They had sixteen children. Mr. and Mrs. Hall have had two sons
and three daughters, of whom survive Eunice, Omar, Mary C. and Viola. Mr. Hall
has served as trustee of Washington township several terms. He was one of the
charter members of the Odd Fellows lodge, of Armstrong Mills. Mrs. Hall is a
member of the Christian church.