Joseph Hall and Rachel E. McGrew

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Husband Joseph Hall ^{1 2}

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           Born: 18 Mar 1827 - Smithfield, Jefferson Co, OH 2
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           Died: 1896 3
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         Father: Clarkson Hall (      -      ) 2
         Mother: 

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       Marriage: 19 Nov 1852 2

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Wife Rachel E. McGrew ⁴

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           Born: 27 May 1833 - Smithfield, Jefferson Co, OH 3
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           Died:  - West Hickory, Harmony Twp, Forest Co, PA
         Buried:  - Steubenville, Jefferson Co, OH

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         Father: Joseph B. McGrew (      -      ) 2
         Mother: 

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Children

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1 F Susan Virginia "Jennie" Hall ^{1 5}

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           Born: 19 Nov 1856 or 1864 5
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           Died: 1939
         Buried:  - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA

         Spouse: Dr. James Buchanan Siggins (1857-1929) 1 6
           Marr: 10 Jun 1885 5

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2 M Homer S. Hall ²

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3 F Mary Alice Hall ²

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           Born: 29 Jun 1859 - Steubenville, Jefferson Co, OH 7
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           Died: 1942
         Buried:  - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA

         Spouse: Orion Siggins (1848-1920) 1 8
           Marr: 26 Nov 1884 - West Hickory, Harmony Twp, Forest Co, PA 7

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General Notes: Husband - Joseph Hall

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He was two years of age when his parents settled at Wintersville, Ohio, where he lived until 1863. At the age of nineteen he was a school teacher, but learning the carpenter's trade with his father. He followed this vocation during early manhood. He served two terms as Clerk of Cross Creek Township. In 1855 he was elected Justice of the Peace, and served three years. In 1858, for the purpose of fitting himself for the duties of United States Claim Attorney, he studied law, and was licensed as an attorney in 1861. He and acted in that capacity up to the time of his death. He was the oldest claim attorney in the country and certainly the most successful. He located in Steubenville, Ohio, in 1863, in 1872 was elected a member of the School Board, serving seven years, during four of which he acted as clerk. He took much pride in the school property and it was during his term of office that shade trees were planted and beautiful lawns were cultivated on the school grounds, he taking the lead in this work, which long stood as a monument to his taste.
He enjoyed a lucrative practice and obtained pensions for more old soldiers, perhaps, than any other attorney in eastern Ohio. By his strict integrity he won the confidence of his clients and through his energetic effort many old soldiers received government bounty who otherwise would have been destitute. Everybody knew Joseph Hall, he was liked by the people for his kindly disposition and companionable nature. He was intelligent and entertaining in conversation, was devoted to his family and felt keenly the separation from his daughters. At the time of his death he was making arrangements to move to Tidioute, Pennsylvania, to be near them. He and his wife were regular attendants and supporters of the Hamlin Methodist Episcopal Church.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 542.

2 Emma Siggins White, Genealogical Gleanings of Siggins and Other Pennsylvania Families (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1918), Pg 106.

3 Emma Siggins White, Genealogical Gleanings of Siggins and Other Pennsylvania Families (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1918), Pg 107.

4 Emma Siggins White, Genealogical Gleanings of Siggins and Other Pennsylvania Families (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1918), Pg 104, 107.

5 Emma Siggins White, Genealogical Gleanings of Siggins and Other Pennsylvania Families (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1918), Pg 104.

6 Emma Siggins White, Genealogical Gleanings of Siggins and Other Pennsylvania Families (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1918), Pg 103.

7 Emma Siggins White, Genealogical Gleanings of Siggins and Other Pennsylvania Families (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1918), Pg 147.

8 Editor, History of the Counties of McKean, Elk, and Forest, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 949.