JOHN HALL

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JOHN HALL

JOHN HALL, a rancher of Dent Township, was born in Illinois, April 20, 1840, son of William and Nancy (Embank) Hall. They crossed the plains in 1857, and settled in this county, near Farmington. The father was born in Franklin County, Georgia, March 4, 1804, and died in Calaveras County in 1885, aged eighty-one. The mother was born in Jackson County, Georgia, March 4, 1804, and died in Calaveras County in 1885, aged eighty-one. Both are buried in Burwood Cemetery, in this township. The grandparents Embank, long settled in Alabama, and perhaps born there, died in Illinois at an advanced age.

John Hall, the subject of this sketch, worked for his father until about the time of his marriage, which occurred July 26, 1866, when he was united to Miss Estella Jane Huntley, born in Pike County, Illinois, September 8, 1848, daughter of Lyman Lysander and Matilda (Brown) Huntley, of this township. Mr. Hall took up eighty acres for a homestead, and pre-empted eighty, both situated nearly five miles northeast of Farmington, in this county. These he held five years, and then rented 320 acres in Stanislaus County for three years. In September, 1876, he rented 330 acres, which he still occupies on the Stanislaus, about seven miles east of Ripon, purchasing it in October, 1877. About 200 acres are wheat-growing upland, and the remainder adapted to the raising of corn, alfalfa, potatoes or fruit. He has about 300 vines and as many fruit trees of various kinds.

Mr. and Mrs. Hall are the parents of eight living children, viz: William Solon, born June 8, 1867; Harlow Huntley, July 10, 1869, Ida May, October 31, 1871; Harry Edwin, July 5, 1874; Bessie, May 21, 1881; Franklin Fay, June 7, 1883, Reuben Roy, December 1, 1885; Erma, March 10, 1888.

Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.

An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County, California, Page 327. Lewis Pub. Co. Chicago, Illinois 1890.

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