Monday, March 20th, 1865

To day I made John drive up some wild shoats, which I marked. Hicks ground 8 bushels of wheat. Mr. Hester & William Long stopped with me for the night. Weather cloudy & cool with an exceedingly hard rain at night which raised the Elkhart creek very high or full.

Tuesday, June 5th, 1860

To day I went to Crockett to attend the sale of the property belonging to the estate of Col. Long & in the evening returned in company with John Harwell. The hands at work in the cotton. weather changable & warm.



150 years ago today . . . on the 5th day of June . . . in the year 1860 . . . Luke Bryan, Ass't. Marshal, is enumerating the James Wrigley family in the Town of Liberty . . . in Liberty County, Texas . . .

Tuesday, May 8th, 1860

To day we all set out potato slips, weather cloudy & showery but warm & pleasant. John Long visited me & I gave in? a list of my taxable property.

Horace Oscar (Toby) Hall (1854-1934)

The Crockett Courier
Volume XIV. Number 13.
Crockett, Texas
April 12, 1934

Mr. Horace O. Hall, citizen of Crockett for nearly 80 years, died at his home at 9:10 Monday night. Mr. Hall was born Sept. 22, 1854 and he would soon be eighty years old. He was a native of Houston Co. His father was the lamented Captain J.J. Hall, one of Houston County's pioneer citizens and planters. The plantation of the elder Hall was at Hall's Bluff on the Trinity River which location bears the Hall's name until this day. The wife of Horace O. Hall died a number of years ago [i.e., Florine Annie Kirkpatrick (1861-1900)].

Mr. Horace Hall was a good citizen and neighbor. Unobtrusive in his disposition, he retired early to the privacy of farm life and by his own seeking was never in the limelight. In the quiet of his country home just outside the city limits he reared and educated his children, who are ::

• James F. Hall of Groveton (1883-1965)
• Horace O. Hall, Jr. of Houston (1896-1983)
• Mrs. Henrietta Walters of Port Neches (1887-1953)
• Mrs. Ruth Hamilton of Dallas (1892-1975)
• Mrs. Mahala Brownlow of Shreveport (1894-1991)
• Miss Susie Hall of Houston (1899-1955)

Most of these, including a daughter-in-law, Mrs. Felix Hall [i.e., Susie Beatrice Loring (1885-1961)] and her two children [i.e., Robert Loring Hall (1914-1981) and Mary Sue Deen nee Hall (1916-2001)] of Tyler, were here for the funeral. Felix Hall (1884-1926) died several years ago.
Funeral services were held in the Glenwood cemetery Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. Rev. B.L. Pool, the Methodist pastor conducting the services. Mr. Hall was a member of the Methodist Church. Interment in charge was T.J. Waller funeral director followed by a religious service.

Active pallbearers were ::

• C.W. Moore
• H. Long
• J.L. Arledge
• R.J. Spence
• T.R. DewPree
• D.D. Dishough
• J.C. Goolsby
• N.W. Boo...

Honorary pallbearers were ::

• J.R. Foster
• J.W. Shivers
• Dr. T.S. Wootters
• J.E. Monk
• Chas. Hassell
• J.W. Arledge
• Senator Nat Patton
• A.W. Phillips
• J.L. Monk

The Courier wishes to join in extending condolences to the bereaved.