In the fall of 1818, Thomas Hall and John Stone came up here from the Wood River settlement, and selected homes on the northeast quarter of Sec. 31, T. 10, R. 12, and built a cabin, into which they moved. John Stone was a native of Tennessee.

THOMAS HALL, deceased, one of the pioneers of Greene county, was born in Rowan county, N.C., May 28, 1792. He was reared to manhood there, and learned the trade of a worker in wood, making chairs, spinning wheels, etc., at which he worked in North Carolina, Tennessee, and on the American Bottom. He removed to Tennessee, when he had grown to manhood, and from there he went to take part in the last war with Great Britain, serving under General Jackson. He was at Mobile Bay at the time of the battle of New Orleans. On arriving home, at the close of the war, he was married May 4, 1815, in Tennessee, to Mary McVay, a native of South Carolina, born Feb. 23, 1797. From Tennessee they removed to the Wood River settlement, in Illinois, in 1817, and after remaining there one year, came to Greene county, in 1818. Thos. Hall and John Stone came that same fall and built a cabin on the northeast quarter of Sec. 31, T. 10, R. 12. They did not stop to cut the doors in the cabin then, but went back after their families, and when they returned they could get inside the cabin no other way than by crawling under the sills. Doors were soon constructed, and the family lived a few months there, and then removed on to the northwest quarter of section 32, in the same township. They built another house there, where they lived until 1833. From there they removed to the southeast quarter of section 31, and there Thomas lived until the time of his death. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hall were the parents of eight children, seven of whom are living - Enoch, married Louisa Stone, residing about four miles west of Virden, Ill.; Samuel, married Eveline Reynolds, living west of Virden; Jane, wife of r. C. Bradley, living in Bluffdale township; Elizabeth, wife of J. C. Reynolds, living in Woodville township; James, married Eliza Short, living at Woodville; Mary, wife of Henry Stone, living about six miles west of Virden; Clarissa, living in Virden, married Wesley Stone, now deceased; and John, who died at the age of two years. Thomas Hall died March 17, 1855, and is buried at the Dunnegan cemetery. Mrs. Hall resides with her daughter Clarissa, at Virden, being now at the advanced age of 89 years. She removed to Macoupin county about the year 1860, and has lived with her children since that time. Mrs. Hall is now the only one living of the pioneers of 1818, who were at the time grown to manhood or womanhood.