Souvenir Edition, The Williamstown Courier, Williamstown, Ky, May 30, 1901, reprinted September 19, 1981 by the Grant County KY Historical Society. D. M. HALL was born in Madison County, Alabama, December 12, 1860. His father was James W. Hall, a preacher in the Missionary Baptist Church, and his mother was Caroline Virginia (Horner) Hall, a Virginian. The father was of Scotch descent, and the children of their union, ten in number, have the characteristics of the sturdy Scotch race, blended with the sweet character of the mother's land, the Southland. The father was a veteran of the Mexican War, but being a true Southerner, when the war between the North and South broke out in 1861, cast his fortunes with the Confederacy and fought beneath the stars and bars for four long years. Shortly after the war he removed with his family to Newport, in Campbell County, and there opened a saddler's and harness shop, a trade which he had learned early in life. He remained in Newport several months, and then removed to Grant's Lick, in the same county, and later removed to Demossville, in Pendleton County. In 1878 he removed to Grant County, in the neighborhood of Heekin, where he remained until his death a few years ago. D. M. Hall was educated in the common schools and received a fair education. He followed farming pursuits all his life until the present, but in 1885 entered business for himself at Heekin as a general merchant and as a road contractor. His merchandise business at Heekin grew to large proportions, and for fifteen years he was a leading merchant in Grant County. Money flowed into his coffers, and last year when he concluded to retire from an active business life on account of ill health, and also being possessed of a desire to give his children a better education than that which he had been able to obtain. He traded his store property at Heekin for farm property in Pendleton County, which he later traded for property in Williamstown. Later he traded this property for the old Webb farm, near town, where he now lives. He is the owner of a very considerable amount of real estate in Grant County, having a farm of 265 acres at Heekin and his home farm containing 103 acres, all very fine land and in a fine state of cultivation. He proposes to follow the life of a trader and a farmer from this time on, and is making a very decided success at that calling. Of the Hall children only five are now living. They are Mrs. Anna Harrison, who lives in Grant County; John W. Hall, keeper of the County Infirmary; Dr. J. Whit Hall, practicing medicine at Bloomington, Ill.; Miss Bertie Hall, at Dayton, O. [sic], and himself. He was married November 18, 1885 to Miss Minnie B. Gosney, of Pendleton County. To this union two children were born, a boy and a girl, the latter of which is still living. His first wife died April 2, 1890, and he was later married to Mrs. Nannie A. Clark, of this county. Three children, one boy and two girls, have been born to this union, one of the girls being dead. He is a working member of the Grassy Run Missionary Baptist Church, of which his father was an able minister late in life. He is also a member of the I.O.O.F., Centurion Lodge No. 100, and a member of the Encampment of the same lodge. He is Chaplain of the Subordinate Lodge. He is also a staunch member of the Masonic Lodge. In politics he has followed the teachings of his youth, and is a staunch and true Democrat of the old school. He is an excellent citizen, public spirited to a degree, and withal a splendid Christian gentleman. Hall Horner Harrison Gosney Clark Webb = Campbell-KY Pendleton-KY Madison-AL VA OH IL http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/grant/hall.dm.txt