Souvenir Edition, The Williamstown Courier, Williamstown, Ky, May 30, 
1901, reprinted September 19, 1981 by the Grant County KY Historical 
Society.

JOHN W. HALL.  One of the institutions in Grant County to which all
classes of citizens point with pride is the Grant County Infirmary.  It 
is a new, modern institution, built on a fine farm one mile north of 
Williamstown, with a capacity to care comfortably for 60 inmates.  The 
farm is conducted on the cooperative plan, all paupers who are able to 
do so being compelled to work on everything that is raised on the farm 
belonging to the county and used to provide and take care of the 
paupers.  The farm has been conducted on this plan but three years, and 
experience has demonstrated that it can be made self-sustaining in a few
years.  The present keeper, John W. Hall, is a farmer who has made a 
decided success in life, and understands every detail of the business he
has been called upon to care for.  He is a son of Rev. J. W. Hall, who 
died some years ago at Heekin, in this county.  Rev. Hall was a minister
in the Free Will Baptist Church, and for many years lived near 
Huntsville, Alabama.  He was a veteran of two wars, having served his 
county all through the war with Mexico in 1847, and for four years wore 
the Confederate Grey and offered his life's blood in defense of the 
homes of the "Sunny South".  At the close of his service in the army, 
and with the return of peace he migrated to Kentucky with his family 
and settled in Newport, Kentucky, later lived at Knoxville in Pendleton 
County and about twenty-five years ago came to Grant and located on a 
farm near Heekin, the same farm upon which the Green boys now reside.  
There were eight children in the Hall family, only four of whom are now 
living--D. M. Hall and John W. Hall of Williamstown, Dr. J. Whitt Hall 
of Bloomington, Ill., and Mrs. Emma Harrison.  John W. Hall grew up on 
a farm, attended the country schools and as soon as he had reached
manhood's estate began life for himself as a farmer, and so successful
has he been that he has acquired a competency.  He was united in
marriage to Miss Emma Simpson, a daughter of George W. Simpson, on the 
1st day of November, 1881.  To this union four children, two boys and 
two girls have been born.  In politics Mr. Hall is an old line Democrat,
who is always ready to fight the battles of his party at home and 
abroad.  He was elected keeper of the County Infirmary at the regular 
October term of the Grant Fiscal Court and took charge of the farm on 
the 10th day of March last.   Possibly no better man for the place could
have been found in Grant County, as Mr. Hall is an all around farmer and
a very worthy and deserving citizen.

Hall Harrison Simpson Green
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Pendleton-KY AL IL

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