History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 468.
[Bourbon County]  [Paris City and Precinct]

JAMES HALL, farmer and stock raiser; P. O. Paris; is the owner and
proprietor of "Huston Dale" stock farm.  He is a native of the Blue Grass
region, and identified with its interests since his birth.  He first saw
the light of day June 11, 1820, in Cynthiana, Harrison County. Mr. Hall has
been a constant resident of this county since 1854, and during this time
has been prominent in advancing the interests that pertain to short horn
cattle, of which he is a breeder and dealer.  His farm is located on the
Houston, one and a half miles from Paris, it being one among the first
settled and well known farms in Bourbon County.  January 1, 1850, he was
united by marriage to Nancy A. Huston, a native of Fayette County, this
State; she was a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Holliday) Huston.  The
former, native of Virginia; she of Clark Co., this State.  The first year
of Mr. Hall's marriage he located in this county, locating on the farm he
now owns, where he has been engaged in agricultural pursuits.  He has but
one child, Elizabeth H., now the wife of Irwin Taylor, who practiced law
successfully several years at the bar in this county; now a resident of
Topeka, Kansas, in the practice of his profession.  Mr. Taylor has six
children: Huston, Joseph I., Mary B., James H., Elizabeth C. and Lucy. Mr.
Hall has been a lifelong Republican, and is a member of the Presbyterian
Church North.  The father of the above was Samuel Hall, born July 14, 1787,
in the Old Dominion, and emigrated to this country, locating in Harrison
County, where he died in 1835.  His wife was Eliza, born Jan. 29, 1795, in
this county, daughter of William and Ann (Southerland) Caldwell.  William
Caldwell was a native of Ireland, and emigrated to Pennsylvania at an
early day, and joined the Colonial Army, where he was wounded, and died
afterward in consequence of injuries received in that struggle.  He
emigrated to Kentucky, arriving about the time the battle of the Blue
Licks was fought, and located near Paris, on the farm now owned by Mr.
Wilcox, near the cemetery.  He had a family of one son and five daughters:
Samuel, Elizabeth, Mrs. S. Hall; Margaret, wife of W. C. Lysle; Lucretia,
wife of Luther Smith; Sallie, Mrs. Ben Warfield; Jane, Mrs. Dr. Joseph Holt.

Hall Holliday Huston Taylor Southerland Caldwell Hall Lysle
Smith Warfield Holt
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Harrison-KY Clark-KY VA KS PA Ireland

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