NEWS ARTICLE (unknown newspaper, probably Bonham Daily News), May 17, 1963 
(article transcribed by Ruth Hasten Walsh but contributed by Dorothy Latimer, Fannin Co., TX)
MRS EVA HALL WILL CELEBRATE 93rd BIRTHDAY MONDAY - Mrs. Eva Hall will celbrate her 93rd birthday on Monday May 20th.  // Mrs. Hall has spent her entire life in Fannin County having been born near Porters May 30, 1870 , the daughter of Rev. Benjamin and Sarah Boone Blanton.  The family moved from Porters to about three miles west of Leonard where the Blanton Chapel now stands.  Her father, a Methodist minister, donated the ground that the church was built on.  Mrs. Hall is now the oldest living member of the church.  // She was married to the late John S. Hall who passed away in 1935.  She continued to live in her home near the church where she had moved 51 years ago, after her husband's death, until just a few years ago when her health began to fall.  Since then she has lived in the homes of her children.   They are Ben Hall and Floyd Hall of Leonard, Otis Hall of Dodd City and Mrs. Sallie Latimer of Trenton.