JOHN W. HALL b.1827 Tenn.>Ala.>Tx.
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Article from CONFEDERATE VETERANS magazine dated 1902, page 128. [This is not my family, only post articles.]

JOHN W. HALL was born April 8, 1827 in Hickman Co., Tenn.,and was reared in Alabama. He went to Gonzales Co. Tex., in 1846. In April, 1846 he joined Capt. Ben McCullough's Co. of Texas Rangers, and arrived at Point Isabel where Gen. Taylor's army was in camp, just in time to take part in the battle of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma on the 8th and 9th of May, 1846. Afterwards the rangers were discharged and with other comrades he returned to Gonzales Co.

On June 3, 1847 he married MISS MARY MAULDIN d/o DR. WILLIAM P. MAULDIN . He engaged in stock-raising successfully. In 1862 he volunteered in Willis's Battalion and went east of the Mississippi River where he served under Gens Van Dorn and Forrest until the close of the war. He lost his wife in 1875 and went to the Pacific Coast, where he remained for 18 years, engaged in mining. He was assistant sergeant at arms of the Nevada Legislature and held other places of trust. A resolution offered in the Nevada Leg concerning Col. Hall is as follows:  " Col. Hall is a true type of the Southern gentleman of the old school, with a record of kind deeds, enriched by devout Christian faith ...he will leave to his children the greatest legacy ever bequeathed by any father: a pure and spotless name."