Notes on David Hall

David Hall  the son of John Hall (b. April 05, 1771, in Burke, Co. NC,  d. Aft. May 17, 1822 in Dickson County, TN) was born September 20, 1804 in NC , and died around August 27, 1859. 

I will begin this story with the punch line: I have never seen David and Flavelia listed on the same page with their children, nor have I had any contact with anyone who has.  Information regarding David is relatively scarce.  He appears in several online genealogies, none of which provide a family group for David.  The information presented here is mostly taken from censuses and sometimes spiced by conjecture.

David was mentioned in his fathers will:  “It is also my will that my son David Hall have my negro boy named Edward. also one hundred and eighty nine acres of land which formerly belonged to James Haley, Also part to Isaiah Healy lying on both sides of Williamson's & Yellow Creek. Also one a horse which he claims & to have a twenty dollar saddle.” 

James Petty hall tells us this about David, along with the other siblings of his father, John Hall (1775-1870) :  “ As to his brothers and sisters I know but little, I know of the following ones, to wit, Joseph, who lived in Eutaw many years prior to his death., David and Wesley, who lived many years prior to their death in Mississippi, Berryman and Joshua, who lived many years and died in southern Texas, both having several children, Jessie remained in Tenn. and died there leaving no children.” 

Two wives have been reported for David – Lucinda (surname unknown)  And Flavelia Jackson .   Family Search cites an unidentified source for a marriage between David Hall and Flavilla Jackson, around 1844, in Clarke Co., AL.  

The1930 Federal Census has him in Green County, AL
	1 free white male of twenty and under thirty (himself)
	1 free white female of twenty and under thirty (a first wife?) 
	also found on the same census are Berryman, Joshua and Joseph 

In 1830, David would be around 26 years old, consistent with the Census data. We deduce from the census of 1860 that Flavelia was born after August 15, 1813 but before August 14, 1814.  This being true, Flavelia would only be sixteen in 1830, and is not the free white female with David in the 1830 Census.  Perhaps this is a first wife or some other woman.

At least three online genealogies show that Flavilla (sic) Jackson, daughter of Isaac Jackson and Miriam Pugh, married David Hall.  None of these give a wedding date. Miriam Pugh is a sister of Alvira (Alviah)  Pugh, who married Joseph White Hall. 

Sometime between the federal censuses of 1830 and 1850, David removed from Green Co, AL to Lauderdale Co, MS.  We find him In the US Census of 1830, Sumter Co, Al, p. 399:  Confusingly, in the 1840 federal census we find a David Hall of the appropriate age, in Sumter County AL, next to Berryman Hall, and also in Lauderdale County, MS. 

Age Bin	Sumter, Al 	Lauderdale, MS   		
Free white males under 5	1	2	Wesly and.or Berryman2	
Free white males of 5 & under 10	2	1		
Free white males of 10 & under 15	1			
Free white males of 30 & under 40	1	1	Right age range for David	
Free White Females under 5	2	1		
Free white females of 5 & under 10	1	2		
Free white females of 10 & under 15	3			
Free white females of 30 & under 40	1	1	Too old for Flavelia	
Slaves	5	4		
Total	17	12		

There is a David Hall on the 1843 Tax Roll , for Lauderdale County, but not on the1835, 1836, 1838 or 1858 rolls. 

David Hall is not in the 1850 US Census (Population), but there is evidence that he was there at that time.  The 1850 Slave Schedule  and the agricultural Schedule have David in Lauderdale.  The Slave schedule has him on adjacent property to R. M. Saul, of whom we will hear more later. The 1853 MS State Census also shows him in Lauderdale.  

Miles Causey, Who researched much of this information at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH), observes that none of David’s immediate neighbors shown on the 1850 Slave Schedule are in the Population Census.  From this he hypothesizes that a page may be missing from the population Census. 

The 1860 Federal Census  shows Flavelia (Age 46) as head of family with Berryman (21), Mary V. (21) and Isaac (5).  Isaac is probably named after Flavelia’s father, Isaac A. Jackson. Since Berryman was born in 1839 and David married Flavelia in 1844, Berryman is the likely son of David and his first wife.  Since Isaac was born about 1855, a year after the marriage of David and Flavelia, and four years before the marriage of Berryman and Mary V.  It is likely that David was his natural father  While the 1860 Census, the only one where she appears, has Flavelia, 46 years old, implying that she was born around 1814, two references from LDS IGI index indicate that she was born around 1821 and 1823, respectively.  The 1840 census lists several children for whom we cannot account.

Mary V. Hall is probably Mary V. O’Neal.  She is mentioned by that name in the Minutes of the Salem Baptist Church.   The same source later refers to her as Mary V. O’Neal Hall.  
Mary ONeal, Age 11, appears in the US Census of 1850, Lauderdale County, MS, in the family of Wm. and Sarah Oneal, on the same page as Wesley W. Hall and Flavelia Mabe. 
According to LDS, Berriman Hall, and M. V. O’Neal were married in Lauderdale, County, MS on 15 Nov 1859.   In the1860 Census , we find Sarah ONeal (44), Gilbert B (26), James M. (20), Lucy J. (15), Hilliard (ink smeared) (14), Sarah V. (12) and William B. (10).  Mary V. is conspicuously absent, but now, as stated above,  we find Mary V. (21) with Flavelia Hall (46), Berryman (21), and Isaac (5) on page 171, dwelling 1200. 14    When Berryman and Mary were married, Isaac was 4 years old.  When Isaac was born, David and Mary were 16 years old and both single.  These facts tend to challenge a prior supposition that Isaac was a son of Mary and Berryman.  Perhaps he was the last child of David and Flavelia. 
In the minutes of Salem Baptist Church, an undated roll of male members on p. 106 lists “Hall, Berryman – killed at Richmond”  and also on p.107, “Berryman Hall – killed at Richmond”.   A search of Virginia Confederate graves might provide clarification.

We find Isaac A. Hall (46) again in Lee County, MS on the 1900 Census  with wife Malinda M. (40) and daughters Alice L. (11) and Ada M. (5), Son Jacob H. (22) and daughter in law Minnie M.  We have found no references to the Isaac Hall family between 1860 and 1900.		

Research by Miles Causey, at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, in May 2006 clarifies this situation.  Probate records indicate that David Hall died around. 28 August 1860.24  and that Flavelia died around 29 June 1863.25 Heirs of Flavelia are listed as Nesy Ann James, Lauderdale County, William Hall, minor heir of Berryman Hall, Leak Co., Isaac J. Hall. And Merriam(?) Lamb of Arkansas and a minor Hall, address unknown. 26  In a subsequent probate action, a minor heir of W.W. Hall is mentioned27  In various references, “Necy” is also referred to as Nesy, Naucy and Nancy.

Since Miles Causey’s work adds more information than is cited here, I will post it in a separate file.

		Toxey A. Hall
		September 20, 2006