Date of birth data for Fielding Mace Hall
1812 - Aunt Marg's letter (his granddaughter)
1812 - 1850 census
1812 - 1860 census
1813 - 1870 census

1812 - Born in Virginia

1829 - It is not known when Fielding’s parents moved from VA to KY. But using the known dates for his brothers, it looks like they moved to KY sometime around 1929. All of the boys have been identified as "born in Virginia" by documentation.

1830 - There is a Fielding Hall listed in Green, KY in Everton, but it is not known if it is this Fielding or another.693

1836 - Married to Ann Finn in Adair Co., KY (dau of Peter Finn) on 6 March 1836. Peter Finn was aged 26 to 45 in the Adiar Co. Census of 1820, his wife was the same age, and they had three daughters under the age of 15.

1837 - The first child Christopher C. is born (child of first wife)

11 September 1839 - First wife, Ann Adams Finn, died of childbirth when second child, Lucy Ann Hall, who was born on the 11th of September 1839. The exact date of Ann's death is not known. Lucy said her mother died giving birth to her, so her birth date has been used.

1839 - Married to Eliza Coleman Smart 9 Dec 1839 in Mercer Co., KY. She was the daughter of Henry P. Smart and a sister to William Smart. The Halls were living in Boyle Co., KY. in 1850 as shown by the Federal Census for that year. The family was not living in Mercer Co. in 1860.

1840 — F. M. Hall listed in Mercer Co., KY census.
1 male under 5
1 male 20 to 30
1 female15 to 20
1 female 40 to 50
4 Slaves

[Lucy Hall listed before him. She is listed with:
1 male 10 to 15
3 males 15 to 20
5 Slaves

[If my letter is right, there could well have been three boys at home and that age. This means that Lucy's husband, James, died before 1840.]

1849 - Tax list for Boyle Co., KY - Commissioners Book - Fielding Mace Hall is listed with 4 children between the ages of 5 and 16. His horses are valued at $100. An Edward Hall is living one house away.

1850 - Boyle County Census425
HALL, Fielding (Head) 37 years old born VA (makes him born in 1813)
HALL, Eliza - 27 years old - wife - born KY
HALL, Christopher C. - 13 years old - son of first wife - born KY
HALL, Lucy A. - 11 years old - daughter of first wife - born KY
HALL, Mary D. - 9 years old - daughter of second wife - born KY
HALL, James H. - 8 years old - son of second wife - born KY
HALL, Patsy - 6 years old - daughter of second wife - born KY
HALL, Albert S. - 3 years old - son of second wife - born KY

1850 - Slave Owners - Fielding Hall, District 2, Boyle County, Kentucky694
Slave Information - Fielding owned 3 slaves in 1850
age 37 Female Mulatto
age 6 Female Black
age 2 Female Mulatto

1850 - Tax list for Boyle Co., KY - Commissioners Book - Fielding Mace Hall is listed in the 1850 tax list for Boyle county. He is listed with 4 children between the ages of 5 and 16. His 3 horses are valued at $100. His brother Matthew Hall is listed one house away. Matthew has no other information listed under his entry. There is also an Edward Hall living not too far away.

1856 - Fielding Mace Hall is not listed in Boyle County Tax list for 1856.

1850 - 1858 - So far, I have not been able to determine the date when he moved from Boyle to Lincoln county, Kentucky. But it is possible to say that he moved between the years of 1850 and 1858. However, depending upon the history of the area, it could be that they never moved and that the county borders were changed.

1857, 1 May - Johnson County, Warsaw 5th PM Meridian, Township 47-N, Range 29-W, Section 13, Accession Number MO1880_.233, Document number 40872. Matthew A. Hall of Johnson County, Missouri, purchased the North East quarter of Section thirteen in Township forty seven of range twenty nine in the cisthol of lands formerly subject to sale at Clinton now Warsaw Missouri containing one hundred and sixty acres.695

1858, 10 June - Mercer Co. Deed Bk. 31 - page 553 shows that Fielding M. Hall is living in Lincoln Co., KY in June.696 The document D. B. 31 is a power of atorney by his brother Matthew A. Hall and Ann Eliza Smart Hall in regard to property due them from Eliza’s grandfather’s estate in Mercer County, KY (Benjamin Daniel).697 The Missouri Court document that Matthew and Eliza made was from Warrensburg, Johnson County, Missouri on the 10th of June 1858. But it is clear that Fielding was living in Lincoln Co., KY.

1860, 13 October - On the 1860 census for Lincoln Co., KY there is a man listed as Foland Hall, Lincoln Co., KY, Hustonville P.O., page 127. This is the same place that his daughter Lucy A. Hall got married to William Neal Covey on the 13th of October in 1860.

1860 Hustonville PO, Lincoln County, KY / p127 / image 127
[written as Foland or Feland]
Fielding Hall 48 VA - toll gatherer
Elizabeth 38 KY
Christopher 23 KY - stone mason
Lucy Ann 21 KY
Margaret 19 KY
James 17 KY - stone mason
Albert 13 KY [listed out of chronological order as found]
Martha 15 KY [listed out of chronological order as found]
Charles 8 KY
Fielding 4 KY

1860, October 13 - daughter Lucy A. Hall married in Hustonville, Lincoln Co., KY. in the home of her father, Fielding Hall.

1870 - On the 1870 census Fielding can be found in the electronic index of Ancestry.com as "bunklin Hall." He is living in Kentucky, Lincoln County, Hustonville. He is listed with the following people...

HALL, Bundling - 57 - no occupation - born VA - Blind
HALL, Elizabeth - 48 - Keeping House - born KY
HALL, Fielding, Jr. - 13 - Works on farm - born KY - cannot write
HALL, Mary - 9 - born KY [isted in same order of census recording]
HALL, Albert - 23 - Stonemason - born KY
[listed in order as found in original census]

Fielding's duaghter Margaret Hall Huston and her family are living next door.

1871 - On the Lincoln County Tax List there is a Fielding Hall listed and he is marked with "one white male over 21 years of age". He is also listed as owning 2 hogs, but he isn't marked with having any children. However, looking at the 1872 Lincoln County Tax List, there should have been two children -not two hogs. The boxes are next to each other and I'm convinced that the person recording the statistics might have made an error in this tax list record.

1872 - On the 1872 tax list for Lincoln Co., KY Fielding is listed again. He is listed with 2 children between the ages of 6 and 20 years of age.