1810 - Born in Virginia

1820 - Peter is 9.

1830 - Peter is 19

1832 - Peter is 21 and is married to Mahala Adams in Lincoln Co., Ky on Jan 24, 1832.

1833 Lincoln County Tax (four other HALL were listed on the page) Total property value $20 each Hall Peter A 1 1 and Hall James H 1 1

1835 Lincoln County Tax (four other HALL were listed on the page) Total property value $875 Hall Peter 200 Adair B Creek 1 3 $4 Property owner Area County Waterway w>21 b>16 t blks horse $

1835 - son James is born in Kentucky.

1836, March 5th - On 5 Mar 1836, Peter A. HALL sold a large amount of personal property to Willis P. BLANKS. Vol. O, Page 230. Lincoln County Deed Book (Mistakes are included as written.)
Know all men by these present that I Peter A Hall of Lincoln County state of Kentucky have this day bargained and sold unto Willis P. Blanks of the county and state aforesaid for main consideration of the sum of one dollar to me in hand paid the receipt wherof is hereby acknowledged and for the further consideration were as the said Willis P. Blanks hold the promissory notes on me one for thirteen dollars 87 1/2 cents bearing date 23rd of November 1835 and one for thirty dollars bearing 2nd March 1836 and another note for five dollars bearing date 5 March 1836 Now to lease the the payment of said notes amounting to the sum of forty eight dollars 87 1/2 cents
I the said Peter A. Hall have bargained and sold unto the said Willis P. Blanks the following articles opportunity (to wit) two feather beds and furniture 1 chest 1 trunk 1 side saddle 1 table six chairs 2 piggins one pail one tub three tin buckets three tin pans 2 coffee pots one churn one coffee mill one simothing (Jrow?) 1 pot one oven and lid a skillet and lid two hundred pounds bacon together with all my cupboard ware crocks jars & with all the saddles trees on hands and all that that I may make during the spring and the coming summer to have and to hold the above mentioned articles of property to him the said Willis P. Blanks his heirs and assigns forever and the said Peter A Hall agrees to warrant and defend the title of the said articles of property from the claim of all and every persons what ever. In testimony wheof I the said Peter A. Hall have here unto subscribed my named and affixed my seal this fifth day of March 1836. The conditions of the above obligation is such that if the said Peter A. Hall shall pay off and discharge the above mentioned mentioned notes amounting to the sum of forty eight dollars 87 1/2 cents aforesaid on or before the first day of September next and pay the said Blands all cost accruing on or accasioned by the extention of this writing which he the said Blanks may be at then and in that case this indenture to be mull and void otherwise to lie and remain in full force and virtue in law. In testimony wherof I the said Peter A. Hall have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal this day and date above written.
Peter A. Hall (seal)
Kentucky Lincoln County Set
I Thomas Helm clerk Lincoln County court do hereby certify the on the day of the date hereof the within and forgoing deed of mortgage from Peter A. Hall to Willis P. Blanks was presented to me in my office by the grantor and acknowledge by the said Peter A. Hall to be his act and used for the purposes therin mentioned whereupon I admitted the said deed of mortgage together with this certificate only to record in my office given from under my hand this 18th day Marh 1836.
Peter Helm clerk
Lincoln Lincoln Court

1837 Lincoln County Tax (no other HALL were listed on the page) Total property value $? Hall Peter A 1

1837, September 26th - On 26 Sep 1837, Peter A. HALL sold Mahala’s share of Charles ADAMS’ estate to John ADAMS, his brother in law. The papers said that she was the child of Charles and Mary ADAMS.

Vol. P, Pages 117 & 8. Lincoln County Deed Book (Mistakes are included as written.)
This indenture of bargain and sale made and entered into this 26 day of September in the year of our lord 1837 between Peter A. Hall and Mahala Hall his wife late Mahala Adams who was one of the heirs at same and one of the children of Charles Adams decd of the one part and John Adams of the other, both parties of the county of Lincoln and state of Kentucky. Witnefseth that the said Peter A. Hall and Mahala Hall late Mahala Adams a aforesaid for and in consideration of the sum of three hundred dollars to them in hand paid have granted bargained sold (ationed enfeaped?) and conveyed and by these prints do grant bargain sell (atin enfeoff?) and convey unto the said John Adams all the rights all claim interest and demand which we have of in and to the estate of Charles Adams and Mary Adams his wife whether (jedl?) personal or mixed. To have and to hold the estate hereby conveyed unto the said John Adams and unto his heirs and assigns forever and the said Peter A. Hall and Mahala Hall his wife for themselves their heirs. He hereby covenants grants and agrees to and with the said John Adams and his heirs assigns that they (olde?) warrant and forever defend all the right title and claim to the estate herbey conveyed unto the said John Adams & unto his heirs and assigns forever finaly by these present. In testimony whereof the said Peter A. Hall and Mahala Hall his wife have hereunder subscribed their names and affixed their seals this day and date above written. And all the said Peter A. Hall and Mahala his wife do by these present all things and appoint the said John Adams our attorney in fact who is hereby authorized to serve from the executor or administator of the said Charles Adams deceased or from the executor or administrator of Mary Adams upon her death all or any part of the estate of the estate of the said Charles or Mary Adams which is embraced in the foregoing deed of conveyance and to appropriate the same to his own (role?). But is hereby (feel?) and that (ewn?) Mary Adams has the right to give or dispose of her own estate as she may choose it being understood and agreed by the parties that the estate of Mary Adams the mother of the said Mahala is not (embrowd?) by this deed only the estate which belongs to Charles Adams deceased is hereby conveyed.
Witness
Tho Helm Peter A. Hall (seal)
W. P. Blanks Mahala Hall (seal)

State of Kentucky Set
Lincoln County I Thomas Helm clerk of the Lincoln County Court do certify that this deed from Peter A. Hall & Mahala Hall his wife to John Adams was produced to me and acknowledged by the said Peter A. Hall to be his act and deed and Mahala Hall she being examined by me privily and apart from her husband declared that she did freely and willingly seal and deliver the said writing and wishes not to retract it and acknowledged the said writing again. (She was?) and explained to her to be her act and and and consenteth that the same (mety?) be recorded.
Whoupon I admitted the said deed and together with this certificate to record in my office given from under my hand this 26 day of September 1837
Thomas Helm CLCC
Ex-d Dd to Jno Adams 6 day of January 1838

1837 - son Charles is born in Kentucky.

1837 - 1840 - Peter and Mahala must have migrated to Lewis County, Missouri sometime during this period (which has been calculated using the birth location of son Charles who was born in Kentucky in 1837 and Lucy who was born in Missouri in 1840).

1840 - daughter Lucy is born in Missouri.

1840 - Peter is 29 / 30 - He can be found listed in the Lewis Co., Missouri census under Peter A. Hall. But there is an error, which now makes sense. This is the findings under his entry

1 male under five
1 male five and under ten
1 male fifteen to twenty
1 female under five
1 female thirty to fourty

Total living in the house - 6

The total of people living in the house and the total of the individual figues does not match. Also, the age of the male fifteen to twenty was apparently not Peter -it was most probably his brother Milton Saunders Hall, who had migrated with his brother Peter's family to Marion County, Missouri. Peter's age should have been ticked for the category of 30 to 40. If you add up all of the people in the house plus Peter who should have been identified, that equals six.

1841, November 10 - In 1841 Peter A. HALL purchased land from the Bureau of Land Management in Lewis Co., MO. The land was 40 acres in the NESW parcel of Block 12 of Section 60-N and 7-W from the 5th Prime Meridian. Charles Adams purchased over 240 acres in the same section, but different blocks in Lewis County, starting in 1835 until 1839.

1842, March 8 - Peter A. Hall married Malinda Chandler on the 8th of Mar 1842 in Lewis County, Missouri. This is the same area where his brother Milton S. Hall was living, who married Vienna Tolle in 1843 in the next county over.

1842 - there was a note at the bottom of the 1850 census that refered to Peter's son Charles. It identified him as idiotic - due to an accidental blow to the head 8 years previous. So he would have had his accident in 1842.

1843 - son Milton T. is born in Missouri. From the marriage information found in Marion / Lewis counties of Missouri, it looks like his mother was Malinda Chandler, Peter's second wife.

1846 - Peter marries Maria T. (Stovall) Cockrell on Oct 4, 1846 in Johnson County, MO, his second wife. She is also found as Mariah T. Doke who married a James Cockrell on March 2, 1837 in Johnson Co., MO. Her marriage to Peter is her third. She was married to a man named Doak in TN and had a son named Jessee who migrated with her and lives with Peter and Mariah. But Jessee is not listed on the later censuses. Don’t know what happened to him.

1850 - Slave Schedule
HALL, Peter A. - Jackson Twp, Johnson County, Missouri
19 year old black female

1850 - Johnson County, Missouri census886
HALL, Peter39 VA farmer
HALL, Maria 43 KY
HALL, James 15 KY farm hand
* HALL, Charles 12 KY
HALL, Lucy 10 MO
HALL, Thomas 8 MO
COCKERALL, Mary 12 MO
COCKERALL, Maria 7 MO
DOAKS, Jessee W. Idiotic 25 TN

* down at the bottom of the page, it says "line no 36 above - idiotic - accidental blow on the head 8 years ago"

1858, July - Peter A. Hall, curator for Charles A. Hall - Probate, Index A. page 74 [obtained from the Johnson County, Missouri court records - but I never found the actual document. I was told that it would probably never be found -that the index stood alone and the documents were missing.] This document probably had something to do with obtaining state funds for his son, Charles A. Hall, who was labeled in all the censuses as idiotic.

1860 - Jackson, Johnson County, Missouri887
HALL, Peter m 49 plasterer VA
HALL, Mariah f 54 KY
HALL, Charles m 25 KY idiotic
HALL, Milton T. m 17 MO
COCKRELL, Maria f 16 MO
DOAKE, Jessee W. m 30 TN insane

1870 - Jackson, Johnson County, Missouri census888
HOOD, Charles 32 m w farmer 3,000 2,050 KY
HOOD, Maria 26 f w keeping house MO
HOOD, Mary J. 7 f w MO
HOOD, Enoch Bell 5 f w MO
HOOD, Franklin C. 2 m w MO
HOOD, Amelia C. 1 MO
HALL, Peter A. m w plasterer 260 MO
HALL, Maria 66 f w MO

1880 - IJackson, Johnson County, Missouri census889
HOOD, Charles w m 43 farmer KY VA KY
HOOD, Mariah w f 37 wife keeping house MO VA KY
HOOD, Mary J w f 17 daughter at home MO KY MO
HOOD, Enoch B. w f 13 daughter at home MO KY MO
HOOD, Francis G. w m 12 son works on farm MO KY MO
HOOD, Permania w f 11 daughter at home MO KY MO
HOOD, James H. w m 7 son MO KY MO
HOOD, Charles w m 4 son MO KY MO
HOOD, Ann M. w f 1 daughter MO KY MO

HALL, Peter A. w m 69 farmer VA VA MD
HALL, Maria w f 46 wife keeping house KY VA KY

1885 - Peter is listed in the Warrensburg Standard Weekly newspaper on Thursday, November 5, 1885, Vol. 21, No. 23, Col 2. "Died on the 22nd., of heart disease, at the residence of Charles Hood, Peter A. Hall, aged 74 years and 1 month." It was officially recorded on the 18th of November 1885 (Page 38 Roll Number C3501 No 154 - also, recorded a second time as P E Hall Roll Number C3501 No 159 [no page number given] ). On both of his death certificates it identifies his age as 78 years old and says that he was born in Kentucky. It also says that he was buried in the "Family Grave Yard". This grave yard is located close to where he lived and where his brother Matthew A. Hall owned land.

Peter's brother Fielding Mace Hall married Ann Finn, who was the daughter of an Adams woman. I'm not really sure where Mahala was from, but she could be a relation of Ann Finn's mother.

1832, January 24 - Mahala and Peter were married in Lincoln County, Kentucky

1840 - Daughter Lucy was born in Missouri in 1840.

1843 - Peter remarried, so Mahala must have died sometime between 1840 and 1843 in the Lewis County, Missouri area.

Very few records have been found with Malinda's name. She married Peter, gave birth to a son, and died -all between 8 March 1842 and 1846. Many years ago when I was searching for information on her husband I would occasionally see the name Malinda in the odd document [here and there], but I thought it was a typo. Peter married three times and his three wives' names [in order] were Mahala, Malinda and Mariah.

Years later, when I was working on Peter's brother, Milton S. Hall. I tracked him from Kentucky to his first home in Marion County, Missouri where he married. I then learned that Peter migrated with him and settled in Marion Co., MO as well - before moving on to Johnson County, MO.

The following article was published in the Daily Star Journal [originally on March 8, 1878, then again on April 20, 1979]. It was written by Mariah's grandson, Madora J. Longacre, Hicks City, Missouri, March 20, 1878.

"You solicit correspondence from old settlers. I am not an old settler, but my grandmother is and, as she is too old to write, I will write for her.

She was 74 years old last January and has lived where she now lives in the northwestern portion of Johnson County for over 40 years. Her maiden name was Maria Stovall. She was born in Kentucky in 1804. In 1811 her father emigrated to Rutherford Co., Tennessee, where she grew to womanhood and at the age of 17, in 1822, was united in marriage to Joseph Doke, a soldier of the War of 1812.

In 1829 her husband died and with her two small children, one of whom still lives, she went to live with ther parents, and came with them to this state in 1836 when only a few log cabins could be seen to break the monotony of the rolling prairies.

In March, 1837 she was married to James Cockrell, Uncle of Senator Cockrell and a brother to Morgan Cockrell spoken of by Mr. Anderson. He was born in Virginia, in what year we do not know, but to his dying day he could well remember when George Washington was buried. He was near the James River at the time, and distinctly heard the mournful sound of the cannon.

He left Virginia when a young man, spent several years in the mountains of Kentucky hunting bear and other wild animals, and came to this country in 1809 when it was a vast winderness; where the buffalo, in great heards, roamed undisturbed, save by the hunters gun, and the deer laved by side in the majestic Missouri or hid in the dense forests which the sunlight scarcely penetrated.

Time in his silent march has wrought many changes since them. The Red Man has been driven westward by the advance of civilization and his hunting grounds transformed into fields of wheat and corn. The deer no longer goes bounding over the hills and, instead of the wigwam, is the comfortable residence of the thrifty farmer, but the handiworks of God remain the same. The same sun shines by day and at night the moon sheds her softer light that shone for the uncivilized and barbarian Indians. And the same Great Spirit watches over the Pale Faces that hear and answered the prayers of the simple Indain.

James Cockrell was a very large, powerfully built man - a stalwart pioneer, during his first wife's lifetime he resided in what is now Lafayette County. He had explored all parts of Missouri long before she was admitted to the Union as a state. In 1831 he entered and improved the land on which his descendants now live. He was a splendid marksman and spent most of his time in hunting. Often over the very ground on which our house now stands he has chased the panting deer.

The people in those early days were much annoyed by Yankee peddlers and Grandpa would make them dance when they came to sell him "table linens." He would whip them severly, and more than once has he thrown bees in their faces.

He died in 1843, leaving a wife and three children - two girls and one boy. The boy, Henry Clay Cockrell died when he was only eight years old. Of his children by his first wife, only one survives him. She is Mrs. Elizabeth Crisp, mother of Colonel John T. Chrisp.

In October 1847 James Cockrell's widow married Mr. P. A. Hall, her present husband. He is a Virginian, and like his wife, can relate many amusing incidents that occurred "back where I came from."

Grandma looks much younger than she is. Her hair is gray, not white. She is not bent with age, but stands firm and erect. She is very stout for a woman of her age, and does a great deal of work, mostly piecing quilts. She has a wonderful memory and when she relates an incident that happened in Tennessee, she tells the year, the month, and very often, the day. She was well-acquainted with General Sam Houston and Colonel David Crockett and can tell why Houston left Tennessee for Texas. Long before it appeared in the newspapers she heard David Crockett repeat: 'Be this your motto when I am dead, first know you are right, then go ahead.'" Signed Madora J. Lonacre, Hicks City, Missouri, March 20, 1878.