My Genealogy Hound

Silas A. Hall. It is not an empty compliment to be numbered among Grant County’s prominent citizens, but such a place is accorded Mr. Hall. Originally from Lowndes County, Ala., he was born on May 6, 1844, as the son of Canaan and Sidney B. (Simmons) Hall, natives of North Carolina. The parents were married in Alabama, whence they had come while children. He lived till his son, our subject, was two years of age, when he died, in Lowndes County; his wife dying in 1867, as a member of the Baptist Church. He was a carpenter and farmer by occupation. Silas A. Hall came to Arkansas with friends when but fifteen years old, settling near Tulip, and going to work for wages. He received his education in the common schools of the neighborhood, and in March, 1862, enlisted in Company B, Eighteenth Arkansas Infantry, Confederate army, serving till June, 1865. He participated in many battles, being at Corinth, Iuka (Miss.), siege of Port Hudson; then west of the Mississippi River, Poison Springs and Mark’s Mills, in addition to numerous skirmishes. May 28, 1868, he was married to Miss Caroline Breeden, daughter of Archibald Breeden, of Prairie County. By this union there were two children: Doratha Hammond and Haywood G. Mrs. Hall is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. After the war Mr. Hall rented land for three years, when he bought 120 acres. He has since added the balance of 180 acres of as good land as is in Grant County. Coming to what was the wilds of Arkansas, where the bark of the wolf was heard with mournful frequency, he began without means, an eminently successful life-struggle. In connection with farming, from 1873 to 1876, he was engaged in the gin business. Like most citizens of this county, he is a member of the Democratic party.