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GARRET WALL was born July 13, 1778, married Feb. 16, 1800, Mary Sparks, a daughter of Col. Richard Sparks of the U. S. army, and resided on the farm given his wife by her father. Here the late Col. Brisben Wall, son of Garret, was born, and this property he owned up to the time of his decease. Garret Wall was a man of sterling character and ability; was possessed of considerable literary taste and a good knowledge of common law, and was an uncompromising adherent of the principles of virtue and morality. He served in the war of 1812 as quartermaster of Col. Ferree’s regiment, P. V. I., and filled the office of justice of the peace for many years, up to the time of his decease. He built a sawmill on his farm in 1829, run by water power, which was operated by him during his lifetime, and afterward by his son Brisben until 1852, and then abandoned. His children by his first wife, nee Mary Sparks, were Milo, Sparks, William, Jesse S., Joseph, Gideon, Charity E. and Brisben. The mother of these children dying in 1821, Mr. Wall took for his second wife, March 16, 1824, Mary Watson, who bore him the following named children: Sidney M., Mary, Elizabeth, Cinthelia and Amanda. The father died Jan. 3, 1848, and the mother in 1881.