There died at her
home, Pleasant Ravine Farm, Lot 6, Con. 11 Charlotteville, on Tuesday,
February 26, 1918, Mrs. John B. Hall aged 73 years. The funeral was
conducted on Saturday afternoon, 2nd inst., Rev. W. T. Farr,
officiating, with Rev. P. Meek assisting. Interment was made in Lynedoch
Cemetery.
Mrs. Hall was a daughter of the
late Charles Lewis Vail, and granddaughter of the late Isaac Vail, a
United Empire Loyalist, who came to the Long Point Country and settled
near Port Ryerse, about the year 1800. She was born in Townsend on Sept.
9th, 1842. When she was seventeen years old she was converted to God and
shortly afterward was baptized and joined the Tyrrell Baptist Church.
Throughout her long life she remained a staunch and consistent member of
the Baptist denomination, being at the time of her death a communicant
of the Pine Grove Baptist Church.
On February 27th, 1866, she was
united in marriage to her surviving companion, John B. Hall, and
consequently at the time of her death they had lived together 52 years,
lacking one day. In April of that year they settled on Lot 18, Con. 6,
in the Township of Woodhouse, where they lived until March 13th, 1890
when they moved to Lot 3, Con. 4, Charlotteville, where they lived until
April 27, 1906, when they moved to the home where she died.
She is survived by her
husband, seven children, eight grandchildren, three brothers and two
sisters. Her surviving children are: George of Buffalo; Morris of
Brantford; John of Detroit; Cecil on the homestead; Mrs. Francis
Bennett and Mrs. Milon Miller, of Walsh, and Mrs. Cecil Lounsbury (nee
Ada Hall) of Cabri, Sask. Her surviving brothers are Dr. G. N. Vail,
Kansas; Leavitt Vail of Charlotteville; James Vail of Mattawa, Ont.;
sisters Mrs. John Douglas of Charlotteville, and Mrs. Frederick
Breakenridge, of Townsend. All of her children except Mrs. Lounsbury
were present at her funeral.
The pall-bearers were her four
sons and two of her sons-in-law, Messrs. R. Bennett and M. Miller, and
the remains were laid to rest in Evergreen Cemetery beside her deceased
son, William.
Since we have no desire to be
verbose, and since all must respond to the last summons, we conclude by
extending to the bereaved relatives our sincere sympathy. Our good will
toward the deceased is fittingly expressed in the words,
"Requiescat in pace."
Miss Vera Turvey of Simcoe is a
granddaughter of the subject of the above article, her late mother
having
been the eldest daughter of the Hall family.
