Died ~ 11 October 1883
Burnet County, Texas
Married ~ 1st Lucinda Eads
Cole County, Missouri
daughter of Isaac and Sarah Eads
2nd - Nancy Baker
8 Sept 1842
3rd - Catherine Bradford
January 1850
In "Annals of Platte" Hall Medlin constructed a grist and saw mill on
Smith's
Fork.He made a trip to Texas and returned to lead a wagon train in
May 1844.
In 1846-47 Hall was Tax Assessor and Collector for Denton County, Texas.
In the winter of 1847-48 he was first to have "capital" surgery in an
area near
Blue Mound {later, Tarrant County}. It is reported that while hunting
buffalo
his horse was frightened and threw him. The buffalo gored him and almost
disembowled him.
He had been elected Commissioner for Denton County but resigned and
moved
to Travis County in December 1849
In 1859 Hall moved to San Bernardino County, California. He returned
to Texas
to buy cattle to sell in California and led a wagon train from Hays
County, Texas
on 15 April 1868.