Hal Brown was married to Callie Barbara Hardage (1900-1985) in Oklahoma City, OK on 3 Mar 1923

Hal was a printer, line-o-type operator. He worked for The Sandersville Progress newspaper while in high school. Soon after his formal education ended, he left home and went to Columbus, Georgia, Shreveport, Louisiana, and later to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. While in Oklahoma he met and married Barbara Hardage on 19 Mar 1923. During the Depression, Hal moved his family back to the house on North Harris Street in Sandersville. He soon opened a printing shop and obtained a job selling advertisements for the local newspaper.

The Sandersville Progress, 10 Jan 1935:

Hal Brown Died Quite Suddenly

Hal W. Brown, son of the late Judge R.M. Brown and Mrs. Lula P. Brown, died quite suddenly Sunday night. His wife was awakened by his difficult breathing and immediately summoned aid, but he expired within a few minutes, supposed to have been caused by a heart attack.

He was born in Sandersville January 19, 1895, and was educated in the public school. While a young man he went to Oklahoma City, Okla., where he spent several years as an employee of the Trave Taylor Printing Co., but later returned to Sandersville, where he has been engaged in job printing in a building in the rear of Mr. Lewis H. Holt's buggy and harness emporium.

His wife was Miss Barbara Hardage of Vernon, Texas who survives him with two young sons, R.M. and Hal, Jr. He is also survived by his mother, one brother, R.M. Brown, and five sisters, Mrs. J. Phillips Adams of Columbia, S.C., Miss Marie Brown, Valdosta; Miss Nelle Brown, Miami Fla.; Mrs. Baron Oxner, Batesburg, S.C.; and Miss Callie Brown of Atlanta.

Funeral services were conducted at the Baptist church Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock by the pastors of the local churches, Revs. V.H. Persons, E.G. Orahood and Reese Griffin, after which the burial took place in the city cemetery, the Sandersville Undertaking Company in charge.