Columbus Gazette, April 9, 1942
Mrs. Emma Hall Died At Burlington Hospital
Mrs. Emma Hall, one of the well known pioneers of the Sring Run Community, who fell while visiting at the home of her son J.O. Hall and sustained a broken pelvic bone, Thursday March 26, died at one O'oclock Wednesday afternoon, April 8, 1942 at the Burlington Hospital where she was taken the morning following her accident. Funeral services will be held at the Spring Run Evangelical Church at 2:30 Friday afternoon. A more complete obituary will be printed next week.

The Columbus Gazette, April 16, 1942
Many Attend Services For Emma Hall
Mrs. Emma Jane Brewer Hall, a brief mention of whose death was given in the Gazette last week, died at Mercy Hospital in Burlington, April 8, 1942 at 1:10 p.m. as the result of a fall suffered March 26th. She had reached the age of 83 years, 10 months and 10 days. Mrs. Hall was born May 29th, 1858 in the Spring Run Community, on the farm on which the Spring Run Church now stands. She was the daughter of John H. Brewer and Katie Jane Mann Brewer and was the last of a family of eleven children.
She grew to womanhood in the Spring Run Community and on January 18, 1877 she was united in marriage with John Asbury Hall, also of the Spring Run Community who preceded her in death, february 19, 1927.
To this union was born five sons and one daughter, Jacob O.; Louis B. and Floyd W. of Columbus Junction, Iowa; Robert J. of Princeton, Illinois; Albert and Mrs. Muriel E. Ostermeier of Winfield, Iowa, all of who survive. She is also survived by twenty grandchildren and six great grandchildren as well as a number of nieces and nephews. In early life she was converted and united with the Spring Run Evangelical Church, attending services as long as her health permitted. She was always active in the work of the church and was a charter member of the Spring Run Ladies Aid Society. For many years she was alwys ready to answer a call of need; if there was illness or death in the community.
The following poem was carried in her Bible
A Comfort
By Eben Rexford
We read in the dear old chapters,
in times when weary grown,
O love that never faileth
to find a bless ists own.
And sweet are the words of comfort,
as though the land I go,
For what the Father has promised,
He will make good I know.
No matter what ill betide us
Here in the lower land,
We may turn from cares that vex us and find the comforting hand.
We can lean on love unfailing
like and arm that is strong and true
And fell it is sure and steadfast
The whole long journey through.
O Love so like a foutain
The summer cannot dry,
You fall on hears grown weary
Like rain from a pitying sky.
The love that has failed us never
will follow us all the way.
the funeral services were held on Friday, April 10th in charge of the Rev. L.B. Deedrick, pastor with the Rev. Burris Moore of the Cairo Church of God assisting.
After a short service in the A.F. Hall home in winfield, the funeral procession went to the Spring Run Evangelical Church where Mrs. Hall had been a member for almost seventy years.
"The Old Rugged Cross", and "In the Garden" were sung by Mrs. Vern Rodgers of Olds, Iowa and Mrs. Karl Steinhaus of Winfield, with Mrs, Oscar Anderson of the Wyman community at the piano.
Flower attendats were Bonnie Jean Gruver, Melba Hall, Marjory Prior and Virginia Honts.
Pallbearers were Harold Hall, Virgil Hall, Lloyd Prior, Glen Davis, Gerald Ostermeier and Lee Honts. Interment in the Columbus City Cemetery.