When Joseph John Hall was born on March 26, 1815, in Maury County, Tennessee, (southeast of Columbia) his father, Benjamin, was 29 and his mother, Sarah REBECCA Clarissa, was 26 year of age. His family moved about a year later to Union County, Illinois near Jonesboro and established a home there before the State of Illinois was admitted to the Union. By 1822 records show the Hall family moved again and were living in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
Joseph lost his father to an accidental drowning in the mighty Mississippi River in late 1836. Being a flat bottom river boat trader was very dangerous vocation in extreme weather.
Around 1837, in Cape Girardeau, Joseph married Delaney (Delania) Oller and they had several children there together before moving.
By 1845 Joseph John Hall, his entire family and his mother, Rebecca, appear in the records of the Latter Day Saints as members of their Church and living very near Nauvoo, Illinois. By 1847, due to the persecution of the LDS faithful in Nauvoo, his entire family moved again heading west, on the Mormon Trial, to Kanesville, (present day Council Bluffs, Iowa). Along the way on the Mormon Trail, Joseph lost two daughters to an early mortality ... they were among the many hundreds who died on that trek between Nauvoo and westward destinations.
But, the Hall family stopped their westward journey on the banks of the Missouri River ... and Joseph resumed his trade as a carpenter in Kanesville.
Several years after Delaney's 1854 death in Kanesville, Joseph married Sarah Starr and he had with her four more children. Some forty years later, he spent his final days living with his youngest born of Sarah Starr, William A. Hall, dying in his son William's home in Viola. He died on September 24, 1902, in Audubon County, Iowa, having lived a long life of 87 years, and was buried there near two of his grand children who preceded him ... all of their graves unmarked today.
"Iowa, Deaths and Burials, 1850-1990," index, Family Search (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XV3F-LJQ : accessed 26 February 2015), Joseph John Hall, 24 Sep 1902; citing , reference Vol. 2 p54; FHL microfilm 1,521,939.
Joseph lost his father to an accidental drowning in the mighty Mississippi River in late 1836. Being a flat bottom river boat trader was very dangerous vocation in extreme weather.
Around 1837, in Cape Girardeau, Joseph married Delaney (Delania) Oller and they had several children there together before moving.
By 1845 Joseph John Hall, his entire family and his mother, Rebecca, appear in the records of the Latter Day Saints as members of their Church and living very near Nauvoo, Illinois. By 1847, due to the persecution of the LDS faithful in Nauvoo, his entire family moved again heading west, on the Mormon Trial, to Kanesville, (present day Council Bluffs, Iowa). Along the way on the Mormon Trail, Joseph lost two daughters to an early mortality ... they were among the many hundreds who died on that trek between Nauvoo and westward destinations.
But, the Hall family stopped their westward journey on the banks of the Missouri River ... and Joseph resumed his trade as a carpenter in Kanesville.
Several years after Delaney's 1854 death in Kanesville, Joseph married Sarah Starr and he had with her four more children. Some forty years later, he spent his final days living with his youngest born of Sarah Starr, William A. Hall, dying in his son William's home in Viola. He died on September 24, 1902, in Audubon County, Iowa, having lived a long life of 87 years, and was buried there near two of his grand children who preceded him ... all of their graves unmarked today.
"Iowa, Deaths and Burials, 1850-1990," index, Family Search (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XV3F-LJQ : accessed 26 February 2015), Joseph John Hall, 24 Sep 1902; citing , reference Vol. 2 p54; FHL microfilm 1,521,939.
When Joseph John Hall was born on March 26, 1815, in Maury County, Tennessee, (southeast of Columbia) his father, Benjamin, was 29 and his mother, Sarah REBECCA Clarissa, was 26 year of age. His family moved about a year later to Union County, Illinois near Jonesboro and established a home there before the State of Illinois was admitted to the Union. By 1822 records show the Hall family moved again and were living in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
Joseph lost his father to an accidental drowning in the mighty Mississippi River in late 1836. Being a flat bottom river boat trader was very dangerous vocation in extreme weather.
Around 1837, in Cape Girardeau, Joseph married Delaney (Delania) Oller and they had several children there together before moving.
By 1845 Joseph John Hall, his entire family and his mother, Rebecca, appear in the records of the Latter Day Saints as members of their Church and living very near Nauvoo, Illinois. By 1847, due to the persecution of the LDS faithful in Nauvoo, his entire family moved again heading west, on the Mormon Trial, to Kanesville, (present day Council Bluffs, Iowa). Along the way on the Mormon Trail, Joseph lost two daughters to an early mortality ... they were among the many hundreds who died on that trek between Nauvoo and westward destinations.
But, the Hall family stopped their westward journey on the banks of the Missouri River ... and Joseph resumed his trade as a carpenter in Kanesville.
Several years after Delaney's 1854 death in Kanesville, Joseph married Sarah Starr and he had with her four more children. Some forty years later, he spent his final days living with his youngest born of Sarah Starr, William A. Hall, dying in his son William's home in Viola. He died on September 24, 1902, in Audubon County, Iowa, having lived a long life of 87 years, and was buried there near two of his grand children who preceded him ... all of their graves unmarked today.
"Iowa, Deaths and Burials, 1850-1990," index, Family Search (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XV3F-LJQ : accessed 26 February 2015), Joseph John Hall, 24 Sep 1902; citing , reference Vol. 2 p54; FHL microfilm 1,521,939.
Joseph lost his father to an accidental drowning in the mighty Mississippi River in late 1836. Being a flat bottom river boat trader was very dangerous vocation in extreme weather.
Around 1837, in Cape Girardeau, Joseph married Delaney (Delania) Oller and they had several children there together before moving.
By 1845 Joseph John Hall, his entire family and his mother, Rebecca, appear in the records of the Latter Day Saints as members of their Church and living very near Nauvoo, Illinois. By 1847, due to the persecution of the LDS faithful in Nauvoo, his entire family moved again heading west, on the Mormon Trial, to Kanesville, (present day Council Bluffs, Iowa). Along the way on the Mormon Trail, Joseph lost two daughters to an early mortality ... they were among the many hundreds who died on that trek between Nauvoo and westward destinations.
But, the Hall family stopped their westward journey on the banks of the Missouri River ... and Joseph resumed his trade as a carpenter in Kanesville.
Several years after Delaney's 1854 death in Kanesville, Joseph married Sarah Starr and he had with her four more children. Some forty years later, he spent his final days living with his youngest born of Sarah Starr, William A. Hall, dying in his son William's home in Viola. He died on September 24, 1902, in Audubon County, Iowa, having lived a long life of 87 years, and was buried there near two of his grand children who preceded him ... all of their graves unmarked today.
"Iowa, Deaths and Burials, 1850-1990," index, Family Search (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XV3F-LJQ : accessed 26 February 2015), Joseph John Hall, 24 Sep 1902; citing , reference Vol. 2 p54; FHL microfilm 1,521,939.
Gravesite Details
Joseph's grave is unmarked though two of his grand children are in this cemetery. It is assumed his grave is either nearby or he is buried with them. His yougest son, William A. Hall, with whom he lived his last years, was a poor farmer.
