Daniel Webster Hall was the fourth of six children born to Peter Hall (1755-1835) and Mandana Clark. He was born in Vennont September 28, 1790 and was captured by the British while serving in the New York Militia during the War of 1812. After his liberation, he married Hannah W. Treat in Pennsylvania in 1799. They had twelve children, all of whom were born in Indiana.
In 1859 Daniel applied in Indiana for his 160 acre bounty as a veteran. He selected land on the Hall Mountain in Marion County, Arkansas. Some of his wife's relatives were already living there. He and three sons -- Elijah Clark, Stephen Thomas and George Washington -- moved there in 1800. A daughter, Mahala, moved later. Daniel died in 1869 and Hannah died in 1875 and both are buried in the Tegarden or Old Hurst Cemetery east of Yellville.
Mahala Hall, born September 13, 1824, married an Indiana native, James Bundy. Two sons -- John, who married Docie Baker, and Asbury, who married Ann Baker, -- were born in Indiana. Four children were born in Arkansas -- Mary, who married Lauf Davis; Hulda, who married Henry Gaines; Will; and Tommy, who married Sarrah Davis.
Elijah Clark was born August 7, 1829. He had four children in Indiana by his first wife. They were: George, who married Mary E. Cole; Daniel, who married Matilda Smith; Harve; and Andrew Jackson, who married Addie Sipple. The rest of his children were born in Arkansas. These, by his second wife Martha Ott, were: Mary Elizabeth, who married Will Jones and Henry Parks; John, who married Melisha ____ ; Henry, who married Louie Ellen Sublet; Laffette, who married Nancy Cooper; and Elijah Clark II, who married Liza McCabe and Lura Burris, then Ellan Gaines. Elijah and Ellan had a daughter, Mandana, who married John Berry Treat, Jr. Elijah, Sr., died on January 1,1900, and was buried beside his second wife, Martha Ott, in the Ott Cemetery east of Yellville.
Stephen Thomas Hall was born March 2, 1839. He married Elizabeth Treat from Missouri but their children, born in Arkansas, were: Kye, who married Elizabeth Jones; Hanna; Rosie, who married James Monroe Treat; James; Mahala, who married Jack Arms; Tileman, who married Sophia Jones; Thomas, who married Martha Tilley; Alice, who married Noah Tilley; Matilda; Isabel; and John W.
George Washington was born November 6, 1840. He married Mary Susan Wood, who was born in Arkansas in 1849. Their children were: Liford, who married Rosie Younger; Sereney, who married George Nelson; Swinford, who married Lotta Edward and _______ Jones; Alphonsus, who married Cecil Jones; Zenith, who married Julia Morgan; Arcterus, who married Memory Burris; Jackoline, who married Ed Parnell; Baxter, who married Hattie Wood; Joseph, who married Node Murphy; Hanford; and Winston. George died on June 8, 1926 and is buried, with Mary, at the Old Hurst Cemetery east of Yellville.
All of Daniel Hall's descendants mentioned here were born before the mid 1880's and were primarily farmers and hunters. Hall Mountain was so named because Daniel and three sons lived there. The Halls have been good citizens of Marion County for more than a century. Many of Daniel's descendants still live here -- and on Hall Mountain. They are employed in various professions, business, services and occupations.
This information was furnished by Luther Hall and Sylvester Treat. 99.
Reprinted with permission from History of Marion County edited by Earl Berry, copyright 1977.