William Augustus Hall
Born: October 15, 1815
Birthplace: Portland, Maine
Father: Captain John Hancock Hall 1781 – 1841
(Buried: Hall Family Cemetery, Darksville, Missouri)
Mother: Statira Annie Preble 1788 – 1854
(Buried: Hall Family Cemetery, Darksville, Missouri)
Wife: Octavia Sebree 1827 – 1883
(Buried: Oakland Cemetery, Moberly, Missouri)
Children:
1st Lt. William Preble Hall 1848 – 1927
(Buried: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia)
U.S. Congressman Uriel Sebree Hall 1852 – 1932
(Buried: Oakland Cemetery, Moberly, Missouri)
Willard Cotta Hall 1854 – 1923
(Buried: Huntsville City Cemetery, Huntsville, Missouri)
Octavia Hall Kasey 1857 – 1939
(Buried: Oakland Cemetery, Moberly, Missouri)
Anna S. Hall 1859 – 1865
(Buried: Hall Family Cemetery, Darksville, Missouri)
Emma Hall Baskett 1867 – 1955
(Buried: Oakland Cemetery, Moberly, Missouri)
Brother: US Congressman Willard Preble Hall 1820 – 1882
(Buried: Mount Mora Cemetery, Saint Joseph, Missouri)
Political Party: Unionist Party and Democratic Party
Education:
Attended Yale College
Occupation before War:
Attorney in Huntsville, Missouri
Attorney in Fayette, Missouri
1847 – 1861: Judge of Fayette Missouri Circuit Court
Served in the Mexican – American War rising to Captain
1855: Presided over trial of a pregnant slave woman who murdered her master in self – defense.
Civil War Career:
1861: Delegate to Missouri State Constitutional Convention
Elected to U.S. Congress to fill explosion vacancy of John B. Clark
1862 – 1865: United States Congressman from Missouri
1862 – 1863: Member of House Pacific Railroad Committee
1863 – 1865: Ranking Member House Roads and Canals Committee
1863 – 1865: Member House Post Office Expenditures Committee
1864: Choose not to be a candidate for renomination to U.S. Congress
1864: Missouri Delegate to Democratic Party National Convention
1865: Choose not to vote in 13th Amendment vote.
Occupation after War:
Attorney and Farmer in Missouri
Died: December 15, 1888
Place of Death: near Darksville, Missouri
Age at time of Death: 73 years old
Burial Place: Hall Family Cemetery, Darksville, Missouri
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