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Provert Hall

Birth
North Carolina, USA
Death
20 Oct 1911 (aged 74)
Lebanon, Boone County, Indiana, USA
Burial
Lebanon, Boone County, Indiana, USA Add to Map
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PROVERT HALL

Provert Hall (colored) born in North Carolina, 2 Jun 1837, died at his home, 1416 Beck Street, this city, at one o'clock Friday afternoon, aged 74 years, 4 months, and 18 days, from the frailities of age and exposure. He had been critically ill for three months past.

He was married to Nicie Whitfield in 1879, who survives, with three sons, Frank Hall of Frankfort; Daniel Hall of Kokomo; and John Hall of this city.

He was a member of the African Methodist Episcopal Church of this city.

Mr Hall settled in this county on the farm of A.L. Howard, coming directly from North Carolina, the state of his birth. He had been a resident of Lebanon for 25 years, and was a big-hearted, industrious, honest man.

He served in slavery in North Carolina before the war.

The funeral was held at the African Methodist Episcopal Church Sunday at two o'clock in the afternoon.

Interment was at Brown's Wonder Cemetery.

Lebanon Pioneer
26 Oct 1911


[Inexplicably, every census shows that he was born in Kentucky.]


PROVERT HALL

Provert Hall (colored) born in North Carolina, 2 Jun 1837, died at his home, 1416 Beck Street, this city, at one o'clock Friday afternoon, aged 74 years, 4 months, and 18 days, from the frailities of age and exposure. He had been critically ill for three months past.

He was married to Nicie Whitfield in 1879, who survives, with three sons, Frank Hall of Frankfort; Daniel Hall of Kokomo; and John Hall of this city.

He was a member of the African Methodist Episcopal Church of this city.

Mr Hall settled in this county on the farm of A.L. Howard, coming directly from North Carolina, the state of his birth. He had been a resident of Lebanon for 25 years, and was a big-hearted, industrious, honest man.

He served in slavery in North Carolina before the war.

The funeral was held at the African Methodist Episcopal Church Sunday at two o'clock in the afternoon.

Interment was at Brown's Wonder Cemetery.

Lebanon Pioneer
26 Oct 1911


[Inexplicably, every census shows that he was born in Kentucky.]




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