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Descendants of Malcomb Hall

Generation No. 1

1. MALCOMB² HALL (WILLIAM¹) was born Abt. 1810 in SC, and died Bef. 1880. He married MARTHA MAJORS Bef. 1831 in GA. She was born Abt. 1814 in GA, and died Aft. 1880.

Notes for MALCOMB HALL:
Malcomb's father may have been William Hall of South Carolina.
I've not found a burial site for Malcomb.

Malcomb Hall came to Henry County, Alabama with his family from Marion County, Georgia. He appeared in the census of Marion County in 1850. The move probably occurred after 1855, when his youngest son, Doctor, was born. Later documents would show Doctor to have been born in Georgia. For the next half century, the Hall family would move from one side of the Alabama-Florida border to the other, guided mainly, I presume by the promise of greatest fortune.
On April 2, 1860, as residents of Henry County, Malcomb and his son, Daniel, applied for land grants in Jackson County, Florida. I'm assuming that this indicates they were living in the south of Henry County, in what would become Houston County after the turn of the century.
In June, 1860, the Henry County census showed Daniel working as a farm laborer on the lands of W. J. Hatton. However, the census also notes that Daniel owned real estate worth one hundred and sixty dollars. I don't know if these were holdings in Alabama or involved his land claim in Jackson County.
The 1860 census of Jackson County indicates that Daniel's father, Malcomb, had already cast his fortune in Florida. He appears as resident in the July census there.
For the next two decades, Malcomb, and then Daniel, would raise their families in Florida. The 1870 census isn't helpful, likely because of the great racial and political violence in Jackson County after the Civil War. There was also the complicated arrangement of counting heads of households "by the thousand" rather than by the traditional precincts. All of my family lines disappear from the 1870 census and reappear in 1880.
By 1900, Daniel and his brothers, Allen and George, had left Florida and were living again in Henry County. They were making their homes in a part of the county that, in 1903, helped to comprise the new county of Houston. The families would remain intact there for the next two decades.
Daniel's grandson, John McKinley, would move south again shortly before 1920 to marry and start a family in Jackson County. Before 1930, he moved further south to Hillsborough County, creating an unfortunate break with the folks still in Alabama. It wasn't a matter of ill will, just a man looking to do better by himself and his family.
The break produced by John McKinley's move south led to some difficulties in my efforts to trace the family tree. I suspect it all would have come to nothing but for the great help of a newly found cousin in Georgia. I won't name her here for interests of her privacy. However, I'd be entirely remiss in my effort to be a gentleman if I didn't say - thank you, cuz.

Notes for MARTHA MAJORS:
Martha may have been the sister of or otherwise related to Daniel Majors, shown living adjacent to Malcomb Hall and his family in the 1850 census of Marion County, GA. If so, it's likely that their son, Daniel, was named after this apparent brother.
I've not found a burial site for Martha.

Children of MALCOMB HALL and MARTHA MAJORS are:

	i.	JAMES³ HALL, b. Abt. 1831, GA.
	ii.	RUTHY HALL, b. Abt. 1834, GA.
2.	iii.	DANIEL D. HALL, b. Oct-12-1837, GA, Macon Co, Macon; d. Mar-20-1917, AL, Houston Co.
3.	iv.	ELIZABETH HALL, b. Abt. 1838, GA.
	v.	WILLIAM H. HALL, b. Abt. 1839, GA.
4.	vi.	ALLEN HALL, b. Apr-01-1844, GA; d. Mar-07-1921, AL, Houston County.
	vii.	JOHN T. HALL, b. Abt. 1846, GA.
5.	viii.	DEMPSEY HALL, b. Nov-1849, GA; d. Aug-14-1904, AL, Houston Co.
	ix.	GEORGE HALL, b. Abt. 1851.
	x.	DOCTOR HALL, b. Abt. 1855.

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