The marker for Septimius was erected by the State of West Virginia, with the following inscription -
"Member of the Constitutional Convention 1872 -
Member of the State Senate 1872 - 1873
Member of the House of Delegates 1881 - 1926
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WV Blue Book (1926), pp. 229 and 230:
[The death of "Uncle Sep" Hall, of Wetzel county, while deeply deplored, was not wholly unexpected. The veteran legislator had been in failing health for some time, and had told many of his friends that the session of 1925 was the last one he would attend. To others who were still closer to him-he expressed the conviction that he would not be on earth when the next legislature met. The "Dean of the House" will be long remembered and sorely missed. Legislation was a part of the warp and woof of his existence. He seemed to have been born to it, and was familiar with all its Intricate phases. Putting it briefly, he was a legislator by nature whose qualifications were sharply intensified by experience. Mr. Hall was born in Ritchie county in 1847 and died at his home in New Martinsville, Wetzel county, February 27th, 1926.]
[Upon the unanimous recommendation of the Democratic Executive Committee of Wetzel county, Governor Gore, on April 2nd, 1926, appointed Mrs. Fannie Anshutz Hall to fill the unexpired term of her late husband, Septimius Hall, as one of the members of the House of Delegates from Wetzel county.]
History of West Virginia, Old and New (1923), Vol. 3, p. 135:
[Septimius Hall, of New Martinsville, is the oldest delegate in point of continuous service in the West Virginia Legislature. He is one of the two or three surviving members of the Constitutional Convention of 1872, and upon all questions regarding the original conception of the organic law members of the Legislature have made a practice of referring to Mr. Hall as the chief authority.
For over seventy years members of the Hall family have been prominent at the bar of Wetzel County. Septimius Hall was born in Ritchie County, February 14, 1847. His grandfather, Samuel Gregg Hall, was born in 1803, in what is now Barbour County, West Virginia, where he was reared and married. He was a farmer by occupation. About 1840 he removed to Middle Island Creek in Tyler County, from there to Bond's Creek in Ritchie County, and in 1844 started for the Par We.st, floating his goods on a flatboat down (he Ohio River to the mouth of the Wabash, and then up that stream to Lafayette, Indiana, whence he proceeded by canal from Lafayette to Logansport, and from there overland to New Buffalo, Michigan by wagon. He and a half brother and some cousins jointly owned a lumber mill at New Buffalo. At that time New Buffalo, Michigan, was the promising rival of Chicago on the other side of the lake. The great trunk lines of railroads then building from the East were being influenced to establish their terminals at New Buffalo, but when they were constructed two or three years later they went around the southern end of the lake, and from that time New Buffalo steadily declined in importance. Samuel G. Hall died at New Buffalo in 1846, while the town was still one of great promise. He married Rachel Hudkins, who was born in Barbour County, January 9, 1805, and died at St. Marys, West Virginia, January 24, 1883.]
"Member of the Constitutional Convention 1872 -
Member of the State Senate 1872 - 1873
Member of the House of Delegates 1881 - 1926
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WV Blue Book (1926), pp. 229 and 230:
[The death of "Uncle Sep" Hall, of Wetzel county, while deeply deplored, was not wholly unexpected. The veteran legislator had been in failing health for some time, and had told many of his friends that the session of 1925 was the last one he would attend. To others who were still closer to him-he expressed the conviction that he would not be on earth when the next legislature met. The "Dean of the House" will be long remembered and sorely missed. Legislation was a part of the warp and woof of his existence. He seemed to have been born to it, and was familiar with all its Intricate phases. Putting it briefly, he was a legislator by nature whose qualifications were sharply intensified by experience. Mr. Hall was born in Ritchie county in 1847 and died at his home in New Martinsville, Wetzel county, February 27th, 1926.]
[Upon the unanimous recommendation of the Democratic Executive Committee of Wetzel county, Governor Gore, on April 2nd, 1926, appointed Mrs. Fannie Anshutz Hall to fill the unexpired term of her late husband, Septimius Hall, as one of the members of the House of Delegates from Wetzel county.]
History of West Virginia, Old and New (1923), Vol. 3, p. 135:
[Septimius Hall, of New Martinsville, is the oldest delegate in point of continuous service in the West Virginia Legislature. He is one of the two or three surviving members of the Constitutional Convention of 1872, and upon all questions regarding the original conception of the organic law members of the Legislature have made a practice of referring to Mr. Hall as the chief authority.
For over seventy years members of the Hall family have been prominent at the bar of Wetzel County. Septimius Hall was born in Ritchie County, February 14, 1847. His grandfather, Samuel Gregg Hall, was born in 1803, in what is now Barbour County, West Virginia, where he was reared and married. He was a farmer by occupation. About 1840 he removed to Middle Island Creek in Tyler County, from there to Bond's Creek in Ritchie County, and in 1844 started for the Par We.st, floating his goods on a flatboat down (he Ohio River to the mouth of the Wabash, and then up that stream to Lafayette, Indiana, whence he proceeded by canal from Lafayette to Logansport, and from there overland to New Buffalo, Michigan by wagon. He and a half brother and some cousins jointly owned a lumber mill at New Buffalo. At that time New Buffalo, Michigan, was the promising rival of Chicago on the other side of the lake. The great trunk lines of railroads then building from the East were being influenced to establish their terminals at New Buffalo, but when they were constructed two or three years later they went around the southern end of the lake, and from that time New Buffalo steadily declined in importance. Samuel G. Hall died at New Buffalo in 1846, while the town was still one of great promise. He married Rachel Hudkins, who was born in Barbour County, January 9, 1805, and died at St. Marys, West Virginia, January 24, 1883.]
The marker for Septimius was erected by the State of West Virginia, with the following inscription -
"Member of the Constitutional Convention 1872 -
Member of the State Senate 1872 - 1873
Member of the House of Delegates 1881 - 1926
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WV Blue Book (1926), pp. 229 and 230:
[The death of "Uncle Sep" Hall, of Wetzel county, while deeply deplored, was not wholly unexpected. The veteran legislator had been in failing health for some time, and had told many of his friends that the session of 1925 was the last one he would attend. To others who were still closer to him-he expressed the conviction that he would not be on earth when the next legislature met. The "Dean of the House" will be long remembered and sorely missed. Legislation was a part of the warp and woof of his existence. He seemed to have been born to it, and was familiar with all its Intricate phases. Putting it briefly, he was a legislator by nature whose qualifications were sharply intensified by experience. Mr. Hall was born in Ritchie county in 1847 and died at his home in New Martinsville, Wetzel county, February 27th, 1926.]
[Upon the unanimous recommendation of the Democratic Executive Committee of Wetzel county, Governor Gore, on April 2nd, 1926, appointed Mrs. Fannie Anshutz Hall to fill the unexpired term of her late husband, Septimius Hall, as one of the members of the House of Delegates from Wetzel county.]
History of West Virginia, Old and New (1923), Vol. 3, p. 135:
[Septimius Hall, of New Martinsville, is the oldest delegate in point of continuous service in the West Virginia Legislature. He is one of the two or three surviving members of the Constitutional Convention of 1872, and upon all questions regarding the original conception of the organic law members of the Legislature have made a practice of referring to Mr. Hall as the chief authority.
For over seventy years members of the Hall family have been prominent at the bar of Wetzel County. Septimius Hall was born in Ritchie County, February 14, 1847. His grandfather, Samuel Gregg Hall, was born in 1803, in what is now Barbour County, West Virginia, where he was reared and married. He was a farmer by occupation. About 1840 he removed to Middle Island Creek in Tyler County, from there to Bond's Creek in Ritchie County, and in 1844 started for the Par We.st, floating his goods on a flatboat down (he Ohio River to the mouth of the Wabash, and then up that stream to Lafayette, Indiana, whence he proceeded by canal from Lafayette to Logansport, and from there overland to New Buffalo, Michigan by wagon. He and a half brother and some cousins jointly owned a lumber mill at New Buffalo. At that time New Buffalo, Michigan, was the promising rival of Chicago on the other side of the lake. The great trunk lines of railroads then building from the East were being influenced to establish their terminals at New Buffalo, but when they were constructed two or three years later they went around the southern end of the lake, and from that time New Buffalo steadily declined in importance. Samuel G. Hall died at New Buffalo in 1846, while the town was still one of great promise. He married Rachel Hudkins, who was born in Barbour County, January 9, 1805, and died at St. Marys, West Virginia, January 24, 1883.]
"Member of the Constitutional Convention 1872 -
Member of the State Senate 1872 - 1873
Member of the House of Delegates 1881 - 1926
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WV Blue Book (1926), pp. 229 and 230:
[The death of "Uncle Sep" Hall, of Wetzel county, while deeply deplored, was not wholly unexpected. The veteran legislator had been in failing health for some time, and had told many of his friends that the session of 1925 was the last one he would attend. To others who were still closer to him-he expressed the conviction that he would not be on earth when the next legislature met. The "Dean of the House" will be long remembered and sorely missed. Legislation was a part of the warp and woof of his existence. He seemed to have been born to it, and was familiar with all its Intricate phases. Putting it briefly, he was a legislator by nature whose qualifications were sharply intensified by experience. Mr. Hall was born in Ritchie county in 1847 and died at his home in New Martinsville, Wetzel county, February 27th, 1926.]
[Upon the unanimous recommendation of the Democratic Executive Committee of Wetzel county, Governor Gore, on April 2nd, 1926, appointed Mrs. Fannie Anshutz Hall to fill the unexpired term of her late husband, Septimius Hall, as one of the members of the House of Delegates from Wetzel county.]
History of West Virginia, Old and New (1923), Vol. 3, p. 135:
[Septimius Hall, of New Martinsville, is the oldest delegate in point of continuous service in the West Virginia Legislature. He is one of the two or three surviving members of the Constitutional Convention of 1872, and upon all questions regarding the original conception of the organic law members of the Legislature have made a practice of referring to Mr. Hall as the chief authority.
For over seventy years members of the Hall family have been prominent at the bar of Wetzel County. Septimius Hall was born in Ritchie County, February 14, 1847. His grandfather, Samuel Gregg Hall, was born in 1803, in what is now Barbour County, West Virginia, where he was reared and married. He was a farmer by occupation. About 1840 he removed to Middle Island Creek in Tyler County, from there to Bond's Creek in Ritchie County, and in 1844 started for the Par We.st, floating his goods on a flatboat down (he Ohio River to the mouth of the Wabash, and then up that stream to Lafayette, Indiana, whence he proceeded by canal from Lafayette to Logansport, and from there overland to New Buffalo, Michigan by wagon. He and a half brother and some cousins jointly owned a lumber mill at New Buffalo. At that time New Buffalo, Michigan, was the promising rival of Chicago on the other side of the lake. The great trunk lines of railroads then building from the East were being influenced to establish their terminals at New Buffalo, but when they were constructed two or three years later they went around the southern end of the lake, and from that time New Buffalo steadily declined in importance. Samuel G. Hall died at New Buffalo in 1846, while the town was still one of great promise. He married Rachel Hudkins, who was born in Barbour County, January 9, 1805, and died at St. Marys, West Virginia, January 24, 1883.]
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