Great-grandfather of Jane Hall
Great-grandfather of Susan Norder

2nd great-grandfather of Beth Beach
2nd great-grandfather of Barbara Dumler

Private    Co. B    15th NH Infantry
Dates of Service:  03 Oct 1862 - 13 Aug 1863

Horatio Nelson Hall, Jr. was born to Horatio Nelson Hall, a farmer and Deacon of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Mahala Hinds in North Groton, N. H., Sept. 29, 1839. He was the eighth child of eleven. 

At the age of 22, Horatio volunteered to serve his country for a period of 9 months. He received a clothing allowance of $31.63 in April 1863.

During the Civil War, Horatio ended up serving for 18 months in Co. B, 15th New Hampshire infantry. He received a pension for his claim of Chronic Diarrhea or Dysentery which he contracted in the service during the War of the Rebellion. Horatio was a member of G.A.R. Post 395, Amasa B. Watson, of Grand Rapids, MI.

Horatio came to Michigan in 1868 and was ordained as a Methodist Episcopal minister the following year. He had been in charge of pastorates at Whitehall, Lakeview and Reed City and retired from the ministry in 1907 while pastor of Baldwin M. E. church.

On 29 August 1871, he married Nancy Agnes Turner at the M. E. Church of Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada.

The couple were blessed with four children:

* Hale Pliny Hall, born May 3, 1875
* Floyd A Hall (my grandfather), born May 6, 1877
* Truman Roy Hall, born March 24, 1883
* Blanche Irene Hall, born August 6, 1888. 

Nancy Hall died at Hersey, MI, on October 11, 1922.            

REV. HORATIO HALL, CIVIL WAR VETERAN, PASSES AWAY AT 88
Rev. Horatio N. Hall, retired Methodist Episcopal minister, died August 18, 1928, at Clark Memorial Home, Grand Rapids, MI.
              Source: Grand Rapids Herald, August 1928

GRAVESITE: Oakdale Cemetery, Hersey, Osceola Co., MI 
Written by Susan Norder, October 2003