CHARLES E. HALL is the son of Nathan L. and Sarah (Carter) Hall, and is one
of eleven children born to these parents, of whom the following ten are now
living:  Josephine, Charles (our subject), Lizzie, Isis, Jessie, Ella,
Nathan, Josephus, Gertrude and Lewis.  The father was a native of Xenia,
Ohio, born in 1831 but died in 1882, after a lingering illness.  He came to
bedford in 1859 and assisted on the stone-work of the old jail.  A little
later he opened one of the first stone quarries in the county, and was
largely the instrument to bring to public notice and favor the valuable
local stone deposits.  He was a stone-cutter, and eminently a self-made man.
By industry he succeeded in accumulating a competency.  He was a man of
unusual activity in the pursuit of business, which fact contributed to his
sickness and death.  His industrious habits descended to his children, all
of whom are exemplary members of society and respected citizens.


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