Dixon Hall

Dixon Hall

• Father: Hugh Hall b. circa 1727, d. 1771
• Mother: Mary E. Dickson b. circa 1733, d. circa 1787

• Dixon Hall was born in 1755 in Dinwiddie County, Virginia.
• He married Ann Hunt on 5 January 1775 in Brunswick County, Virginia.
• He married Millasant Dejarnett, daughter of John Thomas Dejarnett and Millasant Hall, on 7 April 1814 in Putnam County, Georgia.
• He married Milly Hutchinson circa 1816 in Hancock County, Georgia.
• He married Priscilla Baugh on 5 November 1818 in Greene County, Georgia, (license 3 November 1818).
• Dixon Hall died on 29 March 1820 in Montgomery County, Alabama.
• He was interred at Gunter Field (now Industrial Park), Montgomery, Alabama.
• His estate was probated on 26 June 1820 at Montgomery County, Alabama, naming the following heirs:. Will Book 2, pages 5-9.
• A biographical sketch appears in the History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography (1920): Dixon Hall, sr., planter, was born in Dinwiddie County, Va., in 1755, and died in Montgomery, in 1820; son of Hugh and Mary (Dixon) Hall, of Petersburg, Va; grandson of John and Anne (Bolling) Hall of Virginia, and of Henry and Elizabeth (Abernathy) Dixon, of North Carolina; great-grandson of Robert Bolling of London, England, who married Jane Rolfe, granddaughter of Pocahontas. At an early age he served in the Virginia line in the Revolutionary army, with his brother, Bolling Hall (q. v.), and at the close of the war removed to North Carolina, thence to Georgia and in 1818, to Autauga County. He was educated in the schools of Virginia and engaged in planting, both in Georgia and Alabama having acquired lands in Autauga County as well as property in the city of Montgomery. Married: (1) in 1779 to Anne, daughter of Jonathan Hunt and wife, Miss Henderson, of North Carolina; (2) Milly De Jarnette; (3) Milly Hutchinson; (4) Priscilla Baugh. Children: 1. Dixon, jr., m. Amy Goodwyn Mitchell (q.v.); 2. Hugh, m. Amy Tyus; 3. Mary Dixon, m. Francis Lewis; 4. Frances, m. Edmund Harris; 5. Thomas Hunt, m. Sarah Sanders; 6. Elizabeth, m. Littleton Reese; 7. William Hall, m. Sarah Sassnett; 8. Milly De Jarnette, m. Dr. James Edward Scott; 9. Wesley. Last residence: Montgomery.

• Last Edited: 8 Nov 2011