Name of Deceased: Jackson McKinley Hall
Newspaper: West Plains Daily Quill
Submitters Name: Patti Hall-Smith

JACKSON McKinley HALL
    Funeral services for Jackson McKinley Hall, 70 Spokane, Washington will be held at 1:00 p.m. tomorrow in the Rose Chapel of the Robertson-Drago Funeral
Home, West Plains. Mr. Hall died August 2, 1971 in a hospital in Spokane, Washington.
    Mr. Hall was born February 7, 1900 at Pottersville, Missouri the son of the late John Riley and Sarah Scribner Hall. On April 17, 1920 he married at Sycamore, Mo., to Martha E. Smith who survives as does five children, Isaiah Riley Hall, Memphis, Tennessee, Elsie May Simmons, Lincoln, Neb.; Leo McKinley Hall, Cazenovia, Ill., Loren Marie Morgan, Washburn, Ill., and Mary Ann Spencer, West Plains; one foster son Kenneth Stutsman, Shawnee Mission, Kansas, 25 grandchildren, 28 great grandchildren, one great great grandchild, one brother and three sisters.
    Mr. Hall was preceded in death by his parents, one brother, one sister.  Burial will be in the Dripping Springs Cemetery, under the direction of  Robertson-Drago Funeral Home, West Plains.

Name of Deceased: James Edward Hall
Newspaper: West Plains Daily Quill
Submitters Name: Patti Hall-Smith

Obit: James Edward Hall,
Graveside services for James Edward Hall, 56, West Plains, will be 10 a.m. Friday, Sept. 21, 2007, at Dripping Springs Cemetery under the direction of Robertson-Drago Funeral Home. Mr. Hall died 11:45 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2007, in West Vue Nursing Center. He was born Oct. 5, 1950, in Summersville, Mo., to Melvin and Ora Brower Hall. Mr. Hall had been employed at the West Plains Recycle Center. He was a member of the West Plains Car Club and enjoyed fishing.
He is survived by two brothers, Leroy Hall, West Plains, and Charles Hall, wife, Ruby, Mtn. Grove, Mo.; one sister, Norma Hilburn, West Plains; many nieces and nephews, including Andi Hilburn-Vaini, West Plains; and many cousins including Doug Brower, Janice Fritts and Blaine Brower.
His parents; three brothers, Riley, Everett and Kenneth Hall; two sisters-in-law, Ella and Ellen Hall; and one brother-in-law, Larry Hilburn, precede him in death.
Mr. Hall will lie in state 2 until 9 p.m. Thursday at Robertson-Drago Funeral Home. Memorial contributions may be made to the Shaw Medical Building and left at Robertson-Drago Funeral Home.

Name of Deceased: JOHN RILEY "TUCKER" HALL
Newspaper: WEST PLAINS DAILY QUILL
SEPTEMBER 20, 1938
Submitters Name: Patti Hall-Smith

Obit: JOHN RILEY "TUCKER" HALL
    John Riley "Tucker" Hall, 65, well known resident of the Dripping Springs District, six miles north of West Plains died this morning at 4:00 a.m., September 20, 1938, at his farm home following a brief illness. However, Mr. Hall had been in ill health for some time and recently had suffered a third paralytic stroke.
    Besides his widow, Sarah Ellen Scribner Hall, he is survived by seven sons and daughters, Mrs. Emma Green, Jack Hall, James W. Hall, Melvin Hall, Mrs. Marie Nolte of the Dripping Springs District. Mrs. Anna Coble of Arditta and Mrs. Wray Goss of Brandsville.
    Mr. Hall was born in Searcy, Arkansas on January 12, 1873, had lived in the Howell and Ozark county areas many years. He moved to Dripping Springs from the
Pottersville community.
    Funeral services will be held tomorrow in the church at Dripping Springs. Burial will be in the cemetery nearby. The R. F. Legrand Presiding Elder of the Methodist Churches of the West Plains District will conduct the service.
    Funeral and burial arrangements are in charge of Leonard Sullen of the Sullen's Funeral Home, West Plains, Missouri

Name of Deceased: Martha Elizabeth Smith-Hall
Newspaper: West Plains Daily Quill
Date; January 10, 1987
Submitters Name: Patti Hall-Smith

Obit:
MARTHA HALL RITES TUESDAY
    Funeral services for Martha Elizabeth Hall, 83, West Plains, will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in the Rose Chapel, Robertson-Drago Funeral Home, West Plains, with the Rev. Joe Bean officiating.
    Mrs. Hall died at 3:42 p.m. Saturday in Ozarks Medical Center. She was born Sept. 15, 1903, at Sycamore, the daughter of the late Rev. Joseph and Nancy Catherine Freeman Smith.
    She received her education in the New Hope School near Sycamore and in  1921, she was married at Sycamore to Jack McKinley Hall, who preceded her in death Aug. 2, 1971. She received her nurses training working for the Red Cross and had worked in St. Louis, and after moving back to West Plains she had worked with several physicians in West Plains. Mrs. Hall was of the Methodist faith and her father was a Methodist minister.
    Survivors include five children, Isaiah Riley Hall, Memphis, Tenn.; Elsie May Simmons, Lincoln, Neb.; Leo McKinley Hall, Cazenovia, Ill.; Lorna Marie Morgan, Washburn, Ill., and Mary Ann Spencer, West Plains; one foster son, Kenneth Stutsman, Shawnee Mission, Kan.; 25 grandchildren, 28 great grandchildren; one great great grandson; one brother, Henry Bunker Smith, Mtn. Home, Ark.; two sisters, Elvira Kirkland, West Plains and Mary Davis, Wichita, Kan.; and many nieces and nephews.
    She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, three grandchildren, four brothers, Manuel, Dewey, Sigel and Jessie Smith and one sister, Clemetine Collins.
    Visitation will be from 7 to 8 p.m. today at Robertson-Drago Funeral Home.
    Memorial contributions may be may to the American Heart Assn., and may be left at the Robertson-Drago Funeral Home.
    Burial will be in Dripping Springs Cemetery under the direction of Robertson-Drago Funeral Home, West Plains.

Name of Deceased: Melvin Prentis Hall
Newspaper:  West Plains Daily Quill, West Plains, Missouri
Date: September 29, 1975
Submitters Name: Patti Hall-Smith

Obit: Melvin Prentis Hall
Melvin Prentis Hall, son of the late John Riley and Sarah Scribner Hall was born May 8, 1910 at Sycamore, Missouri and entered into eternal rest September 28, 1975 at the age of 65 years. On July 2, 1930, Mr. Hall was married at Salem, Arkansas to Ora Brower, who survives, as do five children, Charles Hall, Kenneth Hall, Norma Hilburn, Leroy Hall and James Hall, Seven grandchildren and three sisters, Mrs. Marie Acklin, Mrs. Anna Coble and Mrs. Wray Gross. Mr. Hall was preceded in death by his parents, two sons, two brothers and one sister.
Burial will be in the Dripping Springs Cemetery, under the direction of Robertson-Drago Funeral Home, West Plains.

George Washington Henson
Submitters Name: Russ Henson

Obit: West Plain Mo. Circuit Court, George Henson was murdered on Oct. 1,1866 Willey Roitton, spec. examiner for the Bureau of Pensions S.E. Division in  Springfield MO. investigated this matter for a pension request for Mrs. Mary Jane Henson-Custer in Sept. 1887 for a pension on Mr. Henson's service in the  Mexican war. Larkin Allen was indicted for this murder.