Deborah and her daughter, Ellen, were murdered by Ellen's husband, Charles Brink. After shooting both women with a pistol, he committed suicide by shooting himself.
Journal Sister of William Douglas Hall (which sister unknown probably Sarah A)), "Leaves from a Woman's Private Journal," Between 1880 - 1894, p 8. "O. W Hall, my father ... Married Miss Deborah Redman, as more properly, Redmond, my dear Mother when he was in his twenty-first year and she a very little past fourteen, March 29, 1833. My parents were among the pioneers of Illinois, played, hunted and fished with the Indians; they were very poor but rose far above that and was at one time wealthy. They lived together over forty years and were the parents of eight daughters and four sons. At this writing five sisters and three brothers are living. My dear Mother died by an assassins hand in 1875. "
page 9 "My mother gathered cat o' nine tails to make her first bed and had one pewter dish and spoon. Poor little girl wife. "
page 11 "My mother was a fair woman, with dark brown hair, very abundant and long; she had deep blue eyes; her height was about 5 ft 5 inches, her weight about 130. She was born in Virginia, but never knew in what part having left there very young, and in those early days no records were kept except eyes.
She was a woman of strong common sense, firm nerves and was very charitable. She had a strong and decided belief in the plan of Salvation and had been baptized in infancy. She had a literary turn and was well read yet not highly educated.
She was not always a tender woman, but was a faithful, excellent wife and mother. I never saw her startled at things like other women, and none of her daughters inherited her strength of nerve and body, we copied after our father in nervous temperament. She married very young, before she was a woman, and her life was not a happy one. Her name was Deborah Redmond. Her end was sudden and cruel. She is buried in Carlinville Illinois. "
