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Notes for Isaac Holland Hall

From History of Macoupin County Illinois, Hon. Charles A. Walker, Vol I, Chicago: SJ Clarke Publishing, 1911, p 93:
Isaac Hall, noted for his great strength while still living in Madison County heard of the sickness of his brother James. While visiting his brother, a neighbor, David Gregory, became violently sick and at the same time were his wife and two children upon a sick bed. James Hall sent his brother Isaac over to take care of the stricken family. Mr. Gregory died, and leaving the sick wife and children in the house, Isaac Hall, with his ax, went into the woods and there split out rude puncheons for a coffin. Fitting the the rude casket into the grave, he returned to the house and taking the corpse on his shoulder, he toiled with it up the hill, laid it in the coffin and covered it with mother earth.
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