Claiborne Hall - 1841 to His Estate

Smith County, Tennesseee Deed Book S, page 229

1 July 1841

Thomas WEATHERFORD to Claiborne HALL, 9 acres. 

NOTE: This is interesting.  I’m am unsure of the relationship here to Elisha WEATHERFORD who is buried on Hall’s Hill at his death in 1806.  This Elisha WEATHERFORD appears to have come from Abbeville County, South Carolina to Smith Co. TN.  There is an Elisha WEATHERFORD in Cumberland Co. VA in 1790 but I am unsure if this is same individual.  I have wondered if there is relationship to Claiborne HALL.    Matilda S. WEATHERFORD, wife of Thomas WEATHERFORD, was daughter of John BAKER (Smith Co. TN Deed Book T, pages 242 – 244).  The WEATHERFORDs are found  in 1850 census of Lincoln Co. MO.  Matilda is there as a widow in 1860. 

1850 U.S. Census, Smith County, Tennessee, National Archives micropublication M432, Roll 895, page 213A, lines 16 – 23, dwelling 46, family 46

Claiborne HALL                  61 M  Farmer                     $175 real estate                Virginia

Elizabeth                                              60 F                                                            Virginia
William                                                 17 M                                                          Tennessee

John                                                      16 M                                                         Tennessee

Susan                                                    33 F                                                          Tennessee

Usibius                                                 12 M                                                          Tennessee

Sarah                                                     10 F                                                          Tennessee

Martha J.                                               7 F                                                            Tennessee

NOTE: Interesting that Governor William Bowen CAMPBELL was in dwelling 47/family 47.    Archibald W. OVERTON was dwelling 41, family 41. 

1860 U.S. Census, Smith County, Tennessee, National Archives micropublication, M653, Roll 1272, District No. 1, page 270, lines 23 – 29, dwelling 96, family 96

HALL, Claiborne        72  male           $600 real estate/$1500 personal          Virginia

                Elizabeth              71           female                                                  Virginia

              Sarah                       18           female                                                Tennessee

BOSTON, Archibald         14           male                                                       Tennessee

                Rebecca B.          12           female                                                  Tennessee

                Betsy J.                 10           female                                                 Tennessee

DAVIS, Wiley                      24           male      farmhand                                North Carolina

  

1870 U.S. Census, Smith County, Tennessee Census, page 12, Civil District One, lines 12 – 14, dwelling 169, family 172, National Archives micropublication M593, Roll 1564

HALL, Claiborne         72        male white  Farmer      $400 real/$500 personal                      Virginia

BOSTON, Rebecky     22        female white    Keeping House                                                Tennessee

            Bettie J.            19        female white  At Home                                                            Tennessee

                       

first Monday in Feb. 1873          Smith Co. TN Enrollments, 1860 - 1893, Roll 229, p. 192,

                        TN State Library and Archives.

                        Claiborne HALL subpoenaed as defendant in case brought by his

                        grandchildren (Archibald B. BOSTON, Rebecca E. PAYNE, and

                        Betsy Jane PAYNE and their husbands), against him.  Claiborne HALL

                        was security for bond of Allen PIPER (his son-in-law) as guardian to

                        the BOSTON children as minors of John BOSTON, deceased.  John

                        BOSTON was married to Roxey HALL (Claiborne’s daughter).   They

                        both died, leaving the children orphans who were raised by Claiborne

                        HALL.

7 Dec. 1874      J. H. NICKSON appeared in open court and applied for letters of

administration upon the estate of Claiborne HALL, decd.   He was granted administration with $300 bond with E. W. TURNER and W. W. FERGUSON as his securities. 

Source: Smith County, Tennessee Minutes County Court, Vol. 25, Nov. 1872 -     December 1874, p. 482, Roll 47, Tennessee State Library and Archives

8 February 1875            Smith County, Tennesse County Court Minutes, p. 24

                        … Claiborne HALL died intestate in Smith County on – day of – 1874,

                        leaving no widow and the complainants and defendants are all

                        (except J. H. NICKSON) the only surviving heirs, and distributees, of

                        said deceased. 

                        NOTE: On page 23, the non-residents heirs were listed as Mary

                        ETHERIDGE, Susan HALL, Martha BOSTON, Archabald HALL, J. B.

                        GREGORY and his wife Eliza GREGORY, Emely Jane CANIDAY. 

                        Arthula E. PAYNE was an infant resident of Sumner County - J. H.

                        NICKSON was appointed her guardian.  The resident heirs were

                        Adam C. PERKINS and wife Sally PERKINS, Allen PIPER and wife

                        Rebecca D. PIPER, Archibald BOSTON, Rebecca E. PAYNE.

13 March 1875   Survey conducted of lands of Claiborne HALL, deceased.  Land is

                        described as:

                       

Beginning in the center of the old Carthage Road North of the pike running thence           North 66” West 92 ½ poles to a stake TAYLOR’s corner; thence south 2” West            26 1/2 poles to a Rock; thence South 48 “ west 34 poles; thence South 12” West 19 ½ poles to a stake, thence south 19” East 22 poles to an oak Samuel HIGH’s old corner, thence east 9 ½ poles to a stake; thence south 65 East 14 poles to a stake; thence south 80” East 16 poles to a stake; thence south 86 ½” East 20 poles to a stake; thence North 85” East 15 poles to a stake; thence North 21” East 16 poles to a stake; thence North 32 “ East 26 poles to a stake: thence North 45” East to the beginning, containing by survey 44 acres, 2 roods & 6 poles of

                        land.  C. E. ROYSTER, Surveyor. 

           

                        Source: Smith County, Tennessee County Court Minutes, Roll 48, p. 52

The land was sold to S. M. PHELPS, the purchaser, at auction on the courthouse steps on 20 March 1875.  He paid $430.  There is a sketch

of the land in the record.  (I have send if desired). 

The estate records of Claiborne HALL are in the original format at the Smith County Archives in Carthage, Tennessee.  Copies at FHL in Salt Lake City.  These contain a receipt from Dr. J. C. COSBY for visits to his bedside.  The last entry was dated 15 November 1874.             I suspect that or the following day was the date of his death.  

Additional Information on Claiborne HALL can be found at Family History Library in my book Claiborne Hall and Elizabeth Herod: Ancestry and Descendants, Volume I.