Household #140: Hall, Henry

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In the 1900 Barney census, Henry Hall headed a 6-person household. The table below preserves the exact names, relationships, ages, birthplaces, and occupations recorded for the household.

Household Snapshot

Henry Hall headed a 6-person household in the 1900 Barney census with 1 spouse or marital partner and 4 children.

Henry Hall's listed occupation was Farmer.

All listed household members were reported as born in Georgia.

1900 Census Household

Children and Later Trails

This section is reserved for later-life child evidence. No later spouse, death, burial, obituary, probate, separate household, or descendant-line identification has been added here yet from direct records.

Family Narrative

• Son: Hubord Hall, age 12, born June 1887 in Georgia
• Son: William Hall, age 10, born November 1889 in Georgia
• Daughter: Rassie Hall, age 7, born October 1892 in Georgia
• Son: Weedham Hall, age 5, born December 1894 in Georgia

Henry Hall is securely identified in the 1880 Quitman census, the 1900 Barney census, and later Appling County records. The family can be followed from Brooks County into Appling County, where Henry died in 1923 and Emma died in 1928. The household is well documented at the core level, but Henry's parentage before marriage remains unproved.

A Brooks County marriage record and surviving license return show Henry Hall and Emma Capers marrying in November 1875. The indexed record gives the date as 30 November 1875. The license image shows the ordinary issuing the license on 27 November 1875 and the return certifying that Henry Hall and Emma Capers were joined in matrimony on 30 November 1875. That record firmly identifies Emma's maiden name.

The 1880 census places Henry and Emma in Quitman with five children: Della, Sallie, Budd, Willie, and Charlie. Henry was recorded as working on a farm, and both Henry and Emma were marked unable to read and write. A separate 1880 agricultural schedule entry shows Henry engaged in farming in Brooks County, but it does not by itself prove land ownership.

By 1900 the family was in Barney, where Henry reported that he was born in May 1850 and Emma in April 1855. The household then included Hubord, William, Rassie, and Weedham. The census states that Henry and Emma had been married twenty-five years, which fits the 1875 marriage record.

Later records place the family in Baxley in Appling County. The existing household file traces Henry and Emma there in 1910 and 1920, with Emma's given name rendered in variant forms. Those later census references support the move out of Brooks County and show Henry in old age before his death in Appling County on 25 February 1923.

Emma's death certificate closes the family line more cleanly than the earlier entry did. Emma Hall, identified there as a widowed Black woman and widow of Henry Hall, died in Quitman on 5 December 1928 at about seventy-six years of age. Her father was named as Samuel Capers. The certificate also gives her burial as North End Cemetery. This record strengthens Emma's identity and ties the later widow back to the 1875 marriage.

An earlier research phase appears to have treated a 1870 Brooks County entry for a fifteen-year-old Henry Hall in the household of Alfred and Matilda Hall as if it proved Henry's parents. The current evidence does not justify that conclusion. That 1870 record may point to the same man, but without a bridging record it should remain a candidate only. The parent names reported on Henry's 1923 death record should likewise be used cautiously until the certificate is rechecked from the original image and supported by other evidence.

Connections to Other Barney Families

• Possible connection to the 1870 Brooks County household of Alfred and Matilda Hall, but the identification is not proved.
• Emma Hall's 1928 death certificate names her father as Samuel Capers, giving the Capers line a firmer footing than before.

Open Research Questions

• Recheck Henry Hall's 1923 Appling County death certificate from the original image before treating the reported parents as established.
• Confirm the literal wording of the 1910 and 1920 Appling County census entries if the household is revisited.
• Track the 1880 children forward individually; several are still only anchored in childhood census entries.

Research Status

Well-documented for the core household. Marriage, two key Brooks County censuses, Emma's death record, and the family's move into Appling County are supported. Henry's parentage and the full identification of all children remain incomplete.

Sources

• 1880 United States census, Quitman, Brooks County, Georgia, Henry Hall household.
• 1900 United States census, Barney, Brooks County, Georgia, ED 9, sheet 7A, lines 49–50, and sheet 7B, lines 51–54, dwelling/family 140, Henry Hall household. Original census image. Continuation on sheet 7B.
• Brooks County, Georgia, marriage license and return for Henry Hall and Emma Capers, license dated 27 Nov 1875, marriage returned 30 Nov 1875.
• 1880 United States agricultural schedule, District 4, Brooks County, Georgia, Henry Hall entry.
• Georgia death certificate for Emma Hall, 5 Dec 1928, Quitman, Brooks County, naming father Samuel Capers and husband Henry Hall.
• Later Appling County census and death-record references already preserved in the household research file for Henry Hall.

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