Full Name: Montreville Jefferson Hall
Birth date: April 3, 1819
Death date: May 11, 1871
Terms of Service
House,
5th Legislature
11/7/1853 - 11/5/1855
Biographical Notes and Resources
Resolutions and Journal entries
5th Legislature - Roll of Members, M.J. Hall, age 34, native state Tennessee, emigrated from Alabama in 1842, lawyer, postoffice Marshall, Harrison County.
House Journal .
Other Resources
The Secession Crisis, 1860-1861: Marshall's mayor appointed "three current or former Democratic state legislators" to a resolutions committee, including Pendleton Murrah, M.J. Hall, and J.M. Clough, p. 184.
A Southern Community in Crisis: Harrison County, Texas, 1850-1880 1983.
Montraville Jefferson Hall, birth date 4/3/1819 in Alabama; death date 5/11/1871 in Harrison County, Texas. Norwood Family Tree.
Ancestry.com .
M.J. Hall, burial in Marshall Cemetery, Marshall, Harrison County. Grave marker illegible.
Find a Grave .
HALL, MONTREVILLE JEFFERSON (1819-1871). Born 4/3/1819 in Alabama; died 5/11/1871 in Harrison County, Texas.
Handbook of Texas Online .
Confederate States Army, Colonel; assistant treasurer for the Confederacy in Texas.
Handbook of Texas Online .
Texas Historical Commission application for official Texas historical marker, Harrison County, Edgemont, 1/11/1982, includes essay "Edgemont" by Max S. Lale about the plantation home built by Montraville Jefferson (Mont) Hall (native of Virginia, born 4/13/1819), genealogy of the Hall family, and Hall's service as state representative from Harrison County.
Stephen F. Austin State University .
Historical marker, Edgemont, Marshall, Harrison County. "Virginia native Montraville 'Mont' Hall (1819-71) had this Greek revival plantation house built shortly after moving to Harrison County in 1844 . . . His political career included service in the Texas Legislature and the 1861 State Secession Convention."
Texas Historic Sites Atlas (Texas Historical Commission) .
M.J. Hall, birth date 4/8/1819, death date 5/11/1871, obelisk monument with Octavia Virginia, Cornelia Emma, and Thomas Brandon Hall. Cemetery transcription, Marshall Cemetery, Harrison County,
TXGenWeb Project .