This is from a handwritten note in a book, "The Cory Family" by Harry Harmon Cory, which was published by ARGUS PUBLISHING CO., MINNEAPOLIS, MINN, JULY 1941. This book was given to Paul Eugen Cope b. 9/7/1909
(They or their parents probably came from Virginia.)
They came down the Ohio from Steubenville in a flat-boat, to Portsmouth, Ohio.and up the Ohio Canal to Chillicother in 1834.
Their daughter, Mary, was six weeks old at the time of the trip.
They had another daughter, Nancy Jane, who never married. She died about 1897 and is buried with her parents in the Baptist Cemetery east of Frankfort.
John W. Hall was a shoemaker and belonged to the Methodist Church. He made frequent trips to Baltimore on horseback, ahead of droves of cattle and hogs, to find lodgings for them at night. His saddlebags are in the Ross Co. Museum at Chillicothe.
He rode horseback to Chillicothe to enlist in the Civil War, but took pneumonia (they called it "quick consumption" in those days) and died in 1863
His wife, Mary Morrow Hall died in 1881
