BOLLING HALL 

The following bio was taken from page 224 of the book entitled “Rusk County History” compiled and edited and used with permission of the Rusk County Historical Commission. 

Transcribed by Shirley Koym 

Submitted by Gloria Briley Mayfield, Cemeteries of Texas 

Bolling Hall, born June 21, 1812, came to Henderson in the 1850’s and purchased the brick school building then being built on North Marshall Street in Henderson, as a home for his large family.  (This school building was on the site of the Henderson Memorial Hospital, and was later known as the Wettermark home.) 

On August 14, 1834, in Alabama, Bolling married Caroline E. Graham, daughter of John Graham born February 10, 1820, and lived until April 22, 1894.  Bolling was said to be a descendant of Lyman Hall, Governor of Georgia and a signer of the Declaration of Independence.  The Halls could trace their line to the time of William the Conqueror.  Bolling Hall’s farms were in the corners of Cherokee, Rusk and Smith counties near the Graham’s Lake Community. 

Bolling Hall died March 16, 1856 and is buried in the little cemetery near the school now know as the Middle School in Henderson on Richardson Drive.  In the 1860 census, his wife, Caroline, is listed as one of the wealthiest planters in Rusk County. They had a large family.  Three sons, - Smith, John and Dickson went to the War.  Smith was killed in Georgia.  Their daughter, Eliza, born May 28, 1836, married James H. Jones. She died October 10, 1906. 

Bolling and Caroline’s daughter, Margaret Francis, born March 1837, married Rev. I. Alexander, who, before he founded Alexander Institute in Kilgore, which moved to Jacksonville and became Lon Morris College, had a school at the Hall home on North Marshall in Henderson.  Rev. Alexander was born June 24, 1835.   

Another daughter, Emma, born November 12, 1846, married A. D. Stroud.  Daughter Ellen married Judge Seaborn (Seeburn) Jones Hendrick, son of Dr. Seaborn J. Hendrick of Harmony Hill. 

Submitted by Ron Gregory