Although generally known as “Lawyer Frank,” my paternal grandfather’s full name was Franklin Pierce Hall. He was named after what many consider possibly the worst U.S. president ever, by a father who bore the name of one of the most beloved presidents – George Washington Hall.1 A cousin described Frank once as a “fair but sometimes stern and intimidating” figure. The above photo of him in his apple orchard seems to capture that.
On a warm July morning in 1955, Frank came into his home, located just outside the Eastern Kentucky coal camp of Weeksbury. He had been doing chores outside. He told my grandmother that he was not feeling well, and lay down on the sofa. There, he watched as a blood clot the size of a marble made its way toward his heart. It raised his skin in a red bulge as it traveled slowly, but most assuredly, up his forearm and disappeared into the sleeve of his shirt, crawling its way toward his chest.
In the Beginning
Before Weeksbury, Kentucky had a formal name, Frank was born there, on 14 January 1893.2 Present in the small log cabin at the time of Frank’s birth was my grandmother, Frankie Jane Tackett. At least, that was her recollection as related to me. Frankie had been born the previous April.3
Frank P. Hall would become a clerk for the Elkhorn Piney Coal Company when it came to build a town in the place with no name.4 The first post office opened there in 1909 with the name “Rail” and it was not until September of 1914 that it would have its name officially changed to “Weeksbury,” named after two officers of the Elkhorn Piney Coal Company – Mr. Weeks and Mr. Woodbury.5 By the mid-1920s the town would have over 1500 residents.6
In the book Our Appalachia, an oral history edited by Laurel Shackelford and Bill Weinberg, Frances Turner described her memories of living in Weeksbury. Her father was general manager of the company and moved into the superintendent’s house. According to Ms. Turner, the home had cost nearly $100,000 to build in 1916 and was built originally for the company owner as a summer residence. Ms. Turner and her family lived there 4 to 5 years in the early 1920s. She recalled that the Italian part of town was called “Yellow Flats,” because, while houses in the rest of the camp were painted pink, green, and white, the stucco cottages where the Italians lived were all yellow. There were Hungarian, Polish and Czech residents. She recalled that there were blacks who came from Alabama and had their own church and own school. Some of the coal miners’ wives worked as housekeepers for the executives. Other reported recollections from Frances Turner included: there was a movie house; the coal company had its own doctor and emergency equipment; miners paid $2 per month for the doctor’s services, including medicine; and the schools were owned and operated by the company. On the Fourth of July the company always provided expensive fireworks at a celebration that also featured ice cream, watermelon, a band, and a patriotic speech or two. The company owned stores for furniture, appliances, and food. There was a community hall and a fountain that sold sandwiches, as well as a barber shop, and a poolroom. And perhaps most importantly, the company also provided electricity, generated from the coal its employees mined.7
Frank & Frankie
Frank would marry Frankie Tackett on 2 July 1914 when they were both 21 year old school teachers.8 Frankie had been born on 3 April 18929, the daughter of Jasper Tackett and Sarah Johnson Tackett.10 At the time of the marriage, Frank was living in Weeksbury (although the post office was still known as “Rail”). The wedding took place at the home of Frankie’s parents in Hartley, located in adjacent Pike County, Kentucky.
Frank and Frankie would have twin sons on April 28, 1915, and establish their familiarity with ancient Rome by naming them Julius Caesar and Tullius Cicero.11 A daughter would follow in November of the following year – Kelsie Pearl.12 In his Word War I Draft Registration Card from June 5, 1917, Frank was noted to have a wife and “3 babes,” and would claim an exemption based on those dependents. The Registrar’s Report from that date described Frank as “tall, slender, with blue eyes and light brown hair.” He was not bald. Yet. The Report also noted a “withered limb caused by” a word that starts with a “br” but has a “g” where there should be “k” if the word were to be “broken.” At any rate, the last word in the description is “foot.”13 If he in fact actually had such a condition, there is no other indication of it in records, nor did anyone in my family ever mention it to me to the best of my knowledge. It apparently only “withered”temporarily.
Frank was still working for the coal company and his occupation was listed as “office worker” in the 1920 U.S. Census.14 That year would bring sorrow and joy for the young Frank and Frankie. My mother, Ola Mae, and her twin, Ora Faye, would be born on the 29th of November.15 But earlier that year, Frank and Frankie’s young son Tullius would fall down just outside the house and hit his head. Within days he would die. A haunting picture of him used to hang in one of the bedrooms of the house – a young boy in pale and shimmering clothes, like a ghost against a dark background.16
The year 1921 would claim Frank’s father, George “Wash” Hall. According to a note hand-written by Frank,17 Wash had been educated in Virginia, had taught three terms of school in the county, and had married Rhoda Johnson in 1886. They had twelve children. Wash had moved to the location of the future “Weeksbury” soon after he was married and lived there until his death. He “learned to farm in a profitable manner” and “was a close observer of nature and nature’s laws.” He had joined the Old Regular Baptist Church in September of 1892. Wash was described as honest in business and as never engaging in “foolish or degrading conversation.” His thoughts were “always encouraging and elevating,” his “judgment was sound,” and his advice “dependable.” The note ended with a quote from Wash, a comment made once when the crops were not good: “We have reverses here in this life, and while in this life the only enjoyment and happiness I get, is when I am engaged in the worship of God.” The Halls were a solemn family with a solemn religion.
Lawyer Frank
By the time of the 1930 U.S. Census, Frank was enumerated as an “attorney.”18 His practice included Workers’ Compensation (or as it was known then – “Workmens’ Compensation”), primarily representing injured coal miners in their claims against coal companies, such as his former employer, and owner of the town, the Elkhorn Piney Coal Company. In 1936, he was appointed to the state’s Workmen’s Compensation Board by then-governor Albert Benjamin “Happy” Chandler Sr. 19 Four years later, when he was enumerated in the 1940 U.S. Census on 29 April 1940, Frank’s occupation was still listed as “Member” of the “Workmans Compensation Board.”20 However, the Courier-Journal newspaper had already reported that he had been asked to resign by Chandler’s successor as governor, and was expected to comply by 1 May.21 That resignation, and Frank’s replacement as one of the three members of the Board, was reported on 2 May 1940.22 But that wasn’t the end of the bad news that year. On 1 October, 1940, Frank’s mother, Rhoda Johnson Hall, succumbed to intestinal flu and was buried beside her husband in the family cemetery overlooking Frank’s house.23
The 4 November 1941 Issue of The Lexington Herald contained the headline: “430 Men Strike At Perry County Plant.” The article reported that the men who worked for Ritter Lumber Company went on strike “just a few days after a C.I.O. representative, Frank P. Hall, had organized the employees into the union and presented the company with demands for higher wages and a closed shop. . . .” 24 The C.I.O., or Congress of Industrial Organizations, “was a federation of unions that organized industrial workers.”25 Frank had apparently found a vocation in representing the interests of laborers. On 26 June 1942, only a few months after the United States entered the War, Frank and Frankie’s daughter, Ola Mae Hall, married Atha Damron in adjoining Pike County, Kentucky.26 They had 3 sons in quick succession: Gary in 1943; Steve in 1945; and Phil in 1947.27
During the decade of 1945 to 1955, Frank had several letters to the editor of the Courier-Journal published in that newspaper. In the 1 June 1945 paper, his letter questioned vague regulations from the O.P.A. – the Office of Price Administration. This was an agency created to control prices and rents after America’s entry into World War II.28 From his modest home in the coal camp of Weeksbury, Kentucky, Frank had written: “Too many theoretical persons are out trying to advise and inform the practical fellow how to do things.” 29 Later the same month, he had a letter published complaining about inflation, pointing out that it resulted in higher prices and also in “inferior material and inexperienced workmanship” despite the higher prices. He concluded with: “Competition, which is the life of advancement and improvement, has been crowded out of the picture by impractical theorists who will not change until they have bought one of the lately made shirts which is not long enough to reach down to the waist of one’s britches.”30
Ora Faye
It would be several years after the birth of my mother and her twin (Ola Mae and Ora Faye, respectively) before Frank and Frankie fully realized that something was seriously wrong. Ora Faye was mentally challenged in some way that was never fully explained. My mother, in one of her darker moments, told me that her mother, Frankie, would sometimes lock her and her twin sister in a room and she would have to take care of her all day. I have only seen a single picture that was ever taken of my Aunt Ora Faye. In it, the spectacles of my grandfather intrude into the frame as if he had just sat her down and didn’t quite get out of the way before the photographer snapped the picture.
By the time Ora Faye was fifteen years old the need for constant supervision had apparently exhausted the family and she would be placed in the Kentucky Institution for the Feeble Minded in our state capital, Frankfort.31 There she would remain until she died more than thirty years later in July of 1965.13 The family hardly mentioned Ora Faye around me, and I know almost nothing about her. I was only 3 years old when she died, and if I ever met her, I do not remember it. One can’t help but ask questions. Did the family visit her often? Did they ever visit her? Did the whole situation weigh on them? Sometime during this, I’m not sure when, my grandmother had what she herself described to me as a “nervous breakdown.”
The Institution for Feeble Minded Children was first opened in Frankfort in 1860 and closed its doors in 1972, only seven years after Ora Faye died there. Originally started with the idea of training the mentally challenged, in 1866 the program was expanded to accept those that could not be trained. There were three categories of patients at the time: idiots, imbeciles and feeble minded. A patient’s category was determined by an IQ test administered by the staff. A mechanical department was created where mattresses, brooms, brushes and shoes were made. Gymnastics, singing, sewing and farm work were also added. During the 1920s efforts were made to pass a law requiring sterilization of mentally challenged individuals, although the law never passed. In 1945 the name was changed to the Kentucky Training Home.32
The Certificate of Death for Ora Faye indicates that she died of cardiac failure due to pneumonia of 7 days.33 A troubling fact is that the pneumonia is then attributed in the Certificate to a “fracture of femur” 15 days before she died. After “fracture of femur” there appears one more word in a different handwriting and/or ink – “spontaneous.”
What does it mean? Can a femur spontaneously fracture? It looks like the preparer was being thorough (and honest), and the Certificate was altered later because that was the best that could be done since the fracture was already reported in the document. What would Frank, who died a decade before his daughter, and who was a lawyer, have made of the Certificate?
Death Certificate of Ora Faye Hall
After Ora Faye died, she was finally brought home and buried in the Wash Hall Cemetery where she lies not that far from her parents and her twin, overlooking the valley of her childhood. I did meet a lady at a family reunion a few years ago who told me that her father had been superintendent at the facility where Ora Faye resided so long, and that he always looked after Ora Faye and would frequently bring her ice cream cones and sit with her. This random moment at a reunion I had not attended in more than twenty years did, I must confess, give me a feeling of at least some relief. At least there was someone looking out for my aunt during some of her stay at the facility. Was it a coincidence that a woman showed up at the same place and provided at least some answer to a question I had never voiced? I don’t think so. I wish I had taken down that nice lady’s name.
Frank Joined the Old Regular Baptist Church
Trying to find definitive descriptions of what makes Old Regular Baptists unique is not easy. It is particularly hard to find descriptions that do not use historical distinctions and require familiarity with words like “Calvinism,” and “predestination” and so forth. But it seems that the denomination started around 1825 and has always been dedicated to holding onto “old ways” while its mother religion moved on. Nowhere are the “old ways” more obvious than in their singing using lined out, non-instrumental hymnody. In other words, the song leader chants a line and then the congregation repeats it. There is no written music and the melodies are passed on orally from one generation to the next – very much an “old way” of doing things. It is haunting to hear.34 They are also known for their long preaching and their plain speaking at the funerals of non-members. Which is to say, the sermon at a funeral may well be that the deceased is now burning in hell.35 Tough love from folk who do not know and have no say on who is going to hell.
My mother, a member of the comparatively more laid-back Free Will Baptists, did not know a lot of jokes. But she seemed particularly amused by one in which a newcomer to heaven was getting the grand tour, which inevitably lead to a room with a “Quiet” sign on the door. When the newcomer asked about it, she was told that the room was full of Old Regular Baptists and everyone needed to keep quiet because “they think they are the only ones here.”
In 1952, three years before he died, Frank was asked to write the annual Circular Letter for the New Salem Association of the Old Regular Baptist Church. Someone brought a spiral-bound copy of a reproduction of the Minutes of that congregation in my office twenty plus years ago. I didn’t have the sense to copy or write down information that could lead back to that source, but I did have enough sense to make copies of the relevant pages. In the Circular Letter, he wrote, in part:
…I could mention many subjects in the Bible that would be interesting and beneficial, but the night following your selection of me to write this letter, I was impressed and inspired, as I feel, to write on the subject of “Love.”…There is no greater subject to be found in the Bible.
The Apostle John…writes much about this subject. John tells us love is of God and God is love. We all understand that love has more than one form, and we all know, or should know, it’s the greatest thing in the world, in the home, in the church and in our associations. It is that perfect expression of unselfishness which prompts us to do good, to return good for evil, and to make the Golden Rule our rule of dealing with our Brethren and Sisters, and not only them, but all with whom we deal and come in contact with. It puts into our lives something nothing else can put there, a feeling for which a price cannot be fixed, a feeling all the gold on earth cannot buy. Naturally, everybody has love for natural things, love for their family, love for their country, and in a degree, love for all humanity. This natural love prompts the parent to work for and support its offspring; it prompts us to love our homes and the natural surroundings, and to protect our countries against invaders.
I could write at length about natural love, but my desire is to write about the love the Apostle John wrote about. God’s love, which we are born of, and lets us…love in deed and in truth and not in words nor expressions by tongue…. Love is the dominant factor throughout both the old and new scriptures and a requirement of our Lord.
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Beloved, our whole spiritual life is the product of love, and not only our whole spirit lives, but love is the foundation of all our true churches and associations. …
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…I must conclude this letter, but my subject will go on, for it’s from the beginning to the end. It’s the first and the last. God is love. In the day and age, tribulation is mounting, and we are praying for peace, peace, where there is no peace except that found in Jesus…. Spiritual peace is a product of love. It is born in us, and prompts us to strive for unity; prompts us to work for harmony and refrain from saying or doing anything that will bring discord…. May God’s perfect love and peace be with you and bless you all. Your humble Brother in hope for a more abundant life.
Frank P. Hall
The Homestead on Mill Branch
Although I never met him, and I also lacked the foresight to learn much about him before those that did know him passed on, I am well familiar with the plot of earth where Frank was born, lived, and died. My parents bought a tract of real estate from him and built a house. Beside the house was a store that my parents ran, first selling groceries and later selling furniture and appliances. On the other side of the store sat the house Frank built for his family, and in the backyard of that house was a single stone, about 8 inches wide and 12 inches long, that sat even with the surrounding ground. My grandmother pointed it out to me. It was a cornerstone of the long-gone log cabin in which Frank was born. On the other side of the house was a one lane road, unpaved except for “red dog,” – the reddish remains of burned-out coal refuse. That road followed a tiny stream of water – Mill Branch. The stream had once been bigger, wider, faster, because it took its name from the fact that a mill had been located on it, and a mill would have required more power to turn its water wheel than that little creek could muster by the 1970s when I knew it. The stream supposedly was clogged and filled to its present size by debris from a coal mine that once operated up the narrow hollow. I remember the remains of the mine, a small scale “truck” mine, and vaguely remember sitting on the front porch of my grandfather’s house watching coal trucks roll up and down the unpaved road.
My grandfather owned the hillsides and bottomlands on both sides of Mill Branch, his property extending for a good distance up the hollow behind his white house. There was a barn once, but I don’t remember it. There was an outhouse too, but by my time there was “indoor plumbing” in the house my grandmother had inherited. Frank farmed the flat bottoms. My grandmother, diagnosed with diabetes in her thirties, had littered the garden spot closest to the house with thirty some years of tiny empty insulin bottles. No doubt tilling that land today would produce a crop of them. At one time, during the days of the barn, they had a cow and sold milk to their neighbors. They had chickens too. My grandmother once told me that Frank was “too tender-hearted” to even kill one for a Sunday meal, and she had to do it herself. She would grab a hen by its head and twirl the body around, breaking the neck. Sometimes the head would come off in her hand and the chicken body would run around in a circle for a time before collapsing. Or that is my memory of what she said. Tender-hearted Frank had an apple orchard and kept bees. Behind the house, beside the garden spot full of insulin bottles, was a small white building with a poured concrete basement. In fact, it was almost all basement except for a small room upstairs. It was used to provide cool storage for the apples from the orchard. Even lawyers, in the wake of the Great Depression, had to engage in side hustles. The photo shows beehives (foreground), corner of apple house, and Wash Hall Cemetery on the hill (background).
In the small room of the apple house that was above ground were several boxes of books. These included law books, but also a small hardback volume of Adrift in the Arctic Ice Pack by Elisha Kent Kane, and edited by Horace Kephart. Kephart is probably best known for his book about travel in the Appalachian Mountains, Our Southern Highlanders. Dr. Kane was the senior medical officer on what is known as the first Grinnel expedition in 1848, one of the earliest search and relief efforts to find the Erebus and the Terror, ships that had disappeared in the Arctic three years earlier. The book, based on Dr. Kent’s journal from the voyage, dealt with, as you might expect, their own ships becoming frozen into the Arctic ice pack and drifting where it took them. It was published in 1915 and I like to think of Frank sitting in a comfortable chair by a window in his home in Weeksbury, reading about arctic adventure.
In that book, on a folded piece of paper, is the following hand-written note:
As of a thirsty man many day
Upon the sand of the desert
Like a mirage, always there,
But never to be touched
There you are, only one step
Ahead of me always
As of the man without food for a
Long time past,
There is plenty of the best to eat,
But ‘tis only in a dream
The subject of the musing could be any of many. A woman? Probably not. Success? Possibly. God? Probably. An internet search of the language has not turned up a poem or quote. Was this an original Frank P. Hall writing? Pursuit of family history is a journey from one mystery to the next. I do love mysteries. But not all can be answered. Sometimes that is part of the attraction.
On the other hand, some mysteries are not that hard to solve. This essay began with a blood clot visibly snaking its way through my grandfather’s veins, heading inexorably toward his heart. That image, of course, is not right. It is a scene partly from a horror movie and partly from a Looney Tunes cartoon – both big influences on me as a child. Which is what I was when I heard the tale. The story was related by my grandmother, who died when I was eight years old. Frank had died seven years before I was even born, having lived his life in the village of my youth. I don’t remember what words she used in telling me about his death. I just remember the vision my mind created from her words.
In the medical parlance of the mid-1950s, Frank died from a “coronary thrombosis,”36 as reflected on his Death Certificate.
A “coronary thrombosis is a blood clot that forms in the blood vessels or arteries of the heart,” and “may obstruct blood flow to the heart partially or completely” leading to “a heart attack.”37
Frank Hall may have been solemn. He may even have appeared somewhat stern. But I’m sorry that we missed each other during our respective times on earth. I think I would have liked him.
Endnotes
1. 1900 U.S. census, Floyd County, Kentucky, population schedule, Painter Harve precinct, enumeration district (ED) 101, sheet 12-A, George W. Hall household; imaged, “1900 United States Federal Census,” Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/7602/ : accessed 18 April 2025).
2. “United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918,” database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/ : accessed 19 December 2024), > Kentucky > Floyd County > H > Frank P. Hall > image 113 of 723: registration card, serial no. 663; citing NARA microfilm publication M1509.
3. “U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014, database, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/3693/ : accessed 16 April 2025), entry for Frankie J. Hall 1892-1970), no.401-68-8474, Weeksbury, Kentucky.
4. “United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918,” images, Ancestry, card for Frank P. Hall, serial no. 663; and 1920 U.S. census, Floyd County, Kentucky, precinct 6 (Painter Harve), page 164 (stamped), enumeration district (ED) 10, Sheet No. 18A, dwelling 24, family 24, Frank Hall; imaged, “United States Census, 1920,” Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/6061 : accessed 7 Jan 2024).
5. Robert M. Rennick, The Post Offices of Kentucky’s Big Sandy Valley (The Depot, Lake Grove Oregon, 2002) 41. Unfortunately, there are no sources cited in the book for the information given.
6. Rennick, The Post Offices of Kentucky’s Big Sandy Valley, 41.
7. Laurel Shackelford and Bill Weinberg, Our Appalachia (The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, reprinted 1988, original copyright by Appalachian Oral History Project 1977) 209-217.
8. “Kentucky, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1783-1965,” database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61372/ : accessed 8 Jan 2025) > Pike > 1912-1915 > unidentified volume > image 226 of 488, Marriage Bond No. 8, F.P. Hall and Frankie Tackitt, marriage 2 July 1914; citing “marriage records from various counties in Kentucky.”
9. “U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014, database, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/3693/ : accessed 16 April 2025), entry for Frankie J. Hall 1892-1970), no.401-68-8474, Weeksbury, Kentucky.
10. “Kentucky, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1783-1965,” imaged record, F.P. Hall and Frankie Tackitt, Pike County, Ky., m 2 Jul 1914.
11. “Kentucky, U.S., Birth Index, 1911-1999,” database, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/8788/ : accessed 8 Jan 2025), entry for Julius C. Hall, born in Floyd County, Kentucky on 28 Apr 1915, mother: Frankie Tackett, citing Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Kentucky Birth, Marriage, and Death Databases: Births 1911-1999. Frankfort, Kentucky: Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives volume 199, certificate 93151. There is no index entry for Tullius Hall – maybe someone decided that was a duplicate and did not enter, copy, scan, or index it.
12. “Kentucky, U.S., Birth Index, 1911-1999,” database, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/8788/ : accessed 8 Jan 2025), entry for Kelsie P. Hall, born in Floyd County, Kentucky on 10 Nov 1916, mother: Frankey Tackitt, citing Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Kentucky Birth, Marriage, and Death Databases: Births 1911-1999. Frankfort, Kentucky: Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives volume 112, certificate 55559.
13. “United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918,” images, Ancestry, card for Frank P. Hall, serial no. 663.
14. 1920 U.S. census, Floyd Co., Ky., precinct 6 (Painter Harve), page 164 (stamped), ED 10, sheet 18A, dwell. 24, fam. 24, Frank Hall.
15. “Kentucky, U.S., Birth Index, 1911-1999,” database, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/8788/ : accessed 8 Jan 2025), entry for Ola M. Hall, born in Floyd County, Kentucky on 28 Apr 1915, mother: Frankie Tackett, citing Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Kentucky Birth, Marriage, and Death Databases: Births 1911-1999. Frankfort, Kentucky: Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, volume 125, certificate 62011 and certificate 62013. One of these is probably actually for her twin, Ora F. Hall as no entry for her is in the index.
16. The facts surrounding his death are based on my grandmother’s recollection to me as a child. The description of his photo is based on memory of my fear of the picture on the wall. No official record has been found to verify the short existence of Tullius Cicero Hall – neither evidence of birth nor death. There is, however, a stone marking his grave in the Wash Hall Cemetery in Weeksbury, Kentucky.
17. This note was in the possession of another of Frank’s grandsons, the author’s brother, Atha Stephen Damron, at the time it was viewed and transcribed by the author in the 1990s.
18. 1930 U.S. census, Floyd County, Kentucky, Magisterial District 6, page 164 (stamped), enumeration district 36-27B, sheet 7A, dwelling 179, family 179, Frank Hall; imaged, “1930 United States Federal Census,” Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/6224/ : accessed 8 Jan 2025).
19. “John M. Bull Named One of the Workmen’s Compensation Referees,” The State Journal, Frankfort, Kentucky, 11 March 1936, page 8; imaged, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com : accessed 26 July 2024); and “Compensation Board Appoints Referees,” The Lexington Leader, Lexington, Kentucky, 11 March 1936, page 8; imaged, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/ : accessed 26 July 2024).
20. 1940 U.S. census, Floyd County, Kentucky, 3rd magisterial district, page 595 (stamped), enumeration district 36-22, sheet 14B, Melvin-Weeksbury Road, dwelling 89, Frank P. Hall; imaged, “1930 United States Federal Census,” Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2442/) : accessed 8 Jan 2025).
21. J. Howard Henderson, “Hall Reportedly Asked to Resign,” Courier-Journal, Louisville, Kentucky, 20 April 1940, page 7; imaged, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/ : accessed 26 July 2024).
22. “Named Board Member,” Lexington Herald-Leader, Lexington, Kentucky, 2 May 1940 page 18; imaged, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/ : accessed 26 July 2024)
23. “Kentucky, U.S., Death Records, 1852-1965,” imaged, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1222/: 8 Jan 2025), entry for Rhoda Hall, resident of Weeksbury, Floyd County, Kentucky, died 1 October 1940 of intestinal flu, citing Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Kentucky, Birth, Marriage and Death Records, Death Certificates 1911-1965 > 1940 > Microfilm roll 7020622, File No. 23354.
24. “430 Men Strike At Perry County Plant,” The Lexington Herald, Lexington, Kentucky, 4 November 1941, page 10; imaged, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/ : accessed 28 July 2024).
25. Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Industrial_Organizations), “Congress of Industrial Organizations,” revised 2 December 2024, 8 Jan 2025.
26. Pike County, Kentucky, Marriage License Book 168, 354, filed 13 Jul 1942; Pike County Kentucky Clerk’s Office.
27. Fifteen years later they would have another son — the author.. Life is full of surprises.
28. Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Price_Administration), “Office of Price Administration,” revised 9 February 2024, 8 Jan 2025.
29. Frank P. Hall, “The Point of View – Wants Clarification,” letter to editor, Courier-Journal, Louisville, Kentucky, 1 June 1945, page 6; imaged, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/ : accessed 27 July 2024).
30. Frank P. Hall, “A Sign of Inflation,” letter to editor, Courier-Journal, Louisville, Kentucky, 22 June 1945, page 6; imaged, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/ : accessed 27 July 2024).
31. 1940 U.S. Census, Franklin County, Kentucky, Frankfort Ward 2, page 78 (stamped), enumeration district 37-4, sheet 7A, Kentucky Institute for Feeble-Minded, Ora Fay Hall; imaged,”1940 United States Federal Census,” Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2442/ : accessed 8 January 2025).
32. Kentucky Historic Institutions (https://kyhi.org/asylums/frankfort-state-hospital-school/), “Frankfort State Hospital,” accessed 9 January 2025).
33. “Kentucky, U.S., Death Records, 1852-1965,” imaged, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1222/: 9 Jan 2025), entry for Ora Fay Hall, resident of Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky for 34 years 3 month, died 16 July 1965, citing Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Kentucky, Birth, Marriage and Death Records, Death Certificates 1911-1965 > 1965 > File No. 65 15232.
34. An example can be found at:Edmund StAustell, Lined-out Hymnody: Old Regular Baptists Sing “I Am A Poor Pilgrim Of Sorrow. 1993, video (2010); Youtube:Edmund StAustell Channel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQmfHLpCQcU&ab_channel=EdmundStAustell : accessed 9 January 2025).
35. Personal experiences of the author.
36. “Kentucky, U.S., Death Records 1852-1965,” database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1222/records/1768005) : accessed 9 January 2025) > Death Certificates, 1911-1965 > 1955, film 7046526, image 972 of 2561, certificate 55-13448, Franklin Pierce Hall; citing “Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records – Microfilm (1852-1910), Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, Kentucky.
37. Healthline (https://www.healthline.com/health/coronary-artery-disease/coronary-thrombosis. (accessed 22 Feb 2023), “Coronary Thrombosis.”
Jeff Damron Genealogy 