JUDGE L. B. HALL was born May 4, 1842, in Hopkins, now Webster County, Ky., and is a son of Eli L. and Margaret (Wagner) Hall. His father was born in Virginia, and in 1839 immigrated to Kentucky, settling in Hopkins County, where he engaged in agricultural pursuits until his death, September 14, 1865. The mother was born in South Carolina, and died in August, 1875. Our subject was reared on his father's farm. He enlisted in 1861, in Company A, Eighth Kentucky Infantry, Confederate States army. Two years later this regiment was mounted and placed under command of Gen. Forrest, and served to the end of the war. He then returned to Webster County, and soon after bought a farm of 350 acres, seven miles southeast of Dixon. This farm he has since improved and is now one of the best stock farms in the county. In 1878 he was elected county judge, was re-elected in 1882, and has since creditably filled that position. Judge Hall was married, in 1867, to Miss Martha Williams, of Webster County. This union has been blessed with eight children—four sons and four daughters. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity. He and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.
Source: J. H. Battle, W. H. Perrin, & G. C. Kniffin. Kentucky. A History of the State. Louisville, KY, Chicago, IL: Battey, 1885. Page 1034.