Alonzo J. Hall

    Alonzo J. Hall, teacher, Volga, Smyrna Township, Jefferson County, Indiana, is a native of Jefferson County, Indiana, was born December 18, 1853, brought up on a farm, was educated in the common schools of the county and graduated in 1878, at the Lebanon National Normal School at Lebanon, Ohio. After leaving school he engaged in teaching district schools in this county, and has been engaged in this work, principally, ever since; is now teaching Fairview school, in Republican Township, this county. He married, in 1885, Miss Mary A. Gasaway, daughter of Mrs. Mary A. Gasaway, of Deputy, Indiana. Has one child -Homer B.

    Mr. Hall is a member of the Lick Branch Baptist Church. He owns a farm of eighty-eight acres of good land, one mile west of Volga post-office. His parents were Abner and Malinda (Walton) Hall, both natives of Indiana, and now living on a farm in Graham Township. Both are members of the Lick Branch Baptist Church. His father is a prominent farmer of Graham Township.

Source: Biographical and Historical Souvenir for the counties of Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Jefferson, Jennings, Scott and Washington, Indiana. By John M. Gresham & Co., 1889.