Bolling Hall

Bolling Hall was a planter and a lawyer. He was born on May 8, 1813, in Baldwin County, Georgia. He was schooled in Autauga County and later attended the University of Georgia and graduated in 1831 at age eighteen. He was admitted to the bar in 1834 in Montgomery but decided to become a planter instead of practicing law. He served as a member of the Alabama legislature from 1849 to 1854. Prior to this he had been inspector general with the militia in 1835 and served in the Creek War of 1836. He was a director in the Eufaula Railroad until it was purchased by the Georgia Central Railway. He was also one of the promoters of the South and North Alabama Railroad and was a director with that line at the time of his death on March 5, 1897, in Coosada, Elmore County. He was married to Mary Louisa Crenshaw of Wetumpka in 1836, and they had twelve children.