Submitted by Ed Corey


Texas Sacred Harp Newsletter

A Student of B. F. White

Another person not mentioned in the minutes, but known to be here in 1855 was Mary 
Crowder (Hunter) Hall.  She was born May 12, 1815 in Coweta County, Georgia, and, 
with her husband, Rev. James Bolling Hall, and five children, arrived at Jamestown 
in Smith County, Texas, from Warrior Stand (Macon County), Alabama, in December of 
1854.  According to Mary's son, Dr. Thomas Hunt Hall, she had a very musical voice 
and was said to have known by heart all the old Methodist Hymn Book, and was a 
student of the immortal B. F. White, author of The Sacred Harp. Her husband was a 
Methodist minister, and he also served as postmaster of Berrien (changed to 
Jamestown in 1856) for about three years.

Texas Sacred Harp Memorial List

This page is dedicated to the remembrence of the Texas Sacred Harp singers and 
supports who have gone to their Heavenly Home.

Hall, Mary Crowder (Hunter), b. 5/12/1815, d. 3/17/1879, bur. Kilgore Cemetery, 
Kilgore, Gregg County, Texas