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    1. Falmouth Outlook 5 May & 27 May 1921
    2. Falmouth Outlook Friday 5 May 1921 Vol. 14 No. 48 Pg. 1 Col. 7 Jeff Davis "King of the Hoboes" is one of the most distinguished personages that has ever visited our town. He has been around to world four times and has visited every country under the sun. He has shaken hands with all the great rulers of the world and traveled 710,000 miles in the last 24 years. He was born in Cincinnati 37 years ago, and is a distant relative of Jefferson Davis, president of the Southern Confederacy. Falmouth Outlook Friday 27 May 1921 Vol. 14 No. 51 Pg. 1 Col. 3 Jacob L. Hall Jacob L. Hall died at the Eastern State Hospital at Lexington May 19 at 11:45 p.m. of infirmities of age. He was 75 years and 32 days of age at the time of his death. Jacob Logan Hall was born in Jonesville, Lee County, Virginia, June 24, 1845, hence was in his 76th year. He was the son of Allen and Harriet E. Hall, both having died several years ago. He enlisted in the Confederate Army at the beginning of the Civil War and served until the close of the war. He was a member of Company B Twenty-fifth Virginia Cavalry. He was taken prisoner at Kyle's Ford, and exchanged soon after with some other prisoners. He had two brothers who were captured, one died in prison and one soon after being released. He was in a great many battles. He served under Gen. Joseph Wheeler, Gen. Wade Hampton and Gen. J.E.B. Stuart. Mr. Hall came to Kentucky after the war and worked as a farm hand. He was united in marriage to Miss Lucinda C. Browning, of Havilandsville, Sept. 9, 1869, who preceded him to the great beyond just eight months ago. To this union two daughters were born, one of whom, Mrs. Leonard Plummer survives. He followed the trade of harness maker. ============================== Items of interest to: Doug Harper Biloxi, MS

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