Hi! I transcribed this obituary, and I thought that I'd share it with the list. I hope that it helps someone. I am not related. - Jean Griesan Colorado Died at the residence of her son-in-law, in Quaker Bottom, on the 10th inst., Mrs. NANCY DICKSON HALL, aged 71 years, 9 months and 9 days. Mother Hall was born in Bedford county, Va., December 4, 1785, and married William Hall in 1801. Moved to Quaker Bottom, Ohio, in 1812, and settled in a cabin in the then almost unbroken forest, near the Big Springs, on the farm now owned by W. D. and Robert Hall, where they lived until Father Hall died, August 11, 1847; and she since has made her home with W. D. Hall, her son, except when sickness was in any of her children's families, when she must be where affliction was, to console and help. She joined the Methodist Church in 1827, and has ever since been a consistent member. She was known to the writer for a number of years, and has ever been known to the neighborhood, as an example of kindness to all, and an exemplification of that charity that believeth no evil. In 25 years acquaintance as a near neighbor, I never heard her speak evil of any one - rather always had a hope for the erring, and a kind word for the penitent. I well remember the great importance of having "Mother Hall" present in any sickness in the settlement in the pre-doctor days of Quaker Bottom. She was the mother of a large family, who are scattered over Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Iowa, and all of them partake of their mother's good example or disposition, and are good and useful citizens. Truly a "mother in Israel" has gone to the land of the blest. She was a calm, self-possessed Christian, and her end was peace. Verily, let me live the life of the righteous and die their death. G. T. W. Ironton Register, September 17, 1857 Note: Ironton Register was the Ironton, Ohio newspaper. Ironton and Quaker Bottom are in Lawrence County, Ohio (southern Ohio).