Place of Birth: Corpus Christi, TX
Age at Death: 22 years, 7 years, 21 days
Date of Death: November 21, 1900
Cause of Death: Typhoid Fever
Interment source:
Bay View Cemetery Association, Corpus Christi, Texas. Record of Interments
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Biography
According to records in the vertical files of Corpus Christi Central Library at this time (March 2006), Thomas B. Hall was born on March 31, 1878 in Corpus Christi, Texas. He was the son of pioneer families of this area. His mother, Amelia Reid, was born in Glasgow, Scotland on 18 January 1848 and traveled with her parents (Robert Reid and Janet McAlister) to the area of south Texas about 1855 (according to the obit of her brother Dan Reid). Here she met John A. Hall who was born in April of 1843 in Milford, England and also traveled with his family to south Texas like so many others in response to advertisements by H. L. Kinney and stories from friends. Amelia's brothers and sisters also married into other pioneer families. Her brother Daniel, for instance, married Almira Ayers, and her sister Jennie married a Woessner (see Woessner burials also in Old Bayview Cemetery). John served in the Civil War and upon returning to his home, he married Amelia on July 14, 1867. They settled down to raise a large family who were active in the community's life and growth. Their son Robert Reid Hall was a business man and precinct commissioner in Nueces County, a veteran of the Spanish-American War, and head of the city's water and gas department. Bob Hall Pier on Padre Island is named for him. Thomas Hall's maternal uncle, Dan Reid, was a mayor of Corpus Christi. However, three of the couple's daughter (Margaret, Edith, and Lelia) never married. Their son Thomas B. Hall also was a bachelor at the time of his death. He died young shortly after the turn of the century. In the 1900 Federal Census of Nueces County (E.D. 130, page 121A/sheet 1, line 6) Thomas is listed as born in "Jan." of 1878 (rather than March), and he is working as a railroad brakeman. His funeral notice says that he died in Corpus Christi on November 21, 1900 at 6:30pm and was buried in Old Bayview Cemetery. His parents and spinster sister Margaret were drowned in the 1919 storm when the storm surge destroyed their home on Chaparral near the present ship channel. They were buried in Rose Hill Cemetery.
Research and transcription: Michael A. Howell