Bennie Hall was born in April 1865 in Cass County, Texas. The Hall family had settled into the Northeast Texas area approximately 15 years earlier as verified by 1850 Census records for Bennie's father, Benjamin Franklin Hall. Prior to the move, the Hall family had resided in Georgia. Bennie married Daniel Hardy Holt in 1883 in Cass County, Texas. The couple had 10 children: 6 girls and 4 boys. Bennie and Daniel slowly moved eastward before finally settling in Hazen, Arkansas. The first 4 children were born in Cass County, Texas while the remaining 6 were born in Arkansas. This movement to Arkansas is consistent with the Holt family migration patterns. Most of Bennie's siblings remained in Cass County and are buried there. Bennie died in 1926 in Hazen, Arkansas. Within three months, her husband died. In the next year, her son Seth and daughter Erma also died. The reasons for families to move into Texa...
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