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L. H. Hall, M. D. (deceased), was one of the most talented physicians in the State of Arkansas, and secured a reputation which placed him among the front ranks of the medical fraternity. He was born in Tennessee, in 1830, and at the age of ten years was taken by his parents to Mississippi, where he grew to manhood, receiving a good classical education in the schools of that State. At an early age he became imbued with a desire to make medicine his profession, and began his medical studies under his father, who was a talented physician, and from his earliest youth was familiar with the different drugs. After several years preparation, he entered the Memphis Medical College, of Memphis, Tenn., and after taking one course of lectures began practicing with his father, continuing until the session of 1860-61, when he again entered the college and graduated in the latter year. He then returned to his old home in Mississippi, and entered the Confederate army as a private soldier, although his sympathies at first were with the Union. He assisted in organizing Company B, turned it over to an uncle, and joined the ranks as a private, but did not long remain such, for after the battle of Iuka he was elected to the position of first lieutenant, and a short time afterward became surgeon of his regiment. He was captured at Fort Donelson, Port Hudson and Danville, Ky., being surgeon of Bell’s brigade when last taken, and was afterward appointed chief surgeon of Chalmer’s division. He was paroled at Gainesville, Ala., at the close of the war, and returned to Mississippi, where he built up a fine medical practice, and remained until December, 1870, then moved to Arkansas, locating at Devall’s Bluff. In 1880 he removed to Lonoke, and after February, 1888, was a successful practitioner of Little Rock. He was married, in Mississippi, to Miss Helen M. Sanders, a daughter of Col. R. T. Sanders, of that State, who was a grandnephew of Daniel Boone. Their union resulted in the birth of eleven children, five of whom are living: Annie (Mrs. Bilheimer, of Little Rock, Ark.), George F., Lula (Mrs. Allen), Harry W. and Pearl. The mother of these children died in 1880, and three years later Dr. Hall espoused Mary J. Arnold, of Georgia, by whom he had three children born to him, one of whom is living, Pat W. Hall. The Doctor was a son of Joseph G. and Ann W. (Jenkins) Hall, the former being a native of Massachusetts, born in 1789. He was a physician, and practiced in West Tennessee the greater part of his life. He was a soldier in the War of 1812, and was wounded at Lake Champlain. His death occurred in Mississippi, in 1867. His father was also born in Massachusetts, and there made his home until his death. The great-grandfather, David Hall, of Sutton, Mass., was a Congregational minister for many years, and was pastor of one church for sixty years. Dr. Lemuel H. Hall died in Little Rock, Ark., September 23, 1889.