HALL, John J. - Judge
Source: "Obituaries - Year - 1950 Volume B" from the Covington Public Library. Year 1957
Warren County Circuit Court Judge John J. Hall passed away at the Community Hospital in Williamsport at 5:40 Sunday morning, Feb. 3, after being hospitalized since January 22.
On Jan. 5, Judge Hall had marked his twenty-sixth anniversary on the bench, in the Warren County Court House. Last year he had broken the previous record for holding the Warren County post set by Judge Rabb, whom he had succeeded. Judge Rabb had ruled in Warren County judicial matters for 24 years.
Judge Hall was founder of Warren Post No. 259 of the American Legion as well as a charter member of the organisation. He served as prosecuting attorney of the 21st Judicial Circuit of Indiana before ascending to the Warren Court post Jan. 5, 1931. He was also the first jurist to hear a jury trial in the new Fountain County Court House. He was a member of the state bar association as well as that of Fountain and Warren Counties. He was a Methodist.
He was born Nov. 21, 1881, on his father's farm in Warren County south of Boswell the son of Jonathan and Elizabeth Hall. Judge Hall graduated from the University of Michigan School of Law in 1905 and in August of the same year set up his law office in Williamsport. He served in World War I.
Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Katherine Hall, a, daughter, Mrs. Richard Shores of Morton Grove, Ill., two stepchildren, Mrs. Richard Snyder of Williamsport and James Lambert of Lafayette and a granddaughter.
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Tuesday with burial in Highland Cemetery. - jz