Hall - Charles Kelsey
19 Feb 1912 - 3 June 1967
Source: Crawfordsville Journal Review, June 5, 1967
C. Kelsey Hall, 55-year-old Crawfordsville native, died at 7 p.m. Saturday of a heart ailment in Home Hospital at Lafayette. He had been stricken while at work at his motorcycle shop on North Ninth Street at that city. Born Feb. 19, 1912, he was a son of Edward and Mayme Kelsey Hall. He was a Crawfordsville High School graduate and was married in 1940 at Clermont to Roberta F. Meese. He lived in South Bend in 1942-45, returning to Crawfordsville, then moving to Lafayette in 1962. He and his wife owned Hall’s Harley-Davidson Sales firm, which was started here in 1959. Mr. Hall was a member of the First Baptist Church here, Masonic Lodge No. 50, Indiana Consistory, was a 32nd degree Mason, and a member of the Lafayette Cycle Club, Inc., Frankfort Motorcycle Club, Hoosier Dusters Motorcycle Club here and the American Motorcycle Association. Surviving besides the wife is a brother, Fred T. Hall of Buffalo, N.Y. Friends may call after 4 p.m. Monday at Hippensteel Funeral Home in Lafayette, where funeral services are announced for 1:30 p.m. Tuesday. Rev. Eldon Coons will officiate. Graveside rites will be at about 2:30 p.m. Tuesday in Crawfordsville’s Masonic Cemetery. – jlr
Source: Lafayette Journal and Courier 5 June 1967 Mon p 6
C. Kelsey Hall, 55, Rt 12, died at Home Hospital Saturday evening after suffering a heart attack while at work. Born in Crawfordsville, he had resided in Lafayette since 1962. He lives in South Bend from 1942 to 1945, then returned to Crawfordsville. In 1940 he married Roberta F. Meese who survives. He and his wife were cow-owners of Hall Harley Davidson Sales, Rt 12. They had been in business on the North Nine Street Road since 1959 and previously operated a similar business at Crawfordsville for several years. He was a member of the First Baptist Church of Crawfordsville, F&AM Lodge 50, Scottish Rite, Indiana Consistory, and American Motorcycle Association. Also surviving is a brother, Fred T. Hall, Buffalo, NY. - kbz
Source: Moline, Illinois Dispatch Mon 13 Jan 1969 p5
Fred T. Hall, 55, director of the Buffalo NY Museum of Science and former director of Danvenport Public Museum died Friday in his home in Hamburg, NY. During his tenure from 1949-1951 at Davenport Public Museum, Mr. Hall introduced a new educational department which included loaning books and display items to Quad-City Schools. He had had illustrated textbooks, charts and pamphlets and several papers on natural sciences published. - kbz