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  • Writer's pictureKirk Jenkins

Remembering Quartermaster Woodford W. Hall of the Fifteenth Kentucky


Woodford Hall was born in Shelby County, Kentucky on December 12, 1839, the son of John Hall and Macy J. Morrow. A farmer, he was 5’5 1/2”, with a light complexion, gray eyes and dark hair. Hall was promoted from private in Company A to first lieutenant and quartermaster of the Fifteenth Kentucky on March 15, 1863, following the resignation of John W. Clarke. Hall worked for a time as a florist after the war. He married Lucinda Burns in Grant County, Kentucky on August 17, 1852. Lucinda died in 1879. Woodford’s second wife was Emma Wilkinson. Woodford had two sons – Albert H. and John Robert – and three daughters – Mary C., America Isabelle and Luthera – with his first wife. He died in Shelbyville on November 10, 1931, and is buried in Grove Hill Cemetery in Shelby County.


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