Stone, and their children, Zilpha Adeline and Wilber Warren, they came in company with my own family to California, settling near the south end of the Bay of San Francisco in Alameda County. The daughter married F. P. Dann, a lawyer, and died November 12th, 1873. Wilber, the son, while a law student in San Francisco, died September 25th, 1874. John Milton and his good wife are long since dead and lie in a San Francisco cemetery. Their grandson, F. P. Dann, Jr., lives in Reno, Nevada. In that branch the Moore name is extinct. My uncle brought to California a boy of my age, Thomas William Eckert (Moore on the distaff side). They raised him to useful manhood, but he, too, is long dead.

There is a gentleman named David Hardy, still, I think, at Waterloo, descended from a daughter of James Moore, the pioneer. There are in California several children of John Solon Moore, descendant of James Moore. I have cousins (one here and one in Springfield, Illinois), daughters of Hester Ann, daughter of John Moore. One is my cousin Emma, whose married name, I think, is Derry, and the other is Cousin Kate, married to Mr. Flood. There are living descendants of Enoch, son of John. Katherine, daughter of John, married Dr. Thomas Stanton. Mary, daughter of John, married William Sterrett. There is in California descended from that marriage, Miss Grace Sterrett.

Mrs. Mary Eberman Clark of Freeport, Illinois, her sons, F. L. Davis of New York and Chicago, and Dr. J. Sheldon Clark of Freeport, are descended from

Mary, daughter of my grandfather, John Moore, and his spouse, Whiteside; and so is Mr. W. S. Eberman, mining expert and analytical chemist, also of Freeport. I knew Dr. O. T. Moore of St. Louis in his life. He was son of Capt. L. W. (Brooks) Moore, a lawyer of Belleville, and I know his son, Mr. James Biggs Moore of New York. They are all descendants of James Moore, the pioneer. I know also of Mr. McCabe Moore, a lawyer who, when I last heard of him, lived in Kansas City. He is descended from Enoch, youngest son of James Moore, the pioneer. I have known in their lives Dr. Walker Moore and Dr. David Moore of Illinois, who are long dead. They also were descended from James Moore.

CHAPTER X

N 1871 I was married to Miss Jacqueline Anne Hall. We were married by Dr. Horatio Stebbins, in the old Unitarian Church, which then stood on Geary Street near Stockton, in San Francisco. Now, then, I will trace back Jacqueline Anne as far as I can, and first on her father's side. My wife was born on a plantation near Marshall, Texas, not far from Shreveport, Louisiana, on October 10th, 1847, and she still lives to comfort me. Her father was Samuel Pike Hall and her mother, Jacqueline Anne Bland.

Mr. Hall and his wife and children, including my wife, then five years old, crossed the plains by the southern route, in 1853. He engaged in the stock business, living and ranging his herds near Paso Robles, about where the town of Creston is to-day. A part of his old adobe ranch house is still standing. He was a large man, of fine presence and of good education. He was a slaveholder in Texas, but came to California to rear his children outside of that influence. He brought several of his slaves with him, who on arrival, of course, were free. One of them and several descendants still live at San Jose. Mr. Hall, born in North Carolina, died in 1860, and is buried at Santa Clara with his wife and a daughter.

The family of Samuel Pike Hall is fully treated of and his birth is noted in "The Halls of New England," by Rev. David B. Hall (Albany, New York, 1883); but that branch of the name was never of New England, being embraced under a subhead. The original ancestor in America was Hugh Hall, of Scotch-Irish Protestant stock, born in Ireland in 1705. His son James married his cousin, Prudence Roddy, daughter of James Roddy, born in Ireland, 1710. Both Hugh Hall and James Roddy came to America, and were on the assessment roll in (now) Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, in 1723.

James Hall and his wife, Prudence, settled on Conawaga Creek, Dauphin County, where their children were born. In 1751 James, with wife and family, moved to Iredell County, North Carolina, living on Fifth Creek, near Bethany Church. There they died and there they are buried.

Hugh Hall, issue of the marriage of James Hall and Prudence Roddy, born Iredell County, North Carolina, married Margaret King, in the same place. Samuel Hall, issue of the marriage last noted, born in North Carolina, married Margaret Gregg.

Margaret Gregg, born South Carolina, was daughter of James Gregg of South Carolina, and Mary Wilson, his wife. James Gregg was son of John Gregg and Eleanor, his wife. He was born in Cheraw District, South Carolina. This James was a captain in the Revolution. See "History of Old Cheraw," by Bishop Alexander Gregg. Bishop Gregg was one of the Greggs I am speaking of.

"In 1752, the name of Gregg first appeared on the Pedee. This family was of Scottish origin. Not long after the time of Cromwell a part, if not all of them, removed from the north of Scotland to Londonderry, Ireland, from whence the emigration to America took place. On 3rd July, 1752, John Gregg petitioned Council, stating that he was desirous of settling himself and family in this Province -that his family consisted of himself and wife, one Dutch servant, and five negroes, for whom no grant had been obtained, and that he was desirous of getting two plots of 500 acres each, which had been surveyed for Mr. John Atkins about 1735-36, and were still lying in the SurveyorGeneral's office. He obtained grants for 1,350 acres. At the same time Dr. John Gregg petitioned for land lower down, in the fork of Black River and Pedee.

"With John Gregg came a brother, Joseph. They were known, as were many others who came to the Province about the same time, as Scotch-Irish Presbyterians. Such was the Colony in Williamsburg. From these brothers, John and Joseph, descended the large connection of the name, most numerously represented in Marion. Branches of the family settled also in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. The children of John Gregg and Eleanor, his wife, were James, John, Margaret, Robert, Mary, William and Jennet. James, the eldest, married Mary Wilson, of the Presbyterian Colony in Williamsburg, and reared a large family. James Gregg lived on the west side of the river, on Poke Swamp. He was a captain in the Revolution, and with his brothers, who were of age, rendered efficient service in the cause of liberty. Joseph Gregg was also the father of a large family. He was a brave and valiant Whig. John Gregg died about the latter part of the year 1775, having lived long enough to see the beginning of the troubles that were to come upon his children.

"The children of James Gregg were Jennet, who married James Hudson; Mary, who married Adam Marshall;