However, in October 1862 he killed another West Virginia founder, local newspaper editor Lewis Wetzel, because he was displeased with a publication, which ended his political career.
[5] In 1851, voters from Mason, Jackson, Cabell, Wayne and Wirt counties elected Hall as a Whig to represent them (still part-time) in the Virginia Senate.
Voters approved the result on March 26, 1863, and President Lincoln declared its compliance on April 20, 1863, so statehood became effective in sixty days.
Both died in the conflict, Major Hall during a skirmish at Beech Creek in what would become Mingo County, West Virginia,[12] and Lt.Col.
[14] Wetzel (1825-1862) had been one of Mason County's delegates to the Wheeling Convention the previous year and continued to serve at all sessions until his murder.
[16] Hall reportedly never recovered from his sons' deaths in the conflict and died of eye cancer in 1881, survived by one daughter and grandchildren, and was buried beside his wife in the Hogg family cemetery in Mason County.