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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Apr 6, 1882

Obituary.

HALL.—Died in Oakland, March 30, 1882, Hannah Hall, of asthma, aged about 100 years.

“Aunt Hannah” was born in Virginia—born to the life of a slave. She was one of the first who went to Liberia under the Colonization Society. As that Society was formed in 1821, she must have gone there about sixty years ago. She there lost her husband and children, and returned to the United States. How long she was in slavery in Virginia, or what was her age when she went to the Colony, no one knows, as it was very seldom that persons of that class had any knowledge of the time of their birth. The most reliable information we could procure made her age about one hundred years.

She came to California in 1849. She belonged to the Methodist Church; but at what time she united with that church is unknown, as it was before any were acquainted with her who knew her here at the time of her death.

About eight years ago she embraced the “blessed hope,” spoken of in Titus 2:13, from which text remarks were made at her funeral at the Adventist Church, and united with the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Oakland. She loved the truth, and she loved the Lord of the truth. She was an earnest, fervent Christian; the genuineness of her piety was never doubted by any who knew her.