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from Page 1) 12 x 18. The ceilings are unusually high, and thee are five woodburning fireplaces. The house commands a sweeping view of the countryside and the Blue Ridge Mountains, and the farm itself includes long frontage on the highway.
The Halls are well known and well liked in the county. Originally from Bristow, Va., Will Hall went to school in Manassas where a schoolmate was the future Mrs. Hall. On his farm Will Hall raised and showed hunters. After their marriage, Will went to work for the Prudential Insurance Company and stayed with the firm for 43 years, retiring Feb. 1, 1952 after serving for 26 years as manager of the Charleston, W. Va. District.
Under his supervision in the Charleston district were 75 employes, and in explaining how it came about that Will remained there more than a quarter of a century, Mrs. Hall said when Will was transferred there from the Pittsburgh office the Charleston employes were delighted - they wanted a Virginian in charge and up to then they had had only Ohioans and Pennsylvanians. For a year and a half after they moved into Rose Hill, Will worked most of the week in Charleston and came back here on weekends. It was just as wellj thinks Mrs. Hall, because the restoration work was in progress. Keeping her company at the time were her mother, Mrs. T.H. Lion, of Manassas, who was bom in Scotland, and the Halls two children, now Mrs. Virginia Kuhn
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