Hall Cemetery stands on land patented by Anderson White (1801-85) on a certificate issued April 23, 1850, by Peters Colony, an immigration project that had received a large land grant in this region from the Republic of Texas. The burial plot began on Jan. 6, 1857, with the death of White's daughter, Sarah White Haning, wife of Aaron Haning. One week later, on Jan. 13, a second grave was added for Haning's mother, Rachel Pierce Haning. In June 1857, White sold his land in the area but reserved 2 acres surrounding the burial site, which he deeded in April 1859 to trustees for a public cemetery. It was named for Benjamin F. Hall (1803-73), a pioneer minister of the Disciples of Christ, doctor, dentist, and lawyer, who owned the White property from 1857 to 1872 and founded several churches in the region. Those buried here include the first settlers of this part of Grayson County, who migrated to Texas from the eastern United States, veterans of the Army of the Confederate States of America, and several rural victims of the Great Sherman Tornado of May 15, 1896. Later donations of land by J.D. Barnett and Lee Bivins increased the cemetery to its present size by 1918.