1874
"Bros. Peter Goddard and J. H. B. Hall were received as Candidates for the Gospel Ministry under the care of this presbytery."
[Source: Minutes of the Hiwassee Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, September 25, 1874, at New Hope Church, Monroe County, Tennessee, page 227]

1875
Hall, J. H. B., Loudon, Tenn.
Candidate - Hiwassee Presbytery
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1875, page 77]

1876
Hall, J. H. B., Loudon, Tenn.
Candidate - Hiwassee Presbytery
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1876, page 87]

1877
Hall, J. H. B., Morganton, Tenn.
Candidate - Hiwassee Presbytery
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1877, page 83]

1877
Licensed by Hiwassee Presbytery, June 14, 1877, Loudon, Tennessee
[Source: Minutes of the Hiwassee Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, June 14, 1877, pages 274-275]

1878
Hall, J. H. B., Loudon, Tenn.
Licentiate - Hiwassee Presbytery
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1878, page 91]

1879
Hall, J. H. B., Helena, Ala.
Minister - Elyton Presbytery
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1879, page 85]

1880
Hall, J. H. B., Highland, Ala.
Minister - Elyton Presbytery
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1880, page 111]

1881
Hall, J. H. B., Springville, Ala.
Minister - Elyton Presbytery
Commissioner to General Assembly, May 19-25, 1881, in Austin, Texas
Served on the Committee on the Records of Colorado Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1881, pages 4, 9 & 83]

1882
Hall, Jas. H. B., Stated Clerk, Springville, Ala.
Minister - Springville Presbytery
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1882, page 125]

1883
Hall, Jas. H. B., Stated Clerk, Springville, Ala.
Minister - Springville Presbytery
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1883, page 133]

1884
Hall, Jas. H. B., State. Cl'k, Winchester, Tenn.
Minister - Springville Presbytery
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1884, page 122]

1885
Hall, J. H. B., Winchester, Tenn.
Minister - Tennessee Presbytery
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1885, page 138]

1886
Hall, J. H. B., Calera, Ala.
Minister - Alabama Presbytery
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1886, page 152]

1887
Hall, J. H. B., Stated Clerk, Calera, Ala.
Minister - Alabama Presbytery
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1887, page 149]

1888
Old directory listed used

1889
Old directory listed used

1890
Hall, J. H. B., Loudon, Tenn.
Minister - Hiwassee Presbytery
Pastor - Marietta Cumberland Presbyterian Church (session clerk lived in Harden's Valley, Tenn.)
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1890, pages 121 & 220]

1891
Hall, J. H. B., Gadsden, Ala.
Minister - Alabama Presbytery
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1891, page 130]

1892
Hall, J. H. B., Highland, Ala.
Minister - Alabama Presbytery
Pastor - New Hope Cumberland Presbyterian Church (session clerk lived in Highland, Ala.)
Commissioner to General Assembly, May 19-26, 1892, in Memphis, Tennessee
Served on Committee on Sabbath Observance
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1892, pages 4, 8, 137 & 172]

1893
Hall, J. H. B., Birmingham, Ala.
Minister - Alabama Presbytery
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1893, page 139]

1894
Hall, J. H. B., Birmingham, Ala.
Minister - Alabama Presbytery
Pastor - Hopewell Cumberland Presbyterian Church (session clerk lived in Bessemer, Ala.)
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1894, pages 154 & 188]

1895
Hall, J. H. B., Birmingham, Ala.
Minister - Alabama Presbytery
Pastor - Hopewell Cumberland Presbyterian Church (session clerk lived in Bessemer, Ala.)
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1895, pages 160 & 196]

1896
Hall, J. H. B., Birmingham, Ala.
Minister - Alabama Presbytery
Commissioner to General Assembly, May 21-29, 1896, in Birmingham, Alabama
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1896, pages 5 & 146]

1897
Hall, J. H. B., (teacher), Westend, Ala.
Minister - Birmingham Presbytery
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1897, page 267]

1898
Hall, J. H. B., teacher, Kellyton, Ala.
Minister - Birmingham Presbytery
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1898, page 281]

1899
Hall, J. H. B., teacher, Rosedale, Ala.
Minister - Birmingham Presbytery
Pastor - Blossburg Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Blossburg, Ala.
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1899, pages 66a & 185a]

1900
Hall, J. H. B., teacher, Rosedale, Ala.
Minister - Birmingham Presbytery
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1900, page 199a]

1901
Hall, J. H. B., teacher, Birmingham, R.D. No. 2, Ala.
Minister - Birmingham Presbytery
Pastor - Blossburg Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Blossburg, Ala.
Pastor - Oak Grove Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Pastor - Rosedale Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Rosedale, Ala.
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1901, pages 111a, 112a & 257]

1902
Hall, J. H. B., charge, Birmingham, R.F.D. No. 3, Ala.
Minister - Birmingham Presbytery
Pastor - Hopewell Cumberland Presbyterian Church (session clerk lived in Bessemer, Ala.)
Pastor - Oak Grove Cumberland Presbyterian Church (session clerk lived in Birmingham, Ala.)
Commissioner to General Assembly, May 15-22, 1902, in Springfield, Missouri
Served on the Committee on the Historical Society
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1902, pages 11, 21, 102a, 103a & 211a]

1903
Hall, J. H. B., teacher, Birmingham, R.F.D. No. 4, Ala.
Minister - Birmingham Presbytery
Pastor - Hopewell Cumberland Presbyterian Church (session clerk lived in Bessemer, Ala.)
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1903, pages 87a & 198a]

1904
Hall, J. H. B., teacher, R.D. 3, Birmingham, Ala.
Minister - Birmingham Presbytery
Pastor - Hopewell Cumberland Presbyterian Church (session clerk lived in Bessemer, Ala.)
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1904, pages 71a & 179a]

1905
Hall, J. H. B., teacher, Saginaw, Ala.
Minister - Birmingham Presbytery
Pastor - Hopewell Cumberland Presbyterian Church (session clerk lived in Bessemer, Ala.)
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1905, pages 52a & 157a]

1906
Hall, J. H. B., teacher, R.D. 3, Birmingham, Ala.
Minister - Birmingham Presbytery
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1906, page 146a]

In 1907 went into the partial union with the Presbyterian Church

HALL, JAMES HUGH BLAIR, teacher and Presbyterian minister, was born September 22, 1855, at Hall's Ferry, on the Tennessee River, seven miles east of Madisonville, Monroe County, Tenn.; son of Sylvester Young and Alazannah (Blair) Hall of Tennessee; grandson of James Wiley and Ruth Margaret (Parks) Hall, and of Rev. James and Jane Gamble (Blair) Blair, great-grandson of James and Margaret (Wiley) Hall and of William and Sallie (Simmons) Blair; great-great-grandson of John Blair and of Thomas Rogers, who fought side by side at King's Mountain. The Halls came from Ireland and the Blairs were of Scotch origin. James Hugh Blair Hall passed his boyhood days on his father's farm and received his early education in the old field schools of the neighborhood. He entered Hiwassee college, near Madisonville, in 1869, where he studied until 1872. In that fall he entered the Loudon high school, conducted under the patronage of the Cumberland Presbyterian church; in 1876 he entered the Cumberland Presbyterian university, Lebanon, Tenn., from which he received the A. B. degree, June, 1878; began teaching in Helena collegiate institute, Helena, upon graduation, and has spent, with the exception of three years, the remainder of his life teaching, having had in these years more than two thousand students to pass under his influence. He has taught in addition to the school at Helena, at Highland, Shelby County, Springville, St. Clair County; Pleasant Hill academy, Dallas county; and the Zelosophian academy, Jefferson County. He was pastor of the Cumberland Presbyterian church, Winchester, Tenn., and at Gadsden; was synodical evangelist of the Alabama synod, Cumberland Presbyterian church, for one year, and is now an ordained minister of the Presbyterian church of the United States of America and is the recognized historian of his church in Alabama. He has in manuscript form a large collection of original writings on family, local and church history, and a number of sermons. He is a Democrat; and a Prohibitionist. Married; July 23, 1882, at Montevallo, to Emma Cilicia, daughter of the Rev. William Carroll and Corinne (Carleton) Gardner of that place. Children: 1. Hugh Talmage, m. Myrtice A. Bristow, of Calera, lives in Birmingham; 2. Mignon Myra; 3. Ruskin. Residence: Brent.

[Source: History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography. By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie (Bankhead) Owen. Published by the S. J. Clarke publishing company, 1921, pages 727-728]