13 Frances and Almira Hall. [Rachel (later Mrs. Munson) and Sylvia (later Mrs. Horn) Hall]

Narrative of the Capture and Providential Escape of Misses Frances and Almira Hall. [New York?: 1833?] (copyright 1832 by William P. Edwards)

" . . . two respectable young women (sisters) of the ages of 16 and 18, who were taken prisoners by the savages, at a frontier settlement near the Indian Creek, in May, 1832, when fifteen of the inhabitants fell victims to the bloody tomahawk and scalping knife; among whom were the parents of the unfortunate females." With an account of the Captivity of Philip Brigdon and of the Black Hawk War. With Charles M. Scanlan's Indian Massacre and Captivity of Hall Girls; Complete History of the Massacre of Sixteen Whites on Indian Creek, Near Ottawa, Ill., and Sylvia Hall and Rachel Hall as Captives in Illinois and Wisconsin During the Black Hawk War, 1832. Milwaukee: Reic Publishing, 1915. Photographs of the Halls in later life. Also with John Reynolds' My Own Times. Belleville, Ill.: 1855, for the early Illinois governor's description of the Black Hawk War and the resultant depredations on the Hall girls. -See Elmer Baldwin, History of La Salle County, Illinois. Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co., 1877 for lengthy statements of J.W. Hall, Mrs. Horn, and Mrs. Munson.