Children of Joseph Hall & Sarah Caudill: Mary Ellen Hall

Mary Ellen Hall was the first child of Joseph Leonard Hall and Sarah Caudill.  She was born October 4, 1880 in Pike County, Kentucky.  She was not in the 1880 census with Joe and Sarah because she was born after the census was taken.  The 1890 census was burned.  On January 23 1897 she married Isaac Martin "Ike" Profitt, the son of Hiram and Chrissie Adams Profitt.

In 1900 Isaac was 23, Ellen 18 and their children were Joseph, 2, and Crisy, 10 months.  They were in Rockhouse.

In 1910 they were in Camp Branch.  Isaac was 33, Mary E. 29, Millard 12, Crissie 8, Jesse 7, Alvin 5, Israel M. 3, and Gilbert M. 6 months.

When Ike registered for the draft for WWI in 1918, he was listed as tall, medium build with blue eyes and gray hair.

In 1920 Isaac was 42, Mary A. 39, Millard 22, Crissie, 20, Jessie 18, Alvin 15, Martin 13, Moses 10, Benna 7 and Marion 4 years 3 months old.

In 1930 Isaac M. was 55, Mary 49, Cecile 31, Alvin 26, Martin 23, Moses 20, Benjamin R. 17, and Marion 14.

Mary Ellen's Children:

Joseph Millard  married Mary B. Collins.  They had three children that I know about:  Millard, Joseph Isaac, and Dewy Robert.  Millard was born in 1926.  Joseph Isaac  was born on Janurary 13, 1927 at Thornton.  He died on January 14th of "bold hives."  Dewy Robert was born August 4, 1929 and died in Whitesburg in 1990.  Millard and Mary stayed in Letcher county.  He died in 1971.

Chrissie who was still at home at age 31 and was listed as Cecile died in Knott County in 1982.

Jesse married Minnie Hart.  I found them in the 1930 census, but they were very hard to read.  The ancestry transcribers had Jesse as Jean and children Edn soemthing, Meda, Famenmasen.  Jesse looked like Jesse to me, age 29.  Minnie 21 and the children were 2 daughters and one son.  I went to the birth records and input Minnie Hart as a mother and came up with the following children:

Eddie E. July 21, 1927
Alta O.  September 15, 1928
Famenmasen (could it be Free Mason?  ) from the census.
Isaac Marion February 3, 1930
Minni I.  Dec 12, 1931
Hiram J.   April 30, 1934
Zella G.  April 9, 1938
Bradley M.  December 12 1939
Hazel L. January 13, 1944
Karen E. July 27, 1945
Zeola F.  September 28, 1947
Clare D.  August 23, 1950
John M.  May 22, 1954

Isaac Marion died in 1952 of traumatic injuries to abdominal organs, also chest area due to a carwreck when his auto ran against an embankment. 

Jesse and Minnie stayed in Letcher County.  Jesse died in 1975.

Alvin married a Meade.  He died in Letcher County in 1991.

Israel Martin first married Lona Jane Powers.  She died of pulmonary tuberculosis in 1945 at age 25.  He married again to a Collins.  He died in Letcher County in 1993.

Gilbert Moses Profitt became a minister.  He attended the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville.  He was the minister ofr Mt Zion Baptist Church in Bedford, Virginia.  He was also a minister for the Quaker Baptist church.  He married Ella Livingston.  They had two sons, Dale S and Alvin G.  He died March 22, 2004.  The Bristol Herald Courier in Bristol, Tennessee printed the following obituary:

Gilbert M. Profitt



BEDFORD, Va. – Rev. Dr. Gilbert Moses Profitt, 93, died Monday, March 22, 2004, at his residence. He was born in Colton, Ky., a son of the late Isaac Martin Profitt and Mary Ellan Hall Profitt.


He received his master of divinity degree from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky.


He was a retired Baptist minister, having served the Quaker Baptist Church and the Mt. Zion Baptist Churches in Bedford County, the Gladstone Baptist Church in Nelson County and the Liberty Baptist Church in Appomattox. He served as pastor emeritus of Quaker Baptist Church.


Surviving are his wife, Ella Livingston Profitt, Bedford; two sons, Dale S. Profitt, Floyd and Alvin G. Profitt, Bedford; three granddaughters Anna Anderson, Bedford, Lara P. Waura Arlington, Va., and Lynsey C. Profitt, Floyd.


A funeral service will be held Wednesday, March 24, 2004, at 2 p.m. from the Quaker Baptist Church.


Arrangements are being handled by Updike Funeral Home & Cremation Service, Bedford.

Benjamin R. Profitt married a Blair.

Marion Profitt died in Letcher County in 1994.

Ike and Mary Ellen

Ike and Mary Ellen were members of the Old Regular Baptist Church at Craft's Colly (Ermine). In each of the census records and on Ike's WWI Draft registration his occupation was listed as Farmer on his home farm.

Isaac Martin "Ike" Profitt died at Rockhouse on August 13, 1932. 

Mary Ellen died on January 22, 1948 at the Fleming Hospital of an intestinal obstruction.  She was buried at Colson.

I have no pictures of Mary Ellen's family.  I have no contacts from this line to do any more filling in of information or to interview for stories on this line of the family.