Henry C Hallam
Cincinnati Enquirer, 10 January 1901, page 8
DEATH OF HENRY HALLAM
Ex-Circuit Court Clerk Henry C Hallam died yesterday at
Washington DC. He was the oldest son of the late Judge J R Hallam of
Newport Ky. one of Kentucky's most brilliant attorneys. He was born in
Fredericksburg Va. in 1841. The deceased was educated in the public schools of
Newport and in 1860 he went to Nashville Tenn.
In the Civil War he joined the Confederate forces in Tennessee, was captured at Ft Henry and imprisoned at Alton Ill. On being exchanged he was transferred to the Army of Virginia and assigned to the Rockbridge Artillery. At the battle of Chancellorsville in May 1863, where Stonewall Jackson lost his life, Hallam was struck in the ankle by a spent grapeshot, which shattered teh bone, and his foot has to be amputated. The ball that struck him stopped right there and he has kept it ever since.
He suffered severely from his injuries and submitted to several amputations of his leg. In 1867 he came to Covington and entered the office of Circuit Clerk H Clay White, where he remained for some years, when he resigned and accepted the position of Covington and Newport reporter for the Cincinnati Enquirer.
In 1880 he was elected Clerk of the Kenton Country Circuit Court, resigning his position on the Enquirer, his successor being the late John M Vestine. He was re-elected to the position of Clerk in 1886 and 1892, but met defeat at the hands of the present Clerk, Mr. W Ed Miller, in 1898. Shortly after his defeat he removed with his family to Washington, where he engaged in the practice of law.
Brights disease was the cause of death. Besides three brothers, Rev Frank Hallam, an Episcopalian minister; Orrin B Hallam, attorney of Washington, and Theodore F Hallam, of Covington, he leaves a widow, formerly Miss Sallie R Cambron of Covington, and four children, three sons and a daughter. The remains will be brought to the resident of his sister, Mrs. W W Brown, 427 Garrard street.