Hall was born to Robert Montgomery Hall (1896-1956), a Baptist minister and a barber,[REF] and the former Josephine Wood (1897-1991)[REF] in Proffit, an unincorporated community near Charlottesville in Albemarle County in north central Virginia.
Hall settled in Bryan, Texas, in 1951, when he was appointed to the TAMU faculty at a time when the institution was still all-male.