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Hall was the younger of two children of William Pike Hall, Sr., an attorney, civic figure, an state senator from 1924 to 1932, and the former Hazel Tucker, originally from Haughton in Bossier Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/57373642|title=Funeral for Pike Hall at 11 A.M. Today – Prominent Attorney, Civic Leader Succumbs After Brief Illness|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=December 17, 1945|pages=1, 6|accessdate=March 26, 2015}}</ref> His sister is Hazel Hall Schaffer (born September 1929) of Shreveport. Hall married the former Anne Oden (October 1931 – November 14, 2016), a native of Haynesville in northern Claiborne Parish, who moved to Shreveport in 1936. She graduated in 1950 from Clifton Ellis Byrd High School, at which she was a cheerleader and a [[football]] sweetheart. She briefly attended Mary Baldwin College in [[Virginia]] and transferred to LSU Baton Rouge, at which she joined Chi Omega sorority.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=anne-oden-hall&pid=182532359#sthash.GxApWU77.dpuf|title=Anne Oden Hall|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=December 6, 2016}}</ref> The Halls had a daughter, Brevard Hall Knight (1952-2014), an [[educator]] and [[business]]woman who died of lung cancer though she had never [[Smoking|smoked]], and a son, Pike Hall, III.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?pid=172280222|title=Brevard Hall Knight|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=August 29, 2014|accessdate=March 26, 2015}}</ref>
Hall was the younger of two children of William Pike Hall, Sr., an attorney, civic figure, an state senator from 1924 to 1932, and the former Hazel Tucker, originally from Haughton in Bossier Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/57373642|title=Funeral for Pike Hall at 11 A.M. Today – Prominent Attorney, Civic Leader Succumbs After Brief Illness|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=December 17, 1945|pages=1, 6|accessdate=March 26, 2015}}</ref> His sister is Hazel Hall Schaffer (born September 1929) of Shreveport. Hall married the former Anne Oden (October 1931 – November 14, 2016), a native of Haynesville in northern Claiborne Parish, who moved to Shreveport in 1936. She graduated in 1950 from Clifton Ellis Byrd High School, at which she was a cheerleader and a [[football]] sweetheart. She briefly attended Mary Baldwin College in [[Virginia]] and transferred to LSU Baton Rouge, at which she joined Chi Omega sorority.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=anne-oden-hall&pid=182532359#sthash.GxApWU77.dpuf|title=Anne Oden Hall|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=December 6, 2016}}</ref> The Halls had a daughter, Brevard Hall Knight (1952-2014), an [[educator]] and [[business]]woman who died of lung cancer though she had never [[Smoking|smoked]], and a son, Pike Hall, III.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?pid=172280222|title=Brevard Hall Knight|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=August 29, 2014|accessdate=March 26, 2015}}</ref>
Hall was a great-nephew of United States District Judge George W. Jack of the Western District of Louisiana, who served from 1917 to 1924, and a first cousin once removed of Shreveport attorneys Whitfield Jack and Wellborn Jack, the latter a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for Caddo Parish from 1940 to 1964.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf|title=Membership of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812–2020: Caddo Parish|publisher=legis.la.gov|accessdate=March 21, 2019}}</ref>
Hall was a great-nephew of United States District Judge George W. Jack of the Western District of Louisiana, who served from 1917 to 1924, and a first cousin once removed of Shreveport attorneys [[Whitfield Jack]] and Wellborn Jack, the latter a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for Caddo Parish from 1940 to 1964.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf|title=Membership of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812–2020: Caddo Parish|publisher=legis.la.gov|accessdate=March 21, 2019}}</ref>
Hall was a member of the [[Methodism|Methodist]] denomination.<ref name=whoswho/>
Hall was a member of the [[Methodism|Methodist]] denomination.<ref name=whoswho/>