Bridge Named After Murphy, NC Resident

Bridge #140 over the Valley River leading to the Texana Community was dedicated in memory of Roscoe W. Hall on November 23, 2015.

Present at the dedication were community members, family, and friends. Cherokee County government officials along with NC-DOT representatives presented a replica of the bridge plaque to his widow, Mrs. Mary Colbert Hall.

The ceremony included music performed by the Messengers for Christ, and the God Squad, led in song by the Halls’ daughter, Farrah Hall-Eller. She shared that her father always felt like “we were all worth saving (by God), when we had nowhere else to turn.”

Roscoe Hall attended Cherokee County Schools and graduated in 1964. After high school, Hall attended broadcasting school and later served in the U.S. Army. He was also employed at the Levi-Strauss company for 23 years until the plant closed in 1998.

However, music was Roscoe’s passion, and his angelic voice was the soundtrack to the lives of the people who knew him. Roscoe played guitar and sang at church events, revivals, home-comings, reunions, Veteran’s and Memorial Day services, weddings, funerals — and almost always did so free-of-charge.

Roscoe was a fixture in Cherokee County and the surrounding tri-state (NC, GA, TN) area. He was a deacon of the Mt. Zion Baptist Church of Murphy, NC, and a member of the gospel group Messengers for Christ. He was also a board member for REACH of Cherokee County, organized to combat domestic violence and sexual assault; Vice President of the Texana Community Club; and music director for the Waynesville Missionary Baptist Association.

Mary Colbert-Hall told those assembled that if Roscoe was here, he would have humbly said, “I’m just a nobody, trying to tell everybody, about somebody, who can save anybody.”

The Halls were parents of two sons, Victor Hall and his wife Jenn of Atlanta, GA., and Jeremy Sudderth of Hayesville, NC; two daughters, Rosalynd Hall and husband James Smith of Murphy, NC, and Farrah Eller and husband Eddie of Warne, NC; two brothers, Harry Hall and wife Ginger of Murphy, NC, and John Hall and wife Kathy of Atlanta, GA; one sister, Naomi Nicely and husband Allen of Cornelius, GA; grandchildren, Christian Hall, Kylah Eller, Elijah Eller, Kali Hall-Smith, Lathan Hall-Smith, Saaliyah Sudderth, and Kadeesha Sudderth; and several nieces and nephews.