Vera Ward Hall, known as Vera Hall, was born on April 6, 1902, in Payneville, Sumter County, Alabama. She was an American folk singer who sang her entire life, learning songs from her mother Zully Hall and father Agnes Efron. In the late 1930s, ethnomusicologist John Avery Lomax recorded her for the Library of Congress, gaining her national exposure. Her recording of "Another Man Done Gone" was played by the Library of Congress in 1937 and the BBC in 1943. Hall collaborated with Byron Arnold on a series of recordings that were later released as Cornbread Crumbled in Gravy in 1984. She died on January 29, 1964, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. In 2005, she was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame.
