The Hales Newsletter

Motto: United Force is Stronger

NEW SERIES Autumn 1996 Vol. 2. No. 3.

NEWS AND VIEWS

MORMON HALES FAMILIES

CHARLES HENRY HALES (1817-1889)

MARY ISABELLA HALES (1818-1905)

STEPHEN HALES (1820-1881)

GEORGE HALES (1822-1907)

HARRIET HALES (1824-1910)

MORMON HALES FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS

This is on-line version of The HALES Newsletter. The HALES Newsletter is the Journal of the HALES Family. It is a quarterly publication of the HALES Family History Society and variant spellings, including HALES, HAILS, HAILES, HAYLS, and HAYLES. The information includes current events, historical sketches and genealogical information pertaining to the Hales family. The pictures can be viewed by clicking on words that are highlighted. It is published by Kenneth Glyn Hales, secretary of The Hales Genealogical Society from 1970 through 1981 and The Hales Family History Society since 1995.

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The intent of the HALES Family History Society is to document all HALES, HAILS, HAILES, HAYLS, and HAYLES families wherever they are found in all parts of the world. This documentation is found in the multi-volume The Hales Chronicles. This information is provided as a service to the Hales Family.

The Hales Chronicles contains the genealogical information published by the Hales Family History Society. This database can be found on the Hales web-page at www.hales.org and can be found in book form at The Family History Library of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at Salt Lake City, Utah; The Library of Congress at Washington, D.C.; The Library of The Society of Genealogists at London, England; and the Centre for Kentish Studies at Maidstone, Kent, England. The Hales Chronicles is also found on-line. Look here to verify your family information and to search for your ancestors.

The Hales Newsletter is provided to the above cited repositories and the Allen County Public Library at Fort Wayne, Indiana. The Allen County Public Library indexes our publication and provides articles through their Periodical Source Index (PERSI).

Printed copies of The Hales Newsletter are provided to members of The Hales Family History Society. If you desire to be come a member, refer to the membership section on our home-page. If you would like a printed copy of individual Hales Newsletters, reprints are available at a cost of $3.75 each.

From Lois Hales McCullock of Rexburg, Idaho. Thank you for the two complimentary issues of your publication. Enclosed is my check for a contributing membership. You have done a remarkable job in assembling all this information. You had an old address of mine that was destroyed in the Teton Dam flood of 20 years ago.

From Cynthia P. Hales of Westfield, Massachusetts. I've been receiving The Hales Newsletter for a year now and find it very interesting. I found the last issue containing Sir Edward Hales' Will of particular interest since I own a legal document preparation franchise and prepare Wills constantly! In reading his Will, I only wish I had been a direct descendent! I have no idea where my grandfather, Walter Hales, originated from in England and don't know if the Hales Chronicles will help me find my ancestry or not? I have no other relatives left to find out any information of my family history and would really be interested in trying to track down a few relatives. (Note: If you will send me as much information as you can about your parents and grandparents I will be happy to look in our Hales Chronicles or other records for your English roots.).

From Bernell and Margaret Hales of Salt Lake City, Utah. Never having been famous for our interest and work in genealogy, we nevertheless have had noting but admiration for your work with The Hales Chronicles and Hales Newsletter. And we have thoroughly enjoyed each issue of the latter. Our opinion of this venture is that it is most worthwhile and definitely worth perpetuating. If the response has been less than encouraging please consider this an enthusiastic vote in favor of continuing this project. And don't hesitate to remind us if we become forgetful and neglect to put our money "where our mouth is."

From Steven D. Hales of Ketchikan, Alaska. Thank you for your efforts in running the Hales Family History Society, and in publishing the Hales Newsletter. Enclosed is my check to renew my contributing membership and for the Diskette version of the Hales Chronicles.

From Hoyt Ishmael Hales of Ellijay, Georgia. Thanks for the information on Reverend Isaiah Hales' life and ministry. His ministry was in a section of Georgia where my great-grandfather Joseph Hales and his brother William migrated from in Green County in the 1840s. I would like to know if there is a connection. (Note: I plan to publish Lewis Hales descendancy chart for the Hales families in the southern states in the next issue of the Hales Newsletter).

EMMELINE UTAHNA HALES WEDGE. Emmeline Utahna Hales Wedge died September 28, 1996 at Sacramento, California. She was born on May 6, 1925 at San Francisco, California a daughter of Walter Green and Virda Undine Mower King. She assumed the name Hales when her mother later married John Leland Hales. "Utahna" married first Marrion Holland Reynolds. He died at Sacramento, California. She married second Ernest Joseph Wedge. He died at Sacramento, California. Her parents John Leland and Virda Undine Hales and her sister, Mary Undine Hales Tiffany, preceded her in death. She is survived by two children, Steven E. and Jeffry J. Wedge; two sisters, Barbara Jane Hales Blim and Sarajane Hales McCuiston; and a brother, John Leland Hales. A memorial service was held on 2 OCT 1996 at Carmichael, California.

Hales families belonging to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly called LDS, from the initials for Latter-day Saints, or Mormon, because of belief in The Book of Mormon, Another Testament of Jesus Christ, generally descend from John Hales (1694-1756), the son of Jacob and Elizabeth Penney Hales of Yalding, Kent, England.

Refer to the inset on the cover of this issue for a map of Yalding. Also refer to the picture of John Hales headstone pictured on the back cover of New Series Volume 1. Number 2.

I have prepared a chart showing the relationships of the various branches of these families. This chart is shown on the back cover of this newsletter. Some sketches of these families follow.

I was educated and raised under the doctrines of the Church of England. I was baptized in infancy and had Godfathers and Godmothers to stand responsible for my conduct until I arrived at the age of fourteen. At this age they were no longer held responsible, since those being confirmed take the responsibility upon themselves. I did not receive this ordinance myself, since I was not quite old enough to when the Bishop visited our parish for confirmation. It was established by law that the Bishop should visit each parish twice in seven years. At this time all those who had arrived at the age of fourteen were confirmed while the remainder waited for the next term. I was one that had to wait on account of age, but before the next term my father with his family emigrated to upper Canada in North America. This was in the year of 1832.

My father was a boot and shoemaker by trade and he taught me the same business until I was fifteen years of age. I was somewhat adverse to this trade, and when we came to Canada I was permitted to follow any occupation I chose. Accordingly I chose to follow farming which I did until after the time I embraced the everlasting gospel.

My father was a professor of religion. He was called a Wesleyan Methodist when we came to Canada and continued in the same faith until Elder Parley P. Pratt came into the Province of Upper Canada and proclaimed the everlasting gospel. I had never embraced any of the systems of the present age, but had been greatly addicted to reading the old and new testament. I was subject to many serious reflections and wonderings as to why we had not apostles and prophets on the earth at the present age as was true in former ages. Since I was destitute of the priesthood I could not understand the scriptures. I always endeavored to be honest in my dealings with my fellow men. I had been trained to observe the Sabbath very strictly and to be upright and honest in all things; principles which I always endeavored to inculcate and practice according to the knowledge we had of right and wrong.

I embraced the everlasting gospel in the month of June 1836. I was baptized by Parley P. Pratt and confirmed by Elder Orson Hyde and Parley P. Pratt in the fall of the same year. After embracing the truth I went on a visit to Kirtland, Ohio where the church as a body was located. Here I first became acquainted with Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer of the last dispensation. I also became acquainted with his father Joseph Smith, Sr., the Patriarch of the Church from whom I received my Patriarchal Blessing. I stayed in Kirtland till spring and then returned to Canada. I was well pleased with my visit, and had heard many good instructions in the House of the Lord.

The same year I left Kirtland, I was ordained a priest in the Aaronic Priesthood at a conference held in Scarborough Township in December 1837. I was then sent out to preach with Brother Eli Maginn who had been ordained a priest at the same conference. We continued to preach till spring at which time the word of the Lord through his servant Joseph Smith was for the saints to sell their farms and remove to the state of Missouri.

Accordingly, we gathered a small company together, and after selling our plains, started our journey on the twentieth of March 1838. We had a very tiresome journey since we started just as the roads were breaking up in the spring. We arrived in the State of Missouri in the early part of June, coming to a place called Huntsville. We stayed a short time, since we found quite a big branch of the church there. Some of the company concluded to buy and settle there which they did. I stayed with my father, and went to work for a few months. I first became acquainted with Julia Ann Lockwood at this place. She was the daughter of Joseph and Annis Lockwood, and was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Sometime in the month of September I started for Far West, but on coming to DeWitt I was requested to stay by George M. Hinkle who was President of the Branch in company with Elder John Murdock. I was asked to assist them in defending the place as they were threatened with the mob. I did so although the first time the mob came to make an attack upon us we were but 25 in number while they numbered from 150 to 175. I stayed in DeWitt until the brethren were counseled to leave. Joseph Smith, Hyrum, his brother, and many other brethren came to assist us from Far West. I did not leave DeWitt quite as soon as the rest of the brethren as I stayed behind to assist one of my Canadian brothers, who was not quite ready when the rest were. We, however, calculated to overtake them soon, but one of his horses gave out, and he was compelled to stay.

I was then under the necessity of going to Far West on foot, and alone since he, himself, gave up the idea of going. The first day I lost my way as I crossed the prairie of the Big Mound. I continued traveling till night, not knowing but that I was on the right road. On coming to a cultivated field I found a man putting up corn. I inquired if I could stay with him for the night. He made no replay, but asked me if I was a Mormon. I replied in the affirmative. He then told me that I could not stay with him, and further told me that I was greatly out of my way for Far West. I then told him that I was a perfect stranger in the county, that I had lost my way, that my feet were much torn by my boots, and that it was now sunset, and I could not go any further. He then said, as a reason for not keeping me, that during our difficulties in DeWitt, he had himself entertained seventeen of the mob, and that he had sworn never to keep a Mormon. He did, however, tell me where I could stay for the night.

In the morning I started again for Far West, and arrive there in October. I arrived just a few hours before the Crooked River Battle. I was one of the company engaged in that affair, although I was lame and tired. I borrowed a horse and a gun, (for I had neither) and went to defend my brethren. I saw Brother O'Bannon when he fell. Soon after the battle the Governors troops came to Far West and demanded every man that was engaged in the Crooked River battle. At this time we were under the necessity of having our houses and grain burnt and our cattle driven off, or else if we stood up for our rights and defended ourselves like men and saints of the Most High we must be hunted by and authorized mob and be driven from our homes and families, or be killed, just as they pleased. As soon as we learned their intentions were to take every man that was in the Crooked River battle we all started for Illinois, going by way of Diahman, since we were surrounded on every other side.

Before we arrived at Diahman my horse gave out so the brethren counseled me to stay in Diahman and I was not known by any of the mob in that county. Accordingly I stayed till the arms were given up and the brethren returned again to Far West. I then went to Fort Leavenworth and worked until spring. Then I left the Fort and came to Quincy, Illinois. Here I married Julia Ann Lockwood on the last day of October 1839. On the following year on the 27th of November my eldest daughter was born which we called Eliza Ann. The next April I left Quincy and went on a mission in company with Elder Andrew Hamilton to the southern part of the State of Illinois. We baptized some and left quite a number believing.

After I came back I continued to live in Quincy till next spring when I moved with my family to the city of Nauvoo. As soon as I arrived in Nauvoo I joined the brass band and continued to play with them at every public festival. We played for the Nauvoo Legion, for the dedication of the Seventies Hall, and for they laying of the capstone of the Lord's House. The first summer after I arrived at Nauvoo, in the month of June, my second daughter was born which we named Julia Ardena. This was June 1842 and in the month of March 1844 my wife delivered of a son which we called George. In the fall following at the October conference I was ordained one of the Seventies and was organized in the Second Quorum. On the 23rd of December 1845 we were called to go into the temple to receive our endowments. We were fully satisfied that the present organization of the church is as it should be, and that the priesthood is again restored to man on the earth with all its attendant gifts and blessings as in ancient days, that all men must sooner or later bow to that priesthood, held by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We knew that Joseph Smith was the instrument in the hands of God in bringing forth the fullness of the gospel and that he lived and died a prophet of the Most High God, sealing his testimony with his blood as did the ancient prophets and apostles.

I am Charles Henry Hales, the first son of Stephen and Mary Ann Hales, the daughter of Henry and Hannah Hales.

My father was of the Methodist faith, but my mother attended the Church of England. As I was religiously inclined, I attended the Methodist Church with my father, who was faithful in the performance of his religious duties, although he never became a very enthusiastic Methodist.

In the year 1832, when I was in my thirteenth year, there was great excitement in the town where I lived, over the favorable reports that were sent from Van Diahman's land, and the great inducements held out to those who would go to that country. My father and mother caught the spirit of going, and began to make preparations for leaving England. Before arrangements had been completed for us to go, however, letters were received from Upper Canada, picturing, in glowing terms, the advantages of that country. My father changed his mind immediately and made arrangements to emigrate to the town of York, afterwards called Toronto. Accordingly, on the sixteenth day of April, 1832, our family, consisting of my parents, five sons, myself and a younger sister, bade adieu to England. We had a tedious voyage of six weeks across the ocean, and my mother was sick during the entire voyage. During the passage across there were three deaths on board -- one of the three being my brother Elias, whom we sorrowfully consigned to a watery grave.

Our ship anchored at Quebec in May, and after a tedious passage up the St. Lawrence by steamer, we landed in safety at the town of York, June 16, thankful that we were at our journey's end. Here we were in a strange land. And to our dismay, we found that the cholera was raging fearfully in that region; but through all of those trying scenes the Lord preserved us in health.

In the spring of 1833 we removed into the country about eight miles, to a place located in the township of York, and in the spring of 1834 I attended a Methodist camp-meeting in that neighborhood, where I formed the acquaintance of Mr. Joseph Horne, who is now my husband.

The most of the time for the next two years I lived in service in the city of Toronto, going once in three months to visit my parents.

On the ninth day of May, 1836, I was married to Mr. Horne. He owned a farm about one mile from my father's house, and I removed to his residence soon after our marriage. I now felt that I was settled in life, and, although I had not been used to farm work, I milked cows, fed pigs and chickens, and made myself at home in my new situation, seeking to make my home pleasant for my husband, and working to advance his interests.

About the first of June, of that year, report came to us that a man professing to be sent of God to preach to the people would hold a meeting about a mile from our house. My husband decided that we should go and hear him. We accordingly went, and there first heard Elder Orson Pratt. We were very much pleased with his sermon. Another meeting was appointed for the following week, and Elder Pratt told us that business called him away, but his brother, Parley P. Pratt, would be with us and preach in his stead. I invited my father to go with us to hear him, and the appointed evening found all of his family at the "Mormon" meeting. Elder Pratt told us that God was an unchangeable being -- the same yesterday, today, and forever -- and taught us the gospel in its purity; they showed from the bible that the gospel was the same in all ages of the world; but many had wandered from God and the true gospel, and that the Lord had sent an angel to Joseph Smith, restoring to him the pure gospel with its gifts and blessings. My father was so delighted with the sermon that he left the Methodist Church and attended the "Mormon" meetings altogether; and in a short time every member of his family had received and obeyed the gospel. This made quite a stir among the Methodists. One of the class-leaders came to converse with us, and used every argument he could to convince us that Mormonism was false, but without avail. "Well," said he, finally, "there are none but children and fools who join them," and left us to our fate. In July (1836) I was baptized by Orson Hyde, and ever after that our house was open for meetings, and became a home for many of the elders.

In the latter part of the summer of 1837 I had the great pleasure of being introduced to, and entertaining, the beloved prophet, Joseph Smith, with Sidney Rigdon and T. B. Marsh. I said to myself, "O Lord, I thank thee for granting the desire of my girlish heart, in permitting me to associate with prophets and apostles." On shaking hands with Joseph Smith, I received the Holy Spirit in such great abundance that I felt it thrill my whole system, from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet. I thought I had never beheld so lovely a countenance. Nobility and goodness were in every feature.

The saints in Kirtland removed in the following spring to Missouri. We started from Canada in March, 1838 with a small company of saints. The roads were very bad, as the frost was coming out of the ground, consequently I had to drive the team during a great portion of the journey, while my husband walked.

On arriving at Huntsville, one hundred miles from Far West, we found several families of saints, and tarried a short time with them. There I was introduced to the parents of the prophet, and also to his cousin, George A. Smith. At a meeting held in that place I received a Patriarchal Blessing from Joseph Smith Sr. He told me that I had to pass through a great deal of sickness, sorrow and tribulation, but "The Lord will bring you through six troubles, and in the seventh He will not leave you;" all of which has verily been fulfilled.

Mary Isabella Hales Horne, with her husband and family, reached Far West in August of that year, and received their full share of the privations incident to the settlement of that city, and also a full share of exposure, sickness and peril incident to the expulsion of the saints from Missouri. Finally thereafter they gathered to Nauvoo.

We all tarried there five or six years when Parley P. Pratt came and preached to the people where my father resided. In a short time my father and mother united themselves with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and removed to the place of gathering in Far West, Caldwell County, Missouri. At the age of eighteen I was baptized by Elder Hunter in Daviess County, Missouri.

A number of the brethren started off on an expedition, and I with the rest, to search out the designs of the mob. We came to the place where they had camped the night before where they had buried a cannon. I found the cannon and some powder and balls. And, from there we returned home to our city.

In a short time, I heard the mob was letting the brethren's fences down and turning the cattle into the corn fields. A small number of the brethren including myself went in search of them. We left our homes about the twelfth hour of the night. About the break of day we found the mob, encamped on a small stream called the Crooked River. We marched down in battle array. Their guard shot one of our men and a number of our men shot their guns at him. The mob fired on us and we returned the compliments. We returned home with three killed and six wounded and a short time later left our homes as exiles and came to Quincy, Adams County, Illinois. We resided there four years and came to Nauvoo in the twenty-fourth year of my age.

I was ordained into the Quorum of Seventies under the hands of President Joseph Young and Isaiah Butterfield. I was united to the Second Quorum of Seventies and by the assisting grace of God, I shall try to stand in my lot and station as long as I live on the earth. And, when I leave this world of trouble, I hope to meet my brethren in the next better world and praise God through all eternity.

Stephen Hales married first Eveline Lydia Carter, daughter of Simeon Doget Carter and Lydia Kenyon Carter at Nauvoo, Illinois on October 16, 1842. He married second Henrietta Keyes, daughter of Samuel Keyes and Nancy Ann Delgarn Keyes, on December 23, 1851. Stephen was the father of fourteen children by his two wives. He and his wives are buried in the Bountiful, Utah cemetery.

Apostle Robert Dean Hales, current member of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints descends from this Stephen Hales.

In the spring of 1832 when George was in his tenth year, his parents and family emigrated to Canada, settling in Scarborough. Scarborough was located approximately ten miles northeast of Toronto on the shore of Lake Ontario. In later years George told of gathering cranberries in the marshes of Canada with others of his family. While in Canada in 1836 his parents joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints along with some of their children.

In March of 1838 while in his sixteenth year the Hales family left Canada to join the saints at Far West, Missouri. The following spring they were driven from the state, along with the rest of the saints, by mob violence. The Hales family removed to Quincy, Illinois.

In the autumn of 1839 George began to learn the printing trade as an apprentice in the office of the Quincy Whig. He worked there three years with board and clothes his only remuneration.

While in Quincy, George was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on April 19, 1840 by Elder Orson Hyde.

In January 1843 he went from Quincy to Nauvoo and worked for several months in the Times and Seasons office. He left this job to cut stone for the Nauvoo Temple. On the thirtieth of November of that same year he returned to Quincy, Illinois and married Sarah Ann Gregory. The following spring he went with her to visit her family in Cincinnati, Ohio where they remained about a year and where their first child was born. On his return to Nauvoo he worked again in the Times and Seasons office, and while there printed the first copy of the Nauvoo Neighbor.

Sarah Ann Gregory was born on January 26, 1823 in Burns, Allegheny County, New York. She was the first child born to William and Electa Ann Fellows Gregory. When she was about a year old her parents moved to Cincinnati, Ohio where her eleven brothers

and sisters were born. Of this large family only one sister and two brothers grew to maturity and married. William Gregory was a Methodist minister and a very religious and humble man. One wonders what his reaction was when his twenty year old daughter was baptized into the Mormon Church in July of 1843.

George Hales continued to work on the Temple at Nauvoo and he and his wife received their endowments there on December 23, 1845. There are some who claim that this temple was never completed, but George and Sarah Ann as well as others in this Newsletter provide testimony to the fact that ordinance work was done there prior to the time the saints left Nauvoo.

When the saints were driven from Nauvoo early in 1846, George was with the first company to leave for the west, and tells of crossing the Mississippi in his wagon on the ice. On March 26, 1846 he was made clerk of the fourth fifty in William Clayton's company when it was organized into fifties.

George and Sarah Ann went as far as Garden Grove, Iowa, where they remained until 1850. In July 1846, while in Garden Grove, George and two of his brothers, Charles Henry and Stephen, were sent to Council Bluffs by President Young to go as musicians with the Mormon Battalion. They left their families to look after themselves as best they could, took a change of clothes, and started alone and on foot to travel the 150 miles to join the Battalion. Arriving there, they learned that Captain Allen was not entitled to a brass band. After waiting a few days under order of President Young to see if they were needed to fill a company, they were released to rejoin the main company of saints. In the spring of 1848, he was sent to St. Louis with John Henderson on a mission (from Garden Grove) to secure aid for the saints.

By early 1850 George and Sarah Ann and their three daughters were ready to leave Kanesville (Council Bluffs), Iowa to make the long trek to Utah. Aunt Vera remembers that they were in the Edward Hunter company consisting of 261 pioneers in 67 wagons. This company left on July fourth and arrived in Salt Lake City on October 13, 1850.

Upon his arrival he was engaged to work in the office of the Deseret Evening News where he struck off the first edition. At the time of his death the Deseret News paid the following tribute in its issue of September 21, 1907.

In the spring of 1852 George was made foreman of the office, a position he filled for about a year.

On the seventeenth of October in 1852, George married a second wife, Louisa Ann Eddins. they were married by Dr. Willard Richards. She was born on May 10, 1834 at Cradley, Hereford, England and was the daughter of George and Ann Smith Eddins.

In 1855 while the state capitol was at Fillmore, George went south with the legislature to do the official printing for the session. Later in 1858 when Johnson's army was approaching, the "News" plant was divided and part of it set up in Fillmore and part left in Salt Lake, with the issues alternating from the two towns. George Hales was with the Fillmore plant, with George Q. Cannon, editor. In the fall he returned to Salt Lake and spent that winter as foreman in the Valley Tan office, a gentile paper, and remained over a year until the paper was discontinued.

Called to help settle the southern part of the state, he left Salt Lake in the spring of 1861 and moved to Spanish Fork where he remained until the fall of 1862. That autumn he moved to Beaver where he spent the remainder of his life except for one year, 1869-1870, when at the request of Angus M. Cannon, he returned to work in the Deseret News office. His years at Beaver were spent in farming, shoemaking and printing. He was connected with several early southern Utah publications: Beaver Enterprise, Beaver Utonian, and Richfield Advocate. He was a member of the Beaver Brass Band, and of the ward choir.

The two families of George Hales lived next door to each other on a one acre lot in Beaver. Sarah Ann had a house on the south and Louisa Ann had a house on the north. The close proximity of the two families set the stage for some interesting situations. Aunt Vera tells this story, "On one occasion grandpa engaged a man to come and build a cellar for Louisa. The gentleman went to Grandma Sarah Ann and said, 'Where do you want your cellar built, Mrs. Hales?' Grandma said she hadn't ordered a cellar, but the man insisted. Of course grandma gladly told him where she wanted it. The truth soon came out, and grandpa hired the man to make Louisa a cellar, as there wasn't too much he could do about grandma."

My grandfather, Charles Harmon Hales, the last child of George Hales and Sarah Ann Gregory Hales, was born while the families lived in Beaver. He was born on March 26, 1865. He was seventeen years old when trouble started brewing for families that practiced plural marriage.

In 1882 the Edmunds-Tucker Act was passed into law by Congress after a short but heated debate. This law was a tool whereby marshals, judges and many others associated with politics, especially where related to Utah, were used in an attempt to crush the Mormon movement. The law is yet the subject of much controversy, but it is almost unanimously agreed that the act was aimed expressly at Mormonism.

The Edmunds-Tucker Act carried penalties for two types of offenses. If a man were already married to more than one wife with whom he then lived, his offense was designated as "unlawful cohabitation." If a man already had one wife after this law was passed, and then married another wife, the offense was designated as "polygamy."

On a cool evening in March 1885, George Hales knocked at the door of Thomas Scofield. Answering the knock, Thomas discovered several of his friends, armed and anxious. George addressed Thomas in behalf of the others, "Thomas, we have just learned that a deputy marshal and several of his men are on the way to Beaver to arrest us. They have warrants for you, myself, Brother Robinson, Brother Sudweeks, and even poor old Brother Farrer. We don't know how you stand on it, Thomas, but we don't aim to give up on our families and we don't aim to be taken in, either." The law meant that they would have to renounce one of their families and this they were not willing to do.

Richard Sudweeks volunteered that he had a brother in Circleville where he could stay for awhile and Thomas was a good friend of the Parker family there. Each of the brethren came to agree that Circleville would be a good place to go, for the arm of the law was not so long in that place.

Maximillian Parker lived there and his young son, Robert Leroy Parker, better known as Butch Cassidy, had recently hit the outlaw trail.

That summer and winter the men of Beaver hid themselves in places frequented by outlaws in their attempt to keep their families intact. They wondered at times if it was worth it; they were as much away from their families as if they had surrendered. George Hales wrote Thomas Scofield, who was in hiding at Robber's Roost, "I for one am going home." With that message the men began returning to Beaver.

In May 1886 the deputy U.S. Marshal and his assistants visited Beaver again. George Hales was arrested and swore to the judge to whom he was taken that if the court would release him until he could get his affairs in order, he would appear before the next term, ready to plead guilty. This pleased the judge and he was temporarily released.

The following three months were rather uneventful. An unknown correspondent (believed to have been George Hales writing under the name of Moonshee) kept the readers of the Deseret Evening News at Salt Lake City posted on events at Beaver in connection with the activities of the lawmen in that region.

The Deseret Evening News printed a column entitled For Conscience' Sake which was devoted to those faithful Latter-day Saints who were arrested and sentenced for transgressing the Edmunds-Tucker Law. On September 18, 1886, in this column appeared the following:

George Hales pleaded guilty on September 22, 1886 and sentence was passed on September 25th in the Second District Court at Beaver. He was in his sixty-fourth year and was sentenced to four months and $300.

The judge courteously asked the brethren if they intended to keep the law in the future, but they respectfully declined to make any promises. they will start at 2:30 p.m. for the pen, with Gleason and Cudihee in charge. Moonshee.

An introduction to prison life as George must have experienced it, is found in the journal of James Henry Moyle, who served his time beginning March 1, 1886, just six months ahead of George.

Henry Dinwoodey, imprisoned about the same time that George entered the penitentiary, also kept a detailed journal of his incarceration as follows:

On a hot day in July, Moyle recorded in his journal:

While George Hales was imprisoned in the penitentiary, he was joined by Wilford Woodruff, an Apostle of the Mormon Church and later President and Prophet.

"Free again. May 30, 1887 Brother Geo. Hales, James Farrer, Wm. Robinson and Thomas Scofield of Beaver, and Richard H. Sudweeks of Junction were released today," according to the report in the Deseret News.

Once again George traveled to Beaver to rejoin his family.

Eventually the children of George and Sarah Ann Hales sought companions. Harriet married William Fotheringham and moved to Syracuse, Davis County. George married Caroline Peterson and moved to Huntington. Clara married Thomas Scofield and also moved to Syracuse.

Aunt Vera relates, "Grandpa's oldest son, my Uncle George, who was always mindful of his mother, visited her as often as he could in Beaver. On one of these visits she seemed so alone that he persuaded her to sell her home and move to Huntington with him where he and his family could take better care of her. She did go with him and took along an Indian girl named "Lizzie" Crow (Diane Elizabeth Crow), whom she had raised. My father, Charles, spent a lot of time in Huntington with his brother, George, who was more like a father to him."

The public square built in the center of town in Huntington was the focal point of recreation for many years as were similar squares in other towns of this period. The white fence around the square in Huntington was built by pioneers including William Hunter, William Cordingly, George Hales Jr., and others. During the "outlaw period" of the late 1890s many of the Robber's Roost outlaws, such as Butch Cassidy, Elsa Lay and others, made Huntington one of their main hangouts. They pretended to be cowboys looking for saddle horses and often attended sports events on the square and dances in the Social Hall. On April 21, 1897, they robbed the Pleasant Valley payroll of $8,800 at Castle Gate and escaped to the San Rafael country.

While in Huntington the Hales family became acquainted with the Burgess family. Diane Elizabeth "Lizzie" Crow married James William Burgess and Charles Harmon Hales married Eva May Burgess, the cousin of James William.

George Hales attended church on September 8, 1907 at Beaver and died later that evening. He is buried in the Beaver cemetery. Louisa Ann preceded him in death, dying on April 17, 1906 at Beaver. She is also buried in the Beaver cemetery.

Sarah Ann Gregory Hales was happy and contented in Huntington where she spent her last days. She seemed to enjoy having her grandchildren with her. She passed peacefully away on December 27, 1908 at the age of eighty-five years and was lovingly laid to rest at the Huntington cemetery.

They settled in Toronto, Canada. Here the family joined the Mormon Church. When they were first invited to attend a Mormon Meeting the father agreed to go to the service, but he said that he would soon knock that into a cocked hat. However, before the service was over he knew that he had found the truth. Soon after this the whole family was baptized.

In the spring of 1838 they started by team to join the body of the saints at Far West, Missouri, arriving in the fall of the same year. While at Far West they endured the persecutions by the mobs with the rest of the saints. It was here they first met the Prophet Joseph Smith. After their expulsion from Missouri they moved to Quincy, Illinois. There, on October 31, 1839, Harriet married John Ellis, a native of Canada, who had joined the church and emigrated to Quincy.

Four children were born to Harriet and John Ellis while they lived in Quincy; namely, Mary Ann, Hannah Isabella, Stephen Hales and John Henry. In 1842 they moved to Nauvoo where they lived until the expulsion of the saints by the mob.

Harriet's father and mother joined them to commence the journey across the plains. One day the oxen strayed away, and Harriet's father went in search of them. He became fatigued, and reaching a spring of water, he drank from it. It was later learned that the water was poisoned, and it caused his death. His wife, Mary Ann, started the journey, but she also died while crossing the plains.

They started for the Rocky Mountains in the spring of 1851, and it is believed that they were in John Taylor's company. Harriet's younger brother, Henry, and his family were also in the same company. They arrived in Salt Lake Valley in September of 1851. Harriet's sister Isabella's two sons, Joseph and Henry Horne, met them in Parley's Canyon and took them to the Horne Home. Isabella and her family had come west with the second company of pioneers in 1847.

After resting a few days they went on to Bountiful where they proceeded to make a home. Four months after their arrival a baby girl was born to the family, and she was named Harriet Louisa. They built a one room log house in which they lived for a number of years. Later, in about 1867, they built a four room adobe house. It was located a quarter of a mile south of the Wood's Cross depot. It was quite a roomy house with a large attic, and was built on their homestead. Six more children were born to the family, Joseph Ezra, Sarah Ann, Elizabeth Jane, Laura Victoria, Charles William, George Franklin (who only lived one year), and James (who died at ten months).

The family engaged in stock raising. They kept a little flock of sheep to supply wool for clothing. The wool was prepared for use by the industrious mother. She sewed for her family by hand, even making trousers for her husband and sons. She also made them straw hats by braiding the straw and sewing the braids together. They made their own soap and candles. When the grain was ready for harvest it was cut and cradled by hand. During the harvest when the men worked hard Harriet prepared lunches and a cool drink and sent them to the fields during the morning Utah, Bountiful

and afternoon. They raised sugar cane and had a molasses mill on the bench land farm. This mill was one of the first in Bountiful. Youngsters came from miles around with their pails to get the skimmings to make candy.

The Ellis home was a hospitable one. The mother, and subject of this sketch, was a capable, refined woman, and her husband was a happy, jovial man who loved young people. Naturally their fireside was often the scene of social gatherings. These two often sang together for the entertainment of their family and friends. Singing school was often held in their home.

Tragedy struck the family when the father died, after a severe illness of several months duration. He left his widow and ten surviving children. Some of the cattle and property were sold to pay the doctor bills. The mother kept her family together, and in spite of her strenuous household duties, she always found time to take an active part in church affairs. She was a Sunday School teacher for twenty-five years, and when the Relief Society was organized she served as treasurer of the ward organization. She pieced several quilt tops for the Relief Society; she was a very fine needle woman.

She was matron at the Deseret Hospital for about two years. In 1897 she went to live with her youngest daughter, Laura, and she made her home there until her death on May 24, 1910, after having been a widow for thirty-nine years.