The Hales Newsletter

Motto: United Force is Stronger

NEW SERIES Autumn 1997 Vol. 3. No. 3.

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The Hales Chronicles on the internet

News and Views

Making our records complete

In memoriam

Monte Frank Hales

Margaret Jane Weir Hales

Harry Harmon Hales

Beverly Jane Tanner Hales

Frank T. Hales new Days of 47 President

Julia Ann Lockwood Hales

Bemell Woodruff Hales

Hales Place Canterbury

Parish Register Extracts

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.

Please check your address label to determine when you need to renew your membership. Above your name is the issue and year of your last issue (i.e. Autumn 1997). When the next issue is available I purge the address list and delete those not having renewed without notice.

During the last two years a great amount of information has been made available. An address has been established where information can be exchanged. What a great way to promote this great family. Lets ensure that this will continue by renewing your membership. With your support we will

continue to grow and develop.

I continue to work on the Hales Chronicles and the next planned update to the online master files is on New Years eve. If you desire to check the latest and most current

status of this work you need to either access these files on your internet provider or find a friend that has access. It appears that the Hales Family History Society home page is being accessed approximately twice each day. The Hales Family History Society home page can be found at:

http:/ /www .hales.org/

On this home page you can determine what has been published in each back-issue of our Newsletter and to access the Hales Chronicles .

This section of our Newsletter contains the happenings that I am made aware of between issues. If you have something you wish to share, please send me the information. I depend on you for the clippings from your newspapers of anyone with our surname and your own family announcements.

When I was doing some work in the Family History Library at Salt Lake City a few weeks ago I cam across your book "Windows" and was interested in the research you have done on the Hales line. I am happy to be able to add some of it to my own family history records. I am a descendant of Charles Henry Hales and Julia Ann Lockwood who settled in Spanish Fork, Utah and their son Stephen Frederick Hales who married Hilma Caroline Johnson.

About fifteen years ago I was involved in doing some gathering of records on the Hales line. When I came across Julia Ann Lockwood I found that her father was listed as Joseph in one family group record in the archives and George in another. I began working at clearing up the discrepancy. I am enclosing the results of my research. (Note: this information is found later in this newsletter).

The reason I am writing and sending this information is to make you aware of this research. You might be interested in clearing up your records on this point. I believe your records show the discrepancy. (Note: The Hales Chronicles have been corrected).

We are searching for some histories of Charles Henry Hales and Hannah Brunyer. She was his second wife. We would like to know how they arrived in Utah. We do have quite a bit of information on his first wife, Julia Ann Lockwood. Our line comes from his second wife. I have so much enjoyed the newsletters that have come. To see what lines they are and where we fit in, if we do. It has been great.

I did access the internet today just to see if we could do it. What a high it was to see great-grandma Hales name there. It really gives me goose-bumps when the ties are made. Thank you so much for all your time that you have put into this project.

In this issue of the Hales Newsletter you will find information about Hales families of yore as well as current information. To some it may seem that while mediaeval families are interesting, there does not seem to be a connection. However, many of us are looking for ancestors in the mid-1600s. This time period is the mediaeval period. Also, the more information we can collect and enter into the Hales Chronicles, the easier it will be to find ancestors. I believe that we are beginning to be helpful to others with our collection of information.

Monte Frank Hales, loving father, grandfather, brother, nephew, uncle, cousin and friend passed away Friday, August 15, 1997 at age 68 after a long illness.

Monte was born February 26, 1929 at Kenilworth, Carbon, Utah the firstborn child of Frank and Eugenie Pettersson Hales. He was "big brother" to Elva Eugenie, Kenneth Glyn, Don Loel, Irvin Que, Nikki Mae and Julie Rae Hales.

A graduate of South High School, Monte enjoyed playing his saxophone and clarinet in several dance bands while in high school. Following high school he served a full time mission in the Southern States for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). When Monte returned from his mission, he attended classes at the University of Utah. He also enlisted in the Utah Air Force National Guard.

He married Hanne Andersen on December 1, 1951 in the Salt Lake City temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

His National Guard unit was called into active duty during the Korean War and he served in base operations at Clovis Air Force Base in New Mexico. He was honorably discharged from the Air Force as an Airman First Class.

Returning to Salt Lake City, he had a career in fire fighting with the Salt Lake City Fire Department retiring as a Captain with over 29 years of service.

Monte was active in scouting for over 30 years, earning the Silver Beaver Award for his distinguished service.

He was devoted to his church, serving two Stake Missions and working in the Jordan River Temple for many years. He was always dedicated to the endeavors he undertook and endeared his associates with his helpful attitude.

Monte is survived by his wife, Hanne; two sons, Monte Kim Hales and his wife Sally, Frank Thorvald Hales and his wife Kriste; one daughter, Lisa Hales; eight grandchildren, Erik, Kasey, Desiree, Niclas, Camron, Anna, Kolby and Elliott; two sisters, Elva Hales Norman, Nikki Hales Card and her husband Duane; both sisters of Salt Lake City; one brother, Kenneth Glyn Hales and his wife Judy of Tucson, Arizona; as well as numerous uncles, aunts, nieces, nephews, and cousins.

Funeral Services were held on Tuesday, August 19, 1997 at the Cottonwood l0th Ward of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Burial was in the Salt Lake City, City Cemetery, in the Hales Family plot near his parents, Frank and Eugenie Pettersson Hales; two brothers, Don Loel and Irvin Que Hales; and a sister, Julie Rae Hales; who preceded him in death.

Margaret Jane Weir Hales, 79, passed away on Friday, October 3, 1997 in Salt Lake City, Utah, of heart failure and attendant complications .

Margaret was born July 19, 1918 in Byron, Wyoming to Thomas and Lottie Belle Williams Weir. She spent her first 14 years in Shell, Wyoming where her father was a forest ranger. She graduated from Greybull, Wyoming High School and attended Brigham Young University briefly before serving in the Spanish American Mission from 1941 to 1943. Margaret later graduated from the University of Utah.

She married Bernell W. Hales on June 6, 1944 in the Salt Lake City Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), and lived the rest of her life in Salt Lake City, being active in the LDS Church in various callings, including: YWMIA, Relief Society, and later, Cub Scouting. She devoted her entire life to her husband and family, and insisted on always "being there", lending active, intelligent support to every worthwhile endeavor. Her deep belief in God was the source of her strong, quiet example and her Christ-like love and life of family service.

She is survived by her husband; son, Lynn B. Hales (Mary) of Salt Lake City, Utah; daughter, Janell Ruth Morris (Rich) of Overland Park, Kansas; five grandchildren, Mike, Kristin, Megan, Shaun, and Scott; a brother, Thomas T. Weir (Betty) of Bozeman, Montana; sisters, Ellen W. Layton and Leona Belle W. Tolman, both of Salt Lake City; 18 nieces and nephews and numerous grand-nieces and nephews, all of whom loved her as deeply as she loved them.

Deep gratitude is expressed to the doctors and nurses of the LDS Hospital Intensive Care Unit for their expert professional and loving care.

Funeral services were held Wednesday October 8, 1997 at the Monument Park 4^th Ward in Salt Lake City, and she was interred at the Elysian Burial Gardens.

Harry Harmon Hales, 86, passed away Wednesday evening September 17, 1997 at his home, after a long illness.

Harry was born November 14, 1910 at his family's home in Spamsh Fork, Utah to Harmon Brunyer and Hannah Boyack Hales. He married the former Mae Nelson on March 10, 1938 in the Salt Lake City Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). He spent his childhood and all of his adult life in Spanish Fork. He received his education in Spanish Fork, graduating from Spanish Fork High School. He served a mission for the LDS Church in the Northern States Mission. He was a dedicated member of the LDS Church serving in seven bishoprics, holding numerous positions in the Aaronic and Melchizedek Priesthood, and doing work in temples with his sweetheart. He worked as a farmer on the Spanish Fork east bench, also for the Utah and Idaho Sugar Company, the Del Monte Cannery, as a school bus driver for the Nebo School District, and for the LDS Church. After retiring, he enjoyed his family, fishing trips, rides and working in his yard.

Harry is survived by his wife, Mae Nelson Hales, of Spanish Fork, Utah; daughter, Marie H. Zabriskie, of Spanish Fork; sons, H. Brent (Dorothy) Hales of Riverton, Utah; Mont N. (Rose) Hales of Spanish Fork; 12 grandchildren, and 11 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents, two sisters, and three brothers.

Funeral services were held on Monday, September 22, 1997 at the Spanish Fork 4^th – 7th Ward Chapel and interment was in the Spanish Fork City Cemetery.

Beverly Jane Tanner Hales, age 69, passed away Wednesday, December 20, 1995 at her home in Sandy, Utah of liver cancer.

She was born January 5, 1926 in Magna, Utah to Rulon Jacob and Effie Rosella Cook. Married Wayne R. Hales, April 12, 1946 in Pamona, California and again three days later in the Arizona Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

She enjoyed arts, crafts and sewing. Her special interest was camping with her family.

Survived by her husband, Wayne; five children, Sharon (Dale) Rhodes; Susie (Gary) Price; Gary (Lynda) Hales; Dennis (Nikki) Hales; Donald (Susan) Hales; 21 grandchildren; six great grandchildren; brother, Rulon J. (Donna) Tanner.

Private funeral services were held on Saturday, December 23, 1995 at the Wasatch Lawn Mortuary, and burial was in the Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Frank T. Hales has been elected as the president of the Days of 47 – the organization that plans and directs all activities associated with July 24th, Pioneer Day, in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Succeeding Skip Harmon who passed away in July, Frank had served for many years as treasurer and as a vice president of the Days of 47. Frank was responsible this year for the parade and rodeo directly and was involved in many other areas of this 150 year anniversary of the arrival of the Pioneers in Utah.

Frank is married to the former Kriste Baxter and is the father of three sons and one daughter: Niclas, Camron, Anna and Kolby.

The biographical sketch written by Clara Hales Mordue, a granddaughter, was the first to be examined. In this sketch we learned that in the very early years of Julia Ann's life, some time before her eighth birthday, her parents were separated. Legal divorces were not customary in that time and location so we drew no information from that source. The reason given for the separation was that Julia Ann's mother, Annis Gillett Barlow Lockwood, had been converted to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon) and her husband could not see the "truths of the Gospel." This was all that was written in this sketch about her father. There was no name mentioned.

The next source of information examined was "The Israel Barlow Story." Compiled by the Barlow Family Organization, this book is a very well written history. In this history some very good information on Annis Gillett Barlow Lockwood is given, but the information about Julia Ann's father is sketchy and full of speculation. This story relates that Julia Ann's mother was first married to Jonathan Barlow, who died in 1820, leaving a family of six children for Annis to raise – ranging from Israel Barlow, 14, to the youngest being less than a month old (the firstborn child, Nathaniel Otis Barlow, born in 1805 died March 24, 1806 is not included in this group of six children). It is believed that perhaps in the fall of 1821 Annis married a George Lockwood, no doubt hoping to keep the family together and feeling perhaps that the burden on Israel, 15, and his brother Jonathan Watson, 13, would be somewhat reduced. Annis was "blessed" with two more babies: George Gillett Lockwood, born about 1822/23, and Julia Ann Lockwood, born 10 August 1824.

This family group sheet information, printed in the Israel Barlow History, lists that Julia Ann's father was George – this is believed to be incorrect.

Annis and her children moved from Canandaigua, New York, Julia's birthplace, to Mendon, Monroe, New York in 1824. This town of 2,012 people was located about 15 miles northwest from Canandaigua, 15 miles west from Manchester, 5 miles southwest from Palmyra and the Hill Cumorah, and 15 miles south of Rochester, therefore, right in the heart of early Mormon country. It is here where Annis and her children were taught the gospel and were baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The family, from that time on, moved with the body of the church as it made its way westward. First to Kirtland, Ohio; then to Missouri; up to Nauvoo; and finally to the Salt Lake Valley.

The Israel Barlow story relates that two Mormon elders, names unknown, visited the Barlow family in Mendon (after the church was organized in 1830 and when Israel was about 23). He has been quoted as saying, "If I could just see this Joseph Smith I think I could detect if he is a prophet." Shortly thereafter he drove in a buggy 200 miles to visit with the Prophet for a few days. After he had talked with him two or three hours he said he knew that he was a Prophet of God. Undoubtedly this visit was made in early March of 1832 when the Prophet was at Hiram, Ohio at what is now known as Revelation Farm.

At this time Julia Ann was a child of seven. The entire family, excepting for Julia Ann, who was too young, was baptized soon after Israel's return home. In the spring of 1832 they are included as members of the church branch at Mendon – which numbered about 50, including children.

– Ora H. Barlow 1968

Charles Henry Hales states that he first became acquainted with Julia Ann Lockwood at Huntsville, Randolph, Missouri in the summer of 1838 where he worked from June until September. They were married on October 31, 1839 at Quincy, Illinois. In his words, "We arrived in the State of Missouri in the early part of June, coming to a place called Huntsville. 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."

When researching the Lockwood name in New England, it was found that most if not all, Lockwoods in America descend from Robert Lockwood.

The history that brought to light the connection that was of greatest interest to us was the Genealogy of the Lockwood Families, compiled by Holden and Dunbar (Family History Library film number 0000551). We get one of our best leads on the identity of Julia Ann's father through this record and we get it in a round about manner. The extractions from this record as printed below show that Julia Ann's brother George is listed with a different mother than Annis Gillett. One theory is that when the separation of the parents came, George went with his father and became somewhat disassociated with Julia Ann and his mother. The information of this source very likely came from a probate record.

549. Joseph Lockwood (Robert¹ Gershom² Joseph³ Joseph⁴), born in Greenwich, Connecticut, Thursday, January 9th, 1755, and died at an advanced age, in Cazenovia, New York; son of Joseph and Charity (Knapp) Lockwood; married Margaret Matthewson. '"He enlisted in Capt. Thomas Hobby's Company, June 30th, 1775, and was discharged December 13th, 1775." (Conn. in the Revolution, p. 66.)

CHILDREN VI. GENERATION

1219. Matthewson Bertrard Lockwood, m. Lucy Gilbert.

1220. Marvin Lockwood.

1221. Margaret Lockwood, m. Horace Bills, Rochester, New York.

1222. Sarah Lockwood, m. Milo Hough, Cazenovia, New York.

1223. Georqe Gillette Lockwood, m. Olive Elmira Merchant.

(All the children were dead in 1886)

The following letter from George Gillett Lockwood to his sister Julia Ann and brother-in-law Charles Henry Hales was found several years ago in the home of Grace Hayward during a renovation project. This home was built by Charles Henry for his wife Julia Ann and her family. There was not a complete date on the letter but it is judged to have been written sometime around 1885. Several words were omitted because of difficulty in reading the handwriting.

San Francisco July 23, 18..

Dear brother and sister

I embrace this early opportunity to write you and let know where I am. I received your letter some 2 weeks before I left St. Louis. I was glad to hear from you and learn that you were all well. I can say the same. I left St. Louis 3 weeks ago coming Saturday. I left my old place to accept one here. I don't know as I should do any better, but I wanted to see California, so off I started. Not before I had a situation engaged for I am to old to go off on a wild goose chase for I left a situation of 25 dollars per week in greenbacks for 25 in gold here. I can live just as cheap here as in St. Louis and it matters but little to me where I am as all I hope for on this earth is a living. It is all I get anyway. I came here by the two Pacific R.R. I came nearer you than I ever expect to again, unless I should some time return the same way. I am here all alone. Mary, my oldest girl is in Waterloo, Iowa with her aunt. Gargen, the youngest girl (the spelling of this name was hard to decipher – this is probably Georgie Comella Lockwood) is at school in a convent in St. Louis. Wm. H. Lockwood, my only son is married and lives in Buffalo. He has a daughter ... old. My wife is in St. Louis. I should send for them this fall if I conclude to stay here. When I was at Deseret I wanted to stop over and go and see Israel but I had no time for I was already 2 weeks behind time. So I rushed thru as soon as I could. I was seven days from point to point. Time somewhat shortened from what it was when you came to Salt Lake City. When it took you three months to come. Now but little more than 3 days to where you are, time works wonders. I should have liked to have made you a visit but I don't even expect to see you or my dear sister. Oh how I do want to see Julia once more but it seems as if it is not to be. I know there is not a person who thinks more of a sister than I do but I have always been obliged to work hard for a living and have had but little time to spend visiting. Since I was at your house in Nauvoo I think I have not been idle one month is all I have had ... employment and I have been obliged to work in order to live for 18 years. Elmira was ain invalid which took nearly all I could earn to get along in bringing up my family decently. No one knows but myself what I have had to endure and all without a murmur Elmira altho sick. You never know the value of a good wife until you have lost her or been deprived of her company. I have written to Israel. Does he ever speak of me. There seems to be a coldness on his part for I have written to him and received no answer. I am ... to write again. Direct your letter to G. G . Lockwood, 516 Sacrament Street, upstairs. Write soon,

In this letter we learn several important facts that helps us in making the "Lockwood Connection. "Brother George names his children which match the information given in the following Lockwood entry.

1223. George Gillette Lockwood (Robert¹ Gershom² Joseph³ Joseph⁴ Joseph⁵), born July 15th, 1823, died 1886, in San Francisco, California; son of Joseph and Margaret (Matthewson) Lockwood; went to the Pacific Coast; m. in May, 1844, at Cazenovia, New York, Olive Elmira Merchant. She was born August 8^th, 1826, at Fenner, Madison County, New York, and was daughter of William Henry Merchant, whose wife was a Sackett.

CHILDREN VII. GENERATION

(All born in Cazenovia, New York)

2132. William Henry Lockwood, born January 16th, 1846, m. Laura Cook.

2133. Mamie Elizabeth Lockwood, born September 16th, 1848, m. J. H. Josselyn.

2134. Georgie Cornella Lockwood, born July 3d, 1851, m. Joel S. Josselyn.

The following extraction from the Israel Barlow History affirms George's visit in Utah that he mentions in the letter to Julia Ann.

Using the same Genealogy of the Lockwood Families as a source to try to find a George as a possible father of Julia Ann there was only one that had the right vital statistics. (It should be noted that this George Lockwood did not have a daughter named Julie Ann).

1050. George Lockwood (Robert^l Ephraim² Joseph³ Joseph⁴ Joseph⁵ Stephen⁶), born July 29^th, 1793, in Norwalk, Conn.; died July 6th, 1860; son of Stephen and Sarah (Betts) Lockwood; m. 1st, 1813, Mary Cannon, born February 6th, 1792, died 1835; m. 2d, 1835, Jane Osborn, born July 2d, 1810; she is alive (1888) in good health.

CHILDREN VII. GENERATION

Children of first wife.

1937. James Cannon Lockwood, born 1814, m. Louisa Choate, living at Milan.

1938. Mary Elizabeth Lockwood, born 1818, died 1828.

1939. George Lockwood, born 1821, died 1825.

1940. Maltby Betts Lockwood, born 1824 died 1825.

1941. Sarah Lockwood, born 1826, m. Stephen A. Lockwood.

1942. Mary Elizabeth Lockwood, born 1828, m. James D. Smith.

1943. George Malt by Lockwood, born 1832, died 1835.

1944. Frederick Lockwood, born 1835, died 1835.

Children of second wife.

1945. Jane Eliza Lockwood, born 1838, died 1850.

1946. Harriet Antoinette Lockwood, born 1840, m. Sylvanus J. Reynolds.

1947. Helen Augusta Lockwood, born 1843, died 1849.

1948. George Osborn Lockwood, born 1847, died 1852.

1949. Frederick Parsons Lockwood, born 1849, died 1850.

Because we are dealing with undocumented evidence we can only draw our conclusions from the feelings we have inside. Julia Arm father's identity has always been unsure because of the circumstances surrounding his separation from the family. The records show Joseph was considerably older than Annis. She was a widow with six young children, that in itself would demand a lot from even a normal marriage. Couple this with a new religion and you have understandable causes for separation. As years pass and memories fade, names and places become uncertain. We must take this into consideration when we view the findings in this "Lockwood Connection." One very real thing we can depend on was the strong, courageous life of Julia Ann Lockwood Hales. As we have researched many records we find a heritage to be proud of.

The following history of Julia Ann written by Grace Hayward as told to her by her mother Clara Hales Mordue.

Julia Ann Lockwood was born in Kenedway (Canandaigua), New York, August 10, 1824. Shortly after her birth her parents were separated. Her father could not see or understand the beautiful truths of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Grandmother was shifted about making her home with first one relative and then another. Never knowing what a home and the love of a father and mother were. At the age of eight she was baptized into the Mormon Church by Parley P. Pratt.

When she was only fifteen she married Charles Henry Hales at Ouincy, Illinois on October 31, 1839. They moved around with the saints from one place to another until they were finally driven west, out into the desert. They left everything as it was, taking only what was necessary for their family of eight.

Grandmother walked all the way across the plains, her oldest daughter Eliza Ann driving the team. They reached Salt Lake in the fall of 1852. Grandmother was a member of the Relief Society and was always one of its active members, always willing and ready to serve her sister and aid anyone in need. For some time she served as president of the Relief Society of Spanish Fork. Her kind and loving disposition won her many friends. While living in Nauvoo, grandmother Hales was a very near friend and neighbor of Emma Smith, the prophet's wife. She also knew the prophet very well.

Grandmother and family first came to Spanish Fork in 1858. Here she worked hard caring for her twelve children and assisting grandfather in making a home. They had little or nothing to eat and were glad for a few I seamless sacks to make dresses and trousers out of. In spite of their poverty and hardships, grandmother's children grew to strong healthy men and women – each taking a mate and raising families of their own. All but her daughter Isabell, who was killed by the Indians while on her way to her home in Southern Utah. Her husband and his brother were also killed. This was a great shock, but grandmother was faithful and true to the end, ever putting her trust in God.

Grandmother closed her eyes February 18, 1902 in that last long slumber and thus departed out of this life a wonderful wife and mother and a true Latter-day Saint.

From time to time while going through my boxes of information on the Hales Family I discover sketches that I have not previously published. This sketch is of a Hales stalwart, the first person that responded by mail when I first published the Hales Newsletter (Old Series) beginning in March of 1970.

Bernell Woodruff Hales was born on March 4, 1896 in a small log house in Rexburg, Idaho, to Franklin A. and Lucy E. Hales, the second son in a family of six. According to glowing reports from his mother, he was a sweet tempered baby. As he grew he was always quite obedient, but showed an independent spirit which he carried throughout his lifetime. His father was a farmer, so Bernell was trained in all the chores which fall to the lot of a farmer's son. He hated to ride the cultivator horse and one time got caught on the fork of the derrick which carried hay to the top of the stack. While he was unhurt, he always recalled this incident with great displeasure.

When he was twelve, his family moved to the Salt Lake City area where he went to school and engaged in various enterprises on the side in order to earn the money he felt he needed to be independent. When he applied to the Western Union for a job as a messenger, the manager told him that if he could write his name, he could work for him. Bemell perched on a high stool, promptly wrote his name, and so he was hired. He had studied the violin before he left Idaho, and inasmuch as he loved to cultivate his musical talents, he soon played well enough to be invited to join the city orchestra. His mother loved to relate how she was watching a parade on the 24th of July one year, and how astonished she was to see her young son astride a big wide horse as a member of that group.

His interest in music fed his desire to learn more. Thus, when he was twenty years old, and had accumulated enough money to sustain himself, he went to New York City to continue his study. He had only been there a few days, however, when war was declared and he immediately joined the army. He was assigned to the band on Governors Island where he played the clarinet and saxophone – instruments which he had mastered in spite of the fact that he had never received any formal training with these.

Bemell apparently enjoyed his life in the army, made many new friends, and worked with such well-known men as Percy Granger and others. The band, which was a good one, was used extensively to promote all patriotic projects, so the time went fast. After he was discharged, he didn't stay in New York as planned, but returned home to continue his education. He also had occasion to renew his, old friendship with Elda Sessions, which soon developed into a romance, and they were married shortly thereafter. At that time he was offered work in Elko, Nevada, as a cashier with the Western Pacific freight house. How they both loved Elko! They were members of the first branch of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints established there. While at Elko two children were born to them: a boy, Bernell Jr. and a little girl, Barbara. They lived in Elko six years, and then, feeling it was not quite the place to raise children, they moved back to Salt Lake City to take up a position offered him there. In the meantime, they had two more children, both boys: Sherman Dean, who died at age 2 ½ and Dell Reese.

Bernell continued to work for the railroad, which fascinated him, until the Great Depression. Then, in spite of his long seniority, he was replaced by his boss, who of course, had been there longer. This was a difficult time for him because he had always been so busy with his work and music. Now there was absolutely nothing. However, after a year of enforced idleness, he secured an appointment with the Justice Department where his career and lifelong work was centered in the U.S. Immigration Service. He enjoyed this work also, but was not very happy when he was transferred to San Francisco in 1953. It was not long, however, before he began to like everything about it but the weather. When it became obvious his assignment would become permanent, a home was purchased in the Twin Peaks area.

But a few isolated historical facts cannot describe fully a man who was an ever-loving husband and devoted father. Ambitious, eager for improvement, he was always studying something, practicing his music, learning to speak other languages and so on. Nothing was ever slighted. Whatever he did, he gave his entire attention to it, never leaving anything half-finished or done in a haphazard way.

Bernell was even-tempered and humorous, often easing a tense situation with his wit. He was able to command the love and respect of all who worked with him. He was patriotic, loved his country, and believed in the Constitution with a passion. This great land and its principles was important to him. His time was never wasted on trivial matters.

He loved the Lord and kept the commandments to the best of his ability – his devotion to his church never wavered. Bemell Woodruff Hales died on April 23, 1977 and he was buried in the Bountiful, Utah, City Cemetery.

When King James II came to the throne, Edward Hales had not long succeeded his father as 3rd Baronet. Some ten years before he had bought a house near Saint Stephen's Church from Colonel Thomas Culpeper which had been built for Sir Roger Manwood, an Elizabethan Judge who presided at the trial of St. Cuthbert Mayne. In medieval times the area had been associated with the Arch-deacons of Canterbury, following Simon Langton.

Sir Edward had inherited the site of Saint Augustine's Abbey from his mother's family, the Woottons, and may have inherited the Catholic faith also. He became a Catholic and was a friend of the Catholic King. He is mentioned in history books because of the test case of Godden vs Hales, which resulted from his position of Colonel of "Sir Edward Hales Regiment" (afterwards the West Yorkshires).

In 1668 he tried to help King James II leave the country , but they were foiled by men from Faversham. Sir Edward was imprisoned before joining his king in exile. King James II rewarded him with the title of Earl of Tenterden, which was not recognized by the Hanoverians. He died in France in 1695 and was succeeded by his second son, John Hales (his eldest son had been killed at the Boyne).

John Hales is remembered by a plaque on the comer of Longport which marks his gift to the city of an improved water supply. He withdrew his sons from Douay, and lapsed from the faith, although his children did not. He allowed his eldest son to die in a debtor's prison and he died as a recluse in 1744.

The son of Sir Edward Hales, 5th Baronet, also Sir Edward Hales, the 6th Baronet, could not afford to finish the mansion as planned and demolished parts of the unfinished building. The building of the new mansion exacerbated the on-coming decline in the wealth once held by the Hales Family. He died in 1829 and the baronetcy became extinct.

The heir to the Hales estates was Edward de Morlaincourt the son of Sir Edward Hales, 6th Baronet's sister, Mary. He took the name Hales, but died in 1837. This Edward Hales (alias de Morlaincourt) had only one daughter. Thus, the heiress to the estates was his daughter, Mary Barbara Felicity Hales, who was born in France of a French mother in 1835. Mary inherited the property in 1837 when she was only one year old. An inconveniently religious woman, when she became of age in 1858 she entered a French Carmelite convent and in 1859 became Sister Mary Clare.

The Hales family was wealthy since Sir Edward Hales 1st Baronet (died 1654) had become the wealthiest man in Kent. But from the time of the Civil Wars more of their properties in Kent and elsewhere were increasingly being sold to raise money. Sister Mary Clare was new to wealth and had ideas of her own.

Determined to build a convent at Hales Place, after she had been professed and taken the solemn vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, Sister Mary Clare transferred from Paris to the English Carmelite convent at Valognes.

Although a nun under the vow of poverty, the Church authorities allowed her to continue to administer her estates and in 1863 work began on a convent at Hales Place. She attempted – until her self-willed and uncompromising temperament ruined the plan – to bring the Carmelite nuns to Canterbury. The convent was never completed. It seems that the trustees of the estate objected, and Sister Mary Clare's superior found her difficult to work with. The Carmelites found themselves able to establish a convent elsewhere and Sister Mary was asked to return to France, to her convent, in September 1864.

Having failed in her first scheme, Sister Mary Clare decided to seek release from her order and in 1865 she succeeded – as a result of a journey to Rome. She had never been obedient and could hardly be called poor . (Miss Hales was assisted by Monsignor George Talbot who obtained two audiences for her).

Slightly above and to the north-west of the mansion house the old dove cote had been converted by Miss Hales into a small chapel (this is its nomenclature on the 1847 Tithe Commutation Map. In 1776 it was called a Belvedere). This circular building with its curious construction, using flint and brick and decorated with animal knuckle bones, was converted later by the Jesuits into a mortuary chapel and still later the "petite chapelle rustique" was given to the Catholic parish of Canterbury.

Although no longer a nun, Mary Barbara Felicity Hales still wanted to establish a religious order at Hales Place and made it available to the Benedictines of Ramsgate. Previously, on her return from Rome some Benedictine nuns came to Hales Place and resided in the mansion for a few years.

They left, however, and Miss Hales again must have thought about the usefulness of Hales Place to the monks of Ramsgate. In 1876 it seems that "Saint Benedict's Priory" would be the novitiate for a Benedictine monistery at Tenterden. The deed of gift to the Benedictines was dated March 15, 1879, but by that time Miss Hales had little to give.

Hales Place was sold by Miss Hales' mortgagees. The contents of the mansion were mentioned in August of 1880. Miss Hales spent the last years of her life in poverty at Sarre Court and died there in 1885. The estate was bought by Jesuits exiled from France because of the policy of the Third Republic.

The Jesuits opened "Saint Mary's College" as a boys boarding school on November 22, 1880. When Catherine Williamson made an official visit to Paris as Mayor of Canterbury in July of 1939 she met several former pupils (see Though the Streets Burn, page 82). The school requirements meant that the mansion and chapel had to be enlarged and a new wing was built.

The school closed in June of 1890 and the premises were used by the Jesuits as a juvenate and novitiate. However, in 1897 the noviate left for France, followed by the juvenate in 1898. For a few years Hales Place became a convent again, with the French Sisters of Notre Dame, but in 1901 Jesuits of the Lyons province arrived.

Hales Place was a theological seminary until 1906 when it became a juvenate and novitiate again. In 1914, however, it was to Hales Place that Tellhard de Chardin came to begin his "third Year." The war shortened his stay. During the war Hales Place served in part as a military hospital, whilst many of its former students served France.

After the war the Jesuits were able to return home and from 1923 they sought to find a purchaser for Hales Place, who would make use of the buildings. They were unsuccessful. In 1927 the estate was sold to Mr. R. A. Dagnall (of London Mortar Mills). In January and February of 1928 the contents of the buildings were sold. The High Altar from the chapel went to the Catholic church in Dulwich, and the "Pieta " is now in the Hales Place Chapel of Saint Stephen's.

The Jesuits had made arrangements for the upkeep of the chapel with Mr. Dagnall, but these seem to have been negated by his subsequent bankruptcy. The c cemetery and chapel passed into the care of the parish priest of Saint Thomas and this small part of the estate now belongs to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Southwark.

The little chapel is now a listed building in England and has been thoroughly restored. Since 1984 the property of the Canterbury City Council, it is now used as a center of Ecumenical worship.

What follows is extracted Hales references in the parish registers. It has been many years since I originally had the records searched by our Record Agent, Raymond E. Stokes, of Cobham, Kent, England. When this work was done the availability of records from Kent were scanty – a bit more than thirteen percent were filmed by the Family History Library, hence the need for someone in England to look at them. Now many more are available from the library at Salt Lake and it is time to look again.

When some of these films arrived, I discovered that the very early pages are not readable – the aging process of the paper has rendered them mostly useless. I have spent many hours looking and extracting what I can. It has taken four months to look at four films.

23 MAR 1617/8 Humphrey, son of John Hales, Gent.

26 DEC 1620 William, son of John Hales, Gent.

27 JAN 1622 Edward, son of John Hales, Gent.

27 DEC 1663 John, son of William and Margaret Hales

12 MAR 1671/2 Jone, daughter of Edward and Susan Hails

06 MAR 1677/8 Elizabeth, daughter of Edward and Elizabeth Hales

23 APR 1682 Edward, son of Edward and Elizabeth Hales

10 FEE 1683/4 Edward, son of Edward Hales

23 NOV 1684 William, twin son of Edward and Elizabeth Hales

23 NOV 1684 Mary, twin daughter Edward and Elizabeth Hales

29 JAN 1689 Edward, son of Edward and Elizabeth Hales

29 JAN 1689 Francis, son of Edward and Elizabeth Hales

03 FEE 1793 Richard, son of Richard and Anne Hales

11 OCT 1807 Mary Ann, daughter of John and Mary Hale

27 DEC 1818 Elizabeth Collins, daughter of Sarah Hales, widow

06 FEE 1820 Ann, daughter of John and Anne Hailes

02 MAY 1824 John George, son of Ann Hale

14 NOV 1676/7 Edward Hales and Elizabeth Lettis

04 JAN 1813 Richard Hales and Sarah Wells

24 OCT 1616 Anthony, son of John Hales, Gent.

06 JUL 1618 Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Hales of Kenardington

04 FEE 1637/8 Thomas, son of Thomas Hale, a stranger

12 MAR 1663 Mary, wife of Thomas Hails

15 JAN 1675/6 John, son of William Hales

10 FEE 1684 Edward, son of Edward Hales, infant

1685/6 Mary, daughter of Edward Hales

1686/7 William, son of Edward Hales

15 DEC 1689 Edward, son of Edward Hales

03 FEE 1691/2 Mrs. Hales, a poor old widow

19 MAY 1703 Elizabeth, wife of Edward Hales

11 DEC 1814 Richard Hales, age 22

19 JUN 1818 Mary Ann Hales of Harrietham, age 50

27 NOV 1614 Elizabeth, daughter of William Hales

23 FEE 1622/3 Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Hales

20 JUL 1628 Robert, son of Robert Hales

24 JUN 1577 Phillip Hale and Katherine Joanes

10 FEE 1592/3 John Halle and Annis Cole

20 SEP 1619 Thomas Hales and Jeane Hawker

29 NOV 1621 Jane Hales and James Young

19 JUN 1620 William Hales

10 JUL 1620 Thomas Hales

29 MAR 1631 Susan, wife of Robert Hales

20 SEP 1664 Elizabeth Hales of Ickham .

70 AUG 1620 Robert Hales, son of William

09 NOV 1750 Ann, daughter of Patrick and Rebecca Hales

10 MAY 1752 Thomas, son of Patrick and Rebecca Hales

30 DEC 1753 Elizabeth, daughter of Patrick and Rebecca Hales

14 MAR 1756/7 Jeffery, son of Patrick and Rebecca Hales

19 MAR 1758 Sarah, daughter of Patrick and Rebecca Hales

17 JUL 1761 John, son of Patrick and Rebecca Hales

03 SEP 1762 Thomas, son of Patrick and Rebecca Hales

24 MAR 1765 Robert, son of Patrick and Rebecca Hales

20 JUL 1768 John, son of Patrick and Rebecca Hales

23 JUN 1782 Bartholomew, son of Jeffery and Elizabeth Hales

06 OCT 1805 Frederic, son of Henry and Hannah Hales

06 JAN 1773 Elizabeth HALES and Philip Styles

03 OCT 1784 Peter Back, widower and Sarah Hales, widow by banns

25 DEC 1785 Thomas Hales and Jude Downe

21 JUL 1792 William Hales of Hartlip and Frances Tomlin of this parish by banns

22 APR 1797 Henry Hales, batchelor and Hannah Kitney, spinster by banns

31 JAN 1615/6 Richard Hales

14 NOV 1750 Ann, daughter of Patrick and Rebecca Hales

22 OCT 1752 Thomas Hales

16 NOV 1753 Elizabeth Hale, child

01 JUL 1760 Sarah Hales, small pox

10 JAN 1762 John Hales

24 JAN 1768 Robert Hales

27 NOV 1768 John Hales

20 MAY 1783 Bartholomew Hales, infant

21 JUN 1786 Patrick Hales, pauper

08 DEC 1791 Lawrence Hales

16 MAR 1566 Ann Susan, daughter of Arnold Haille, Gentleman

22 ...1572 Mary, daughter of Arnold Haille, Gentleman

25 JUN 1574 Elizabeth, daughter of Arnold Haille, Gentleman

26 FEB 1625 James, son of Edward Hail

08 JAN 1628 Anne, daughter of Edward Haille

09 MAR 1640 Alice, daughter of Francis and Anne Haills

21 OCT 1759 Mary, daughter of Thomas and Mary Hales

21 JAN 1761 Ann, daughter of Thomas and Mary Hales and Mary

13 DEC 1762 Thomas, son of Thomas and Mary Hales

06 JAN 1764/5 Sarah, daughter of Thomas and Mary Hales

08 MAR 1766/7 William, son of Thomas and Mary Hales

06 JAN 1767/8 Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas and Mary Hales

01 MAR 1772 Richard, son of Thomas and Sarah Hales

04 JUL 1774 Lawrence, son of Thomas and Sarah Hales

28 MAY 1775 Rebecca, daughter of Thomas and Sarah Hales

07 NOV 1782? Martha, daughter of Mary Hales

13 JAN 1784 John, son of Thomas and Sarah Hales

07 APR 1724 John Hales of Boxley and Mary Foster of Frinsted

1758 Thomas Hales of Frinsted and Mary Clinch of Bredgar

19 NOV 1771 Thomas Hales and Sarah Hodges both of this Parish by banns.

18 JAN 1602/3 Emme Haile

1606 Thomas Haile of Waden

24 JUN 1609 Thomas Haule

30 JUL 1615 Ann, wife of Thomas Hayle

01 JUN 1624 Ann, wife of Thomas Haile

24 AUG 1638 Alyce, wife of Nicholas Eeles

26 APR 1696 Martha, daughter of Thomas Haile

03 OCT 1770 Mary, wife of Thomas Hales

31 DEC 1775 Rebecca, daughter of Thomas and Sarah Hales

..MAY 1781 Martha Hales, an infant

10 APR 1788 Thomas Hales

30 JUL 1796 Thomas, son of Margaret Hales, infant

27 NOV 1841 Thomas Hales of Borden, aged 78

(Note: Since there is a known Nicholas Hales at Yalding, and since I could not find any entries for him, I have listed who might be this Nicholas. It should be remembered that sometimes the leading "H" is silent with some English accents).

04 JAN 1578 Emme a child of Thomas Haile

18 FEE 1576 Martha a child of Thomas Haile

23 APR 1581 Ann a child of Thomas Haile

22 DEC 1583 Mary a child of Thomas Haile

01 JAN 1613 Margery, daughter of Nicholas Haile of Mereworth

13 DEC 1640 John, son of Nicholas Eeles

07 AUG 1642 William, son of Nicholas Eeles

16 FEE 1644/5 Richard, son of Nicholas Eeles

01 FEE 1670/1 William, son of Nicholas Eeles

28 FEE 1671/2 Mary, daughter of Nicholas Eeles

29 OCT 1676 Richard, son of Nicholas Eeles

20 APR 1684 Frances, daughter of Nicholas Eeles

09 JUN 1695 Mary, daughter of Nicholas Eeles, Jr.

25 MAR 1693/4 John, son of Jacob Hales

30 MAR 1696 Elizabeth, daughter of Jacob Hales

28 MAY 1699 Jacob, son of Jacob Hales (born 2 MAY)

15 MAR 1701/2 Thomas, son of Jacob Hales (born 2 MAR)

04 JUN 1703 Stephen, son of Jacob Hales (born 29 MAY)

20 APR 1707 Mary, daughter of Jacob Hales

29 JAN 1710 Ann, daughter of John Eeles

21 FEB 1710/11Robert, son of Jacob Hales (born 12 JAN)

20 DEC 1713 Henry, son of Jacob Hales

02 OCT 1714 Richard, son of John Eeles

24 AUG 1729 Thomas, son of Elizabeth (Hales) Dove

01 NOV 1575 Thomas Haile and Elizabeth Kemp

12 SEP 1603 Richard Rogers and Ann Haile

08 JUN 1607 Nicholas Haile and Mary Haile

05 JUL 1624 Thomas Haile and Annis Taster, widow

16 JUL 1629 George Sherbroke and Ann Hayle

02 DEC 1638 Nicholas Eeles and Mary Shepherd

03 JUL 1676 William Eeles and Elizabeth Palmer

08 OCT 1695 William Bocton and Mary Eeles

07 NOV 1717 John Dove and Elizabeth Hales

18 OCT 1765 John Hales of East Farleigh, batchelor and Mary Foreman, Spinster of this parish

26 APR 1596 Martha, daughter of Thomas Haile

18 JAN 1602 Emme, daughter of Thomas Haile

30 JUL 1615 Ann, wife of Thomas Haile

01 JUN 1625 ...wife of Thomas Haile

24 JUN 1627 Thomas Hale a householder

12 FEB 1670/1 William, son of Nicholas Eeles

19 FEB 1688/9 Frances, daughter of Nicholas Eeles

08 MAR 1700 Richard Eeles

15 SEP 1702 Frances, wife of Nicholas Eeles

28 OCT 1704 Nicholas Eeles

24 JUN 1725 Ann, daughter of Jacob Hales

22 OCT 1738 Jane Eale

19 SEP 1741 Thomas Hales

04 NOV 1741 Jacob Hales

210CT 1746 Jacob Hales

06 FEB 1752 Elizabeth Hales, widow

13 NOV 1761 Henry Hales

21 SEP 1773 Mary Hale from Mr. Millers