The Hales Newsletter

Motto: United Force is Stronger

NEW SERIES Summer 2000 Vol. 5. No. 2.

Membership

The Hales Chronicles on the internet

News and Views

email Correspondence

In Memoriam

Clara Schofield Warner

James Andrew Hales

Descendants of Lewis Henry Hales

The George Elon Hales Family of Ohio

Burton Elon Hales

Edwin Raymond Hales

Dora Belle Hales Berk

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.

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.

This Hales Newsletter is the second issue of volume 5. Please make sure that your mailing label indicates when your subscription will expire. If it indicates anything earlier than volume 5 number 2 this will be the last issue that you get unless you renew your subscription.

Since that last Newsletter I have extracted the 1910 and 1920 census records for North Carolina. Since this state has the most Hales families, with Utah having the second most Hales families, the Hales Chronicles now has at least a trace of every Hales family. Take a look. If your family is not there or if you need to update what is there, I would appreciate the information.

I am now in the process of looking at each record and resolving conflicts before I publish the Second Edition of the Hales Chronicles at the end of this year.

I update these records with additions and corrections weekly. Since the First Edition of The Hales Chronicles in 1995 there have been many additions, corrections, and other changes. I would appreciate any additional information or changes you can send me – they would benefit from your attention. You can access them at:

http://www.hales.org/

or do a search on: The Hales Family History Society.

Since the last Newsletter I have completed extracting the 1850 census records for all Hales, Hails, Hailes and Hayles families for the states of: Alabama, Arkansas, North Carolina. This was done using internet census records.

The information from these census records has been added to the Hales Chronicles and the on-line files have been updated. In some cases new families have been added. In other cases families that were already in the Hales Chronicles have been updated.

Also since the last Newsletter I have completed extracting all Hales, Hails, Hailes and Hayles male names from the Social Security Death Index. This information has also been used to add to or to update the Hales Chronicles.

A problem with this project was female names. The Social Security Death Index lists females by married names. There is no way to determine the husbands from these records. Also it would be impossible to look at all married names of our females, so this project ended up with the extraction of only males.

Thank to the internet and the exposure it gives to many doing Hales research around the world, The Hales Chronicles have been able to assist many in finding their ancestral lines. In addition, information sent to me has helped to update some of our records and add information to our Hales Chronicles. A sample of the internet communications since the last Newsletter follows:

Thank you so much for making a copy of the James Hales, Sr. of Knox County, Kentucky booklet and sending it to me. I really appreciate it. I didn't know if you would be interested in this or not, but I got an email from a lady that told me about the Hale(s) Cemetery. There is a place on the Road Fork of Stinking Creek in Knox County that is called Hales Creek and there is an old cemetery there on the "old Hale(s) home place" where a number of Hales are buried.

When I was a little girl (1960s) there used to be memorial services there every year and everyone would go and decorate the graves and have "church" on the cemetery and dinner in the bottom. The last time I was there was in 1974 or 1975. Since then the old timers have died and the land up in there has

been sold or rented and it is not a good idea to venture up in there without getting permission.

There are many others buried up there besides Hales but that is the part of Knox that I know of where a bunch of Hales lived at one time. I am not closely related to descendants of this Hale(s) family but they were our neighbors and friends and some of them married people who are related to me.

The Hales web site is marvelous - you've done something great. I've referred several people to it. Thank you again for the wonderful service you provide to all of us Haleses. (Note: 9 pages of corrections and additions to the Hales Chronicles was attached to this email – thanks from the Hales family ).

She was born in Syracuse, Utah on February 5, 1904 to Thomas Bernard and Clara Emma Hales Schofield. She lived in Syracuse, Kaysville and Salt Lake City, Utah before moving to Ogden.

She married Don Carlos Warner in Salt Lake City, Utah on January 26, 1926. Their vows were solemnized in the Ogden LDS Temple, July 25, 1974. He died July 29, 1985.

She was an active member of the LDS Church, serving in the Primary and was a visiting teacher.

Her hobbies include tatting, gardening, embroidery and quilting. She made many beautiful quilts.

Surviving are one daughter, Maxene Bramwell, Ogden; one son, Lowell Dee (Barbara) Warner, Ogden; eight grandchildren, seven great grandchildren and four great-great grandchildren. Also surviving is one brother, Donald Schofield, Ogden.

She was preceded in death by her husband and one son, Norman S. Warner. Also five brothers and three sisters.

Funeral services were held Tuesday, November 30, 1999 in Ogden, Utah and interment was at Leavitt’s Adultorest Memorial Park in Ogden.

James Andrew Hales, 60, died Saturday, June 15, 1907 at Saint Joseph, Missouri at a state health care facility. His remains arrived at Shelbina, Missouri the following Monday afternoon and were taken at once to the cemetery accompanied by his widow and relatives.

Prayer was offered by the Reverend J. H. Wood and his remains were consigned to their last resting place in the Shelbina Cemetery adjacent to the grave of his first wife, Clara Davis Hales.

He was born on July 6, 1846 in Carroll County, Ohio the son of Thomas and Sarah Jane Watson Hales. He married Clara Davis on October 13, 1868. She predeceased him on August 18, 1903.

The Hales family lived in Iowa, Kansas and for many years at Rugby Village, Pierce, North Dakota where two sons, neither of whom were able to attend the funeral, reside. He homesteaded in North Dakota through a couple of drought years. While there he became unable to work and started to lose his vision and hearing. About six years ago they came to Shelbina, Missouri where his brother was living. Shortly after moving, Clara died.

In the Civil War, James Andrew Hales served with the Ohio Cavalry volunteers, 3^rd division, 17^th army corps.

He married Sallie Bell Taylor Green on May 31, 1904 at Shelbina, Shelby, Missouri. She survives him along with two sons: Elgee Clifford Hales, and Clarence Emery Hales.

Within 6 months of marrying James Andrew Hales, Sallie had him committed to the state mental hospital. His records indicated he was "feeble minded," blind and deaf, but not insane. He lived a few years there, but Sallie lived 20 more years, collecting his Civil War pension the whole time.

Christened 15 NOV 1815 at Saint Michael, Coventry, Warwickshire, England and of Isabella County, Michigan in 1900 the son of James HALES and Ann BARTON or BURTON. Married 7 AUG 1843 Mary Elizabeth PARKER at Saint Michael, Coventry, Warwickshire, England.

In Coventry Lewis Henry Hales had owned a small silk mill which was powered by hand. At that time there were silk mills being started in England that were more modern and cheaper to operate. It was impossible for him to earn a living at his trade there, so he believed he could make a new start in America.

He landed at Grand Rapids, Michigan, a lumbering town, where he worked for a mill owner named White. He acted as a tutor for their young son, Stewart Edward White, and as a gardener.

After the death of Mr. White, the White family moved to Saginaw and Hales followed. Years later, Stewart Edward White wrote a book about the lumbering days around Grand Rapids and Saginaw.

Back in England the eldest son of Lewis Henry Hales, Henry, had tried to help raise the family in the absence of their father. Henry was the oldest of the family of four sons and three daughters born to Lewis Henry Hales and Mary Elizabeth Parker. He was born on November 24, 1843. The other siblings were Frances, George James, Anna Gray, Richard, Elizabeth and Lewis Henry, Jr.

Born 24 NOV 1843 in England the son of Lewis Henry HALES and Mary Elizabeth PARKER. Married 24 JUN 1866 Hannah Faith LOKES at Pudsey, Yorkshire, England. She was born about 1846 of Pudsey, Yorkshire, England the daughter of Thomas LOKES and Martha HANES. Henry HALES died 15 OCT 1915 in Vernon Township, Isabella, Michigan.

Henry married Hannah Faith Lokes in June of 1866. Along with his mother, Mary, Hannah and Henry tried to keep a part of the silk mill working, but the mother’s health failed, and the three youngest children, a girl and two boys, were placed in the work house, the only place where orphaned children could be cared for at that time.

Henry and his wife, Hannah, used a small sum of money that she had to come to the United States, bringing with them their infant daughter, Mabel; Henry’s brothers Dick, aged 10, and Lewis, aged 4, and Henry’s sister, Elizabeth, aged 8, these being the three children who had gone to the work house. Henry’s brother, George, shipped on a sailing ship for Australia, and an older sister, Frances married a man named Tom Bickerton. Another sister, Anna, remained in England.

Upon reaching the United States, Henry (also known as Harry) did not get the help he expected from his father, so he had to raise the young sister and brothers, along with supporting his wife and daughter.

Henry had learned the brass molding trade in Coventry, England, and was able to get work in Saginaw, Michigan, managing the Wicks Brothers Foundry.

As the years followed, more children were born: Kate (who died at the age of 3), Lizzie, and Owen were all born in Saginaw. Henry was then offered the foremanship of the Industrial Works at Bay City, where Henry and his family lived for two years. Henry’s son, Lewis Henry, was born there.

Henry moved back to Saginaw to work, again at the Wicks Brothers Foundry. Another daughter was born in 1876, and then disaster struck. Henry stepped into a hot mold and was unable to work for some time. He bought a piece of land two and one-half miles southeast from Clare, Michigan. With the help of his brother George, who had joined the family from Australia, Henry built a log house on the uncleared land, and moved his family into the woods in 1876.

George worked on the ships on the Great Lakes in the summertime and helped clear the land during the winters. Brother Dick, now grown, worked at the Foundry in Saginaw. Their sister, Elizabeth, lived in Saginaw with the family of Frank James, a lawyer, helping to care for their two small daughters.

Henry’s family lived on the land near Clare for five years, during which time Richard was born in 1877, as was Naomi in 1880. In 1881 Henry was asked to open a brass molding shop for the Pere Marquette Railroad in Saginaw, which he did. He stayed on with that shop until 1900, when the railroad shops were moved to Grand Rapids. Two more children were born to the family in Saginaw: Anna Gray in 1882 and Henry George William in 1886. The family moved back to the farm in 1900 where Henry lived until his death in 1915.

Refer to the Hales Chronicles for additional family information on the children and grandchildren of Lewis Henry and Mary Elizabeth Parker Hales.

When George was 21 he married Dasalina Rosa who was only 16 years old. Dasalina Belle Rosa, the seventh of ten children born to James Hawkins Rosa and Hellen Augusta Bates, was born November 12, 1856 in Oberlin, Lorain County, Ohio. Carl Hales said that Dasalina was born in a house in Oberlin located where the Hales Memorial Gymnasium is located on the Oberlin College campus. She was usually called Lina, which was pronounced "Line-a."

In the George and Dasalina Hales Family Bible there is a form printed in the middle where it is recorded that George E. Hales of Henrietta, Lorain County, Ohio, and Lina B. Rosa of Henrietta, Lorain County, Ohio, were united in Holy Matrimony by the Reverend A. Heath of March 22, 1873 in the presence of Charles H. Rosa and Ansel Hales.

The Elyria Court House Records show an application for a marriage license in the book labeled 1872 – 1875, page 294, dated March 18, 1873. The huge original record book, which was approximately 2 ½’ by 3' in size, had a loose piece of paper inside. The ink had faded, but it was possible to read the indentation when it was tilted in the light.

We, of course, left this sheet of paper in the official record book as it seemed amazing that it had remained in the book without being attached for one hundred years. Later we learned sadly that the Ohio records were being photocopied, and the original books destroyed to save storage space.

Dasalina was described by her children as a hard-working, conscientious, earnest, religious person. She was always young looking with little or no gray hair. All of her children were born at home with a midwife, and she was forty years old when her youngest child, Neva, was born. She taught a Sunday School class and was active in Baptist church work. She made all of her children’s clothes, including suits for the sons. She also knit stockings for them in the evenings. She carried a lot of responsibility for rearing of the children, as her husband could not communicate after losing his hearing. Their Leonard farm-house was immense which was hard to keep up when the children grew up and left home. In later years she suffered from melancholy and, in the spring, severe asthma. Her son, Will, would send her on the train to Chicago for a month or so to rest, according to Neva. Will encouraged his parents to move to Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago, which they did in 1912 or 1913 after Bernice graduated from Oberlin Music Conservatory.

George Elon Hales had black hair, brown eyes, was of medium height and a good sized man. He became deaf in his early twenties, as a result of a severe cold, and used a hearing trumpet so that people had to talk loudly into his ears. He was an energetic, progressive farmer and an active church member, according to Bernice Hales Jessop. Neva Hales Cannicott described him as "very stern, not a soft, loving type. Could occasionally laugh, but was not a jolly person. He was all business. He’d read a newspaper, but no books. He was head of the house. He’d supply everything we needed."

Dasalina possible wrote the following brief, hand-written biographical note which was kept in the Family Bible:

George Willard Hales, born 18 Dec 1874.

Burton Elon Hales, born 29 Sep 1876.

Dora Belle Hales, born 2 Aug 1878.

Viola May Hales, born 4 Feb 1882.

Harry Ernest Hales, born 22 Jun 1883.

Carl Franklin Hales, born 21 Oct 1884.

Clarence Maynard Hales, born 6 Feb 1889.

Neva Winafred Rosa Hales, born 6 Jan 1897.

The Family Bible has a page where Dasalina wrote the Rosa family names, birth dates and places, beginning with her paternal grandfather, Henry Rosa. She also listed the Bates names and dates beginning with her maternal grandfather, Hiram Bates. The children of James and Hellen Bates Rosa, the siblings of Lina Rosa, were enumerated with their birth dates and places. There are a number of newspaper clippings of weddings and funerals, letters, poems and photos that were kept loosely in the Bible. The Bible, a Christmas gift to Lina B. Hales from her husband, Elon, in 1876, is now in the possession of Richard Cannicott. It is a wonderfully rich source of genealogical data.

From the information in the family bible and the sketches in The Hales Family History booklet quoted in this article, the following family group is documented and is found in the Hales Chronicles as follows:

Born 20 JUN 1851 at Henrietta, Lorain, Ohio the son of William HALES and Laura BLACKMAN. Married (1) 22 MAR 1873 Dasalina Belle "Lina" ROSA at Henrietta, Lorain, Ohio. She was born 12 NOV 1856 at Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio the daughter of James Hawkins ROSA and Hellen Augusta BATES. Dasalina Belle "Lina" ROSA died 3 MAY 1918 at Oak Park, Cook, Illinois and was buried at Birmingham, Erie, Ohio. George Elon HALES married (2) 17 OCT 1922 Ismenia KEAN at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California. She was born 12 NOV 1863 in Canada of Scottish Heritage. George Elon HALES died 27 DEC 1925 at Long Beach, Los Angeles, California and was buried at Birmingham, Erie, Ohio. Ismenia KEAN died 9 MAY 1957 at Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

Another letter tucked away in the family Bible was hand written and signed by the church clerk, J. B. Cook. It says: "The Freewill Baptist Church in Henrietta hereby certifies that Sister Dasalina Hales is a member in good and regular standing with us. And at her request is affectionately dismissed, and recommended to the fellowship and care of any Christian Church with whom she may wish to unite. Done by order and in behalf of the church, Henrietta, March 17, 1877."

For four years George and Lina lived in a log house on a farm north of Henrietta Hill, in Henrietta Township, Lorain County, Ohio. The old log cabin probably was constructed by George’s father, William Hales, as he had lived there earlier. The Haleses moved in 1876 into a new house built by George with bricks made by his brother, Levi Hales. It was located in Brownhelm Township, although located on the same lot. The two houses were very close, but the dividing line of the township ran between them. Their first child, George Willard Hales, was born in Henrietta Township; the eight children in the middle were born in Brownhelm Township; Neva, the youngest, was born on the new farm in Henrietta Township, near Birmingham.

In 1880 Henrietta had a population of 894, while Brownhelm had a population of 1,497.

George and Lina and family moved to Kipton in 1895, living there for one school year, and then returned to the Brownhelm home and farm. The move to Kipton was related to the death of Lina’s father, and the inheritance to Lina and the other Rosa children. According to the Charles Rosa genealogy, there were five heirs to the Rosa property – Dasalina, her sister Lib, and her brothers, George, James and Hiram Rosa. Each heir received 1/5 of $350 from the sale of the home and four acre lot where James and Hellen Rosa (and later his second wife) had lived in Kipton. In 1895 Dasalina and George sold their 1/5 share of her father’s remaining estate consisting of more than 114 acres to the other heirs for $507.50. George and Lina then sold their Brownhelm home and moved to another farm, formerly the Leonard farm, near Birmingham on December 8, 1896. The youngest child, Neva, was born there the next month.

The 324 acre farm had a large three-story house. The farm, later increased to 365 acres, had four crops including wheat, corn, oats and timothy hay; 70 acres in apple trees, 70 in maple trees for syrup, 35 acres in peaches, 5 in raspberries (they had sixty pickers), 1 acre in strawberries, 5 in pears and a couple in Santa Rosa plums. They also had about 300 sheep, 6 horses, a dozen cows, 30 pigs a year and chickens, as related by Carl Hales in 1959.

Running the household was as hard physically as laboring outside on the land. Bernice Hales Jessop pointed out that they made their own candles for the log house and used kerosene lamps in the brick house. On the day Bernice was born, Dora, the oldest daughter, baked 18 loaves of bread for all of the farm hands!

The large farmhouse had a cupola on the roof where one could view Lake Erie, only ten miles away. Their new home had many conveniences such as running water in the bedrooms and gas lights. Water was pumped up by a windmill to the water tanks in the attic to make running water available. Another feature was that when anyone opened the barn door to the stalls, a bell would ring in the house. There was one bedroom on the ground floor, two bedrooms for boys and two bedrooms for girls on the second floor with one spare room. The attic floor had space for several rooms but was not used. Later families used it as a ballroom.

Later according to Aunt Neva, a religious organization, the Mennonites – or the Amish according to the 1981 owner – purchased the farm and had a cider mill and packing shed. However, by 1981 the house and the barn had been torn down. The current owner does not farm; the apple trees no longer produce; he only sells the top soil and sand from about twenty acres. He said wistfully that wonderful parties had been held there with the orchestra playing upstairs.

The new farm was in Henrietta Township, but the nearby town of Birmingham is located in Florence Township in Erie County, Ohio. In the 1830s Birmingham was the hub of the Firelands with a grist mill, a hotel, post office, grocery store, two churches and several schools including a high school. This changed when the railroad did not locate here but was routed to Vermilion. Birmingham declined in size but it did have a high school and most of the other amenities listed above. At that time there was a covered wooden bridge over the river, according to Neva Hales Cannicott. Now it is a pleasant community with some residents commuting to work in Lorain or Cleveland. There is only one church now, the Methodist church, with an adjoining cemetery which is operated by the township. A thriving antique store is located in an old barn on the main highway, and there is a two-story birch school building dated 1916.

George accompanied his son, Burton, to Redlands, California, about 1903 or 1905, to help him become established there, as Burton had been in ill health in Ohio. Burton bought acreage of oranges and apricots. Carl and Mae came to California to keep Burton company so that George could return home. This was Carl’s "first job" off the farm; Mae was to "keep house" for her brothers. Lina and Neva came by train to visit Burton, Carl and Mae in California.

In about 1910 George and Dasalina retired and sold their farm to a nephew, Will Heusner, who purchased it only as an investment and soon resold the property, which rather disappointed them. They moved to Oberlin for a short time but they never considered Oberlin as a home – only a temporary stay. After Bernice graduated from Oberlin Music Conservatory in 1912 or 1913, and went on to attend Michigan Agricultural College, George and Dasalina and their youngest child, Neva, moved to 815 North Euclid Street in Oak Park, Illinois to be near their oldest son and their beloved grandchildren.

Five years later Lina Hales died suddenly May 3, 1918 of pneumonia when she was 61 years old. She had passed the crisis of pneumonia in the hospital, but her heart suddenly stopped. She had been ill only one week. At the private funeral services held in the G. E. Hales home, Mrs. C. E. Hemingway (a neighbor and mother of the author, Ernest Hemingway) sang two of Dasalina’s favorite hymns. Lina was buried in the Birmingham, Ohio cemetery.

George Hales moved to California by train in September of 1918 in the company of his daughter, Bernice – who was engaged to Henry Jessop serving in the army in France at that time – and his son, Carl Hales, and daughter-in-law Edna Sperry Hales. Carl and Edna settled in Redlands, and the other children gradually moved out to the Long Beach area where George remained. Mae and her family moved to California in 1919; Dora and her family in 1921; Neva and her family joined them in 1926; Bernice and her family moved to California in about 1932.

George was married to Ismenia Keen on October 17, 1922 in the Los Angeles Baptist Church by the Reverend J. Whitcome Brougher. George had met Ismenia in the park; both were lonely as their children were grown. They lived in the house George had purchased earlier at 1056 Walnut Avenue in Long Beach. Ismenia Kean Hales had been married previously and had eight children. They had separate marriage contracts drawn up, leaving their estates to their own children.

Mother Hales, as Ismenia Hales was called, was born November 12, 1863 in Canada and was of Scottish heritage. She was an intelligent, attractive woman who was particular in her dress and home. She was a devoted church member of the Congregational Church in Long Beach.

George Hales died of a heart attack December 27, 1925 in Long Beach. He had been ill for at least two months, with bed rest prescribed along with a "diet of principally vegetables and fruit, with little meat," according to a copy of a letter from his doctor found in the Bible. George was 74 years old when he died. He was buried in the Birmingham, Ohio, cemetery next to Dasalina, his first wife and mother of their children.

After George Hales died, his widow continued to live in California until after the Long Beach earthquake in 1933. She then returned to Ontario, and to her Presbyterian faith. She died May 9, 1957 in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 93.

In February, 1937, the oldest son, George Willard Hales, donated $150,000 to Oberlin College to build a physical education unit for the women students in honor of his mother. The structure was to be built on West Lorain Street joining the Crane Swimming Pool according to an article in the January-February 1937 issue of The Oberline Alumni Magazine. There is a dedication plaque in the front hall of the Hales Women Gymnasium which has the following inscription:

G. Willard Hales – 1939

Burton, second son of George Elon and Dasalina Hales, was born September 24, 1876 in Henrietta, Lorain, Ohio and died July 30, 1949 at the age of 72 in Redlands, San Bernardino, California. He attended Oberlin Academy and Oberlin College and earned his law degree at Ohio State University. He was described by his daughter-in-law, Thelma Hales, as a "tall, handsome man with gray hair and a beautiful carriage despite his wooden leg. His leg was amputated when he was seventeen years old after a bout with polio."

Burton had practiced law in Elyria, Ohio, until his health broke in around 1903. According to his sister, Bernice Hales Jessop, he had rheumatism in his knees and needed a warmer climate. His father accompanied him to Redlands, California, where Burton settled and regained his health. Burton "bought the old Story ranch on West Pioneer which consisted of 25 acres of oranges and 15 acres of apricots. Later the apricots were removed for more citrus trees," according to his obituary in the Redlands Daily Facts. His brother, Carl, and sister, Mae, who also had rheumatism in her knees, came out to live with him until he became well so that the father could return home. Mae kept house for the two brothers for about one year. His mother and sister, Neva, came out by train to visit them. Neva remembered that Burton, Carl and Mae lived very primitively in a tent or shack with barren sand all around them on the land that Burton had purchased.

At first Burton tried other ventures in California. According to his obituary he was "manager for the Orange Growers Cash Association, then associated with B. G. Holmes in the automobile business and later with Fred A. Clark in the real estate business."

Thelma Hales wrote that Burton was "manager of the Riverside Orange Growers Association where he drove a horse and buggy when his son, Ed, was born. He later had a two cylinder automobile. He then went into partnership with a Mr. Holmes in a firm known as the Electric Vehicle Company, Incorporated. They built the Mission Garage building," later known as Triangle Garage, located on Cajon, Vine and Fifth Streets, which has disappeared with the building of the Redlands downtown mall.

Carl Hales stated that Burton sold Brush and Maxwell automobiles, as well as the Acherson Jackrabbit and Mitchell electric cars. He also invested in the Buick agency and garage with Mr. Bert Hatfield. Burton had invested heavily in more than 80 acres of newly planted orange trees just before the January 1913 freeze, which must have been very discouraging. He then reentered the practice of law in 1914. He also sold real estate and insurance.

On June 22, 1908 Burton Hales married Medora Lucille Cotton in Yuma, Arizona. She was his Ohio sweetheart. Medora was born November 5, 1878 in Elyria, Ohio, and was a registered nurse. They had two children, but the first child, George Elon Hales, born November 15, 1909, died after a few days. The second child, Edwin Raymond Hales, was born November 29, 1910 in Redlands. He grew up in Redlands and also became an attorney.

Medora Cotton Hales parents were Charles Washington Cotton (May 7, 1826 – November 14, 1894) born in Massachusetts, and Kathryne Armond Cotton ( – April 18, 1882).

Medora Hales suffered a stroke three years before she died and was paralyzed on the left side. This was a particular hardship as she was left-handed and she had to learn to eat and write with her right hand. She died January 31, 1946.

Both Burton and Medora were active members of the First Baptist Church in Redlands. For many years Burton was very interested in club and lodge work.

After Burton was a widower he married Mabel Jane Blassingame. She was born October 17, 1893 in Oklahoma. She was a widow with several grown children in Oklahoma. She had worked as a saleslady, and was attractive, practical and energetic. She was given life estate in one of Burton’s houses, and continued to live in Redlands for a number of years where she rented out rooms to university students. In the late 1970s she returned to live with her children in Oklahoma.

Burton Elon Hales family grouping is as follows:

Born 29 SEP 1876 at Brownhelm Township, Lorain, Ohio the son of George Elon HALES and Dasalina Belle ROOSA. Married (1) 22 JUN 1908 Medora Luella COTTON at Yuma, Yuma, Arizona. She was born 5 NOV 1878 at Elyria, Lorain, Ohio the daughter of Charles Washington COTTON and Kathryne Armond COTTON. She died 31 JAN 1946 in Redlands, San Bernardino, California.

Children:

Burton Elon HALES married (2) Mabel Jane BLASSINGAME. She was born 17 OCT 1893. Burton Elon HALES died 30 JUL 1949 at Redlands, San Bernardino, California.

Edwin Raymond Hales, son of Burton Elon and Medora Luella Cotton Hales, attended Redlands schools and then graduated from the San Diego Army and Navy Academy as well as the University of Redlands in 1933. He graduated from Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles in 1937 and was the second generation to practice law in Redlands when he joined his father in his firm. Ed served as a lieutenant in the U. S. Navy during World War II. Because he was a married man with children, his wife, Thelma, had to sign her permission for him to join the navy.

Ed married Thelma Catherine Rehder on Jun 11, 1938 in Fort Dodge, Iowa. She was born September 10, 1911 in Gladbrook, Iowa, to Edward and Zo Bonnie Mann Rehder. Thelma graduated from the University of Iowa, located in Iowa City, Iowa, with a Bachelor of Science in Commerce in 1935, and lived in Fort Dodge until she was married. She was a member of Delta Gamma sorority. She is an attractive, out-doorish sports-woman, sharp and attentive, and an avid golfer. She continues to live in Redlands, California.

Thelma wrote in 1984: "I met Ed through a boy I dated in Fort Dodge, Iowa – Gordon MacKenzie. He came to Redlands, and attended the University and became friends with Ed. One summer Ed visited Gordon in Fort Dodge, and I met Ed. I guess it was love at first sight. Had to wait for him to graduate from law school and pass the bar before we were married. We were married in Fort Dodge, Iowa, and his mother was there, but not his father. Then his mother went on to Ohio to visit relatives."

Thelma and Ed joined Trinity Episocpal Church in Redlands. They had three children: Edwin Burton Hales, Catherine Hales and Thomas Elon Hales.

Ed was interested in sports; he was a star football player at the University of Redlands. He was interested in hunting and fishing. He was a charter member of the Redlands Noon Kiwanis Club, active in the Chamber of Commerce, the Redlands Elks Club, the University of Redlands Hall of Fame, the University of Redlands Associates and the Community Chest. He served on the YMCA Board, helping to create Camp Edwards and helped found Baseball for Boys.

He was known as "Mr. Planning Commission" because he served on the Redlands Planning Commission from 1946 – 1982 and was chairman of it for 33 years. The city honored him by naming a park, the Ed Hales Memorial Park, in his memory. It was dedicated on May 17, 1984, honoring him for all of his service to the community as well as serving on the Planning Commission for 36 years.

The three children of Ed Hales and grandchildren of Burton Elon Hales are:

Cathy and Dave met on a blind date in 1964 while he was still at U.S.C. Their parents knew each other. They do things together – hunt, fish and golf. Cathy was quoted in a newspaper article on the sports pages that "the boys were out on the road with us since they were 3 weeks old." Cathy and Dave Stockton live in Mentone, California and have two sons: David Bradley Stockton and Ronald Edwin Stockton.

Dora Belle Hales, the oldest daughter of George Elon and Dasalina Hales, was born August 2, 1878 in Brownhelm Township, Lorain County, Ohio, and attended Oberlin Music Conservatory for two years to study voice and piano. She sang soprano in the Oberlin Musical Union for 8 years. Carl said that when Dora sang solos in church, shivers went up and down his spine – her voice was so beautiful! She was also a talented participant in elocution (public speaking) contests.

As the oldest daughter in the family, Dora must have been expected to be very helpful. When she was only fifteen years old she baked eighteen loaves of bread on the day that Bernice was born in 1893.

Dora married Edward Philip Berk in Birmingham, Ohio on June 29, 1905. They celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in Long Beach, California in 1955.

Edward Berk was born February 10, 1875 in the vicinity of Vermilion, Ohio. He had three brothers: William, Adam and Jacob; and two sisters: Christina and Katherine. In early manhood he had his own threshing crew for work in the area. For three years Edward Berk and Carl Hales were in business together in a dry goods and home furnishings store in Bucyrus, Ohio, until Carl sold out his interest. Edward continued the mercantile business for several years.

Maynard Berk wrote in 1985 that: "Edward and Dora lived over the store in Bucyrus, and had moved to a separate house when Maynard was born in 1913. At the beginning of World War I, the family left Bacyrus for Oak Park, Illinois, where Edward joined the Hales & Hunter Company under his brother-in-law, G. Willard Hales. Both families lived on Oak Park Avenue, but the Berks were on South Oak Park Avenue. Edward decided to enter business for himself and started the Berk’s Hi-Grade Hatchery in Berwyn, Illinois, a suburb near Oak Park.

"The family moved to California in 1921, arriving on Labor Day, driving in a Paige automobile and camping out en-route. For the first part of a year, the Berks lived with Dora’s father, George Elon Hales, until Edward Berk built a two bedroom home at 119 West 36^th Street in the Los Cerritos section, west and north of Signal Hill in Long Beach. There are many oil wells in the area, including one on their property.

"Three hatchery locations were consecutively in operation: 36^th Street (which had a horrendous fire in the large storage building), Long Beach Boulevard and Avenue, both in Long Beach, and later on Whittier Boulevard between Whittier and Pico. The Berks moved to a two story home of Spanish architecture at 3858 Myrtle Avenue in the Bixby Knolls area in 1931. At that time it was the third house built in the tract. Because Edward had supervised the contracts and insisted on very strong construction, the home withstood the 1933 earthquake with no appreciable damage."

The family was active in the First Congregational Church.

Maynard’s written sketch continues: "Edward worked very hard, but through the years occasionally took time to go ocean fishing, sometimes in the company of brothers-in-law, Frank Hale or Jack Cannicott.

"After Juanita was married and Maynard left for New York graduate study, (in 1937) Edward and Dora sold the home and settled in other locations. In the spring of 1956 when Mother and Dad were visiting in the front room, a knock came to the back door. My father went to answer, slumped unconscious on the kitchen floor, and succumbed.

"He was a kind, gentle, compassionate man, sometimes driven to angry outbursts verbally, but not bearing grudges, always generous with his family, relatives and friends, and of genuine integrity. He was a devoted father and husband, unselfish and a pillar of strength.

"Dora passed away in 1971 at the age of nearly 93, a devoted mother, marvelous cook (lemon pies, succotash, tapioca pudding, entire dinners to perfection), loving, confident and great encourager in whatever seemed right for her children.

Edward Berk died April 22, 1956 in Long Beach, California. Dora died April 14, 1971 in Long Beach. The are both interred at Melrose Abbey Mausoleum. Maynard played many organ preludes at the memorial service for his mother on April 20, 1971. It was very touching.

Dora and Edward Berk had three children:

Juanita is described as a skilled hairdresser. She was a performance dancer when single. She said that she had "music in her feet."

Her brother, Maynard, wrote in 1985: "Juanita finished her public schooling at Long Beach Polytechnic High School. Was in state work in Los Angeles for a time, once being considered as a double for Clara Bow. She attended beautician school and became a beauty operator. For a period she operated her own shop in the Belmont shores area of Long Beach.

Her marriage to Ted Robinson on September 21, 1930 was annulled through legal help of her uncle Burton. She later married Willis Hardesty who was an oil well equipment pipe fitter and cutter worker. He passed away in 1972.

Maynard continued, "Juanita was a sharp thinker, ready conversationalist, excellent beautician, talented in working in many crafts (i.e. dressmaking, knitting, ceramics, etc.). She was a very strong willed, aggressive individualist. She took the lion’s share of the responsibility at the time of her dad’s passing, and again when her mother passed away. She demonstrated a keen mind for business and a dependability and resourcefulness well beyond average.

Juanita and her husband, Bill, made a home for her mother in Dora’s later years. Juanita Hardesty died suddenly on August 18, 1979 in Long Beach and is buried at the Sunnyside Mausoleum. Her husband, Bill, was born March 24, 1901 in Ohio, and died January 2, 1972 in Long Beach, California. He is also buried at Sunnyside Mausoleum.

Maynard Hales Berk was born July 27, 1913 in Bucyrus, Ohio. He moved with his parents to Oak Park, Illinois and then on to Long Beach, California when he was eight years old. He explained that he was named Maynard after his Uncle Clarence Maynard Hales, who had been named for a well loved and respected family doctor.

Maynard attended public schools, graduating from Long Beach Polytechnic High School, followed by one year of high school post graduate work, and two years at Long Beach Junior College. His Uncle burton and Aunt Medora invited Maynard to live with them to attend the University of Redlands which he did for two years. Uncle Burton arranged for him to play the organ at the First Baptist church for mid-week services and to have free practice time, which Maynard did for four years. Maynard moved into a school dormitory for his last two years at college. He graduated from the University of Redlands in June of 1937 with a Bachelor of Music with double majors: Organ and Public School Music. He received his Masters of Sacred Music Degree at Union Theological Seminary in New York and Ph.D. in 1944 from New York University in Music Education. Always studying, he did post-doctoral studies at the University of Southern California.

More about Maynard can be found in the booklet Hales Family History booklet by Paul and Arline Hales

The following are Parish Registers that I have extracted all Hales and variant spellings of that name from since the last Newsletter. If anyone else is working on Parish Registers please extract all of these names and send me a copy of your findings. Make sure to include the name of the Parish and the dates you have looked at (from and to dates).

Elmsted, Kent, England (1563-1812)

27 NOV 1582 James Owdaye and Alys Hale

Ewell, Kent, England (1563-1812)

No Hales entries

Eythorne, Kent, England (1560-1812)

No Hales entries

Faversham, Kent, England (1560-1732)

24 FEB 1581 Elizabeth daughter of Edward Hale and Agnes

12 DEC 1596 Jhon son of Thomas Hale and Elizabeth

27 JAN 1599 Thomas son of Thomas Hales

19 APR 1600 Thomas son of Thomas Halles

17 MAY 1601 James son of Thomas Hales

1 JAN 1603 Hester daughter of Thomas Hales

14 MAR 1612 Prudence daughter of Thomas Hales

21 DEC 1613 Thomas son of Edward Hales and Bennett

4 JUN 1615 Susanna daughter of Thomas Hales and Elizabeth

29 AUG 1616 James son of Edward Hales and Bennett

21 APR 1617 Marie daughter of Thomas Hales and Elizabeth

30 NOV 1618 Jhon son of Edward Hales and Bennett

13 FEB 1620 Susan daughter of Edward Hales and Bennett

19 JUN 1624 Christian daughter of Edward Hales and Bennett

9 DEC 1627 Thomas son of James and Lucie Hales

7 MAR 1629 Henrie son of James and Lucie Hales

22 JUN 1631 James son of James and Lucie Hales

20 DEC 1635 Elizabeth daughter of Edward and Elizabeth Halle

22 MAR 1633 John son of James and Lucie Hales

13 MAR 1635 Prudence daughter of James and Lucie Hale

9 APR 1637 Thomas son of Thomas and Elizabeth Hale, wandering people

23 FEB 1639 James son of James and Lucie Hale

10 MAY 1645 Joseph son of James and Lucie Hales

5 SEP 1653 James son of Thomas and Katherine Hales

5 DEC 1655 John son of Thomas and Katherine Hales

25 JUN 1665 Robert son of William and Mary Hale

17 NOV 1668 John son of William and Marie Hale

12 APR 1671 Marie daughter of William and Marie Hale

14 NOV 1673 Elizabeth daughter of William and Mary Hal...

22 FEB 1627 William Bachelor and Martha Hales

5 APR 1632 Thomas James and Bennet Hales

1 DEC 1633 George Hale and Elizabeth Fidge

13 JUL 1635 Mattan Harrison and Margaret Hales

7 FEB 1636 Edward Warrell and Prudence Hale

6 NOV 1645 Thomas Choppen and Marie Hales

JUN 1652 Henry Hales and Mary Pilcher, married at Ospringe

19 JUN 1664 Richard Hale, widower, and Elizabeth Admans, widow

22 JAN 1679 George Fowler and Elizabeth Hale

5 DEC 1682 Mathew Adrian and Mary Hale, widow

21 APR 1685 John Hale and Elizabeth Newel

30 SEP 1615 Easter Hales

21 MAY 1616 Susanna Hales

13 FEB 1616 John Hales

2 FEB 1618 Thomas Hales

21 APR 1624 Annis Hales

5 SEP 1626 Elizabeth Hale

12 JAN 1634 Edward Hales, Gentleman, one of the Justices

10 MAR 1636 Elizabeth Hale

15 MAR 1636 Elizabeth wife of George Hale

12 MAY 1639 James Hale

12 MAY 1642 Marie Hales

5 FEB 1643 a child of James Hales

14 FEB 1646 Elizabeth Hales, ancient widow

17 DEC 1648 Mrs. Mary Halles

23 OCT 1651 Lucie wife of James Hales (Baker)

1 DEC 1651 James Halles, Senior (Baker)

3 FEB 1663 Marie Hales a maiden

22 NOV 1665 Robert Hale a child

11 MAY 1679 Lucy Hales

15 JUN 1679 William Hales

14 AUG 1695 a child of John Hale

29 APR 1703 Thomas son of John Hale

10 SEP 1704 Thomas Hale a child

18 JAN 1706 John Hale, householder

19 JUN 1709 John Hale, householder

5 JUN 1709 Mary daughter of John Hale

15 NOV 1732 Elizabeth Hale