The Hales Newsletter

Motto: United Force is Stronger

NEW SERIES Autumn 2000 Vol. 5. No. 3.

Membership

The Hales Chronicles – Second Edition

News and Views

email Correspondence

Work in Progress

In Memoriam

The George Elon Hales Family of Ohio – Continued

Viola Mae Hales

Harry Ernest Hales

Carl Franklin Hales

Clarence Maynard Hales

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 third 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 3 this will be the last issue that you get unless you renew your subscription. If you see that I have circled the date on your mailing label, it is time to renew your subscription. I do not send notices of past due subscriptions.

The internet version of The Hales Chronicles is my master copy and is the basis for a planned Second Edition of the Hales Chronicles on a Compact Disk version as well as a printed version. At the end of December in 2000 this database will be closed to form the basis of this Second Edition. At that time the internet version will continue and will be used as the basis for the Third Edition of the Hales Chronicles planned for publication in 2005.

During the time before I publish these versions I continue to make additions and corrections. These additions come from census records, various other extraction projects that I undertake, parish records from England, world family tree records, information that has been submitted by Hales families throughout the world, and Pedigree Resource Files from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Please review your family information and look at this internet version to make sure that it contains what you would like to see in the second edition of the Hales Chronicles. This can be done by looking at.

www.hales.org

Our Hales Chronicles are getting bigger and better each week. I update them weekly between Friday and Monday. Thanks to all of you that help to make them more complete and more accurate.

Erin is the daughter of Howard and Elaine Hultgren – Erik is the son of Monte Kim Hales and Iivonne Eaves. Matron of Honor was Jacqueline D’Arcy Hoff and Best Man was Monte Kim Hales.

That evening after the wedding ceremony a reception dinner was held at the Little America hotel complex. The bride and groom left the next morning for a honeymoon on the Mexican Riviera.

Hi. I am writing to inform you that I am interested in your Hales organization. I am the Daughter of the Hales family back in England. I have been in Canada now for sixteen years.

My Grandmothers brother decided to go back to our roots and I know that we can go back to the 1600 or 1700s. Anyway I am writing to tell you my father was just recently contacted by a cousin in England that is doing the family tree and she knew about your website.

I am very impressed with your Hales Chronicle site and am happy that it put me in touch with you. If you run into anything else please don't hesitate to let me know or ask what you will. Am I now a member of the group and will I be getting any regular messages?

After logging on to your website today, I was quite overwhelmed by the amount of information that you have on the Hales family. After several name checks, I realised that none of my family (certainly not my grandparents or parents) are included on the list.

How do I go about adding my own family to this? I am certainly very interested in tracing my family and would be very keen to supply any essential information!

You have a George Hales (bapt. 16 May 1830) and a William Hailes (bapt. 28 Dec 1834) in your database who are related to me. Their mother was Susanna Bodenham. James and Susanna married in Kinlet, Shropshire, England, 1 Dec 1824.

I know your time is limited but do you have any further information on these children by any chance?

Hi, I hope you are the Kenneth Hails in Arizona that I talked to before. I had the Hales Chronicles, and then had trouble with my computer and lost everything. If so, could you send me the website once again? Thanks a lot

Just a note to let you know that the Iowa branch of the Hales family is planning a Hales reunion for 2001. We are descended from John Hales, John Hales, Sarah Catherine Hales.

Every three years this family holds a reunion in a state occupied by one of the Hales cousins from the family. Three years ago it was held in Montana.

The dates we have decided on are June 29, 30 and July 1, 2001. It will probably be held in southeastern Iowa, close to Center Chapel and Cemetery and Keosaqua, Iowa.

I will be glad to provide more information if anyone is interested in attending.

(The internet is proving to be a great contact and more email messages will be printed as space allows).

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, California, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maine, Mississippi, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Vermont. This is a gain of from three to twenty-two states. 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.

Mr. Hales spent his adult working years as a dedicated employee of the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company in various locations including Belle Fourche, South Dakota; Chinook, Montana; Pocatello and Idaho Falls, Idaho; and Pasco, Washington. He retired in Tremonton, Utah, then later moved to West Jordan, Utah. He was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served as an ordinance worker in the Logan, Temple.

He is survived by his wife of West Jordan; two daughters, Kaylen (Rod) Cookson of Orlando, Florida; Mary Ellen (Marvin) Reid of Midvale, Utah; six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a son, James Robert, four brothers and two sisters.

Funeral services were held Monday, May 3, 1999 and burial was in the Redwood Memorial Estates Cemetery.

Beth Gardner Hales Boyle died October 28, 1999 in Twin Falls, Idaho. Beth was the oldest child of Wallace and Bessie Hales of Spanish Fork, Utah. She was born June 2, 1920 in Washington, D.C. She married Mark K. Boyle in 1940 in Salt Lake City, Utah, and later divorced.

She is mother to John (Noni) Boyle of Twin Falls, Idaho; Doug (Connie) Boyle of London, England; Mick (Cheryl) Boyle of Sandy, Utah; and Joanne (Dave) Perry of North Bend, Washington. She is grandmother to 20 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

Beth served on a PTA Board, volunteered as a Pink Lady. She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served in several callings.

Beth is survived by her sister, Ruth Mack of Safford, Arizona. Her parents and brother, Hank, preceded her in death as did her son, Mick.

Funeral services were held November 4, 1999 in the Holladay 1^st Ward, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Hal Archie Hales, 75, died January 10, 2000 in Gunnison, Utah. He was born December 21, 1924 in Salina, Utah, a son of John Smith and Rebecca Mickelsen Hales.

Hal is survived by a sister, Vontess Jensen and a brother, Willis (Anna) Hales, both of Redmond, Utah; 24 nieces and nephews. Preceded in death by parents; brothers, John, Ken, Calvin, Marwood; sisters, Geneva, Helen and Beth.

Funeral services were held Saturday, January 15, 2000 in Redmond and burial was in the Redmond, Utah Cemetery.

Our angel mother, Lela Wilda Hales Tennant, 84, passed peacefully from this earth life, from the effects of a stroke, on January 22, 2000, into the waiting arms of loved ones, who preceded her in death.

Mother was the fourth of five children, born on February 27, 1915, in Redmond, Utah to Horace Franklin and Erma Caroline Hansen Hales. She attended the old Redmond Elementary school and graduated from North Sevier High School, Salina, Utah in 1933. She attended Henegar Business College and then went to work for the Great Western Salt Company in Redmond. She also worked for the Treasury Office in Richfield and taught a typing class for one year at North Sevier High School. Her favorite job was being Deputy County Clerk for Sevier County. After her children were in school she went to work for Highland Dairy and later worked at Wasatch Plumbing Supply Company where she retired after 28 years of service.

Mother married Aley Tobler Tennant, from Manti, Utah on June 14, 1939 in the Manti Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They lived in Redmond and Bingham Canyon, Utah and finally settled in Midvale, Utah where they raised their family. Dad died on August 18, 1966. Our mother had so many wonderful talents, which she shared with neighbors, friends and family. She was famous for her homemade candies that she made without a recipe. She just poured in the ingredients and her candy was always perfect. She loved doing hand work of all kinds: from crocheting, embroidering, applique, ceramics and especially quilting. How she missed quilting every week with Amy Banner and the other ladies from the Midvale 1^st Ward. Mother was a temple worker in the Jordan River Temple for seven years. Working in the temple was a highlight of her life. As her health declined it saddened her when she had to give up this great work.

She is survived by her three children, Roland Lee (Colleen) Tennant, Ferron, Utah; Jay A. (Susan) Tennant, Kittery, Maine; and Shirley (Vearl) Jensen, Midvale; 20 grandchildren; and 33 great-grandchildren. Her parents; husband; three brothers, Gerald, Dean, and Orlo; a sister, Mada; and a daughter, Kay L., preceded her in death.

A family service was held Wednesday, January 26, 2000 and interment was in Redwood Memorial Estates in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Barksdale Hales, died March 24, 2000 at his home Glendale, California. He was born October 9, 1925 at Florence, Pinal, Arizona the son of Barksdale Hales and Virginia Margaret Coleman. He married Audrey Corine Stites at Denver, Colorado on August 23, 1946. She predeceased him in 1989.

Barksdale Hales is survived by 3 sons and 3 daughters: Barksdale; Lawrence Coleman "Larry" (Doralynn) Hales; Alicia Victoria (Lowell Theodore) Greenwald; Evelyn Sibylla (Paul) Hansen; Stephen Randolph "Randy" Hales; and Valerie Loraine (Larry Joe) Summerfield.

Our most beautiful and precious angel Gina left us and flew into the heavens on April 20, 2000.

Born to Frank and Marianne Brunatti February 9, 1965 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Gina attended Judge Memorial High School and Westminister College where she graduated with a B.S. in nursing. She loved the outdoors, people and animals (especially her Maltese Beau). She married her special companion and long time friend, Brian Hales, on December 21, 1999. Gina was soft hearted, always concerned about others feelings. She naturally took care of all those around her.

She is survived by her husband, Brian Hales; mother, Marianne Fratto-Brunatti; brother, Jim (Cherie) Brunatti; three nieces and nephews; Brittany, Tyler and Samantha; grandmother, Teresa Fratto; and many special aunts, uncles and cousins. Preceded in death by father, Frank Brunatti, who she loved and missed.

Her giving spirit will be forever with us and she will be missed so greatly by those many people she touched throughout her life. We love you Gina.

Services were held Monday, April 24, 2000 in the Saint John the Baptist Chapel in Draper, Utah and burial was Tuesday, April 25, 2000 in the Mount Calvary Cemetery in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Emma May Crane Draper Hales Wood was born April 28, 1911 in Salina, Utah and passed away in Salt Lake City, Utah on March 27, 2000.

She is survived by her husband, Randal Wood; children, Thad Draper of Hawaii; Evelyn Parik of San Francisco, California; Janice O’Gaffney of Modesto, California; and Patricia Inman of West Valley, Utah.

She is preceded in death by her husband, Newell Draper and a daughter, Claudia. She will be missed by too numerous to name nieces, nephews, grand and great-grand children.

Emma came to San Francisco during the Great Depression to work at the World’s Fair at Treasure Island with her sister, Betty (Iris) Kister. Her sweetheart, Newell Draper followed her out to California. They were soon married and started their family in San Francisco where they lived for approximately 35 years until Newell retired. Emma was very active in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, holding many positions in the church including president of the Relief Society for many years.

Although we are going to miss Mom, we celebrate knowing she is happily reunited with her family and many friends in heaven.

Graveside services were held Saturday, April 1, 2000 in the Redmond, Utah Cemetery.

Mary Evelyn Wright Hales, 65, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, died May 20, 2000 at home. She was born July 27, 1934 in Hinckley, Utah to George Maynard and Eva Lorena (Rust) Wright. She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She served as a missionary in Uruguay for two years. She taught school grades six through 12 for seven years in Utah and taught English at a university in Jilin, China, from 1992 to 1993.

Preceded in death by her father, sisters and one brother: Lola Dawn (Grant) Reeve; June Wright; and Robert (Donna) Wright. She is survived by her mother, Eva Wright of Pleasant Grove, Utah; her husband James; and her children: Annette (Bruce) Avery, California, Maryland; and Eric, husband of Rebecca El Halta of Hershey, Pennsylvania. Also survived by six grandchildren, and her sister; Barbara (Glen) Nelson, of Springville, Utah.

Funeral Services were held May 27, 2000 and burial was in Koosharem Cemetery, Koosharem, Utah.

Opal Jenett Christensen Hales, 64, passed away at her home in Redmond, Utah on June 11, 2000. She was born January 17, 1936 in Aurora, Utah the daughter of Sylven F. and Opal Wanda Breinholt Christensen. She married C. Kay Hales on September 23, 1955 in the Manti, Utah temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She was a Captain of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers (DUP) Camp Christine of Redmond and Sevier County President of the DUP. She was an active member of the LDS Church where she served in various callings. Jenett and Kay just recently returned from the Fiji Suva Mission where they served in the country of Vanuatu.

She is survived by her husband, Kay, of Redmond; children: Calvin Kirk (Becky) Hales, West Jordan, Utah; Karen (Joseph) Nielsen, Salt Lake City, Utah; Karl Don (Lisa) Hales, Salem, Utah; Collin Joel (Karen) Hales, Richfield, Utah; Rex Kenton (Patty) Hales, Salt Lake City, Utah; and 19 grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents and three brothers.

Services were held June 14, 2000 in the Redmond 1^st Ward Chapel and burial was in the Redmond Cemetery.

Edythe Cordelia Mathews Hales, 90, passed away June 13, 2000 in West Valley City, Utah. She was born September 29, 1909 in Midway, Utah a daughter of Orson Pratt and Leah Verona Kohler Mathews. She married Hugh LeRoy Hales June 2, 1934 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He preceded her in death in 1984.

Following graduation from Weber State College, she began a long teaching career. She paused from teaching during World War II to serve as secretary to the commanding officer at Camp Kearns. Following the war she resumed teaching at Monroe, Webster, Plymouth and Stansbury Elementary Schools. She directed the "Melodiers", a senior citizen band. She loved teaching crafts. She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

She is survived by a son, Hugh B. (Suzanne) Hales, of Provo, Utah; three grandchildren: Holly, Hugh Michael and Mathew; a sister, Louise Mathews (Frank) Macchione, West Valley City, Utah; a brother-in-law, Stanley Johnson; niece and nephew, JoAnn Briggs and Stan Macchione. She was preceded in death by her parents and a sister, Ida Mathews Johnson.

Funeral Services were held at McDougal Funeral Home in Salt Lake City, Utah and burial was in the Valley View Memorial Park.

Marilyn Ruth McRae Hales, 49, died June 24, 2000 in Sandy, Utah. She was born November 23, 1950 in Salt Lake City, Utah the daughter of Arthur D. and Ruth Robbins McRae. She married David Keith Hales. They were sealed in the Provo Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on August 29, 1987. He preceded her in death. Marilyn enjoyed the outdoors, fishing and camping. She had many talents, including drawing, poetry and crocheting. She will be missed by all who knew her.

Marilyn is survived by her brothers: Timothy R. McRae; Doug McRae, Bruce A. McRae; and a sister, Kristine Simms. Graveside services were held on Wednesday, June 28, 2000 and burial was in the Santaquin City Cemetery, Santaquin, Utah.

She married Frank Elmer Hale on August 24, 1910 in the Hales home outside Oberlin, Ohio, with her sister Bernice playing the wedding march. Neva said that she "bawled like a baby because Mae was like a mother to me – raised me – and I couldn’t stand the thought of losing her from the home." Frank Hale was born November 1, 1881 in Hambden, Geauga, Ohio to Elmer S. and Helen L. Shimel Hale. He graduated from Western Reserve University in Cleveland, and was described by Carl as "brilliant and a Phi Beta Kappa." He graduated as a historian, according to his son, or a mathematician, according to his brother-in-law, Carl Hales. Frank was a teacher and principal of the Birmingham High School when he and Mae met.

Frank had two different jewelry businesses with his brother, Will Hale, from 1908 or 1909 until October 14, 1915. One jewelry store was in Cuyhoga Falls, Ohio, where Will lived with his uncle, Jim Ogden and his wife, Elizabeth. Mae and Frank moved to Oak Park, Illinois in1915 where Frank worked for Imperial Belt Company as well as Summers and Jones commission house, a Hales company. It was in Oak Park that their only child, Merrill Franklin Hale, was born on November 5, 1917. The family moved to West Lake Park, California, in December of 1918 and into their new home in Huntington Park on January 16, 1922, remaining there until both Frank and Mae died.

Frank was a purchasing agent for Howland and Dewey Company, the west coast agency for Eastman Kodak Company and optics, later establishing a real estate and insurance business. He enjoyed fishing and photography. As a result of a very depressed economy in the 1930s with the closing of two banks, plus the expenses of Mae’s tuberculosis and hospitalization, Frank went to work for the Los Angeles County Assessor and Tax Collector Office, where he remained until his death. He died suddenly with a ruptured aorta and abdominal aneurysm on March 30, 1950. He was buried at Rose Hill Cemetery in Whittier, California.

Mae and Frank were active members of the Huntington Park Methodist Church which is where her sister, Neva Hales Cannicott, attended church also.

After the death of her husband, Mae continued to live alone in her Huntington Park home which was located only blocks from her sister Neva. Mae saved and collected everything, as did her son, Merrill. This may be because they lived during the Great Depression when one needed to save, take advantage of bargains and be thrifty. "Waste not; want not." Merrill said once that he disliked eating fish as his father often fished for their free supper during the depression.

After her hospitalization from 1928-1929 in a tuberculosis sanitarium located in Banning, California, Mae suffered from severe bronchitis and anemia until her middle-50s, but after that age her health seemed to improve until her final five or six years. She died at the age of ninety on July 20, 1972 in Lynwood, California, and is also buried at Rose Hill Cemetery in Whittier.

The only child of Frank and Viola Mae Hales Hale, Merrill Franklin Hale, was born on November 5, 1917 in Oak Park, Illinois. He moved to California with his parents when only one year old. His mother let his curly hair grow long until he was ready to start school. He was very tall, relaxed, easy-going, friendly, helpful and a great shopper. His house and garage were stuffed with furniture (inherited from his mother and mother-in-law), newspapers and all sorts of treasures. He collected stamps, mathematical puzzles and was interested in everything including his trumpet, photography and the world at large. He was always very generous about sharing his interests.

Merrill writes, "I became interested in the trumpet during my junior high school days. One of my most enjoyable experiences was participating in the band and orchestra organizations in high school, college and the Huntington Park Community Orchestra until about 1945."

Merrill attended Los Angeles City College for his basic subjects and finished the last two years at the University of Redlands. He graduated in June of 1940 with a major in physics and a minor in mathematics. His uncle Burton Hales of Redlands helped him finance his university education and Merrill was always most grateful to him. He chose "Burton" as the middle name for his son, Terry, to honor his uncle. Merrill received his Masters Degree in Education from the University of Southern California in 1948.

During World War II, beginning in 1941, Merrill worked at Douglas Aircraft as a mathematician in the engineering department. This experience led to six additional summers of work on the Apollo moon project with Douglas and North American Aviation until 1947. His major career was that of a mathematics teacher in secondary schools of the Los Angeles School District from 1945 until 1982. After he retired he continued to teach nights in East Los Angeles College. Merrill always held a second job in the early years, working for Ralph’s grocery chain as a part-time worker and during summer vacations.

It was at Ralph’s Grocery Store where both worked that Merrill met Vivian Berniece Koller. They were married April 6, 1946 in the Church of the Recessional, located in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. This church is a reproduction of an ancient parish church of Rottingdean, England, where Rudyard Kipling worshiped. In 1949, Vivian and Merrill bought a home in Alhambra, California where they continued to live all their lives. The had two children: Barbara Lee Hale and Terry Burton Hale.

Vivian was born on the same day as Merrill, but was five years older. She was born November 5, 1912 in Ontario, California, to Dale Andrew and Alta Eldora DeJean Koller. She was always cheerful and enjoyed making craft items. She was an enthusiastic volunteer for the PTA, Girl Scouts and Job’s Daughters. She was thoughtful about remembering anniversaries, etc. She was in poor health during the last years so Merrill was very helpful and good natured about doing all the shopping, cooking and chores of the household.

Merrill and Vivian were affiliated with the First Methodist Church in Alhambra. Merrill was interested in youth organizations from the time he joined the Boy Scouts at the age of 12 until about 1970. During all these years since 1935 he was active at the leadership level in the Boy Scouts, PTA, Little League and advisor to high school church groups. The family members enjoyed their vacation cabin near Twenty-nine Palms in the high desert.

It was a surprise when Merrill went first, as he had not been ill. He died in his sleep on November 29, 1989 in Alhambra. "Vi" died of smoke inhalation on November 1, 1991 in Alhambra, two years after Merrill’s death, in a fire in her home. They are both interred at the Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier, California.

Barbara Lee "Bobbi" Hale was born April 2, 1948 in Los Angeles, California the oldest child of Merrill Franklin and Vivian Koller Hale. She grew up in Alhambra, participating in Girl Scouts, Job’s Daughters, YWCA, and other school and church activities. She was elected president of the Pasadena District Methodist Youth Fellowship in 1965. She graduated from East Los Angeles College with an Associate of Arts degree in Sociology. While at this college she was active in student government, was a charter member of Epsilon Delta Phi service sorority and received the College Service Award in 1968. She continued her studies at California State University, Los Angeles, graduating in 1972 with a B.S. degree in recreation. She married (1) Lanny Gene Polwort on June 6, 1970, (2) Carl "Chuck" Weinstein on July 9, 1976 (3) Basil Bruce Coleman on May 1, 1989.

Terry Burton Hale was born October 10, 1949 at Los Angeles, California the second and last child of Merrill Franklin and Vivian Koller Hale. While growing up in Alhambra he was a student at Mark Keppel High School and was the photographer for the school newspaper and year book. He graduated from East Los Angeles College majoring in photography. At both high school and college Terry was a member of the varsity tennis teams. He was the photographer for the newspaper in college and his photos also appeared in the Alhambra Post Advocate. He has won numerous awards for his photography.

Terry worked in photography for a number of years before managing Radio Shack stores in Monterey Park and Alhambra. He then worked for Sega, repairing arcade games, and in 1980 he bought and ran a supply store catering to home wine and beer making enthusiasts. He became interested in computers in the late seventies, which led him to his present job, since 1983, running the computer operations for Whittier Mailing Service, a direct mail firm. He has served as an officer in home brewing clubs, and is sought after as a judge for regional and state-wide competitions. He looks, sounds and acts very much like his father. He is single and lives in Whittier, California.

The sixth child born to George Elon and Dasalina Hales was Harry, who was born June 22, 1883 in Brownhelm Township, Lorain County, Ohio. According to one of two newspaper articles about Harry saved in the Hales Bible, Harry enjoyed good health until he was 12 years old when he "was taken with a fever and other complicated diseases, which lasted about a year."

"Since that time Harry was occupied on the farm, (except) when he took a business course at Oberlin. The remainder of his life was spent at home. On February 3, 1906 Harry went to Chicago and on the 7^th submitted to an operation made necessary by his sickness. The result of the operation was entirely successful, but pneumonia set in."

According to Carl Hales, Harry’s jaws were frozen together after a high fever so that he was unable to open his mouth to speak clearly and had difficulty in eating. This embarrassed him, so he hoped to have it corrected by surgery. He visited Dr. Murphy, a Chicago surgeon, who expressed interest and hope in his unusual case. His parents did not urge him to have surgery, but said that he could because he was of age. He secretly had his photograph taken before the surgery. He never regained consciousness after the operation, although theoretically the operation was successful as his jaws could move.

Other quotes from the newspaper articles include: "Few people in Birmingham had known that Harry Hales had gone to Chicago, so the news that he had died was like a thunderbolt. He was one of our best young men." "His brothers, G. Willard and Clarence, were with him to the end." "Only words of goodness can be said of him. He was of a naturally happy but quiet disposition. Always faithful to his duty, never saying an unkind word of or to any one."

Neva Hales Cannicott said that Harry was the only child who really was interested in staying on the farm.

Nearly 23 years old, Harry died on February 10, 1906 and was buried in the Birmingham, Ohio cemetery.

Carl, the seventh child born to George Elon and Dasalina Hales was born October 21, 1884 in Brownhelm Township, Lorain County, Ohio. He attended the common schools and Birmingham High School. He went to the Kipton school for one school year, and apparently quit school after his family moved to the large farm near Birmingham. He was only twelve years old when they moved there.

Carl made at least two trips to Redlands, California before moving permanently to California in 1918. He recalled that he and his sister, Mae, came to stay with his brother, Burton, in 1905 or 1906 and stayed for one and one-half years. Carl purchased an orange grove of ten acres and hauled oranges for a contractor with a team of sorrel horses all winter long for his "first regular job." They also planted Irish potatoes, strawberries and watermelons on the 40 acre plot on West Pioneer street that Burton was establishing in oranges. It already had 10 acres of apricots and 15 acres of oranges planted. In 1912 Carl returned again and bought 16 acres of oranges and stayed for another one and one-half years. When the January 1913 freeze came he "lost every leaf and every orange" on the trees. However, this grove turned out to be an excellent investment in the long run, and he kept it until 1957 when he retired from the orange business.

After the freeze, Carl went back to Ohio. He invested in a "nice little new store" with his brother-in-law, Edward Berk, in Bucyrus, Ohio, called the Berk and Hales Dry Goods Store. They sold everything from ladies’ corsets and hats to wallpaper, and even had a milliner for ladies’ hats. He sold out his interest after three years and moved on to Texas.

Carl traveled to Houston, Texas where he stayed one and one-half years. He worked for a St. Louis construction company building a six-story office for a Souther Pacific and Telephone company. He said, "I wish I’d stayed there" as he had bought land but sold it before oil was discovered on it. He had purchased 30 acres in Ball, Texas outside Houston, before 1912. That land is now covered with oil wells. He sold it about 1918 using the proceeds for a house in Redlands. He later traded that house for another orange grove. He also owned four lots on the Houston ship canal which were condemned and he was obliged to sell them to the railroad.

Carl went back to Chicago to work in the grain business for Hales and Hunter who sent him to Minneapolis for more than a year.

About this time his sister, Mae, played Cupid when she brought Carl to an ice cream social at the Axtell Methodist Church, Erie County, Ohio, where he met Edna Grace Sperry. Their courtship lasted a long time and they were married June 4, 1914 in Vermilion, Ohio, but the Reverend E. H. Warner, a Methodist minister married to Edna’s sister. Carl and Edna’s marriage certificate listed Carl’s address as Chicago. Their wedding invitation had printed on it, "At home after July 1^st, Oak Park, Illinois."

Edna was born March 27, 1887 to Calvin Sperry and Mary Anne Hull Sperry in Brownhelm Township, Lorain County, Ohio.

Carl and Edna were sent by the Hales and Hunter company to Geneva, New York where they lived for one and one-half ;years. He then worked two years for Summer and Jones and Company, a commission house, where his brother, Will, "put him to help." He was one of two salesmen in the midwest who would visit grain elevators to select grain. He would obtain a sample and send it to Summer and Jones. The sample had to match the grain loads when they arrived at the Board of Trade.

In September of 1918 Carl and Edna Hales, together with his widowed father, George Elon Hales, and his sister, Bernice, moved by train to California. Carl said that they lived near West Lake Park (now MacArthur Park) in Los Angeles for several months before settling permanently in Redlands.

Carl had 15 to 18 different orange groves. Three different hired men bought them from him with money they received for crops. Carl became active in the Mutual Orange Distributors (M.O.D.), "Pure Gold" and the Redlands Foothill Groves packing house.

Carl and Edna lived in a house in the town of Redlands, and he drove to the different groves to irrigate and care for the oranges or grapefruit. He always had a real interest and green thumb in caring for all plants. He was a shrewd investor and business person. They built a large two story home at 415 Brookside Avenue, and later in retirement built eighteen rental apartments along with a comfortable, roomy apartment for themselves at 24 Parkwood Drive.

Two children were born to this family: Paul Franklin Hales and Lawrence Everett Hales.

In 1943 Carl became a partner in the Nelson-Hales Furniture Store with Ted W. Nelson, father of daughter-in-law, Mary Alice Nelson, who married Lawrence. They sold good quality furniture, had a crystal and china gift shop and had an appliance store across the street.

Carl and Edna were always active in the First Methodist Church. Edna was a member of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.) and both were strongly opposed to the use of any liquor. They were careful in all their dealings and thoughts. They were staunch Republicans. Edna was a wonderful cook and a sensitive homemaker. She valued education and was always concerned about world affairs and preserving peace. Their Methodist Church offered many broadening speakers and opportunities which she relished. She enjoyed looking up topics in the encyclopedia and learning new facts. She belonged to several groups, but Carl was not interested in socializing outside his family.

Carl did serve as a trustee and on numerous committees at the church and was in the men’s club. He was also on the Board of Directors for the Redlands Foothill Groves packing house, as well as for the Redlands YMCA, and for a local water company. He served on the County Grand Jury one year. He was a quite, hard working man who played on a baseball team when young, and enjoyed watching various sports at the university campus. He was also a generous supporter of the university. He was 5' 9" tall, of medium weight, with deep brown eyes and brown hair. He had a sweet tooth and always had candy, (especially licorice) and often apples, in his car.

Carl and Edna enjoyed travel in all directions – to Ohio, the south, the northeast, historical places and places of natural beauty, including Hawaii on the Lurline. They spent four months on a European trip traveling on their own through Italy, Switzerland, France, Holland and England in 1952 when they visited their son, Paul, and his wife who were living in Germany at the time. They crossed the Atlantic on the Queen Mary and returned on the Queen Elizabeth. Carl would never fly in an airplane. Edna used some of her German language that she had learned in Birmingham High School – from which she had graduated in 1903. They were very generous with their sons and with causes they supported. Edna had a horror of extravagance which she considered the greatest sin.

Carl died at the age of 79 on February 18, 1964 in his home in Redlands following a year-long battle with cancer after an active and healthy life. Edna sold the apartments and moved to a small apartment where she lived until she broke a hip. She then lived at the Plymouth Village, a convalescent home sponsored by the Christian Church, until she died February 20, 1972 in the Redlands hospital. They are both buried in the mausoleum at Hillside Memorial Park in Redlands.

Paul Franklin Hales, the oldest son of Carl Franklin and Edna Grace Sperry Hales, was born February 26, 1921 during a brief period of time that his parents lived in Long Beach, California. He grew up in Redlands where he attended public schools, graduating from high school in 1939. He has many fond memories of playing football, softball and basketball on the vacant lot next door. He attended the University of Redlands for three years before being drafted during World War II. He returned to graduate in 1947 with a major in business administration – although he really considers himself to be part of the Class of 1943.

For forty months, from October in 1942 to February in 1946, Paul served in the U.S. Army Air Corps as an airplane mechanic. He attended airplane mechanics school at Sheppard Field, located in Wichita Falls, Texas, and received additional training at LaGuardia Field in New York. Following his training he was assigned to the Air Transport Command serving at Morrison Field at West Palm Beach, Florida; Homestead Air Base in Florida; Hickam Field in Hawaii; and "down under" on Christmas Island and Tarawa. He spent Christmas in 1944 on Christmas Island where the Lever Brothers raised coconut palms for the oil used to make soap.

The military men lived a very informal life in small wooden huts with screened windows. They showered in unheated, but still warm, salty water, and each man had to wash his own dishes, such as is done in primitive camping.

After working for the Automobile Club of Southern California for a year in Redlands, he move to San Diego, California, where he became a social worker with the Department of Public Welfare. This was where he met his wife. He married Arline Anne Haugen May 7, 1950. She was born November 15, 1923 to Edwin Norman Haugen and Martha Caroline Hovda Haugen in San Diego. After Arline graduated from San Diego State College, she worked as a Girl Reserve secretary/Y-Teen director in the Y.W.C.A. for two and a half years and then moved to the Department of Public Welfare in child welfare services, foster homes and independent adoptions.

At the time of their first anniversary, Paul and Arline had taken leave from their jobs to travel third-class on an Italian liner, the M. V. Saturnia, to Naples, Italy, where they began a leisurely, economical trip around Europe. A highlight was a two week stay in a Paris hotel costing $1.00 a night for two! When in Germany, Paul applied for a job and was hired as a civilian with the U.S. Army. He became an operations and methods analyst for two and a half years before returning to California in October of 1953. Paul and Arline lived in Klein Auheim, near Hanau, (American zone) and Kaiserslautern, Germany (French zone). They caught the travel bug then, and have returned to Europe as often as they can.

Paul has a mechanical interest. He enjoys figuring out and fixing things. He has done a lot of volunteer work, such as serving on the Meals-on-Wheels Advisory Committee, as well as delivering Meals-on-Wheels for twenty years. He served nine years on the County Credit Union Credit Committee, five years on the Board of the Council of Churches, fifteen years on the United Nations Association Board, and is primarily involved now as treasurer for UNICEF. Paul is very generous and supportive of many worthwhile agencies and programs. He particularly enjoys organ music, as well as the San Diego Symphony Orchestra. Both Paul and Arline have been active in the Lutheran church although Paul has remained a Methodist at heart.

After a year long internship in the San Diego City Management office, Paul joined the County of San Diego as an administrative assistant for the Department of Public Works where he stayed for fifteen years. He moved to the Probation Department and retired in 1978. Paul and Arline live in San Diego, California.

After nine years of marriage Paul and Arline had one child. Andrea Susan Hales was born December 3, 1958. She had a "sister" while in the 8^th grade, as Reiko Yoshizawa, an American Field Service exchange student, came to live with the family for a year. When Andrea was a high school junior, she was a summer exchange student to Yokohama, Japan, San Diego’s sister city, under a Y.M.C.A. program.

Andrea graduated from Mission Bay High School in 1977 and from the University of Southern California in 1982 with a major in art history. After her freshman year at U.S.C., she attended the International Summer School at the University of Oslo. One year later, during the 1979 – 1980 school year, she attended Nansenskolen, a Norwegian Humanistic Academy, one of Norway’s folk schools. She enjoyed traveling around Europe with her Norwegian classmates, and after the school program, lived and worked for several months in Halden, Norway, with relatives on her mother’s side of the family.

After graduation from U.S.C. in 1982, Andrea was curator for the slide library of the Fine Arts Department at the university. She received a masters in art history from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, in June, 1985, and worked the next year at the Art Institute of Chicago, in the 20^th Century Department, where she had been a student intern.

Andrea and William Douglas "Bill" Brown were married August 16, 1986 in San Diego, California. Bill, born August 3, 1959 in Denver, Colorado, to William Vincent Brown and Pat McColgan Brown, graduated from U.S.C. in 1981, and received his juris doctorate from the University of Notre Dame Law School in May 18, 1986. He passed the California bar exam in 1986, and is an attorney with Daley & Heft law firm in Solana Beach. He enjoys surfing, cross country skiing and watching all sports. Andrea and Bill always attend every home and many out-of-town U.S.C. football games. They enjoy travel, especially to the Olympic Games, and reading. Andrea swims almost every day.

Andrea worked at the BlumHelman Gallery in Santa Monica and the J. Paul Getty Museum in the Department of Photographs, until moving back to San Diego in December of 1992 after a fifteen year absence. She is curatorial coordinator and assistant to the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, which is located in both La Jolla and downtown San Diego.

The second son of Edna and Carl Hales, Lawrence Everett, was born October 10, 1923 in Redlands, California. After graduating from Redlands High School in 1941, Larry attended the University of Redlands for one year before enlisting in the Army Air Corps as an Aviation Cadet.

Following a year of flight training at various bases in the United States, Larry graduated as a second lieutenant and pilot with the class 44-B at Pecos, Texas in February of 1944. During this year of training, Larry married Mary Alice Nelson in Phoenix, Arizona – she then followed Larry to various bases around the country.

In May of 1944 Larry was assigned to Salt Lake City, Utah where he joined his combat crew. The crew consisted of pilot, co-pilot (Larry), navigator, bombardier, radio operator, flight engineer, tail gunner and two waist gunners. This crew was sent to Rapid City, South Dakota, for transition training in B-17s.

After spending two and a half months flying and training together, the crew became an accomplished bomber crew. In June they were sent to Kearney, Nebraska, to pick up their own B-17. From Kearney they flew to Gander, Newfoundland and waited seven days for good weather before flying across the Atlantic to England arriving on July 4, 1944. Even though it was July, Icebergs were seen during the 13-hour flight. Fortunately the flight was uneventful – 92% successfully completed these summer crossings.

Larry (co-pilot) along with the pilot and crew were assigned to the 381^st heavy bomb group, a part of the 8^th Air Force, stationed at Ridgewell, England, 30 miles south of Cambridge. After further combat training, particularly in formation flying and gunnery practice, the crew was ready for its first mission.

During the first 24 missions, various combat adventures ensued, but no blood was lost – only the start of some grey hairs! Then Larry was checked out as 1^st pilot, promoted to 1^st lieutenant and formed up with his own crew.

The 381^st Bomb Group usually put up 12 planes in a squadron; three squadrons to a group (36 total airplanes) which, along with other groups formed a stream of airplanes of from 350 to 1100 (maximum effort). Fighter planes were protection, usually P-51s or P-47s.

Bombing was usually done from 25,000 to 30,000 feet – sometimes visual and sometimes by radar through the clouds. Of course there were no pressurized cabins or heat – just heated suits, so it could be mighty cold. (30 to 50 degrees below zero if you had to unplug the suit or bail out. Finally the 35^th mission was at hand and Larry, along with his original 1^st pilot led the squadron on its last mission to Nuremberg, Germany’s Marshally yards.

Then it was back to the states via Prestwick, Scotland, the Azores, Gander to New York. Since the war was still going on, it was then a slow train to Oakland, California, with a furlough of ten days followed by reassignment to the Santa Monica redistribution center. While Larry was at Santa Monica, President Roosevelt died. Larry purchased a 1938 Nash and proceeded to Marfa, Texas with Mary Alice and became an instructor. After arriving, he found no more pilots were needed, so it was back to Long Beach. Again, so many pilots were available that there was nothing to do. While here the news of V.E. Day was heard.

The next stop was Lubbock, Texas, for a few weeks of instrument flying school, flying AT-6s needle ball and airspeed. Shortly after leaving Lubbock, news of the Atomic Bomb and the capitulation of Japan followed. The Atomic Bomb saved thousands and thousands of American lives. Otherwise, Larry would have been sent eventually to the Pacific. In October of 1945 Larry was discharged from the Army Air Corps at Beale Air Force Base near Sacramento, California.

The marriage of Mary Alice Nelson and Larry Hales led to the formation of the firm, Nelson-Hales Furniture, which occurred while Larry was still flying combat missions from England in 1944-45.

He and Mary Alice Nelson were married in Phoenix, Arizona on September 19, 1943, shortly before his graduation from flight school. Both sets of parents came to the wedding, but because there was gas rationing, the Nelsons had to forfeit some gasoline allotment because the unromantic ration board thought their use of gasoline for a honeymoon was unnecessary. Mary Alice was born September 24, 1923 to Ted Nelson and Alice Webster Nelson in Riverside, California.

After the war Larry re-enrolled at the University of Redlands studying business administration and art. A short time was also spent at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, and in 1948, Larry graduated from the University of Redlands.

The next 30 – 40 years Larry was employed with Nelson-Hales Furniture as an interior designer and salesman. About 1980 the Nelson-Hales building owned by the Edna S. Hales Trust was sold. At this time Nelson-Hales Furniture ceased to exist as a retail furniture store.

Larry has always been interested in cars, boats, photography and golf. He is good natured and lively. He says his hobbies are golf, collecting magazines, motorcycling and watching football. Mary Alice likes to swim, garden, play bridge and to be part of various select group. She is tall and sedate and has a flair for what ‘s new. They live in Redlands, California.

Mary Alice and Larry Hales have four children: Timothy Wayne, Craig Frederick, Margaret Alice and Laura Elizabeth Hales.

Timothy Wayne Hales, first born child of Larry and Mary Alice Hales, was born March 2, 1946 in Redlands, California. His initials are the same as his maternal grandfather, Ted Nelson. Very tall and bright, he attended accelerated classes in high school. After one year at Oregon State University, he transferred to the University of California at Santa Barbara. He graduated with an engineering degree in 1964.

He worked for the Naval Undersea Research and Development Center in the Pasadena Laboratory until after his marriage. It was there he met his future wife. He married Madeleine Claire Stearns Shepard on June 28, 1970 at the Abbey, located at 6211 Arroyo Glen, Highland Park, near Pasadena California. Madeleine was born October 26, 1946. They then explored the country living in a converted bakery truck while learning some craft to sustain them, such as leather work.

They returned to Northern California where they purchased 40 acres of former redwood forests which had been cut down, but not cleared. Hugh roots and many trees of new growth are on the land. Tim built their home himself without the benefit of power tools or running water. He cut down trees from the land, and they have been adding to and improving their home through the years. They still do not have electricity and use butane to cook and light their home. The girls climbed a ladder to their loft to sleep. Tim has a beard, is easy going, kind and relaxed. Madeleine is very creative as she weaves, writes poetry and sings. The family lives near Branscomb, California.

Tim and Madeleine Hales have three daughters:

Craig Frederick Hales was born May 15, 1949, and died in his mid-20s. He was born with Down’s Syndrome and lived most of his life in an institution. His initials were the same as his paternal grandfather, Carl Franklin Hales.

Margaret Alice Hales was born January 26, 1955 in Redlands, Her initials are the same as her mother’s. She was active in high school and graduated from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California and then received her masters and teacher’s credentials in home economics from Cal Poly, Pomona. She was a flight attendant with American Airlines, and became an employee of IBM Corporation demonstrating the use of IBM machines. This is where she met Jim, her future husband, who also sold and taught the use of these machines.

Margaret married James Gregory Threadgill on June 22, 1985 in the Edward’s Mansion Orange Tree Chapel in Redlands. He was born on July 7, 1956. They lived briefly in Scottsdale, Arizona and then moved to Carlsbad, California, where they have resided for several years. Jim works as a sales person for a Dutch flower bulb company and covers the United States.

Jim and Margaret Threadgill have two children:

Laura Elizabeth Hales was born in Redlands, California on October 8, 1961, almost on her father’s birthday. She was given names to have the same initials as her father. Laura graduated from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona, in 1984 with a major in fashion merchandising and a minor in marketing. She was active in her Alpha Omicron Pi sorority serving as president. She worked as an assistant buyer and as a sales associate for the Harris Department Store in Redlands and San Bernardino, and was also employed by Nordstrom’s store in San Diego for several years. She attended art school in Pasadena, and is completing her elementary teachers credentials at San Bernardino State as of the spring of 1995.

Clarence, born February 6, 1889 in Brownhelm Township, Lorain County, Ohio, was the eighth child of George Elon and Dasalina Rosa Hales. He made his home with his brother, G. Willard Hales, of Oak Park, Illinois, during his teen-age years while attending Oak Park High School. The Hemingway family lived across the street from Will Hales, and Clarence dated the Hemingway daughter when in school. He graduated from the University of Chicago in about 1909. He was an athlete there, as he played football and participated in track, the hammer throw and javelin. He earned some brass fobs and pins for sports.

Clarence served as a lieutenant in the United States Navy in World War I. He joined the Hales enterprises and was sent to Minnesota to work in the lumber business for his Uncle Burton Hales.

Clarence was a confident, strong character who loved to hunt, said his sister, Bernice. Bill Hales, who remembered him well, describe him as handsome, tall and straight. Clarence remained a bachelor. According to the obituary kept in the Family Bible, Clarence had made his home in northern Wisconsin, where he was connected with the Hales Timber Company of Fifield, Wisconsin. From 1926 to 1928 he lived in Minneapolis where he was engaged in the lumber business.

"He died February 1, 1928 in Chicago, probably of cancer," said his sister, Neva. The obituary described it as a "complicated illness of four months." He lost weight and died just five days before his 39^th birthday. At the time of the funeral services, his sister, Bernice Hales Jessop, was listed as a missionary among the Zulu people, living in Umsunduze, South Africa. The news clipping in the Bible described him as having a "happy, quiet disposition; faithful to duty and the Methodist church and his senior class of which he was president."

After his death his trunk and personal belongings were sent to California where it was discovered that he saved all the letters from a girlfriend he had loved at college who had married someone else. She later was widowed with two children and wrote him again. Paul remembers playing as a child with Clarence’s riding boots and binoculars which were in the trunk. Clarence willed his Hupmobile roadster with a rumble seat to Carrie Hales, who gave it to her son, Bill Hales, who drove it to Williams College during his junior year.

Bernice said that Clarence loved candy and he used to send good chocolates to the Jessops in Africa at Christmastime. She also said that he took vocal lessons and would have liked to have been on the stage.

Clarence wrote in his will that he wished to be cremated with his ashes scattered over the campus of the University of Chicago and Lake Michigan. William Hales of Winnetka and a pilot friend, complied with his request.