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- RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Censuses:
1840 US: Quincy First Ward, Adams, Illinois, related families:
P. 6a:
Stephen Hales, males 10-15:1; 15-20:1; 30-40:1; 40-50:1//females 15-20:1; 40-50:1. [Stephen, his wife Mary Ann, Henry W.(12), George (18), {not sure who the 30-40 male and the 15-20 female would be unless it was Charles, age 23 and not over 30, and his new bride Julia Ann, under age 20 - either way it would live Stephen, age 20, unaccounted for}. I do not find Charles or Stephen separately in same census.]
P. 7a:
John Ellis, males 20-30:1//females 15-20:2. [Not sure who the second female would be.]
P. 15a [2nd Ward]:
Joseph Horne, males 0-5:1; 20-30:1//females 20-30:1.
1850 US: Dist. 14, Decatur, Iowa, p. 326b, dwellings 39-42, 30 Oct 1850; note there are only about 16 pages of census for this area versus 188 for Pottawattamie County; also note that the families of George, Charles, Henry, Stephen Hales and their mother Mary Ann Thompson were all neighbors - Mary Ann's husband had died in 1846 and she remarried to William Thompson; she dies herself in about 6 months:
Dwelling 39:
William Thompson, 46, farmer, Scotland.
Mary A., 51, Eng.
Daniel 17, farmer, Canada.
David 19, farmer, Scotland.
William, 15, Canada.
Maria, 12, MO.
Orville, 9, Ill.
Dwelling 40:
George Hales, 28, printer, Eng.
Sarah A., 27, NY.
Mary A., 6.
Harriett, 4, Iowa.
Dwelling 41:
Charles Hales, 33, bricklayer, Eng.
Julia A., 26, NY.
Eliza A., 9, IL.
Julia A., 8, IL.
George G., 6, IL.
Mary J. 4, IL.
Charles H., 2, IL.
Henry H. Hales, 21, farmer, Eng.
Eliza A., 20, PA.
Dwelling 42:
Stephen Hales, 30, stonecutter, Eng.
Eveline, 20, VT.
Stephen, 1, IA.
1860 US: Ward 15, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, 6 Jul 1860, p. 6 of 16, house 1049, family 49:
George Hales, 37, printer, $600, $300, Eng.
Sarah Ann, 37, NY.
Louisa Ann, 24, Eng.
Mary Ann, 15, OH.
Harriet, 13, IA.
George W., 7, UT.
Elizabeth, 6, UT.
Ellen, 4, UT.
Willard, 4, UT.
Serina, 6/12, UT.
Amelia, 6/12, UT.
1870 US: Beaver City, Beaver, Utah, p. 1 of 31, 15 Jul 1870, house and family 2:
George Hales, 47, shoemaker, $200, $200, Eng.
Louisa, 34, Eng.
Anna E., 16, UT.
Willard G., 14, UT.
Lorena L, 11, UT.
Caroline C., 8, UT.
Harriet S., 4, UT.
Rhoda A., 1, UT.
1880 US: Beaver City, Beaver, Utah, FHL film 1255335, NA film T9-1335, p. 13A:
George Hale, Printer, M, 57, Eng Eng Eng.
Louiesa A., keeping house, wife, M, 45, Eng Eng Eng.
Willard G., laborer, son. S, 24, UT Eng Eng.
Irene, dau., S, 21, UT Eng Eng.
Caroline, domestic servant, dau., 19, UT Eng Eng.
Harriet I., domestic servant, dau., 14, UT Eng Eng.
Rhoda, dau., 11, UT Eng Eng.
John A., son, 8, UT Eng Eng.
William B., son, 4, UT Eng Eng.
Polygamous wife next door:
Sarah A. Hale, keeping house, self, 57, NY, NY, NY.
George, carpenter, son, S, 27, UT, Eng, NY.
Charles, laborer, son, S, 15, UT, Eng, NY.
1900 US: Beaver City, Beaver, Utah, p. 25A [Note polygamous wife Sarah A. Hales lived in Beaver in 1900; see her notes for census return]:
George Hales, b. Oct 1822, age 77, marr. 38 yrs., Eng Eng Eng., day laborer, immigrated 1833.
Louisa, wife, b. June 1834, age 65, marr. 38 yrs., 11 children total with 5 living, Eng Eng Eng., immigrated 1845.
William, son, b. Jul 1875, age 24, S, Utah, Eng, Eng, day laborer.
Louisa Tanner, grand-d., g. Sep 1891, age 8, UT UT UT, at school.
BIOGRAPHY:
1. Twin with William Hales. Pictures in possession of Kerry Petersen in file folder with father's family group. Came to Utah with Mormon battalion. Member of Nauvoo Legion. Was High Priest. Justice of peace. One of the earliest workers in Deseret News printing office at Richfield, Utah. Printer and shoemaker.
2. Per Kate B. Carter, "Our Pioneer Heritage" (Dau. of Utah Pioneers, SLC, UT, 1977) vol.20, pp.74,75: Speaking of Nauvoo: "Nauvoo Legion Band. The maneuvers of a large body such as the Nauvoo Legion grew to be could not properly be conducted ... and the thought of a brass band therefore suggested itself to the general (Joseph Smith). Thus, at the call of the Prophet, a meeting was held...sometime during the year 1842...some of the persons present...Charles H. Hales, trombones; Stephen Hales...clarinets; Geo. Hales...french horns...numbering 18 in all." Later, in Utah: "At a meeting of the Nauvoo Legion Band held... 9 Apr 1850, Bro. William Clayton made the following remarks: 'I have a conscientious notion of organizing this band...I have as firm a notion in the organizing this band as I would have in being baptized...'(list includes 25 including the 3 Hales.) It was also moved...the band adopt a straw hat for the covering of the head, a white dress coat and white pantaloons, a sky blue sash and a white muslim cravat at their uniform...a committee was appointed relative to procuring a band carriage, and by unanimous vote Brig. Young was appointed to the office of standard bearer..."
3. The book, "On the Mormon Frontier, The Diary of Hosea Stout, 1844-1861," edited by Juanita Brooks, Univ. of Utah Press, p. 145, Friday March 27th, 1846, at about Shoal Creek on the pioneer trek mentions George Hales as Clerk to the second hundred's second fifty of which Peter Hawes was Captain. This group had the Band attached to it. Also mentioned on p. 569, entry for Tuesday, 11 Dec. 1855, in speaking about the Legislature talks of George Hales being unanimously elected Public Printer.
4. Website "http://home.att.net/~BrownsPond/histories/hale-geo.htm." I also have a typed copy of the same and it notes therein that it was "compiled and written by his daughter, Rhoda Alice Hales Tanner and grand daughter Irene Tolton Hammond: "George Hales, son of Stephen and Mary Ann Hales, was born at Rainham Parish, County Kent, England, Oct. 10, 1822. He was fourth of ten children, a twin his brother Wm. Henry dying in infancy. In the spring of 1832, when George was 10, his parents emigrated to northern Canada, settling in Scarborough, where they remained some six years. During voyage from England, a baby brother died and was buried a sea. In later years, George told of gathering cranberries in the marshes of Canada, with others of his family. At Scarborough the family heard the gospel and became converted to the church. In the spring of 1838 George left Canada with his parents to join the saints in Far West, Missouri. The following spring the saints were driven from the state by mob violence. George settled in Quincy, Illinois, where in the autumn of 1839 he began to learn the printing trade as an apprentice in the office of the Quincy Whig. He worked here three years with board and clothes his sole remuneration. At the age of 18, while still in Quincy, George was baptized by Orson Hyde - April 10, 1840. In January 1843 he went from Quincy to Nauvoo and worked several months in the Times and Seasons office, leaving to cut stone for the Nauvoo temple. In 30 November 1843 he married Sarah Ann Gregory, in Quincy, Illinois, and the folowing spring went with her to visit her people in Cincinnati, Ohio where they remained about a year. On his return to Nauvoo he again worked in the Times and Seasons office, and while there printed the first copy of the Nauvoo Neighbor. When the Saints were driven from Nauvoo early in 1846, George was with the first company to leave for the West, and tells in his own biographical sketch of crossing the Mississippi in his wagon on the ice. On March 26, 1846 he was made clerk of the fourth 50 in Wm. Clayton's company when it was organized into 50s. He went as far as Garden Grove, Iowa, where he remained until 1850. In July 1846, while in Garden Grove, George and his two brothers, Charles and Stephen, were sent for by President Young to go as musicians with the Mormon Battalion. They left their families to look after themselves as best they could, took a change of clothes, and started on foot and alone to travel 150 miles to Council Bluffs to join the Battalion. Arriving there, they learned that Captain Allen was not entitled to a brass band. After waiting a few days under order of President Young, to see if they were needed to fill a company, they were released to rejoin the main company of saints. In the spring of 1848, he was sent to St. Louis with John Henderson on a mission (from Garden Grove) to secure aid for the saints. During the spring of 1850, he and his family came with a company into the valley. Upon his arrival he was engaged to work in the office of the Deseret News where he struck off the first edition on June 15, 1850. At the time of his death the Deseret News in its issue of Sep. 21, 1907 paid the following tribute: 'George Hales, who printed the first copies of the Deseret News, is the last connected with the paper's founding to pass to other fields of Labor...when this paper first came from the printing press, it was the strong right arm of George Hales that operated the little iron plant brought across the plains in pioneer wagons. Mr. Hales and the 'News' were inseparable during the first decade of its existence, and one of the things to be regretted is that he did not leave a volume of memoirs reciting his experiences as a pressman and printer, first in Nauvoo, then in Salt Lake on the 'News', then in Fillmore, again on the "News" when it was a question each day whether another issue would be printed before the Federal army might arrive to put a stop to it; Once more in Salt Lake after the 'News' was established in the old Council House, ...Associated with Mr. Hales were Horace K. Whitney who set the type, and Brigham H. Young who superintended the press work.' In the spring of 1852 he was made foreman of the office, a position he filled for about a year. In December of that year he married Louisa Ann Eddins in Salt Lake City married by Dr. Willard Richards. In 1855 while the state capitol was at Fillmore he went south with the legislature to do the official printing for the session. Later in 1858 when Johnson's army was approaching, the 'News' plant was divided and part of it set up in Fillmore and part left in Salt Lake, with issues alternating from the two towns. George Hales was with the Fillmore plant, with George Q. Cannon, editor. In the fall he returned to Salt Lake and spent that winter as foreman in the Valley Tan office, a gentile paper, and remained over a year when the paper was discontinued. Called to help settle the southern part of the state, he left Salt Lake in the spring of 1861 and moved to Spanish Fork where he remained until the fall of 1862. That autumn he moved to Beaver where he spent the remainder of his life except for one year 1869-70, when at the request of Angus M. Cannon he returned to work in the Deseret News office. His years in Beaver were spent in farming, shoemaking, and printing. He was connected with several early southern Utah publications: Beaver Enterprise, Beaver Utopian, and Richfield Advocate. He was a member of the Beaver Brass Band, and of the ward choir. In the summer of 1886 he was arrested for unlawful cohabitation, and, like many others of the time, spent six months in the penitentiary, returning to Beaver in March of 1887. Louisa Ann preceded him in death, dying on April 17, 1906 at Beaver, Utah. He lived to be near his 86th yar. He attended church on Sept. 8, 1907 and died that evening at Beaver, Utah. Sarah Ann his first wife died Dec. 27, 1908, at Huntington, Utah. To him there had been born 21 Children, 10 by the first wife, and 11 by the second."
5. The book "Mormon Redress Petitions, Documents of the 1833-1838 Missouri Conflict," edited by Clark V. Johnson, contains a copy of the "Scroll Petition" dated 28 Nov 1843 at Nauvoo, IL addressed to the U.S. Congress by members of the LDS Church who had property destroyed by Missouri mobs in the 1830's. Included with over a couple thousand signatures are those of George and Sarah Ann Hales.
6. From Hales Chronicles online www.hales.org: "A daughter of George Hales, Rhoda Alice Hales Tanner, and a granddaughter, Irene Tolton Hammand, provided a sketch containing much of the following material. Another granddaughter, Vera Hales Quilter, also supplied information. I have combined the sketches and added information from an article by Kerry Ross Boren, The Agony of a Mormon Polygamist, Old West Magazine, (Austin, Texas: Western Publications, Summer 1972).
The fourth and fifth children of Stephen and Mary Ann Hales were twins. George and William were born at Rainham, Kent, England on October 30, 1822.
William lived only a few years and died in 1825. In the spring of 1832 when George was in his tenth year, his parents and family emigrated to Canada, settling in Scarborough. Scarborough was located approximately ten miles northeast of Toronto on the shore of Lake Ontario. In later years George told of gathering cranberries in the marshes of Canada with others of his family. While in Canada in 1836 his parents joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints along with some of their children.
In March of 1838 while in his sixteenth year the Hales family left Canada to join the saints at Far West, Missouri. The following spring they were driven from the state, along with the rest of the saints, by mob violence. The Hales family removed to Quincy, Illinois.
In the autumn of 1839 George began to learn the printing trade as an apprentice in the office of the Quincy Whig. He worked there three years with board and clothes his only remuneration. While in Quincy, George was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on April 19, 1840 by Elder Orson Hyde.
In January 1843 he went from Quincy to Nauvoo and worked for several months in the Times and Seasons office. He left this job to cut stone for the Nauvoo Temple. On the thirtieth of November of that same year he returned to Quincy, Illinois and married Sarah Ann Gregory. The following spring he went with her to visit her family in Cincinnati, Ohio where they remained about a year and where their first child was born. On his return to Nauvoo he worked again in the Times and Seasons office, and while there printed the first copy of the Nauvoo Neighbor.
Sarah Ann Gregory was born on January 26, 1823 in Burns, Allegheny County, New York. She was the first child born to William and Electa Ann Fellows Gregory. When she was about a year old her parents moved to Cincinnati, Ohio where her eleven brothers and sisters were born. Of this large family only one sister and two brothers grew to maturity and married. William Gregory was a Methodist minister and a very religious and humble man. One wonders what his reaction was when his twenty year old daughter was baptized into the Mormon Church in July of 1843.
George Hales continued to work on the Temple at Nauvoo and he and his wife received their endowments there on December 23, 1845. There are some who claim that this temple was never completed, but George and Sarah Ann as well as others in this Newsletter provide testimony to the fact that ordinance work was done there prior to the time the saints left Nauvoo.
When the saints were driven from Nauvoo early in 1846, George was with the first company to leave for the west, and tells of crossing the Mississippi in his wagon on the ice. On March 26, 1846 he was made clerk of the fourth fifty in William Clayton's company when it was organized into fifties.
George and Sarah Ann went as far as Garden Grove, Iowa, where they remained until 1850. In July 1846, while in Garden Grove, George and two of his brothers, Charles Henry and Stephen, were sent to Council Bluffs by President Young to go as musicians with the Mormon Battalion. They left their families to look after themselves as best they could, took a change of clothes, and started alone and on foot to travel the 150 miles to join the Battalion. Arriving there, they learned that Captain Allen was not entitled to a brass band. After waiting a few days under order of President Young to see if they were needed to fill a company, they were released to rejoin the main company of saints. In the spring of 1848, he was sent to St. Louis with John Henderson on a mission (from Garden Grove) to secure aid for the saints.
By early 1850 George and Sarah Ann and their three daughters were ready to leave Kanesville (Council Bluffs), Iowa to make the long trek to Utah. Aunt Vera remembers that they were in the Edward Hunter company consisting of 261 pioneers in 67 wagons. This company left on July fourth and arrived in Salt Lake City on October 13, 1850.
Upon his arrival he was engaged to work in the office of the Deseret Evening News where he struck off the first edition. At the time of his death the Deseret News paid the following tribute in its issue of September 21, 1907: "George Hales, who printed the first copies of the Deseret News, is the last connected with the paper's founding to pass to other fields of labor. When this paper first came from the printing press, it was the strong right arm of George Hales that operated the little iron plant brought across the plains in pioneer wagons. Mr. Hales and the 'News,' were inseparable during the first decade of its existence, and one of the things to be regretted is that he did not leave a volume of memoirs reciting his experiences as a pressman and printer, first in Nauvoo, then in Salt Lake on the 'News,' then in Fillmore, again on the 'News,' when it was a question each day whether another issue would be printed before the Federal Army might arrive to put a stop to it; once more in Salt Lake after the 'News' was established in the Old Council House. Associated with Mr. Hales was Horace K. Whitney who set the type, and Brigham H. Young who superintended the press work."
In the spring of 1852 George was made foreman of the office, a position he filled for about a year.
On the seventeenth of October in 1852, George married a second wife, Louisa Ann Eddins. they were married by Dr. Willard Richards. She was born on May 10, 1834 at Cradley, Hereford, England and was the daughter of George and Ann Smith Eddins.
In 1855 while the state capitol was at Fillmore, George went south with the legislature to do the official printing for the session. Later in 1858 when Johnson's army was approaching, the 'News' plant was divided and part of it set up in Fillmore and part left in Salt Lake, with the issues alternating from the two towns. George Hales was with the Fillmore plant, with George Q. Cannon, editor. In the fall he returned to Salt Lake and spent that winter as foreman in the Valley Tan office, a gentile paper, and remained over a year until the paper was discontinued.
Called to help settle the southern part of the state, he left Salt Lake in the spring of 1861 and moved to Spanish Fork where he remained until the fall of 1862. That autumn he moved to Beaver where he spent the remainder of his life except for one year, 1869-1870, when at the request of Angus M. Cannon, he returned to work in the Deseret News office. His years at Beaver were spent in farming, shoemaking and printing. He was connected with several early southern Utah publications: Beaver Enterprise, Beaver Utonian, and Richfield Advocate. He was a member of the Beaver Brass Band, and of the ward choir.
The two families of George Hales lived next door to each other on a one acre lot in Beaver. Sarah Ann had a house on the south and Louisa Ann had a house on the north. The close proximity of the two families set the stage for some interesting situations. Aunt Vera tells this story, 'On one occasion grandpa engaged a man to come and build a cellar for Louisa. The gentleman went to Grandma Sarah Ann and said, 'Where do you want your cellar built, Mrs. Hales?' Grandma said she hadn't ordered a cellar, but the man insisted. Of course grandma gladly told him where she wanted it. The truth soon came out, and grandpa hired the man to make Louisa a cellar, as there wasn't too much he could do about grandma.'
My grandfather, Charles Harmon Hales, the last child of George Hales and Sarah Ann Gregory Hales, was born while the families lived in Beaver. He was born on March 26, 1865. He was seventeen years old when trouble started brewing for families that practiced plural marriage.
In 1882 the Edmunds-Tucker Act was passed into law by Congress after a short but heated debate. This law was a tool whereby marshals, judges and many others associated with politics, especially where related to Utah, were used in an attempt to crush the Mormon movement. The law is yet the subject of much controversy, but it is almost unanimously agreed that the act was aimed expressly at Mormonism.
The Edmunds-Tucker Act carried penalties for two types of offenses. If a man were already married to more than one wife with whom he then lived, his offense was designated as 'unlawful cohabitation.' If a man already had one wife after this law was passed, and then married another wife, the offense was designated as 'polygamy.'
On a cool evening in March 1885, George Hales knocked at the door of Thomas Scofield. Answering the knock, Thomas discovered several of his friends, armed and anxious. George addressed Thomas in behalf of the others, 'Thomas, we have just learned that a deputy marshal and several of his men are on the way to Beaver to arrest us. They have warrants for you, myself, Brother Robinson, Brother Sudweeks, and even poor old Brother Farrer. We don't know how you stand on it, Thomas, but we don't aim to give up on our families and we don't aim to be taken in, either.' The law meant that they would have to renounce one of their families and this they were not willing to do.
Richard Sudweeks volunteered that he had a brother in Circleville where he could stay for awhile and Thomas was a good friend of the Parker family there. Each of the brethren came to agree that Circleville would be a good place to go, for the arm of the law was not so long in that place.
Maximillian Parker lived there and his young son, Robert Leroy Parker, better known as Butch Cassidy, had recently hit the outlaw trail. That summer and winter the men of Beaver hid themselves in places frequented by outlaws in their attempt to keep their families intact. They wondered at times if it was worth it; they were as much away from their families as if they had surrendered. George Hales wrote Thomas Scofield, who was in hiding at Robber's Roost, 'I for one am going home.' With that message the men began returning to Beaver.
In May 1886 the deputy U.S. Marshal and his assistants visited Beaver again. George Hales was arrested and swore to the judge to whom he was taken that if the court would release him until he could get his affairs in order, he would appear before the next term, ready to plead guilty. This pleased the judge and he was temporarily released.
The following three months were rather uneventful. An unknown correspondent (believed to have been George Hales writing under the name of Moonshee) kept the readers of the Deseret Evening News at Salt Lake City posted on events at Beaver in connection with the activities of the lawmen in that region.
The Deseret Evening News printed a column entitled "For Conscience' Sake" which was devoted to those faithful Latter-day Saints who were arrested and sentenced for transgressing the Edmunds-Tucker Law. On September 18, 1886, in this column appeared the following: 'Beaver, U.T., Sept. 18, 1886. The cohabitation cases are distributed as follows: James Farrer, an invalid, was indicted last May. This indictment was quashed and three additional ones were found against him. Thomas Scofield, indicted eighteen months ago, has been arrested on another indictment. R. Sudwick, arrested recently on three indictments, was again arrested this morning on another, found this term. The trials of the foregoing cohabitation cases, together with that of Geo. Hales, was set for next week. No new victims. Moonshee.
George Hales pleaded guilty on September 22, 1886 and sentence was passed on September 25th in the Second District Court at Beaver. He was in his sixty-fourth year and was sentenced to four months and $300.
The judge courteously asked the brethren if they intended to keep the law in the future, but they respectfully declined to make any promises. They will start at 2:30 p.m. for the pen, with Gleason and Cudihee in charge. Moonshee.'
An introduction to prison life as George must have experienced it, is found in the journal of James Henry Moyle, who served his time beginning March 1, 1886, just six months ahead of George. 'Upon my arrival at the penitentiary I was taken inside the warden's office, searched, and everything taken from me. My name was then registered, with my height, weight, and general description. The bolts were then drawn, the gates opened, and the guard turned me to the eager gaze of all the prisoners, from whom went up a, "Hurrah! Fresh fish!" It is invariably the greeting given to all newcomers. I was then met by several of the brethren who heartily shook hands with me and asked the regular question, "What's your sentence?" To which I replied, "Three by six," meaning three hundred dollars and six months. In a short time the guard came and conducted me to my quarters.
I was measured for a brand new suit of clothes, of nice black and white cloth! My beard, which I have worn for twenty years, was shaved off! A part of my family came to see me. Little Louisa did not like my looks, poor little thing, and it was a long time before she would kiss me, but she became reconciled at last.
I am a prisoner here because I am honorable toward my wives and Children, whom God has been pleased to give me and who are dearer to me than all else, and for whom I am willing, with the help of God, to suffer imprisonment as long as He shall consider it necessary. Men in all ages have had to suffer for principle, and I am no better than they.'
Henry Dinwoodey, imprisoned about the same time that George entered the penitentiary, also kept a detailed journal of his incarceration as follows: 'The penitentiary is an adobe construction. It consists of an enclosure surrounded by a wall some twenty feet high, on the top of which, at two corners, diagonally opposite each other, are sentry boxes, in which are stationed the guard on duty, who can march on top of the wall and view the whole interior of the yard. The double gates are of iron, to protect the entrance. Inside the yard are the prisoner's quarters, comprising three rooms built of framework, twenty by twenty feet, on the inside of which, in each room, is a row of bunks three tiers high. An admirable contrivance, they accommodate fifty men. The rooms are slightly partitioned off. When all the men are in the room, it is crowded. The 'sweat box' has room enough for only one man at a time, and has no opening except the door. Here the unruly are confined. All prisoners are compelled to bathe once a week. You get up at six o'clock. The guard gives you a signal by rapping on the iron gates. At half-past six he unlocks the doors of the various bunk rooms, and all the prisoners wash. At eight o'clock the bell rings, at which time they fall into line and are marched to breakfast, each man in his place. He then sits down to the sumptuous fare of a piece of bread, sometimes embellished with a small piece of boiled meat, and a cup of coffee. A great many have to eat with their fingers, having no knives or forks. At twelve o'clock noon dinner is served in the same form, and at six, supper. This last consists of a tin cup of tea and a piece of dry bread. After supper the bell rings for all to fall into line, on which the guard comes and counts them, after which he marches them back to their bunk rooms, to the sweet music of the clanking of iron doors, bolts and bars. Thus we are secured for the night."
On a hot day in July, Moyle recorded in his journal: 'My dinner today consisted of a rusty tin plate full of thin soup, with a piece of turnip in it half as big as a hen's egg. I ate half of the turnip myself and gave the other half to Brother George W. Taylor, as he had none in his soup.'
While George Hales was imprisoned in the penitentiary, he was joined by Wilford Woodruff, an Apostle of the Mormon Church and later President and Prophet. 'Free again. May 30, 1887 Brother Geo. Hales, James Farrer, Wm. Robinson and Thomas Scofield of Beaver, and Richard H. Sudweeks of Junction were released today,' according to the report in the Deseret News.
Once again George traveled to Beaver to rejoin his family.
Eventually the children of George and Sarah Ann Hales sought companions. Harriet married William Fotheringham and moved to Syracuse, Davis County. George married Caroline Peterson and moved to Huntington. Clara married Thomas Scofield and also moved to Syracuse.
Aunt Vera relates, 'Grandpa's oldest son, my Uncle George, who was always mindful of his mother, visited her as often as he could in Beaver. On one of these visits she seemed so alone that he persuaded her to sell her home and move to Huntington with him where he and his family could take better care of her. She did go with him and took along an Indian girl named "Lizzie" Crow (Diane Elizabeth Crow), whom she had raised. My father, Charles, spent a lot of time in Huntington with his brother, George, who was more like a father to him.'
The public square built in the center of town in Huntington was the focal point of recreation for many years as were similar squares in other towns of this period. The white fence around the square in Huntington was built by pioneers including William Hunter, William Cordingly, George Hales Jr., and others. During the "outlaw period" of the late 1890s many of the Robber's Roost outlaws, such as Butch Cassidy, Elsa Lay and others, made Huntington one of their main hangouts. They pretended to be cowboys looking for saddle horses and often attended sports events on the square and dances in the Social Hall. On April 21, 1897, they robbed the Pleasant Valley payroll of $8,800 at Castle Gate and escaped to the San Rafael country.
While in Huntington the Hales family became acquainted with the Burgess family. Diane Elizabeth "Lizzie" Crow married James William Burgess and Charles Harmon Hales married Eva May Burgess, the cousin of James William.
George Hales attended church on September 8, 1907 at Beaver and died later that evening. He is buried in the Beaver cemetery. Louisa Ann preceded him in death, dying on April 17, 1906 at Beaver. She is also buried in the Beaver cemetery.
Sarah Ann Gregory Hales was happy and contented in Huntington where she spent her last days. She seemed to enjoy having her grandchildren with her. She passed peacefully away on December 27, 1908 at the age of eighty-five years and was lovingly laid to rest at the Huntington cemetery."
7. The book "An Intimate Chronicle, the Journals of William Clayton," ed. by George Smith, Signature Books, 1995, Salt Lake City, Utah, p. 267, April 2, 1846, Thursday, in the process of crossing Iowa at the time of the forced Mormon departure from Nauvoo, IL: "One of the Brother Hales arrived to say to his brother who drives team for (William) Pitt that his family is very sick and wants him to go back but we cannot spare the team and he says it is no use for him to go back without it. At night I wrote again to Diantha [William Clayton's wife] and sent it by Brother Hales who returns tonight." [Kerry's note: I am unsure which of the three brothers this refers to - Charles, Stephen, or George. Also there are several entries refering to William Pitt's band performing concerts and collecting fees in various Iowa cities as the Mormons make their pioneer trek. This band seemed to have been travelling together as a company on the trek. Both Stephen and Charles Hales were part of this band in Nauvoo and the above quote would indicate that at least one of the brothers may have been involved in these impromptu performances even though Clayton does not necessarily name him. I have these entries on file.]
8. 3 Jun 2007 Http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rhutch/famhistory/jfhutchinson/jfh_nauvoo_band.html:"Nauvoo Legion Band. The maneuvers of a large body such as the Nauvoo Legion grew to be could not properly be conducted with one small band of music, and the thought of a brass band therefore suggested itself to the general. Upon inquiry, it was found that there were several men in the ranks who either were or had been at some time performers on brass and reed instruments. Thus, at the call of the Prophet, a meeting was held in the house of John W. Coolidge sometime during the year 1842, where the organization of the Nauvoo Brass Band was formally effected. Some of the persons present on this occasion were William Pitt, trumpet; James Smithers and Charles H. Hales, trombones; Stephen Hales, James Standing, Martin H. Peck and George McKenzie, clarinets; Geo. Hales and John Kay, French horns; Wm. Cahoon, bass drum; Andrew Cahoon and David Cahoon, piccolos; and Edmund Ellsworth, cavalry cornet. Some time later the following were also enrolled as members: Robt. T. Burton, trumpet; John Blazard and David Smith, key bugles; Jacob Hutchinson, E-flat clarinet; and Gustavus Hill, arranger and copyist of music; numbering eighteen in all.
To E. P. Duzette, a man who, it was said, made the drum almost a solo instrument, had been given the rank of chief of music in the Legion. A martial band had been formed, with Levi W. Hancock as fife major, and the frequent drills and parades had been executed to the time of some dozen fifes and drums. - D.U.P. Files
At a meeting of the Nauvoo Legion Band held at the house of Robert Burton on the evening of April 9, 1850, Brother William Clayton made the following remarks: "I have a conscientious notion in organizing this band, which was organized by Joseph Smith under the name of the Nauvoo Band. I have as firm a notion in the organizing of this band as I would have in being baptized. The minute I see any division of this band, that moment I retire, but still do not consider that I leave the Nauvoo Band. My feelings are that we organize as members that stood on the old list." After all the brethren had expressed their feelings regarding the band, E. P. Duzette was named chief musician of the Legion; William Pitt, captain; and the following as members of the old band: James Smithers, John Kay, David Smith, James Standing, William Clayton, J. F. Hutchingson [sic], Stephen Hales, Ed E. Ellsworth, Charles Hales, George Hales, Robert Burton, William Cahoon, J. Cahoon, M. H. Peck, Jacob Peart, Charles Smith, Ed Martin and H. K. Whitney. The following new members were voted on: E. Averett, J. Armstrong, J. Anderson, William Glover, George Wardle. It was moved and carried that J. Anderson be sustained as temporary leader of the band until William Pitt arrived.
It was also moved and carried that the band adopt a straw hat for the covering of the head, a white dress coat and white pantaloons, a sky blue sash and a white muslin cravat as their uniform, and a committee was appointed to commence negotiations for such a uniform.
At another meeting held April 12, 1850, a committee was appointed to make some arrangements relative to procuring a band carriage, and by unanimous vote Brigham H. Young was appointed to the office of standard bearer in the place of William H. Kimball, resigned. - D.U.P. Files
Source: Our Pioneer Heritage, Vol. 20, p.74-5."
9. Nauvoo LDS Land and Records Office research file (copy in my possession as of 2 Jun 2007 and also partially viewable at www.earlylds.com) includes:
A. 70s Records: George Hales, Qrm. 28 per Index, 70s, Bk B Sel, pg. 102; ros Rec, Qrm. 28. Noted as a shoemaker and printer.
B. Mentioned in conjunction with the Nauvoo Neighbor, 6 Dec 1843. [He worked as a printer.]
10. The book "Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah," p. 909 [note some of this information appears wrong or mixed up with another George Hales; i.e. birth and death dates for George, birth date for Sarah, and perhaps Louisa with the last name of Tripp]:
"George Hales (son of Stephen Hales of Province of Ontario, Canada), Born 1813 in England. Came to Utah with a contingent of the Mormon Battalion. [George wasn't in MB, so he must of been part of the 1847 pioneer party with whom the Sick Detachment from Pueblo, Colorado met up with at Green River.]
Married Sarah Ann Gregory, Nauvoo, Ill. (dau. of William Gregory of Ione, Ill.). She was born Jan. 26, 1814. Their children: Mary, m. Hyrum Burgess; Charles, m. Eva May Burgess. Family home Beaver, Utah.
Married Louisa Tripp, Salt Lake City (daughter of John Tripp and Jess Ess of Salt Lake City). She was born 1825. Their children: Libbie, m. William Bird; Willard, m. Jean Frasier; Rena, m. Sheff Tanner; Caroline, m. Frank Talton; Harriet, m. Julius Bernson; Rhoda, m. Rollin Tanner; Bartlet. Family home Beaver, Utah.
High Priest; ward teacher. Justice of peace. Member Nauvoo Legion. One of the earliest workers in Deseret news pinting office at Richfield, Utah. Printer and shoemaker. Died 1898, Beaver, Utah."
11. From the Kirtland, Ohio, LDS Visitors' Center 13 Sep 2006 quoted from "An Enduring Legacy," vol. 4, pp. 85-87:
"The Brass Band of the city of Joseph was first orgainized in January, 1842, under the guidance and teachings of Capt. William Pitt, an ingenious musician, a good timeist, and an excellent performer upon various instruments that came to hand; the few that commenced to learn under him were ignorant of the principles of music, and new beginners upon their instruments; it therefore required great patience and exertion in our captain to fit us and birng us forth as a band of music for the Nauvoo Legion."
"At a later day, those present at the orgianization of the band were said to have been: William Pitt, trumpet; James Smithies, trombone; Charles Hales, trombone; Stephen Hales, clarinet; James Standing, clarinet; Martin H. Peck, clarinet; George McKenzie, clarinet; George Hales, French horn; John Kay, French horn; William Cahoon, bass drum; Andrew Cahoon, piccolo; David Cahoon, piccolo; Edmund Ellsworth, cornet. To these ranks the following were later adde3d as members: Robert T. Burton, trumpet; John Blazzard, key bugle; David Smith, key bugle; Jacob Hutchinson, clarinet; Gustavus Hill, arranger and copyist." Kate B. Carter, "Heart Throbs of the West," v. 4, p. 118.
"From the beginning, Joseph Smith showed a great deal of interest in the band, even helping to raise funds with which to improve its condition. The drum William Cahoon played was one he himself had made and many of the instruments used by the members were old and unsuited for advanced playing. Therefor, excursions, picnics and concerts were inaugurated to raise funds, and a round trip was made from Nauvoo to Quincy, Illinois, on the Prophet's steamer 'Maid of Iowa,' the full proceeds of which went to the band. With such aid and encouragement, the group was able to erect the Nauvoo Concert Hall in 1843. Frequent entertainments were held there, the band being assisted by William Clayton as violinist and John Kay, a French horn player who possessed a magnificent baritone voice and who was an entertainer of unusual accomplishment." Whitney, "The Nauvoo Brass Band, " pp. 134-137.
Photo of a flag with description as follows: "Nauvoo Brass Band Flag. This flag made in early 1840s in Nauvoo, Ill. Blue and White stripes. Pink square with scroll and all-seeing eye. Carried across the Plains by Captain Pitt's Band. Donor: Ida Pitt Lee.
"Although a formal uniform for the group was not adopted at that time; all band members agreed to wear white trousers.
"At the placing of the cornerstone of the Nauvoo Temple, the band carried a beautiful new silk banner that had been made by the women of Nauvoo. Parading of the Nauvoo Legion, band music, choral singing and prayer were part of the program witnessed by ten thousand people. The flag has blue and white silk stripes, a pink scroll square and an 'all-seeing Eye' painted directly above the scroll square.
"The Quadrille Band, composed of stringed and reed instruemts, was next orgainized to play for the dancing parties of the Saints. One of its first assignments was to funish the music for a ball given in the Mansion House, Joseph Smith's residence. It was said to have been the first dance party ever approved by the Prophet." Horace G. Whitney, "The Nauvoo Brass Band," Contributor I, March 1880, pp. 134-137.
11. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~schick/schow/harriet.htm accessed 28 Feb 2010:
"Harriet Electa Hales Fotheringham
From a notebook in the handwriting of Harriet Electa Hales Fotheringham. I have not seen the original notebook, nor do I know who transcribed it. If you have the original, or a copy of the original, please contact me . I would like to verify the accuracy of this transcription.
Mother's name Sarah Ann Gregory Born Burns County, N. Y. Jan 26, 1823 Married Nauvoo, Nov, 30, 1843 Father - George Hales Born Rainham Kent, England
Left Garden Grove when between 4 & 5 yrs, with her father & mother, Sister Mary and baby Sarah Jane, the last named dying soon after their arrival in the Salt Lake Valley in Sept. at the age of 17 mo. They may have traveled in Wm Pitts Co. but not sure. Her father used to go back to Cincinnato 0. each winter while they lived in Garden Grove to work in the printing office, where he earned money to buy articles which few people had at that time, namely clock, cook stove, set of dishes, two hoke of oxen, a good wagon etc. He farmed during the summer. Upon arriving in Salt Lake they were met by Judge Elias Smith, who shook hands with the father and said, "Geo., we have a job waiting for you, "as we need you in the printing, office." He went to work in the office of The Deseret News right away, remaining about 10 1/2 years. I, Harriet, worked in the home of Capt. W. H. Hooper as Baby tender at the age of 12 yrs, and as they were very well to do, often went with them into the best homes, and ate at the very best tables, including the home of Pres. B. Young, Wm Staines, emmigration agent for church, Ferrimorz Little. The big event, known as "the move," happened when I was eleven yrs old. I went with my parents to Filmore, Millard Co., where we went with all our belongings packed in two wagons. Here my father worked in the printing office. for five mo. when we returned to our home in Salt Lake.
My parents were driven out of Nauvoo in Feb. 1846 with the first Co. and crossed the Mis. river on the ice which froze over so solid in Feb., that they could cross with teams & wagons, which was considered very unusual. They had to leave all furniture but a carpet & feather bed & straw tick, the straw tick & carpet being used as wagon cover when moving from Nauvoo to Garden Grove, which they forgot to leave and went back for another load taking said things with them, which we never did see again.
When my father would go back to Cin O. to work in the printing office my mother remained at home & did the work such as husking corn, catching prarie chickens by setting traps, useing the chicken for meat & the feathers for making pillows & beds. We would go out with mother to husk the corn and there being snow on the ground, she would warm a dry board and take out for sister Mary & me to stand on. My baby sister who was born Dec. 31, 1849, died while father was away in Cin. O. Father & Mother recieved endowments in Nauvoo Temple, the robe worn by my father is now owned by my sister, Clara Schofield. My folks arrived in Garden Grove in the fall 1846, where they remained for 4 1/2 years—father going back each year (winter) to work in printing office, where he earned money to buy wagon, oxen, etc. Bro Geo was born in Salt Lake 1852. Left Garden Grove in the spring of 1867 [KP: 1857?], Six of us being packed in one wagon, with all household goods. Was 4 1/2 yrs old when we crossed the plains so do not remember much about it. We were not molested by Indians, but did see a herd of buffalo, which ran between our wagon and Uncle Stephen Hales's which were 1/2 mi. apart. Were afraid our oxen might stampede but they did not. A lady in a Co. ahead of us was killed when her oxen stampeded. She jumped from the wagon and was killed by the next wagon running over her. The oxen were very numerous at that time. Remember driving our wagons onto a flat boat or ferry to cross the Platte river. When I was 13 I worked in the Valley Tan printing office, a gentile paper for about six months. We did not have to go to school then if we could find any work to do. I often wonder how I got enough learning to get along at all. My first teacher's name was Dixon, who was very strict. Whipped my sister & I for leaving our seats. My next teacher, when I was six yrs old, was John Vance, a very nice kind man who would send two girls to carry me home if I got sick, which used to happen quite often, when I found I could be carried home. In those days we had to buy our own books, and pay the teacher, so there was no compulsory education. Went one quarter to Elizabeth Hoagland who later married Geo. Q. Cannon.
[After several blank pages notebook picked up again.]
We arrived in Beaver when I was 16 yrs old. The summer before I was 18 mother & I went up to North Creek Canyon and milked cows and made butter. We had John Matthews cows on shares. Alice Parker, a very dear friend of mine, went with her brother Arthur, into the North Creek Canyon, whe he gathered cottonwood limbs and dead trees, pile them up and set fire to them. Alice & I always took our knitting along as we had to help with the family knitting. We would put the ashes in a sack & take them home to make lye, with which we made our soap.
The winter that I was 18 I hired out to Bill Flakes for $2.00 per week, and he payed me in wheat. I had the wheat taken to a wagon where they were selling merchandise as there were no stores. I bought unbleached muslin for $1.10 & 1.30 per yr. Matches were 20 [cents] per bunch of 100 Thread .25 [cents] per spool This same summer I hired out to Philo Carter of Greenville and worked out for $2.00 per wk. Father having a store in his house now I bought a calico dress for 60 [cents] per yd. I bought 8 yds of same. I lived with Mary & Lizzie who lived together when Lizzie & Jack were born and did practical nursing. I got acquainted with Grandpa at this time. Was married to him in Oct. 10, 1865 in the endowment house in Salt Lake City. Went from Beaver to Salt Lake in a covered wagon taking 5 days to go up but it rained while we were there so we were seven days going home, on account of the mud. We all lived together the first year on the lot where Aunt Lizzie's house now stands. There were four log rooms at that time. He bought a place for Mary across the street with two log rooms and built me a room on the same lot, lumber lined with dobes. Four & 1/2 years later I took my two little children down to Greenville, which is 4 mi south west of Beaver where John W. and I milked 9 cows and made butter & cheese for the family, I filled three crocks with butter, one for each family, to last thru the winter. The cheese was divided according to the no. in family, and I having the smallest family got fewer cheese. I moved back to Beaver in the fall.
I went to Adamsville in May 1873 to pre-Empt 160 acres of land. I had only one log room with no comforts or conveniences. About 1/2 Mi east of this house Grandpa built one lumber room which I moved into for a whil, But moved back to town for the Winter.
1874 moved Grandpa the two houses closer together and built one room between, making the house real comfortable. Hattie was born here in Sept. 3, 1875. Nellie, Georgie, Charlie & Steve were born in Beaver before I moved down to the farm. When Hattie was 22 mo. old Georgie H. my oldest boy, took membranous croup and after one wk passed away. Charles F. contracted the same disease and he also died both within two wks. The loneliness was so terrible, almost unbearable. Grandpa put up two log rooms across the river into which I moved thinking the change might help to take away in part at least, the sorrow which I was feeling so keenly. Grandpa also said he could not bear to come down the old trail and not have the little boys run to meet him. Time alone can heal the heartache.
I was always very busy as I always had a houseful of boys to do for. The would come and invite their friends to come regardless of how many their were, and expect me to get their meals regardless of what I had to cook. At harvest time I always had extra help and at threshing time I would have as many as 21 for dinner.
I some times had help. Mary Ann Griffiths lived with me for some time when Hattie was born. Maryjane Davis also lived with me and worked for her board & clothes. Clara was born in 1878. The Xmas before she was born Grandpa left Jack, Tom & Archie to look after our little herd of sheep, about 200. They went to town and left me to take the sheep out on the hill to get something to eat. As soon as Grandpa found this out, he sent a herder down. Grandpa & Mary were invited to mothers for Xmas dinner. When Clara was very young I often had to get up in the night and get the sheep out of the Lucern so they would not get bloated, as I could not get the boys up.
When Clara was about 1 1/2 yrs old Grandpa went to the legislature. He arranged with the boys to haul my winters wood which they failed to do. I therefore had to drag fence poles out of the snow and chop them up in order to keep my children warm. I finally got David Pearce to haul me some wood, and as an act of good for evil I had them haul a load for Mary. She would not let me have the team for Charlie my brother & Highley Burgess to haul me some wood. I moved back to Beaver in the spring, to one log room which Grandpa bought from P. T. Farnsworth, which was my home site as long as I lived in Beaver. The home which I previously owned had been given to Abe by his mother, as it was built on a corner of her lot. I always tried to be agreeable and do all the good In my power but often received nothing but abuse in return. After spending one winter in the one log room, with my five children, I was very glad to have an addition of two rooms to my house. Grandpa did all he dared for me but in order to keep peace in the family dared not do very much. When Jennie (Jennie was born in 1883) was nearly two yrs old Grandpa was sent to the pen for pologamy in 1885. At his trial the lawyer was questioning me, He said, "And you married him knowing that he had other wives." I ans yes "I would never have married him if such had not been the case. When he left I had only ten cts in the house which I owed, & with which I paid my debt. But the Lord blessed me by rasing up friends, one in particular being Billy Ashworth, at that time manager of the Beaver Woolen mills. He gave my girls work in the factory and brought work to the house for me, that of buttonhole stitching the sides of damaged blankets, about 80 pr all told.
My only cow which was giving milk was bloated before Grandpa left, thus leaving me without one, but after he had gone I traded a dry cow to Johnnie Murdock for one giving milk. Grandpa was gone to the pen 3 mo. in which time I bought material and had two rooms built onto my three rooms. All were willing to wait until Grandpa came home for their pay. Whenever there was threshing to be done I always had to go to the farm to cook for them. I also had to mend all the (obliterated) sacks and cut potato sets for the family. Being a plural wife I was compelled to leave home at times and go on the underground, which was far from being pleasant. I took Maggie & Jennie with me, leaving Hattie with my mother in Richfield. Nellie was teaching school in Central and took Clara with her. Steve stayed with my sister Clara Schofield in Beaver. I was away from home 13 mo, in which time little Stanley was born. The children all came & spent Xmas with me, which was a rare treat. When Amy was born I was in Manti with my Bro. Geo. & wife for 3 mo. When I returned home the second time the officers were waiting to supoeanea me which they did putting me under $500 bonds. Fearing I might try to run away my bond was raised to $1,000. Grandpa was in the pen for 3 mo. On returning home he again took his job in the tithing office, and he was soon able to support his families as before. When I came home after Amy was born Grandpa did not dare come near the place. He would sit on a rock across the street and the children would go and talk to him & take the baby for him to see. He passed down the middle of the street one day and I was fixing my gate which was broken. He said, My girl I would like to fix that gate for you. I ans. "I would rather see you in the street than in the pen, so don't worry about me. My youngest girl Amy did not know him from any other man until she was one & one half yrs old. He was still unable to come to the house but the older children would take her to the tithing office where Grandpa was working as tithing clerk. He had a cot at the office where he slept most of the time, because he could not stay with Mary or me for fear of the law, & Lizzie just got a hateful streak and would not let him stay there as she told him she was going to get even as she had him right where she wanted him. Grandpa did not come to the house until my little girl Jennie nearly eight yrs. old, was taken sick with diphtheria and after six days passed away. Maggie nearby was ailing when she died. She also developed the disease and after a few days illness was taken from us. The next to take the dread disease was little Amy, 5 yrs old. After a few days illness she also passed away, all three deaths ocurring, within three weeks. Only those who have been thru such an ordeal can realize how terrible it was. I could hardly bear to stay in the house. It seemed so still & quiet & lonely. But still there was others who had contracted the disease. Hattie age 15 & Steve 18, who had helped so faithfully with the others, were very sick. We did not know until after Maggie's death that it was diphtheria so we had taken no precaution to keep the others away. Hattie said she was afraid to go to sleep for fear she would never awaken. She was in bed for three weeks and when she did get better she could not talk plain. Steve was partically paralized all over, his lower limbs being the worst, he could not walk at all for some time and then he had to walk with a cane. The last trip to the Drs. I hauled him in an express wagon as he could not walk the one block necessary. He could not dress himself. When they had recovered sufficiently I fummigated everything thoroughly and made preparations to go to Panguitch to visit my daughter Nellie. Before going, I took all the drugs & medicines in my apron and threw them in the garbage and said the children should have no more poison. If they had to die I would at least have the satisfaction of knowing they had not been poisoned. I started giving them all the good fresh milk they could drink right away they began to show marked improvement, regained their speech and after one week we returned home, mourning deeply for the dear little ones whom I had lost, but thankful for the five which I still had left. Grandpa came to be with me and help during our trouble, altho he was warned that the officers were after him. He was to have recieved his sentence on the day that Jennie died. He made a plea in his own behalf, which was printed in the paper, & which was considered as very touching & remarkable. Told them of his little girl being at death's door and he was only doing what any father would want to do. The Judge was deeply impressed, Said our laws did not require that a man should desert his family under such conditions. His sentence was postponed indefinitely, and never was pronounced. All during this time Mary & Lizzie never came near to offer any help or even consolation & even tried to keep Grandpa from helping me. The only help which I had from the outside, whose kindness I shall never forget were two relief society sisters, Bickley & Tolton. Each had big families of little children but would change all clothing out in the Barn and wash thoroughly. They stayed several nights & sat up. Would come after dark & go home before daylight, so that noone would try to stop them. Each had so much faith they felt they were doing right & the Lord would bless them accordingly. Liza Law & Sis. Tolton brought their tubs & boards and boards and did my washing which I appreciated very much.
After the little girls died I was so lonely, almost unbearable. Grandpa F. widow, whom we called Aunt Ann was 77 yrs old and very helpless. She lived alone in a little log house on Aunt Lizzie's lot. Bis Munford asked me what I thot best to do with her. I told him if he could get her up to my place I would gladly care for her, as it would help to take my mind from my troubles. We had quite a hard time getting her to consent to come, but after she once got there she was afraid she might have to go back home. I gave her my room and made her very comfortable. I could not stand to sleep in the room myself as I had taken out the bed where my little girls had slept and the room seemed so bare & lonely that it almost haunted me. Aunt Ann did appreciate what I did for her. Said it was like getting out of purgatory into Heaven. She was with me 14 mo. was sick two mo. before she passed away, during which time I had to lift her & care for her like a baby. Grandpa was living with me now as the others would not let him come there. They thot he did wrong in coming to my assistance even at the death of his own flesh & blood. I told him he had better stay with one of the others as I did not want them to think that I was stepping ahead of them. When he came from the pen he came to my place to get his clothes. He said, "Do you know what I am going to do. I said "No." He said "I am going to give Lizzie one more chance If she still refuses I will come back as I know I cannot live with Mary." I said "Go right along & I will pray for you while you're gone, that the Lord will soften her heart. He returned in just a short time saying, "Well here I am. I am going to have a home if its in the Pen half the time." But he was not bothered any more. He now had the job in the tithing office but a man by the name of Rbot. Stoney thot he needed it worse than we. He was shoirster at the time and Bro. John R. Murdock was Pres. of the Stake. He pursuaded Bro. Murdock to let him have the Tithing Office. It was only a short time until he & his daughter Lizzie had things in an awful muddle. They were short $800.00 and tried to make it appear that Fotheringham was the guilty party. They went to Salt Lake to see about it and Grandpa being there also was called in to be questioned regarding the matter. He soon set them right by showing where the money had gone in a sheep deal. With this job gone and nothing else in sight Grandpa found it necessary to look else where for work. This family of Stoneys had been to my home and I had done all I could to help them out. She came once before the birth of one of her children and said she had no clothes for her baby. I My baby being in short clothes I got out my best flennels, which I had layed away and gave them to her. We used to help her with sewing & cutting of her boys clothing and helped them in every way possible then when they found a chance they took the bread and butter right out of our mouths. Grandpa tried to run the farm, with the help of the older boys, but it seemed that luck was against him. One year it was the frost, another the grasshoppers until we were just about down & out. The other families had boys old enough to go to the mines or haul freight to help out but Steve was too young to do such work. Nellie my oldest managed to get work in the Coop Store, of which J. R. Murdock was Supt. I took two boarders (Nels Schow, & Sam Henry. (The former married my daughter Nellie.) who came to Beaver to attend school. They paid me in flour cheese butter etc. which all helped out. Grandpa was first Councallor to J. R. Murdock a Pres. of the Stake & Lafayette Shepherd his second.
When Steve was about 1 yr old 1873 & 1874 I was put in Pres. of the Retrenchment association. It was organized by Pres. Brigham Young for the benefit of his own family but eventually became an organization thruout the church, to teach all to economize and do away with all extravagance. Our program consisted of singing music readings & testimony bearing. We also made quilts etc which we sold for money with which to buy books. This was the beginning of the young Ladies organization which later developed into the Y.L.M.I.A. I did not want the job as I felt that I hadn't enough education and pretty well tied with my little family. I did everything but refuse outright, but was finally pursuaded to accept. I had seven aids, namely Mrs. Harriet Shepherd, Miss Harriet S. Shepherd (mother & daughter) Polly Greenwood, Agnes Labaron, Melissa White, Arcilla Walker, the seventh I do not remember. I served in this capacity about 1 1/2 yrs. & enjoyed my work very much. I had to resign in order to move to the farm as it was necessary to be there to take care of things.
Later on when I moved to town I acted as first councillcor to Sister Jane Gillies in the Stake Primary. The next office I filled was Pres. of Relief Society of Beaver West Ward. Held this office for about three years. Acted as relief society visiting teacher for many years. I was later chosen second councieor to Ceda Shepherd in the Stake Relief Society, which office I held for nearly 24 years. Mary A. White was first counsellor. I learned to love these women, & found them to be good staunch faithful, Latter Day Saints.
Acted as home missionary in the St. George temple four & 1/2 yrs. Stanley who was 15, Grandpa & myself rented a partly furnished house where we lived and Grandpa & I enjoyed ourselves doing ordainance work in the House of the Lord. We would spend our summers visiting our children in Beaver Co., as we had rented our home in Beaver. I also spent one winter there after Grandpa's death about 1918. I did a great many names for Watkin Reese's family.
We sold our home in Beaver & moved to Milford in 1909 Oct. 23. We made our home there for several years. Stanley filled a mission to England. He had been gone just five mo. when Grandpa died. Stanley went in Oct. 1912 Grandpa died Feb. 1913. I had a very Good friend living with me named Annie Danielsen. She surely was a help during Grandpa's illness. Bert Whitaker, was working for the Logan Woolen mills and had gone to Nebraska. When he was ready to come home he sent for Clara to meet him & come home with him. I went to Brigham City to stay with the children during their abscence. Was there about 4 weeks. They decieded to move to Denver, thinking they could do better, so Bert gave up his postion as supervisor of music in the Boxelder schools. They did fine for a while but soon business began to slacken. I made two trips to Denver while they were there. The first time I went alone. Nellie met me in Denver but her ticket was on another route. The next time I went with Hattie, but came home alone as Hattie came sooner than I. I stayed in Draper with Steve's family for most of the summer on my way home, as Libbie was careing for the store & P. O. and they needed someone to stay with Ruth who was three yrs. Old Clara's family later moved to Cal. I had rented my home in Milford and had a one room apt. in Steve's apt house on 6th East in Salt Lake. I spent much time doing temple work while living here.
I later spent two winters in Cal. staying most of the time with Clara. Visited a few times with Stanley who was also living there Made my first trip when Steve's folks lived on 2030 So. 3rd East, where I had a room. The last trip I left from Murray where the folks had moved & had a store. I went intending to stay but became homesick for my little room in Murray where I had all my belongings & pictures etc and could besides it living in
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My sister Mary & I helped when about 9 or 10 yr old mother & Auntie kake tallow candles. Sister & I would fix the wicks in the molds and mother & Auntie would fill them up with hot melted beef tallow. We made 500 for Perry's Store. Mother helped out by doing laundry work for the clerks in the stores, would wash & iron their stiff bosomed shirts. We lived in the 14th ward where father had built two rooms, between 1st & 2nd So. on West Temple. Needing a larger house father sold this place for $400 dollars and we moved in to a house with four rooms, a grainary & a well, which meant much in those days. This was in the 15th ward where we lived 6 yrs. Uncle Charles Hales, Father's bro. lived in Spanish Fork & pursuaded father to sell out & come there
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Chris & Julie Petersen's Genealogy
1822 - 1907 (84 years)