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- RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Censuses:
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, 18 Jul 1870, p. 19, family 161:
Sarah A. Hales, 47, keeps house, NY.
George W., 17, laborer, UT.
Clara E., 10, at home, UT.
Charles, 5, 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. 16a [says Sarah was a widow but she was actually the polygamous wife of George Hales who also lived in Beaver in 1900]:
Schofield, Thomas, Mar 1856, 44, marr. 20 yrs., Eng Eng Eng., immigrated 1867, farmer.
Clara, Jan 1862, 38, marr. 20 yrs., 8 total children, 5 living, UT, Eng, NY.
Amelia, Jan 1881, 19, S, UT, Eng, NY, sales woman.
Walter, son, Jul 1887, 12, UT, Eng, UT, at school.
Newel, son, Aug 1892, 7, UT, Eng, UT, at school.
Lucile, dau., Jun 1895, 4, UT, Eng, UT.
Emma, dau., Dec 1897, 2, UT, Eng, UT.
Sarah A. Hales, mother-in-law, Jan 1823, 77, widow, 1 child total and 1 living, NY, NY, NY.
BIOGRAPHY:
1. Per website for Utah State Historical Society Cemeteries Database; 8 Jan 2002: Notes parents as William Gregory and Electa Ann (Fellows) Gregory.
2. 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.
3. 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)... 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... 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... 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... 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.' 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... 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."
4. Nauvoo LDS Land and Records Office research file (copy in my possession as of 2 Jun 2007) provides the following information (also partially viewable at www.earlylds.com):
Sarah was a member of the nauvoo 1st Ward per "Nauvoo: Early Mormon...Series 1839-46, by Lyman Platt, 1980.
5. 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."
6. See husband's notes for extensive family biography written by daughter Harriot Electa Hales Fotheringham, which includes many mentions of Sarah as mother.
7. FHL film 34803 "Heart Throbs of the West," comp. by Kate B. Carter, which are listing of pioneer companies to Utah. The following information appears inconsistent due to the two separate entries and age discrepancies - probably erroneous or poorly done data:
V. 9, p. 488 (1848-part of Mormon Battalion co.): George Hales, 35; Sarah Ann G. Hales, 34; Mary.
V. 11, p. 417 (1850-part of Mormon Battalion co.): George Hales, 28; Sarah A.G. Hales, 7; Sarah Jane Hales, 12.
BIRTH:
1. Date and place per website for Utah State Historical Society Cemeteries Database; 8 Jan 2002. Website gives year of birth as 1822 which varies from obituary cited below which gives year of birth as 1823 and that she died in 1908 at age 85. I use the 1823 year for my date.
2. Parents are William Gregory and Electa Ann Fellows per LDS family group sheets.
3. FHL film 392655 "LDS Patriarchal Blessings Index", three blessings:
A. Sarah Ann Gregory Hales, b. 26 Jan 1822 at Burns, Allegheny Co., New York, parents William Gregory and Electa Ann Gregory. Lineage: Ephraim. Patriarch Henry W. Hales. Vol. ___, p. 16[?].
B. Sarah Ann Gregory Hales, b. 26 Jan 1823 at Burnes, Alleghany Co., New York, parents William Gregory and Electa Ann ___. Blessing date 28 Nov 1877 at Beaver City, Beaver, Utah. Lineage: Ephraim. Patriarch John Smith. Vol. 50, p. 78.
C. Sarah Ann Gregory Hales, b. 26 Jan 1823 at Burns, Alleghany Co., New York, parents William Gregory and Electa Ann F. Gregory. Blessing date 10 Feb 1874 at Beaver, Utah. Lineage: Ephraim. Patriarch Daniel Tyler. Vol. 540, p. 54.
MARRIAGE:
1. "Compilation of Marriages," Lyndon W. Cook, Provo, Utah, July 1980: "George Hales and Sarah Ann Gregory, 30 Nov 1843, at Nauvoo, by William Huntington, Sen., Recorded 6 Dec 1843 ('Nauvoo Neighbor' [Nauvoo newspaper], 6 Dec 1843, and 'A Record of Marriages in the City of Nauvoo, located at the Historical Dept. of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints')."
2. FHL film 889392.
3. Ancestry.com's "Marriages in the Nauvoo Region, 1839-1845," by Susan Easton Black, 1981, has a compilation using modern vital data collected from other third party sources for each of the spouses. The marriage source is not given and the author summarizes the marriage as: George Hales and Sarah Ann Gregory, 30 Nov 1843.
DEATH:
1. Date and place per website for Utah State Historical Society Cemeteries Database; 8 Jan 2002.
BURIAL:
1. Place per website for Utah State Historical Society Cemeteries Database; 8 Jan 2002. Notes: Sarah Ann (Gregory) Hales, b. 26 Jan 1822 at Burns, Allegany, NY, d. 27 Dec 1908 at Huntington, UT of causes incident to old age, bur. Huntington City Cemetery K_35_07, parents are William Gregory and Electa Ann Fellows Gregory.
OBITUARY:
1. "Huntington. Death of Mrs. George Hales. Nauvoo Veteran and Utah Pioneer Closes Honored Career at 85. Special Correspondence. Huntington, Emery Co., Jan. 2. - Mrs. Sarah Ann Gregory Hales, one of the early pioneers of the Church, died at the home of her son George W. Hales in Huntington on Dec 27. She was born in 1823; joined the Church in early girlhood, and passed through all the early persections of the Church; was well acquainted with the Prophet Joseph Smith; and was in Nauvoo when Joseph and Hyrum were assassinated at Carthage. She was married in the Nauvoo Temple to George Hales. Mrs Hales was the daughter of William Gregory, an early day Mormon. She came to Utah in 1849, where her husband the next year got a position on the Deseret News as a printer. The family moved to Utah county at the time of the move in 1858, and in 1861 moved to Beaver soon after which Mr. Hales went into the newspaper business. Mrs. Hales was the mother of 10 children, six of whom passed away before her. Her four children surviving are Mrs. Harriet Fotheringham of St. George, George W. Hales of Huntington, Clara Scofield of Davis county and Charles H. Hales of Carbon county, Utah. Mr. and Mrs Hales lived very much of a pioneer life and were highly respected members of the Church. Mrs. Hales' funeral was held on Dec. 29, the speakers were Patriarch Charles Pulsipher, Elder D. C. Woodward and Counselor J. H. Killpack, who spoke kind words for the deceased and sympathy and comfort for the living." Deseret Evening News, Friday, Jan. 8, 1909.
SOURCES_MISC:
1. 18 Dec 2002 website .
2. Ordinance Index 1.02
3. FHL film 34803 "Heart Throbs of the West," comp. by Kate B. Carter, v. 8, p. 447. List of pioneer company participants; information is similar to content I already have.
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Chris & Julie Petersen's Genealogy
1823 - 1908 (85 years)