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Louisa Ann Eddins

Female 1834 - 1906  (71 years)


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  • Name Louisa Ann Eddins 
    Born 10 May 1834  Cradley, Herefordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Christened 1 Jun 1834  Cradley, Herefordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died 17 Apr 1906  Beaver, Beaver, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried 19 Apr 1906  Mountain View Cemetery, Beaver, Beaver, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I2601  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Family George Hales,   b. 30 Sep 1822, Rainham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Sep 1907, Beaver, Beaver, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 84 years) 
    Married 17 Oct 1852  Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F839  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. Reviewed Rootsweb.com Worldconnect 12 Dec 2002.

      2. Censuses:
      1841 Eng: East and West Cradley, Herefordshire, p. 6 of 8, res: Westfield, all born in county (a couple of house away is John Edings 60, Mary 65, and John 10):
      George Edings, 30, carpenter.
      Ann, 35.
      Louisa, 7.
      Jessie, fem., 1.
      Charles Hennett, 13.

      1850 US; Salt Lake, Utah, p. 35 of 180, house 251, family 251:
      Ann B. Reed, 36, Eng.
      Susanna Lee, 42, Eng.
      John Eddings, 21, Eng.
      Louisa, 16, Eng.

      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.

      1900 US: Beaver City, Beaver, Utah, p. 25A:
      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.

      2. Parents: George Eddings/Eddins and Ann Smith.

      3. Last name may also be Eddings in some earlier records.

      4. 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 printing office at Richfield, Utah. Printer and shoemaker. Died 1898, Beaver, Utah."

      BIOGRAPHY:
      1. The book "Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude" by Daughters of Utah Pioneers (photo accompanies article):
      "Louisa Ann Eddins Hales, b. 10 May 1834 at Cradley, Hereford, England, d. 17 Apr 1906 at Beaver, Beaver, Utah, m. George Hales 17 Oct 1852 at Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah (spouse died 7 Sep 1907 at Beaver, Beaver, Utah), parents are George Eddins and Ann Smith, pioneer of 1852 Wagon Train. Children:
      Elizabeth Ann (Bird), 15 Oct 1853
      Willard George, 1 Jan 1856
      Joseph Smith, 25 Nov 1857
      Serena Louise (Tanner), 7 Jul 1859
      Caroline Olivia (Tolton), 17 Nov 1861
      Jesse, 1 Apr 1864
      Harriet H. (Bearnson), 22 Jun 1866
      Rhoda Alice (Tanner), 4 Apr 1869
      William Barlett, 7 Jul 1875
      Louis Henry, 23 Jun 1878
      Louisa was born in England, 1834. She was never sure when her birthday was. She had an accident to her eyes which caused near blindness. Her only school book was the old family Bible. When the family was ready to leave with the Saints for the West, her mother died leaving George to care for the children. Shortly after they started across the Plains, George Eddins died, leaving three orphan Children. Several families took them to raise. Louisa married George Hales in the Endowment House. They were married by Dr. Willard Richards, and lived in Salt Lake until Johnston's Army came. Then they moved to Fillmore, Utah, for a time. Later they moved to Beaver, Utah, where they raised 11 children. Louisa was a quiet, loving mother and grandmother. The children loved to visit with her. Much of her time she was alone with her family as her husband was in hiding because of polygamy. Louisa passed away in Beaver City, Utah, at the age of 72."

      2. 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."

      BIRTH:
      1. Date per website for Utah State Historical Society Cemeteries Database: Notes: Louisanna Eddins Hales, b. 1 Jun 1834. Same date per obituary and tombstone. 1900 census also notes Jun 1834.

      2. DUP biography cited above uses 10 May 1834, however, they also note she was unsure as to her own birthdate.

      2. FHL film 392655 LDS "Patriarchal Blessings Index": Louisa Ann Eddins Hales, b. 10 May 1835 at Herefordshire, England, parents George and Ann Eddins. Blessing date 11 Aug 1853 at Salt Lake City, Utah. Lineage: Ephraim. Patriarch John Smith. Vol. 12, p. 526.

      MARRIAGE:
      1. DUP biography cited above.

      DEATH:
      1. Date per website for Utah State Historical Society Cemeteries Database; 8 Jan 2002. Notes: 17 Apr 1900.

      2. Date and place per obituary.

      3. DUP biography cited above.

      BURIAL:
      1. Place per website for Utah State Historical Society Cemeteries Database; 8 Jan 2002. Notes: B_19_5.

      2. Inscription on tombstone in Beaver, Utah per photo sent me by Paul Bearnson 5 Mar 2010: "In memory of Louisa Ann Eddins Hales, born Herefordshire, England, June 1, 1834, died Apr. 17, 1906."

      OBITUARY:
      1. Improvement Era, LDS Church, June 1906, p. 663: "Died - Tuesday, 17 - The same date, in Beaver, Louisa Ann Eddins Hales, born in England, June 1, 1834, came to America in 1843, resided in Nauvoo, came to Utah in 1848."

      SOURCES_MISC:
      1. 18 Dec 2002 website .