The Hales Newsletter Motto: United Force is Stronger

Old Series July 1970 Vol. 1. No. 2.

C O N T E N T Foreword 14 News and Views 14 Announcements 15 Progress Report 15 Help in 15 Received in the mail 16 Queries 16 Hale or Hales 16 Mr. and Mrs. Orrin Hales 17-22 Obituaries 22 Membership Records 23 Returned mail list 24 Current Projects and Financial Statement 25 Questionnaire 26 Family Sheet Unnumbered

The Hales Newsletter contains current events, historical sketches and genealogical information pertaining to the Hales family. 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 Hales Family History Society Kenneth Glyn Hales, Founder ([email protected]) 5990 North Calle Kino Tucson, Arizona 85704-1704 This is a reprint. The original was scanned and the text corrected for spellings, something that was very difficult in the original mimeograph process. There is also some minor editing. The Hales Manuscript pages being developed during the publication of the Old Series of The Hales Newsletter have been deleted because the content is now found in The Hales Chronicles, now in its second edition with the third edition planned for 2005. The Hales Chronicles can be found on the Hales web-page at www.hales.org and 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 , , England. 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). Reprints of the Old Series of The Hales Newsletters are available at a cost of $3.00 each. Foreword avoid duplication of efforts. This society will publish a book in the The HALES Genealogical Society was future, as it evolves through the founded in March 1970 as a non-profit participation of the members of the family organization devoted to the society, containing the history and assembling and preserving of genealogical information genealogical and historical materials pertaining to the HALES family of pertaining to the HALES family of America. This book will be made America. Membership in the Society is available and supplied to the members open to all persons connected in any of this society at the cost of publication way with the HALES family, whether by per book. blood, marriage, or adoption, and to Any information submitted to this persons interested in genealogical and society becomes the property of the historical research. society. However, the society will copy Membership falls into three classes: material submitted and return the Active, Contributing, and Sustaining. original information to the sender if Active membership dues are two dollars return postage is sent with the per year, Contributing membership dues materials. The society has the are four dollars per year, and Sustaining facilities to copy any type of material membership dues are any amount over submitted: pictures, printed matter, four dollars which the member wishes to microfilm, recordings, etc. contribute for the support of the Society. All money received by this society All members whether Active, will be used to support its functions: Contributing, or Sustaining, receive the support its functions: i.e. mailing costs, HALES Newsletter as it is published in researchers fees, purchase of January, March, May, July, September, manuscripts, and purchase of other and November of each year. Libraries, materials to enlarge the society. There genealogical an historical associations, will be no salaries to any officer of and individuals may subscribe to the this society. HALES Newsletter without joining the All records of this society are open for Society at the rate of two dollars per inspection to any member of this society. year. The introductory letter was issued Please telephone before arriving in March of 1970. The first Newsletter (689-9237) to determine if I am at home. was issued in May of 1970. Back issues of all Newsletters will be News and Views kept in print and are available for thirty-five cents per issue. This section of our HALES News1etter The Secretary and historian of the contains the “happenings" that I am HALES Genealogical Society is: made aware of between issues. Send me your announcements of area reunions, Kenneth Glyn Hales marriages, births, deaths, etc., and they 1800 Ryan Road will be included in the Newsletter to all Concord, California 94520 the Hales Family. Contributions of articles for the Newsletter are requested. Please use this address for all Our Society is growing. Our HALES correspondence. book now contains the family sheets The Hales Genealogical Society was for over 120 HALES families. I continue organized to generate an accurate and to receive enthusiastic letters, and adequate history of the HALES family of words of encouragement from all across America, as well as variant spellings of the United States. Following are this name, coordinate research, and excerpts from some of the letters:

-14- Enjoyed very much receiving the first University and plans to be married on Hales Newsletter and will be looking August 15, 1970 to Brenda Anderson of forward to receiving others. Gary. How marvelous you are doing this. The Newsletter is such a revelation. Congratulations also to Linda Rae Townsend, the daughter of Robert and This Newsletter and Genealogy News is Shilo Hales Townsend, who plans to be the best news I have received for many a married on August 15, 1970 to Donald E. day Bennett. The Townsend's live in Altoona, Iowa. Congratulations on Vol. 1, No. 1, of the HALES Newsletter. It is certainly an The "HALES HOMECOMING” will be auspicious beginning both for the held the second Sunday in August. Newsletter and the HALES Genealogical (August 9, 1970) at Kirkland Springs at Society. the roadside park 5 miles north of Woodville Texas on the Chester Well done. We received Volume 1, No. 1, Highway. All HALES families are invited of the HALES Newsletter and find myself Plan to spend the day and bring a basket looking forward to receipt of the next lunch. Prizes will be given for the oldest one. Hales, the youngest Hales, the Hales family living the furthest distance away, Congratulations on the tremendous and the Hales family having the best success of your project. The Hales' of attendance record. Gary are really enthused and will do our part to keep your records and Newsletter PROGRESS REPORT. up to date. Our Researcher in England has covered We are all quite interested in your the following parishes in the project and. will support it search for John Hales b. ca. 1699 of wholeheartedly. , Kent) England: Rochester, Gillingham, Chatham, Boxley, , Thanks to all of you for your help and Hartlip, Thurnham, , support. I'm sure that our Newington, , , Borden, family organization will grow into Bredgar, , , something of benefit for all of us. , , Boughton Malherbe, Some have written asking for a better Egerton, and Hackington. He has found description of the coloring on the Arms one Hales Family with a son John born used by the Hales family of Kent, at the time we suspect. At the present England. On the cover of this Newsletter time the search continues for further is a red and yellow rendition of the verification. Arms. The only difference between this and the complete coloring is that the HELP IN ENGLAND arrowheads and the feathers should be white. Samuel Dale Hales, our United Press International Newsman, will be in ANNOUNCEMENTS London and elsewhere in England for approximately' 2 weeks the last half Congratulations to David Hales, the son of August. If anyone wishes his help of Warren F. and Mary Hales of Gary, please let him know. His address Indiana. David received a degree in is: 5622 Tahoe Lane, Shawnee Mission, mathematics in June from Purdue Kansas 66205.

-15- RECEIVED IN THE MAIL. HALE OR HALES

Known Descendants of Henry Hales b. I have received several letters asking ca. 1755 in England. mar. Susannah about the relationship of these two Oldfield ca. 1780. His grandson names. Many variations in spelling may Frederick William Hales b. 25 Feb. 1829 be found as the name is researched on near London, settled on Prince Edward both sides of the Atlantic. It shows as Island. Hale, Hales, Halls, Hails, Hailes, Hayls, Hayles, Halys, and Halles. At times two Some known descendants of Dr. Garland different spellings are recorded in the Hales and Susan Cole of New Sore, same record for the same person. The Prince Edward County, Virginia ca. name Hales is not the only name or word 1775. appearing misspelled in these old records nor the only word spelled Some know descendants of John Hales differently at one writing. of New York and Philadelphia ca. 1769. In many instances the final “s” has been dropped by a person known QUERIES previously as a Hales. The GG grandfather of Nathan Hale, the When you have a moment, would you American Patriot who said, "I only check your records for any information regret that I have but one life to lose for on the Queries listed below. If you have my country,” was one of these. Ensign any information please return it to me Robert Hales, from Kent County England, and I will publish replies in the next reached Massachusetts in 1632 and was newsletter. By using this method the first Deacon of the First Church in duplicate questions and answers should Charlestown. His descendants dropped be eliminated. To submit Queries simply the final “s” which he himself did not write me a letter stating the information use consistently. His line of descent to desired. This service is free of charge to Nathan Hale is thru his son Rev. John all member's of the HALES Genealogical Hale, his grandson Samuel Hale, and his Society. All others will be required to great-grandson Deacon Richard Hale, pay a fee of 2 cents per word. who was the father of Nathan Hale. Hales is a place name. That is, the #3. HALES. Desire any information on name was originally a location in Silas Hales, b. ca. 1753 in either Virginia England. Later when people began or North Carolina. Would like to know using two names, it was attached as a his parents, brothers and sisters, and surname by people from that location. who he married. These surnames started to appear near the year 1100, In the Domesday Book #4. HALES. Request information on there are 3 places named Hale which Hugh Hale or Hales, b. ca. 1740, retained the same spelling which they Wife's-name Mary. Who were his obtained at the time of the conquest. parents? What was Mary's maiden They are located in Lancashire, name? Where did his parents come Cheshire, and Lincoln. from? Hales in Clavering Hundred, Norfolk, was spelled Hals in Domesday, Hailes or I have not received any answers to the Hayles in Gloucestershire was spelled Queries published in the last Heile, Norton-in-Hales in Staffordshire Newsletter. These Queries remain was Halas, and Hales Owen in current and will be republished as Worcestershire was Hala. In the index to unanswered Queries every six months. Philip's Atlas of the Counties of England

-16- (1875) Hale appears 26 times, Hales this was strange new kind of weather to appears 3 times, and compounds us. We had lived in Nebraska and of these names appear 3 times. Of Mexico and were used to heat, wind, special interest is a letter I received from and snow and thunderstorms. Lillian Hales of Lemon Grove, California The Hales family came to this country was originally named Halvstinson, and from England in the 1700d and each legally changed it to Hal + es in 1930. generation moved farther west, I conclude that many of the people somehow challenged and fascinated by named Hale are related to the people the unknown that lay just on the other using the place name of Hales. These side of the hills in the new states and are the people that have dropped the territories growing up out beyond. final "s." There are probably others Orrin's father, John Hales, was the son of named Hale having absolutely no William Hales, and was named for his relationship at all since I find grandfather, also John Hales, who is no common ancestor or single place of remembered as one of the engineers origin for these names. who built the Erie Canal. This early John Hales previously had a part in the References: building of the turnpike road between 1. America Heraldica, pg. 82. New York and Philadelphia. 2. Reverend Edward Everett Hale, In the years following the Genealogical History of the Hale Revolutionary War the country was in Family. great need of good roads to replace the 3. D. L. Jacobus and E. F. Waterman, primitive trails, and extremely rough Hale, House and Related Families. pathways that had been worn by use of 4. William I. Budington, History of the travelers and soldiers. Settlers needed First Church, Charlestown. better than horse trails to get beyond the 5. H. Ling Roth, Bibliography and Appalachian Mountains and the Chronology of Hales Owen. Alleghenies; trade and the development of business pressed for waterway A special thanks to Samuel Dale Hales of improvement . Shawnee Mission, Kansas for some of As soon as Governor DeWitt Clinton the ideas expressed in this article. of New York State assumed office he negotiated the plans for construction of MR. AND MRS. ORRIN HALES the 360-mile Erie Canal, the first great project of engineering undertaken in the This article appeared in the Carpinteria, Americas. Its completion, linking the California Herald, Thursday, October 13, Atlantic Ocean with Lake Erie by way of 1960, on Hales family history. It was the Mohawk Valley, opened a great new written by Sadie Johnson, a first cousin gateway to the West for settlers and of the Hales family in Carpinteria. trade. (Perhaps this article will help you as you Engineer John Hales' son William begin to write the history of your branch was born in Beaver County, in the of the family). western Pennsylvania country south of the canal on June 28, 1818, the year after As a boy of 13, Orrin Hales first saw the Erie Canal was begun. Carpinteria when he arrived here by As a young man he married Miss train with his parents, brothers, and Lydia Mariah Shepard, born in Hartford, sisters, on May 13, 1897. “It was a very Connecticut, August 10, 1831. Lydia foggy day, but I remember that the Shepard's parents were Orrin and Electa country looked pretty and so green to Fish Shepard from New York State. me. We weren' t used to the fog, and William was a farmer, one of the many

-17- who cleared the land and hewed the farming land there, they turned west. timber in the vast forests of this yet Riding on through the state of Illinois, primitive country, land won in the they came to the Mississippi River which French and Indian War, (1764) and only they crossed into Iowa. North of recently (1784) purchased from the Waterloo, John Shepard found his land Indians. These early families had to be near Janesville, Iowa. William Hales self-reliant, and almost self-sustaining; wasn't satisfied yet, and rode on west they not only farmed, but trapped, and across the Missouri River into Nebraska hunted, with the use of the Pennsylvania Territory and found his land near long rifle. Lincoln, in Butler County. William and Lydia Hales were the Returning to Pennsylvania, the men parents of ten children: Electa Jane, sold their farms and loading wagons Mary Ann, Laura (Mrs. Simeon Shepard), with their necessary belongings, brought Lydia Leila (Mrs. Orrin Neal), Elizabeth, their families and livestock west to settle Orrin , Henry , William Seagle, Hattie new home sites and go on with their Newel and John Hales. Three of the farming. d1ildren died during the epidemics of At Rising City, Nebraska, John Hales diphtheria and scarlet fever. met Miss Margaret Ford, the daughter of John Hales was born in the town of Dr. Charles Ford and Harriet Fish Ford. Beaver, Racoon Township, Beaver Margaret was born August 15, 1864, on County, Pennsylvania on December 19, the Island of Grenada In the West Indies, 1857, some 30 miles from Pittsburgh, on where her father had been- sent during the Ohio River. the reign of Queen Victoria to try to I can remember my grandfather, discover a cure for yellow fever. He had John Hales, telling me that during the contracted the fever himself and died Civil War three of his father's nephews there. Mrs .Ford returned wi th her who were living with them at the time, children: George, Margaret and Harriett, went to fight with the Union forces. One to Wrington, England. There, upon of these young men lost his life in the persuasion by her dying sister, she service. As a child John watched the married her sister's husband, a Mr. soldiers of the Pittsburgh forces march Parsley, in order to help him raise her through his County on their way south nephew, Thomas Parsley. They also had to Virginia. These men took large a son Edward and daughter Polly. quantities of fruit, produce of all sorts, Leaving England they came to the chickens , and anything they could use United States, entering by way of to sustain the army . Florida, and moving north later On a Sunday during the Battle of to Crete, Nebraska. Antietam, William Hales and a large After their marriage on October 5, group of farmers went out, armed with 1881, John and Margaret Hales moved scythes to prevent General John H. farther northwest to Dawes County, Morgan and his men from crossing the Nebraska, where they homesteaded 320 river nearby. He turned back and acres of land. This section was new crossed lower in the region. territory and the settlers all built sod In the 1860's William Hales and his houses, so familiar on the prairies of brother-in-law John Shepard decided to Kansas and Nebraska. (Kansas now has go west from Pennsylvania. Leaving a historical organization named the Sod their families, they rode horseback House Society). northwest across Ohio and Indiana to The sod house was first a matter of Fort Dearborn, (the great log fort on the necessity on the Great Plains, as there shore of Lake Michigan, later to become was almost no timber. The early settlers Chicago) but as they found no good plowed a half-acre of ground, cut thick

-18- strips of turf into 3-foot bricks and laid schoolhouse was only about 2 blocks these up into a wall. The joints were distance from our house. I remember the broken as in bricklaying, and the cracks slates, the scarc1ty of lead pencils, filled with dirt. The door and window McGuffey’s Second Reader, and that I frames were of wood, and usually rough accidentally broke a glass window board floors covered with hides or playing ball, a very serious matter in homemade braided rugs. The second those times. The first day of school I year John built a log house. decided I could lick heck out of the The Hales children: Grace Eddlin teacher, but I soon found out that I (Mrs. Nelson F. Smith) , Orrin Emery, wasn’t any match for her. I learned to John William (who died in 1912), Lydia ride a horse sitting between two other Orril (Mrs. Oliver Pine Drake of Santa boys on their horse, and we rode that Barbara), and Everett Edward, were all way to Sunday School, which was held born in Nebraska. Lester Earle (now at another schoolhouse.” These were vice president of the First Federal subscription schools, built and Savings and Loan of Long Beach), Lloyd supported by the settlers. Randall and Dorothy Virginia (Mrs. “In 1889-90 we were in the area of LeRoy S. Pinkham of Montecito), were the Pine Ridge Indian massacre at the born after the family moved to the time that Red Cloud and Sitting Bull Pacific Coast. Chief of the Sioux Indians were making Grace remembers that "the sod house their last stand. (There were. also had two rooms, a cellar, and a lean-to on Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes in the side for the summer kitchen. There northwestern Nebraska and across the was also a roofed dug-out storing ice. In state line in South Dakota and the spring father would cut large chunks Wyoming). During one of these crises a of ice from the river and haul them to the fort was erected between the Pine Ridge dug-out where they would last even as Indian Agency, near our home, and Fort late as July, so mother would have ice to Robinson, in case the families near us keep food cool and fresh. Mother usually needed protection. I was just a small planted Portulaca on the turf roof in the boy, and I remember that much spring and when the pink flowers signaling went on between the forts. bloomed it was a very pretty sight." In For years, whenever I saw signs of the cellar were stored the vegetables for smoke on the horizon, I was afraid that the winter: rutabagas, squash, corn, the Indians were on the warpath. Smoke apples, potatoes, cabbage, and on the really threw fear into us kids!” north side of the house were hung the In the Fall of 1892, John Hales quarters of beef, pork and wild game. decided to go farther west, and was Orrin recalled that "Dad had oxen and strongly considering coming to later mules for farming. He fed his stock California, where his relatives, the so well that they often felt terribly frisky. Shepards, had settled. However, since To quiet them down he would purposely his childhood he had been interested in let them run away, across the wide open the type of cooperative colonies begun prairie, and I can just barely remember by the English Socialist Robert Owen, being in the bed of an old lumber wagon and others, such as George Rapp, whose when he let them go. Boy, Grace and I successful Harmony Society was certainly rattled in the back end of that established in Western Pennsylvania. wagon! He would let them run until they (The 19th century was an age of social were winded. reform, and the state of Pennsylvania “We lived in Nebraska until I was was a leader in many kinds of eight years old, so I went to first and improvements in the lot of man). second grade there. The log John Hales knew of an Owenite

-19- colony being established in the State of the water so that they would not get Sinaloa, Mexico, and was persuaded to bruised. I was only able to earn 32 cents take his family there. This colony of that day, so gave it up to get another job. several hundred families was based on a I remember that the olive oil Mr. Fithian strange mixture of Owenite socialism made was the best you could get, very and capitalist speculation, some 96,000 light and clear, made only from the first acres of land being settled at the cost of press of the olives.” 25 cents per acre, and the future plans The Hales lived for a time in included construction of a thousand Montecito, and also in the Casitas Pass miles of railway, canals and the building where John Hales bought 193 acres of of a model community called Pacific land. City. In 1898 the family bought acreage in The Hales took the train south to Lillingston Canyon, adding more land in Mexico by way of Kansas, Colorado, and 1908 and 1911. This property is now New Mexico, a railway line that had owned by Lloyd R. (Jake) Hales and been opened about 10 years earlier Nelson F. Smith. across the Southwest to El Paso, and on As a young man Orrin and his close into Mexico to Guaymas, Sonora, and by friend Nat E. Heacock went into boat to Topolobampo Bay, then inland business for themselves: “Hales and by wagon. to Los Mochis. On arrival Heacock, Growers of Fancy John Hales soon learned that there were Strawberries,” leasing land from arguments between rival groups and the Guiterrez and Bates Ranch in Rincon things were not going very well. After Canyon. They sold their berries to five disappointing years of farming groceries and markets in Santa Barbara, there, John and Margaret Hales returned especially Diehl's Grocery. In 1905, they by train to the United States, arriving in contracted to sell their whole crop for 5 Carpinteria in 1897. ½ cents per box. John's first work in Carpinteria was There were many interesting social at the Alcatraz Asphalt Refinery at the activities in the early 1900's here, but beach, in the area of the present different from our present clubs. Like Carpinteria Beach State Park. The other families, the Hales had large family asphalt was mined from surface beds picnics under the oak trees at the and used locally as well as being grandparents' ranch home, when all the shipped to many parts of California. cousins, uncles and aunts from miles On May 9, 1902, a newspaper around would gather for the day. account reads: “The steamer Dispatch Orrin kept a diary from 1904 until sailed from Carpinteria Wednesday with August of 1913, and there are some 250 tons of refined asphalt from the delightful accounts of social events in Alcatraz mines. This shipment goes to Carpinteria. The Fraternal Brotherhood Seattle." The Indians had used this area Lodge was very active. On Jan. 31, 1912, to get tar for their boats, and for other Orrin wrote, "After supper I attended a domestic uses. Most of the streets of special meeting of the T.F.B. and we Carpinteria were originally paved with initiated three new members. The the asphalt from the mine, and rock to contest for securing new members for use with it was crushed near the the lodge, in which the members were entrance to the Fithian Ranch . divided into two sides known as About one month after they arrived ‘Hustlers” and the ‘Rustlers,’ came to a in Carpinteria, Orrin, who was just 13 close tonight. The losing side has to years old, got a job picking olives at the give a chicken supper to all the Fithian Ranch. "I had to carry bucket members. I happened to be on the with water in it and drop the olives into winning side.”

-20- Another evening at Fraternal Benny Pyster, Bob Burnett, Norman Brotherhood he described: "After the Peterson, Nelson Smith , Donald meeting we played games and danced. Andrews, Nat Heacock, Clarence Mads “Christensen” and his Cadwell, and Orrin Hales. gramaphone there and Frank Houk Occasionally there were some more played a number of pieces on his spontaneous gatherings. On Feb. 2, accordion.” Again on February 12, 1912 1912, "After supper I went to a Leap Year he wrote: “I went to the T.F.B. ‘Hard Dance at Hickey Brothers new store Time’ social at night. After lodge we given by Mrs. Doerr, Mrs. Warren Tobey, played games and danced. Most and Miss Laura Peterson. There were everyone was fined for wearing over 30 couples out to dance. something they shouldn’t in hard times. July the Fourth was always such a I hid my watch but they fined me 10 great holiday for 18th and 19th century cents for having a jack-knife. Jim Lewis Americans, and as we look back upon it, took the gentleman’s first prize which perhaps we wish that the enthusiasm of was a rooster, and Blanch Nidever the those times might grow again for ladies’ first prize which was a setting of Independence Day in our times. The eggs. Our lodge bought a piano since following is Orrin's account of July last meeting so we had some good 4,1912, in Carpinteria. music.” "Fog in the morning and a clear fine On July 22, 1912: “At night Albert day. Everyone got ready to go to (Christensen) and I went in the cart and Franklin’s Canyon. Nel and I and Uncle Nel, Grace and Wilma (Nelson and Orrin (Neal) drove down to the well Grace Smith and sister-in-law) in buggy about 8 a.m. Started the engine and to T.F.B. social. Everybody was pumped a few minutes to show Uncle supposed to dress as children and those how she ran. Got started for the that didn’t were fined 25 cents. Grace barbecue and picnic in Franklin’s made me a suit of rompers, pink, and I Canyon about 10 a.m. Mother, Dad, wore her white stockings. Had the time Uncle Orrin, Aunt Lydia (Neal), Lloyd, of our lives playing kid’s games and Dorothy, Gracie, and Nel went in the dancing. They served cake and ice- spring wagon and I drove Bob in the cream cones.” cart. The barbecue was under the There was also a card club whim met management of the Knights of Pythias occasionally. Orrin wrote about one Lodge of Carpinteria, and was for the meeting: "I attended a card club meeting benefit of the new hall being built by the at night at Miss Freda Rystrom’s and K. P. Lodge. won 4 games out of 7. She served "They had a dancing floor about 20' by Boston baked beans and brown bread 40', ice cream, candy, cigars, lemonade, with coffee for refreshments, and I sure and all the refreshments a person could ate hearty. I took Mrs. Bert Sprague wish. Dick Morris had a bunch of dolls (Laura Beckstead’s sister) home from the for the boys, or anybody, to throw at card party as Bert had taken a crowd to with baseballs, 3 balls for 5 cents. Santa Barbara to the Knights of Pythias Barbecued meat was ready about 12 Ball at the Arlington and couldn’t get o’clock. They charged 25 cents for meat, back in time. coffee, and French bread for each person. Some of the young men formed a club Aunt Laura (Mrs. Simeon Shepard), Rae of their own, naming it the Carpinteria and Harold, Wilma, and Tate, Jr., and Mr. Social Card Club. Their membership pin Gordon and family ate lunch with our had the letters CSCC on it with also a crowd, so there were quite a few of us. skull and crossbones! The members of Mr. Gordon is the manager of the Santa this gay society were Warren Tobey, Barbara Lumber Company and is

-21- camping at Stanley Park. In the But it was a few days until we shook all afternoon I danced about 5 dances, the rice out of our things.” smoked cigars, and watched a few foot Alice was born in Santa Barbara on races. Dancing cost 5 cents per dance. I December 22, 1892, and so has many estimate there were about 400 people at memories of early times in our neighbor the barbecue. city, including the last horse-drawn “I came home about 5 p.m. and the streetcars and State Street as an folks got home shortly after I did. Aunt unpaved way, dusty in summer and Lydia and Uncle Orrin went with Aunt muddy in winter. Alice's mother , Laura in the machine. After supper Mrs .Sarah Lynch Gould was born in Albert Christensen and I went in the County Sligo, Ireland, and came to cart, and Grace and Nel went in the Cambridge, Massachusetts, as a very buggy and we went back to Franklin’s small child, after her parents had died. Canyon to a dance which lasted until Dr. and Mrs. Bernard Clark, an uncle and about 11:15. Local music played at aunt, reared her at their home, now a night: Ogan, Sprague, and Ferrier, part of the campus of Harvard University. Richardson, and Buddy Wood. I danced In the autumn 1887 , when she was 17, 15 dances which just made $1 worth for Sarah came alone by train to visit her the day. Got home about midnight and elder sister Mary, Mrs. Herman Rother, in was sure some tired. Santa Barbara, at the Rother's ranch Enjoying many of the Fraternal which at that time occupied much of the Brotherhood social activities, too, was area of the present Montecito Country Miss Alice Gould, whose family lived at Club. Foothill and Toro Canyon Roads in Orrin and Alice Hales have lived a Serena. Orrin and Alice met at the lodge pleasant country life during the years, meetings in early 1913 and on Mar. 17, good and difficult, of raising beans, 1914, St. Patrick's Day, were married at walnuts and lemons on their ranch on the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Casitas Pass Road. George H. Gould, by Rev. Jerome F. Their son Nathan Edward Hales and Tubbs, with only immediate family his family live in Menlo Park, California, present. Mother recalls, "We thought and Nat is assistant to the Comptroller of that none of our fiends know anything the California Packing Corporation of San about our plans, because we didn't tell Francisco, having taken a master's anyone but Rev. Tubbs. But before he degree in business administration at came out to marry us he telephoned Mrs. Stanford University. Their daughter Lizzie McCampbell, telling her he would Sadie Grace (Mrs. George E. Johnson) a have some news when he got back. She graduate of Scripps College, and her found out where he was going and they family live in Carpinteria. There are 4 guessed. Well, Dr. H. C. Henderson later grandchildren. drove us to Santa Barbara in his Orrin recently celebrated his 76th automobile and we took the afternoon birthday, and was pleasantly surprised train to Los Angeles. When the train to receive one of the Lions' Club senior stopped in Carpinteria, Mrs. McCambell citizen awards. He hopes to watch the and her daughter Minnie (Mrs. Frank development of Carpinteria for at least Bauhaus) and some of our other friends another 20 years . were gathered at the station. They came in our car and showered us with OBITUARIES rice, creating a little confusion for the other passengers, too! Orrin and I Hial Brown Hales, 66, 314 W. 400 South, slipped into the next car, and the Provo, Utah, died Monday morning, May conductor wouldn’t let them follow us. l8, 1970, at the Utah Valley Hospital.

-22- Born May l8, 1904 in Mammoth, Utah MEMBERSHIP RECORDS he was the son of Hial B. and Mary E. Brown Hales. On April 22, 1947 he This list contains the names of all the married Celesta Campbell Alexander in members of the HALES Genealogical Price, Utah. Society that have paid their membership Mr. Hales received his education in dues or a contribution has been received the Spanish Fork and Pleasant Grove for them. schools. He lived in Orem until after his marriage when he moved to Provo. In SUSTAINING MEMBERS 1954, he and his wife moved to Arthur William Hales, 231 East Creek Dr., Santaquin until 1964 when they returned Menlo Park CA 94025 to Provo where they have since Barbara Hales Blim, 5361 El Parque, Long resided. He farmed in Orem and for the Beach, CA. 90815 past 25 years was employed at Geneva Barbara Hales Hatch, 5929 Harvey Way, Steel Company as a boiler operator, Lakewood, CA. 90713 having recently retired. He was a Bernell Woodruff Hales, 551 Panorama Dr., member of the CIO-AF of L. San Francisco CA An active member of the LDS Church, 94131 he served a mission in San Jose, Bernell W. Hales Jr., 2154 Bryan Ave., Salt California, and was a High Priest at the Lake City UT 84108 time of his death. He had served as a Bill Hales, 3829 Division, Los Angeles CA ward clerk and as secretary to the High 90065 Priests quorum in addition to his activity Carol Hales Allen, 2524 7th Ave., Yuma AZ in other Church organizations. 85364 Survivors include his wife of Provo; Charles W. Hales, 14459 Emerald Rd., two sons: Roger Hales, Salt Lake City, Victorvil1e, Ca 92392 Chad B. Hales, Provo; a daughter, Mrs. Clinton D. Hales., 19514 Mildred Ave., Kathleen H. Smith, Salt Lake; Torrance CA 90503 step-daughter, Mrs. Merriner (Winifred) Daisy Hales Kudlacek, Box 329, Sutton AK Jones, DuBlas, Old Mexico; three 99674 step-sons, Ben C. Alexander, Archie D. Dell Reese Hales, 311 Milford St., East Alexander, both of Santaquin; Earl Jay Lansing MI 48823 Alexander, Ogden; 20 grandchildren; Dean Wilson Hales, 1460 36th St., Ogden UT two brothers, Leo P. Hales, Provo; Don 84403 G. Hales, Orem; and three sisters, Mrs. Felix Stanton Hales, 3571 Lytle Rd., Shaker LeGrand (Iona) Jarman, Orem; Mrs. Leon Heights OH 44122 (Thora) Meecham, LaPoint, Uintah Forrest John Hales, 1490 N. Ivy St., Coquille County; and Mrs. Ida H. Donaldson, Salt OR 97423 Lake City. George Jefferson Hales, 21121 Aberdeen, Burial was in the Spanish Fork City Rocky River OH 44116 Cemetery. Gertrude "Gerre" Hales Shuttleworth, 2809 W. Thirteen Mile NOTE: I have received references that Rd., Royal Oak MI 48073 other HALES family have passed away Glen Herbert Hales, 3505 Marlborough Ave., since our last Newsletter. If someone Las Vegas NE will please send me a newspaper 89110 clipping I will include them in the next Jim B. Hales, 2105 Carpenter Freeway W., issue. Irving TX 75060 Kenneth Glyn Hales, 1800 Ryan Road, Concord CA 94520 Nida Hales Donaldson, 1324 Roosevelt Ave.,

-23- Salt Lake Portland OR 97230 City UT 84105 John B. Hales, 1641 E. Willetta, Phoenix AZ Patricia Hales Griffith, 1726 Santa Monica 85006 Rd., John Charles Hales, 82 Howard St., N Carpinteria CA 93013 Tarrytown NY 10591 Paul Franklin Hales. 2221 Soledad Rancho Marguerite Hales, 311 E. 100 North, Rd., San Springville UT 84663 Diego CA 92109 Melvin Donald Hales, 1305 N. Hacienda Blvd., Pete L. R. Hales Jr., 3460 Hadley Way, Santa La Maria CA 93454 Puente CA 91744 Raleigh Stanton Hales, 1106 Arden Rd., Samuel Dale Hales, 5622 Tahoe Lane, Pasadena CA 91106 Shawnee Reid Mendenhall Hales, RFD 1 Box 179, Mission KS 66205 Springville UT 84663 Shilo Hales Townsend, Route #1 Box 131., Richard T. Hales 585 Cottonwood, Vacaville Altoona IA 50009 CA 95688 Thomas A. Hales, Rt. 2 Box 69F, Weslaco TX Ronald Burns Hales, 1540 E. Maplegrove St., 78596 West Vera Hales Quilter , 651 Crystal Ave., Salt Covina CA 91792 Lake City UT 84115 Thora Hales Mecham, La Point UT 84039 Verda Hales Shepard, 4609 Parker Ave., Sacramento CA 95820 CONTRIBUTING MEMBERS Vilas Robert Hales, Lorane Rt. Box 182, B. W. Hales Jr., 415 Essex, Kenilworth IL Cottage Grove OR 60043 97424 Charles D. Hales, 2508 15th Ave. S., Virgil Covington Hales, 5984 N. Libby Rd., Minneapolis MN 55404 Paradise CA 95969 Harold Eugene Hales, 77 Winding Way, Napa William L. Hales, 5812 Winthrop Dr., Raleigh CA 94558 NC 27609 Robert L. Hales, 1119 Green Valley, Houston Mrs. Clement J. Falvey, 183 NW 66th Court, TX 77055 Ft. Henryetta E. B1ackburn, 1941 Lariet Lane, Lauderdale FL 33309 Del City OK 73115 The Genealogical Society of Utah, 107 S. Main Addie Lee DuBose Ho11and, Rt. 1 Box 229, Street, Diboll TX 75941 Salt Lake City UT 84111 The Woodward-Woodard Genealogical Society, ACTIVE MEMBERS 1354 Barksdale Hales, 418 Spencer St., Glendale Murphy's Lane, Salt Lake City UT CA 91202 Cllfford Charles Hales, R.R. #1 Talbot Road., NOTE: There are several people that Windsor have sent me almost enough to a over Ontario Canada their membership dues. I have a record David Dewayne Hales, 2108 Connie Dr. S., of all money received and from whom. Del City OK 73115 Please deduct that amount from your Donald Lloyd Hales, 40-622 E. Oakland Ave., membership dues. All money received Hemit CA 92343 for membership dugs from this time on E. Leon Hales, 3960 Lares Way, Salt Lake will be acknowledged in a "New City UT 84117 Members" column in future Newsletters. George Clinton Ruth Hales, 5111 Delaware Ave., Los RETURNED MAIL LIST Angeles CA 90041 The following list contains the names Hal James Hales, 1154 NE Klickitat, and addresses of mail that I sent that

-24- was returned as undeliverable for one reason or another. This was the first I have purchased with my own funds the HALES Newsletter. These names have following equipment to assist me in been deleted from the Hales Directory preparing the Newsletter: until I can attach a corrected address to them. Would you look over this list and if 1. An IBM Selectric typewriter with four you can correct any of the addresses different type elements to give please let me know . variety to our newsletter. All of the elements have been used in this Aubrey L. Hales, 2304 Taft Paril, New newsletter. Orleans LA 70150 2. An A.B. Dick mimeograph machine Bruce Hales, 300 Forrest Road, Ft Oglethorp capable of reproducing half-tones and GA 30741 simple colors. This Newsletter was Diane Hales, 10943 Whipple, N Hollywood CA produced with this equipment. 90028 Donald R. Hales, 1515 Trusdale Dr., Belmont I have ordered a half-tone screen to CA 94002 use with my photography equipment Edward Hales, 1160 Alfini, Des Plaines IL giving me the capability to 60016 mimeograph pictures in future Emma Jean Hales, 229 So. 7th St., Richmond newsletters. CA 94804 Eugene Hales, 3165 W. Davison Lake Rd., This equipment will remain my personal Oxford MI 48051 property but will be used for the Frances Hales, 3236 SE Harvey, Portland OR newsletter at no charge to the HALES 97208 Genealogical Society. Henry F. Hales, 4020 Rosecrans, Hawthorne CA 90250 3. I average approximately 3 hours per Jeremy M. Hales, 575 N. Hagadorn, South week retyping family sheets for our Lyon MI 48178 HALES Book. John E. Hales, 12616 10th St., Seattle WA 4. My biggest concern and our biggest 98111 expenditure at the present time Leonard H. Hales, Clay NY 13041 appears to be returned mail. Any help M. B. Hales, 5920 N. Clark, Chicago IL 60680 you can give me on updating our Maurice Hales, Point Nipigon, MI Hales Directory would be greatly Mrs. Rozelle Hales, 277 Connally SE, Atlanta appreciated. Please look over the GA 30301 "RETURNED MAIL LIST" sent to you Nat Edward Hales, Jr., 105 Highland Oaks in the last Newsletter along with the Dr ., Los additions to it in this Newsletter and Gatos CA 95030 g1ve me what help you can on it. A Paul N. Hales, 3835 SE Ankeny, Portland OR returned Newsletter averages 28 97204 cents for the return and re-mailing at Raymond L. Hales, 4445 Conn Ave. NW, first class rates in the hope that it will Washington DC 20013 reach the addressee. Richard Hales, 3101 Hillburn Rd., 5. I am still in the process of extracting Bakersfield CA 93302 all Hales data from parish registers. Richard A. Hales, 620 Vine, Murray UT This work suffers during the time 84107 when I am preparing the Newsletter Sarah C. Hales, 3806 Ogden Ave., Ogden UT but at other times I average 6 hours 84402 per week in this effort. I will publish these extracts in this Newsletter in CURRENT PROJECTS the future.

-25- QUESTIONNAIRE FINANCIAL STATEMENT Can you help me with our Directory? Balance Forward $68.00 Please provide me with your sibling’s addresses: Receipts Received in the mail 248.00 Your brother’s addresses My Contributions 27.63

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New Balance $175.18

FAMILY GROUP SHEETS

The last sheet in this Newsletter is a Family Group Sheet. If you have not already done so, please complete one of these for your family. Also use this sheet as a master copy and provide me with a second sheet for your parent’s Your sister’s addresses family. If you have more information on your extended family, please make a sheet for them as well. Send me these sheets as you get them completed. Fill in as much information as you can. It is important to fill in the location of where the birth, marriage, or death takes place. This makes it possible to continue the research on these families. Please do not use numbers for months.

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