The Hales NewsletterMotto: United Force is Stronger

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

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

The Hales Newsletter contains currentevents, historical sketches and genealogical information pertaining to the Hales family. Itis 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 SocietyKenneth Glyn Hales, Founder (ken@hales.org)5990 North Calle KinoTucson, 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 alsosome minor editing. The Hales Manuscript pages being developed during thepublication of the Old Series of The Hales Newsletter have been deleted because thecontent is now found in The Hales Chronicles, now in its second edition with thethird edition planned for 2005.

The Hales Chronicles can be found on the Hales web-page at www.hales.organd at The Family History Library of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saintsat Salt Lake City, Utah; The Library of Congress at Washington, D.C.; The Library ofThe Society of Genealogists at London, England; and the Centre for Kentish Studiesat Maidstone, Kent, England.

The Hales Newsletter is provided to the above cited repositories and the AllenCounty Public Library at Fort Wayne, Indiana. The Allen County Public Libraryindexes 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.

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Foreword

The HALES Genealogical Society wasfounded in March 1970 as a non-profitfamily organization devoted to theassembling and preserving ofgenealogical and historical materialspertaining to the HALES family ofAmerica. Membership in the Society isopen to all persons connected in anyway with the HALES family, whether byblood, marriage, or adoption, and topersons interested in genealogical andhistorical research.

Membership falls into three classes:Active, Contributing, and Sustaining.Active membership dues are two dollarsper year, Contributing membership duesare four dollars per year, and Sustainingmembership dues are any amount overfour dollars which the member wishes tocontribute for the support of the Society.

All members whether Active,Contributing, or Sustaining, receive theHALES Newsletter as it is published inJanuary, March, May, July, September,and November of each year. Libraries,genealogical an historical associations,and individuals may subscribe to theHALES Newsletter without joining theSociety at the rate of two dollars peryear. The introductory letter was issuedin March of 1970. The first Newsletterwas issued in May of 1970.

Back issues of all Newsletters will bekept in print and are available forthirty-five cents per issue.

The Secretary and historian of theHALES Genealogical Society is:

Kenneth Glyn Hales1800 Ryan RoadConcord, California 94520

Please use this address for allcorrespondence.

The Hales Genealogical Society wasorganized to generate an accurate andadequate history of the HALES family ofAmerica, as well as variant spellings ofthis name, coordinate research, and

avoid duplication of efforts.This society will publish a book in the

future, as it evolves through theparticipation of the members of thesociety, containing the history andgenealogical informationpertaining to the HALES family ofAmerica. This book will be madeavailable and supplied to the membersof this society at the cost of publicationper book.

Any information submitted to thissociety becomes the property of thesociety. However, the society will copymaterial submitted and return theoriginal information to the sender ifreturn postage is sent with thematerials. The society has thefacilities to copy any type of materialsubmitted: pictures, printed matter,microfilm, recordings, etc.

All money received by this societywill be used to support its functions:support its functions: i.e. mailing costs,researchers fees, purchase ofmanuscripts, and purchase of othermaterials to enlarge the society. Therewill be no salaries to any officer ofthis society.

All records of this society are open forinspection to any member of this society.Please telephone before arriving(689-9237) to determine if I am at home.

News and Views

This section of our HALES News1ettercontains the “happenings" that I ammade aware of between issues. Send meyour announcements of area reunions,marriages, births, deaths, etc., and theywill be included in the Newsletter to allthe Hales Family. Contributions ofarticles for the Newsletter are requested.

Our Society is growing. Our HALESbook now contains the family sheetsfor over 120 HALES families. I continueto receive enthusiastic letters, andwords of encouragement from all acrossthe United States. Following areexcerpts from some of the letters:

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Enjoyed very much receiving the firstHales Newsletter and will be lookingforward to receiving others. How marvelous you are doing this. TheNewsletter is such a revelation.

This Newsletter and Genealogy News isthe best news I have received for many aday

Congratulations on Vol. 1, No. 1, of theHALES Newsletter. It is certainly anauspicious beginning both for theNewsletter and the HALES GenealogicalSociety.

Well done. We received Volume 1, No. 1,of the HALES Newsletter and find myselflooking forward to receipt of the nextone.

Congratulations on the tremendoussuccess of your project. The Hales' ofGary are really enthused and will do ourpart to keep your records and Newsletterup to date.

We are all quite interested in yourproject and. will support itwholeheartedly.

Thanks to all of you for your help andsupport. I'm sure that ourfamily organization will grow intosomething of benefit for all of us.

Some have written asking for a betterdescription of the coloring on the Armsused by the Hales family of Kent,England. On the cover of this Newsletteris a red and yellow rendition of theArms. The only difference between thisand the complete coloring is that thearrowheads and the feathers should bewhite.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Congratulations to David Hales, the sonof Warren F. and Mary Hales of Gary,Indiana. David received a degree inmathematics in June from Purdue

University and plans to be married onAugust 15, 1970 to Brenda Anderson ofGary.

Congratulations also to Linda RaeTownsend, the daughter of Robert andShilo Hales Townsend, who plans to bemarried on August 15, 1970 to Donald E.Bennett. The Townsend's live in Altoona,Iowa.

The "HALES HOMECOMING” will beheld the second Sunday in August.(August 9, 1970) at Kirkland Springs atthe roadside park 5 miles north ofWoodville Texas on the ChesterHighway. All HALES families are invitedPlan to spend the day and bring a basketlunch. Prizes will be given for the oldestHales, the youngest Hales, the Halesfamily living the furthest distance away,and the Hales family having the bestattendance record.

PROGRESS REPORT.

Our Researcher in England has coveredthe following parishes in thesearch for John Hales b. ca. 1699 ofBoxley, Kent) England: Rochester,Gillingham, Chatham, Boxley, Detling,Hartlip, Thurnham, Stockbury,Newington, Hucking, Bicknor, Borden,Bredgar, Wormshill, Hollingbourne,Frinsted, Lenham, Boughton Malherbe,Egerton, and Hackington. He has foundone Hales Family with a son John bornat the time we suspect. At the presenttime the search continues for furtherverification.

HELP IN ENGLAND

Samuel Dale Hales, our United PressInternational Newsman, will be inLondon and elsewhere in England forapproximately' 2 weeks the last halfof August. If anyone wishes his helpplease let him know. His addressis: 5622 Tahoe Lane, Shawnee Mission,Kansas 66205.

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RECEIVED IN THE MAIL.

Known Descendants of Henry Hales b.ca. 1755 in England. mar. SusannahOldfield ca. 1780. His grandsonFrederick William Hales b. 25 Feb. 1829near London, settled on Prince EdwardIsland.

Some known descendants of Dr. GarlandHales and Susan Cole of New Sore,Prince Edward County, Virginia ca.1775.

Some know descendants of John Halesof New York and Philadelphia ca. 1769.

QUERIES

When you have a moment, would youcheck your records for any informationon the Queries listed below. If you haveany information please return it to meand I will publish replies in the nextnewsletter. By using this methodduplicate questions and answers shouldbe eliminated. To submit Queries simplywrite me a letter stating the informationdesired. This service is free of charge toall member's of the HALES GenealogicalSociety. All others will be required topay a fee of 2 cents per word.

#3. HALES. Desire any information onSilas Hales, b. ca. 1753 in either Virginiaor North Carolina. Would like to knowhis parents, brothers and sisters, andwho he married.

#4. HALES. Request information onHugh Hale or Hales, b. ca. 1740,Wife's-name Mary. Who were hisparents? What was Mary's maidenname? Where did his parents comefrom?

I have not received any answers to theQueries published in the lastNewsletter. These Queries remaincurrent and will be republished asunanswered Queries every six months.

HALE OR HALES

I have received several letters askingabout the relationship of these twonames. Many variations in spelling maybe found as the name is researched onboth sides of the Atlantic. It shows asHale, Hales, Halls, Hails, Hailes, Hayls,Hayles, Halys, and Halles. At times twodifferent spellings are recorded in thesame record for the same person. Thename Hales is not the only name or wordappearing misspelled in these oldrecords nor the only word spelleddifferently at one writing.

In many instances the final “s” hasbeen dropped by a person knownpreviously as a Hales. The GGgrandfather of Nathan Hale, theAmerican Patriot who said, "I onlyregret that I have but one life to lose formy country,” was one of these. EnsignRobert Hales, from Kent County England,reached Massachusetts in 1632 and wasthe first Deacon of the First Church inCharlestown. His descendants droppedthe final “s” which he himself did notuse consistently. His line of descent toNathan Hale is thru his son Rev. JohnHale, his grandson Samuel Hale, and hisgreat-grandson Deacon Richard Hale,who was the father of Nathan Hale.

Hales is a place name. That is, thename was originally a location inEngland. Later when people beganusing two names, it was attached as asurname by people from that location.These surnames started to appear nearthe year 1100, In the Domesday Bookthere are 3 places named Hale whichretained the same spelling which theyobtained at the time of the conquest.They are located in Lancashire,Cheshire, and Lincoln.

Hales in Clavering Hundred, Norfolk,was spelled Hals in Domesday, Hailes orHayles in Gloucestershire was spelledHeile, Norton-in-Hales in Staffordshirewas Halas, and Hales Owen inWorcestershire was Hala. In the index toPhilip's Atlas of the Counties of England

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(1875) Hale appears 26 times, Halesappears 3 times, and compoundsof these names appear 3 times. Ofspecial interest is a letter I received fromLillian Hales of Lemon Grove, Californiawas originally named Halvstinson, andlegally changed it to Hal + es in 1930.

I conclude that many of the peoplenamed Hale are related to the peopleusing the place name of Hales. Theseare the people that have dropped thefinal "s." There are probably othersnamed Hale having absolutely norelationship at all since I findno common ancestor or single place oforigin for these names.

References:1. America Heraldica, pg. 82.2. Reverend Edward Everett Hale,

Genealogical History of the HaleFamily.

3. D. L. Jacobus and E. F. Waterman, Hale, House and Related Families.

4. William I. Budington, History of theFirst Church, Charlestown.

5. H. Ling Roth, Bibliography andChronology of Hales Owen.

A special thanks to Samuel Dale Hales ofShawnee Mission, Kansas for some ofthe ideas expressed in this article.

MR. AND MRS. ORRIN HALES

This article appeared in the Carpinteria,California Herald, Thursday, October 13,1960, on Hales family history. It waswritten by Sadie Johnson, a first cousinof the Hales family in Carpinteria.(Perhaps this article will help you as youbegin to write the history of your branchof the family).

As a boy of 13, Orrin Hales first sawCarpinteria when he arrived here bytrain with his parents, brothers, andsisters, on May 13, 1897. “It was a veryfoggy day, but I remember that thecountry looked pretty and so green tome. We weren' t used to the fog, and

this was strange new kind of weather tous. We had lived in Nebraska andMexico and were used to heat, wind,and snow and thunderstorms.

The Hales family came to this countryfrom England in the 1700d and eachgeneration moved farther west,somehow challenged and fascinated bythe unknown that lay just on the otherside of the hills in the new states andterritories growing up out beyond.Orrin's father, John Hales, was the son ofWilliam Hales, and was named for hisgrandfather, also John Hales, who isremembered as one of the engineerswho built the Erie Canal. This early JohnHales previously had a part in thebuilding of the turnpike road betweenNew York and Philadelphia.

In the years following theRevolutionary War the country was ingreat need of good roads to replace theprimitive trails, and extremely roughpathways that had been worn by use oftravelers and soldiers. Settlers neededbetter than horse trails to get beyond theAppalachian Mountains and theAlleghenies; trade and the developmentof business pressed for waterwayimprovement .

As soon as Governor DeWitt Clintonof New York State assumed office henegotiated the plans for construction ofthe 360-mile Erie Canal, the first greatproject of engineering undertaken in theAmericas. Its completion, linking theAtlantic Ocean with Lake Erie by way ofthe Mohawk Valley, opened a great newgateway to the West for settlers andtrade.

Engineer John Hales' son Williamwas born in Beaver County, in thewestern Pennsylvania country south ofthe canal on June 28, 1818, the year afterthe Erie Canal was begun.

As a young man he married MissLydia Mariah Shepard, born in Hartford,Connecticut, August 10, 1831. LydiaShepard's parents were Orrin and ElectaFish Shepard from New York State.William was a farmer, one of the many

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who cleared the land and hewed thetimber in the vast forests of this yetprimitive country, land won in theFrench and Indian War, (1764) and onlyrecently (1784) purchased from theIndians. These early families had to beself-reliant, and almost self-sustaining;they not only farmed, but trapped, andhunted, with the use of the Pennsylvanialong rifle.

William and Lydia Hales were theparents of ten children: Electa Jane,Mary Ann, Laura (Mrs. Simeon Shepard),Lydia Leila (Mrs. Orrin Neal), Elizabeth,Orrin , Henry , William Seagle, HattieNewel and John Hales. Three of thed1ildren died during the epidemics ofdiphtheria and scarlet fever.

John Hales was born in the town ofBeaver, Racoon Township, BeaverCounty, Pennsylvania on December 19,1857, some 30 miles from Pittsburgh, onthe Ohio River.

I can remember my grandfather,John Hales, telling me that during theCivil War three of his father's nephewswho were living with them at the time,went to fight with the Union forces. Oneof these young men lost his life in theservice. As a child John watched thesoldiers of the Pittsburgh forces marchthrough his County on their way southto Virginia. These men took largequantities of fruit, produce of all sorts,chickens , and anything they could useto sustain the army .

On a Sunday during the Battle ofAntietam, William Hales and a largegroup of farmers went out, armed withscythes to prevent General John H.Morgan and his men from crossing theriver nearby. He turned back andcrossed lower in the region.

In the 1860's William Hales and hisbrother-in-law John Shepard decided togo west from Pennsylvania. Leavingtheir families, they rode horsebacknorthwest across Ohio and Indiana toFort Dearborn, (the great log fort on theshore of Lake Michigan, later to becomeChicago) but as they found no good

farming land there, they turned west.Riding on through the state of Illinois,they came to the Mississippi River whichthey crossed into Iowa. North ofWaterloo, John Shepard found his landnear Janesville, Iowa. William Haleswasn't satisfied yet, and rode on westacross the Missouri River into NebraskaTerritory and found his land nearLincoln, in Butler County.

Returning to Pennsylvania, the mensold their farms and loading wagonswith their necessary belongings, broughttheir families and livestock west to settlenew home sites and go on with theirfarming.

At Rising City, Nebraska, John Halesmet Miss Margaret Ford, the daughter ofDr. Charles Ford and Harriet Fish Ford.Margaret was born August 15, 1864, onthe Island of Grenada In the West Indies,where her father had been- sent duringthe reign of Queen Victoria to try todiscover a cure for yellow fever. He hadcontracted the fever himself and diedthere. Mrs .Ford returned wi th herchildren: George, Margaret and Harriett,to Wrington, England. There, uponpersuasion by her dying sister, shemarried her sister's husband, a Mr.Parsley, in order to help him raise hernephew, Thomas Parsley. They also hada son Edward and daughter Polly.Leaving England they came to theUnited States, entering by way ofFlorida, and moving north laterto Crete, Nebraska.

After their marriage on October 5,1881, John and Margaret Hales movedfarther northwest to Dawes County,Nebraska, where they homesteaded 320acres of land. This section was newterritory and the settlers all built sodhouses, so familiar on the prairies ofKansas and Nebraska. (Kansas now hasa historical organization named the SodHouse Society).

The sod house was first a matter ofnecessity on the Great Plains, as therewas almost no timber. The early settlersplowed a half-acre of ground, cut thick

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strips of turf into 3-foot bricks and laidthese up into a wall. The joints werebroken as in bricklaying, and the cracksfilled with dirt. The door and windowframes were of wood, and usually roughboard floors covered with hides orhomemade braided rugs. The secondyear John built a log house.

The Hales children: Grace Eddlin(Mrs. Nelson F. Smith) , Orrin Emery,John William (who died in 1912), LydiaOrril (Mrs. Oliver Pine Drake of SantaBarbara), and Everett Edward, were allborn in Nebraska. Lester Earle (nowvice president of the First FederalSavings and Loan of Long Beach), LloydRandall and Dorothy Virginia (Mrs.LeRoy S. Pinkham of Montecito), wereborn after the family moved to thePacific Coast.

Grace remembers that "the sod househad two rooms, a cellar, and a lean-to onthe side for the summer kitchen. Therewas also a roofed dug-out storing ice. Inthe spring father would cut large chunksof ice from the river and haul them to thedug-out where they would last even aslate as July, so mother would have ice tokeep food cool and fresh. Mother usuallyplanted Portulaca on the turf roof in thespring and when the pink flowersbloomed it was a very pretty sight." Inthe cellar were stored the vegetables forthe winter: rutabagas, squash, corn,apples, potatoes, cabbage, and on thenorth side of the house were hung thequarters of beef, pork and wild game.

Orrin recalled that "Dad had oxen andlater mules for farming. He fed his stockso well that they often felt terribly frisky. To quiet them down he would purposelylet them run away, across the wide openprairie, and I can just barely rememberbeing in the bed of an old lumber wagonwhen he let them go. Boy, Grace and Icertainly rattled in the back end of thatwagon! He would let them run until theywere winded.

“We lived in Nebraska until I waseight years old, so I went to first andsecond grade there. The log

schoolhouse was only about 2 blocksdistance from our house. I remember theslates, the scarc1ty of lead pencils,McGuffey’s Second Reader, and that Iaccidentally broke a glass windowplaying ball, a very serious matter inthose times. The first day of school Idecided I could lick heck out of theteacher, but I soon found out that Iwasn’t any match for her. I learned toride a horse sitting between two otherboys on their horse, and we rode thatway to Sunday School, which was heldat another schoolhouse.” These weresubscription schools, built andsupported by the settlers.

“In 1889-90 we were in the area ofthe Pine Ridge Indian massacre at the time that Red Cloud and Sitting BullChief of the Sioux Indians were makingtheir last stand. (There were. alsoCheyenne and Arapaho tribes innorthwestern Nebraska and across thestate line in South Dakota andWyoming). During one of these crises afort was erected between the Pine RidgeIndian Agency, near our home, and FortRobinson, in case the families near usneeded protection. I was just a smallboy, and I remember that muchsignaling went on between the forts. For years, whenever I saw signs ofsmoke on the horizon, I was afraid thatthe Indians were on the warpath. Smokereally threw fear into us kids!”

In the Fall of 1892, John Halesdecided to go farther west, and wasstrongly considering coming toCalifornia, where his relatives, the Shepards, had settled. However, sincehis childhood he had been interested inthe type of cooperative colonies begunby the English Socialist Robert Owen,and others, such as George Rapp, whosesuccessful Harmony Society wasestablished in Western Pennsylvania. (The 19th century was an age of socialreform, and the state of Pennsylvaniawas a leader in many kinds ofimprovements in the lot of man).

John Hales knew of an Owenite

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colony being established in the State ofSinaloa, Mexico, and was persuaded totake his family there. This colony ofseveral hundred families was based on astrange mixture of Owenite socialismand capitalist speculation, some 96,000acres of land being settled at the cost of25 cents per acre, and the future plansincluded construction of a thousandmiles of railway, canals and the buildingof a model community called PacificCity.

The Hales took the train south toMexico by way of Kansas, Colorado, andNew Mexico, a railway line that hadbeen opened about 10 years earlieracross the Southwest to El Paso, and oninto Mexico to Guaymas, Sonora, and byboat to Topolobampo Bay, then inlandby wagon. to Los Mochis. On arrivalJohn Hales soon learned that there werearguments between rival groups andthings were not going very well. Afterfive disappointing years of farmingthere, John and Margaret Hales returnedby train to the United States, arriving inCarpinteria in 1897.

John's first work in Carpinteria wasat the Alcatraz Asphalt Refinery at thebeach, in the area of the presentCarpinteria Beach State Park. Theasphalt was mined from surface bedsand used locally as well as beingshipped to many parts of California.

On May 9, 1902, a newspaperaccount reads: “The steamer Dispatchsailed from Carpinteria Wednesday with250 tons of refined asphalt from theAlcatraz mines. This shipment goes toSeattle." The Indians had used this areato get tar for their boats, and for otherdomestic uses. Most of the streets ofCarpinteria were originally paved withthe asphalt from the mine, and rock touse with it was crushed near theentrance to the Fithian Ranch .

About one month after they arrivedin Carpinteria, Orrin, who was just 13years old, got a job picking olives at theFithian Ranch. "I had to carry bucketwith water in it and drop the olives into

the water so that they would not getbruised. I was only able to earn 32 centsthat day, so gave it up to get another job. I remember that the olive oil Mr. Fithianmade was the best you could get, verylight and clear, made only from the firstpress of the olives.”

The Hales lived for a time inMontecito, and also in the Casitas Passwhere John Hales bought 193 acres ofland.

In 1898 the family bought acreage inLillingston Canyon, adding more land in1908 and 1911. This property is nowowned by Lloyd R. (Jake) Hales andNelson F. Smith.

As a young man Orrin and his closefriend Nat E. Heacock went intobusiness for themselves: “Hales andHeacock, Growers of FancyStrawberries,” leasing land fromthe Guiterrez and Bates Ranch in RinconCanyon. They sold their berries togroceries and markets in Santa Barbara,especially Diehl's Grocery. In 1905, theycontracted to sell their whole crop for 5½ cents per box.

There were many interesting socialactivities in the early 1900's here, butdifferent from our present clubs. Likeother families, the Hales had large familypicnics under the oak trees at thegrandparents' ranch home, when all thecousins, uncles and aunts from milesaround would gather for the day.

Orrin kept a diary from 1904 untilAugust of 1913, and there are somedelightful accounts of social events inCarpinteria. The Fraternal BrotherhoodLodge was very active. On Jan. 31, 1912,Orrin wrote, "After supper I attended aspecial meeting of the T.F.B. and weinitiated three new members. Thecontest for securing new members forthe lodge, in which the members weredivided into two sides known as‘Hustlers” and the ‘Rustlers,’ came to aclose tonight. The losing side has togive a chicken supper to all themembers. I happened to be on thewinning side.”

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Another evening at FraternalBrotherhood he described: "After themeeting we played games and danced. Mads “Christensen” and hisgramaphone there and Frank Houkplayed a number of pieces on hisaccordion.” Again on February 12, 1912he wrote: “I went to the T.F.B. ‘HardTime’ social at night. After lodge weplayed games and danced. Mosteveryone was fined for wearingsomething they shouldn’t in hard times. I hid my watch but they fined me 10cents for having a jack-knife. Jim Lewistook the gentleman’s first prize whichwas a rooster, and Blanch Nidever theladies’ first prize which was a setting ofeggs. Our lodge bought a piano sincelast meeting so we had some goodmusic.”

On July 22, 1912: “At night Albert(Christensen) and I went in the cart andNel, Grace and Wilma (Nelson andGrace Smith and sister-in-law) in buggyto T.F.B. social. Everybody wassupposed to dress as children and thosethat didn’t were fined 25 cents. Gracemade me a suit of rompers, pink, and Iwore her white stockings. Had the timeof our lives playing kid’s games anddancing. They served cake and ice-cream cones.”

There was also a card club whim metoccasionally. Orrin wrote about onemeeting: "I attended a card club meetingat night at Miss Freda Rystrom’s andwon 4 games out of 7. She servedBoston baked beans and brown breadwith coffee for refreshments, and I sureate hearty. I took Mrs. Bert Sprague(Laura Beckstead’s sister) home from thecard party as Bert had taken a crowd toSanta Barbara to the Knights of PythiasBall at the Arlington and couldn’t getback in time.

Some of the young men formed a clubof their own, naming it the CarpinteriaSocial Card Club. Their membership pinhad the letters CSCC on it with also askull and crossbones! The members ofthis gay society were Warren Tobey,

Benny Pyster, Bob Burnett, NormanPeterson, Nelson Smith , DonaldAndrews, Nat Heacock, ClarenceCadwell, and Orrin Hales.

Occasionally there were some morespontaneous gatherings. On Feb. 2,1912, "After supper I went to a Leap YearDance at Hickey Brothers new storegiven by Mrs. Doerr, Mrs. Warren Tobey,and Miss Laura Peterson. There wereover 30 couples out to dance.

July the Fourth was always such agreat holiday for 18 and 19 centuryth th

Americans, and as we look back upon it,perhaps we wish that the enthusiasm ofthose times might grow again forIndependence Day in our times. Thefollowing is Orrin's account of July4,1912, in Carpinteria.

"Fog in the morning and a clear fineday. Everyone got ready to go toFranklin’s Canyon. Nel and I and UncleOrrin (Neal) drove down to the wellabout 8 a.m. Started the engine andpumped a few minutes to show Unclehow she ran. Got started for thebarbecue and picnic in Franklin’sCanyon about 10 a.m. Mother, Dad,Uncle Orrin, Aunt Lydia (Neal), Lloyd,Dorothy, Gracie, and Nel went in thespring wagon and I drove Bob in thecart. The barbecue was under themanagement of the Knights of PythiasLodge of Carpinteria, and was for thebenefit of the new hall being built by theK. P. Lodge.

"They had a dancing floor about 20' by40', ice cream, candy, cigars, lemonade,and all the refreshments a person couldwish. Dick Morris had a bunch of dollsfor the boys, or anybody, to throw atwith baseballs, 3 balls for 5 cents. Barbecued meat was ready about 12o’clock. They charged 25 cents for meat,coffee, and French bread for each person. Aunt Laura (Mrs. Simeon Shepard), Raeand Harold, Wilma, and Tate, Jr., and Mr.Gordon and family ate lunch with ourcrowd, so there were quite a few of us. Mr. Gordon is the manager of the SantaBarbara Lumber Company and is

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camping at Stanley Park. In theafternoon I danced about 5 dances,smoked cigars, and watched a few footraces. Dancing cost 5 cents per dance. Iestimate there were about 400 people atthe barbecue.

“I came home about 5 p.m. and thefolks got home shortly after I did. AuntLydia and Uncle Orrin went with AuntLaura in the machine. After supperAlbert Christensen and I went in thecart, and Grace and Nel went in thebuggy and we went back to Franklin’sCanyon to a dance which lasted untilabout 11:15. Local music played atnight: Ogan, Sprague, and Ferrier,Richardson, and Buddy Wood. I danced15 dances which just made $1 worth forthe day. Got home about midnight andwas sure some tired.

Enjoying many of the FraternalBrotherhood social activities, too, wasMiss Alice Gould, whose family lived atFoothill and Toro Canyon Roads inSerena. Orrin and Alice met at the lodgemeetings in early 1913 and on Mar. 17,1914, St. Patrick's Day, were married atthe home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.George H. Gould, by Rev. Jerome F.Tubbs, with only immediate familypresent. Mother recalls, "We thoughtthat none of our fiends know anythingabout our plans, because we didn't tellanyone but Rev. Tubbs. But before hecame out to marry us he telephoned Mrs.Lizzie McCampbell, telling her he wouldhave some news when he got back. Shefound out where he was going and theyguessed. Well, Dr. H. C. Henderson laterdrove us to Santa Barbara in hisautomobile and we took the afternoontrain to Los Angeles. When the trainstopped in Carpinteria, Mrs. McCambelland her daughter Minnie (Mrs. FrankBauhaus) and some of our other friendswere gathered at the station. Theycame in our car and showered us withrice, creating a little confusion for theother passengers, too! Orrin and Islipped into the next car, and theconductor wouldn’t let them follow us.

But it was a few days until we shook allthe rice out of our things.”

Alice was born in Santa Barbara onDecember 22, 1892, and so has manymemories of early times in our neighborcity, including the last horse-drawnstreetcars and State Street as anunpaved way, dusty in summer andmuddy in winter. Alice's mother ,Mrs .Sarah Lynch Gould was born inCounty Sligo, Ireland, and came toCambridge, Massachusetts, as a verysmall child, after her parents had died.Dr. and Mrs. Bernard Clark, an uncle andaunt, reared her at their home, now apart of the campus of Harvard University.In the autumn 1887 , when she was 17,Sarah came alone by train to visit herelder sister Mary, Mrs. Herman Rother, inSanta Barbara, at the Rother's ranchwhich at that time occupied much of thearea of the present Montecito CountryClub.

Orrin and Alice Hales have lived apleasant country life during the years,good and difficult, of raising beans,walnuts and lemons on their ranch onCasitas Pass Road.

Their son Nathan Edward Hales andhis family live in Menlo Park, California,and Nat is assistant to the Comptroller ofthe California Packing Corporation of SanFrancisco, having taken a master'sdegree in business administration atStanford University. Their daughterSadie Grace (Mrs. George E. Johnson) agraduate of Scripps College, and herfamily live in Carpinteria. There are 4grandchildren.

Orrin recently celebrated his 76thbirthday, and was pleasantly surprisedto receive one of the Lions' Club seniorcitizen awards. He hopes to watch thedevelopment of Carpinteria for at leastanother 20 years .

OBITUARIES

Hial Brown Hales, 66, 314 W. 400 South,Provo, Utah, died Monday morning, Mayl8, 1970, at the Utah Valley Hospital.

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Born May l8, 1904 in Mammoth, Utahhe was the son of Hial B. and Mary E.Brown Hales. On April 22, 1947 hemarried Celesta Campbell Alexander inPrice, Utah.

Mr. Hales received his education inthe Spanish Fork and Pleasant Groveschools. He lived in Orem until after hismarriage when he moved to Provo. In1954, he and his wife moved toSantaquin until 1964 when they returnedto Provo where they have sinceresided. He farmed in Orem and for thepast 25 years was employed at GenevaSteel Company as a boiler operator,having recently retired. He was amember of the CIO-AF of L.

An active member of the LDS Church,he served a mission in San Jose,California, and was a High Priest at thetime of his death. He had served as award clerk and as secretary to the HighPriests quorum in addition to his activityin other Church organizations.

Survivors include his wife of Provo;two sons: Roger Hales, Salt Lake City,Chad B. Hales, Provo; a daughter, Mrs.Kathleen H. Smith, Salt Lake;step-daughter, Mrs. Merriner (Winifred)Jones, DuBlas, Old Mexico; threestep-sons, Ben C. Alexander, Archie D.Alexander, both of Santaquin; Earl JayAlexander, Ogden; 20 grandchildren;two brothers, Leo P. Hales, Provo; DonG. Hales, Orem; and three sisters, Mrs.LeGrand (Iona) Jarman, Orem; Mrs. Leon(Thora) Meecham, LaPoint, UintahCounty; and Mrs. Ida H. Donaldson, SaltLake City.

Burial was in the Spanish Fork CityCemetery.

NOTE: I have received references thatother HALES family have passed awaysince our last Newsletter. If someonewill please send me a newspaperclipping I will include them in the nextissue.

MEMBERSHIP RECORDS

This list contains the names of all themembers of the HALES GenealogicalSociety that have paid their membershipdues or a contribution has been receivedfor them.

SUSTAINING MEMBERSArthur William Hales, 231 East Creek Dr.,

Menlo Park CA 94025

Barbara Hales Blim, 5361 El Parque, Long

Beach, CA. 90815

Barbara Hales Hatch, 5929 Harvey Way,

Lakewood, CA. 90713

Bernell Woodruff Hales, 551 Panorama Dr.,

San Francisco CA

94131

Bernell W. Hales Jr., 2154 Bryan Ave., Salt

Lake City UT 84108

Bill Hales, 3829 Division, Los Angeles CA

90065

Carol Hales Allen, 2524 7th Ave., Yuma AZ

85364

Charles W. Hales, 14459 Emerald Rd.,

Victorvil1e, Ca 92392

Clinton D. Hales., 19514 Mildred Ave.,

Torrance CA 90503

Daisy Hales Kudlacek, Box 329, Sutton AK

99674

Dell Reese Hales, 311 Milford St., East

Lansing MI 48823

Dean Wilson Hales, 1460 36th St., Ogden UT

84403

Felix Stanton Hales, 3571 Lytle Rd., Shaker

Heights OH 44122

Forrest John Hales, 1490 N. Ivy St., Coquille

OR 97423

George Jefferson Hales, 21121 Aberdeen,

Rocky River OH 44116

Gertrude "Gerre" Hales Shuttleworth, 2809

W. Thirteen Mile

Rd., Royal Oak MI 48073

Glen Herbert Hales, 3505 Marlborough Ave.,

Las Vegas NE

89110

Jim B. Hales, 2105 Carpenter Freeway W.,

Irving TX 75060

Kenneth Glyn Hales, 1800 Ryan Road,

Concord CA 94520

Nida Hales Donaldson, 1324 Roosevelt Ave.,

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Salt Lake

City UT 84105

Patricia Hales Griffith, 1726 Santa Monica

Rd.,

Carpinteria CA 93013

Paul Franklin Hales. 2221 Soledad Rancho

Rd., San

Diego CA 92109

Pete L. R. Hales Jr., 3460 Hadley Way, Santa

Maria CA 93454

Raleigh Stanton Hales, 1106 Arden Rd.,

Pasadena CA 91106

Reid Mendenhall Hales, RFD 1 Box 179,

Springville UT 84663

Richard T. Hales 585 Cottonwood, Vacaville

CA 95688

Ronald Burns Hales, 1540 E. Maplegrove St.,

West

Covina CA 91792

Thora Hales Mecham, La Point UT 84039

CONTRIBUTING MEMBERSB. W. Hales Jr., 415 Essex, Kenilworth IL

60043

Charles D. Hales, 2508 15th Ave. S.,

Minneapolis MN 55404

Harold Eugene Hales, 77 Winding Way, Napa

CA 94558

Robert L. Hales, 1119 Green Valley, Houston

TX 77055

Henryetta E. B1ackburn, 1941 Lariet Lane,

Del City OK 73115

Addie Lee DuBose Ho11and, Rt. 1 Box 229,

Diboll TX 75941

ACTIVE MEMBERSBarksdale Hales, 418 Spencer St., Glendale

CA 91202

Cllfford Charles Hales, R.R. #1 Talbot Road.,

Windsor

Ontario Canada

David Dewayne Hales, 2108 Connie Dr. S.,

Del City OK 73115

Donald Lloyd Hales, 40-622 E. Oakland Ave.,

Hemit CA 92343

E. Leon Hales, 3960 Lares Way, Salt Lake

City UT 84117

George Clinton Ruth Hales, 5111 Delaware

Ave., Los

Angeles CA 90041

Hal James Hales, 1154 NE Klickitat,

Portland OR 97230

John B. Hales, 1641 E. Willetta, Phoenix AZ

85006

John Charles Hales, 82 Howard St., N

Tarrytown NY 10591

Marguerite Hales, 311 E. 100 North,

Springville UT 84663

Melvin Donald Hales, 1305 N. Hacienda Blvd.,

La

Puente CA 91744

Samuel Dale Hales, 5622 Tahoe Lane,

Shawnee

Mission KS 66205

Shilo Hales Townsend, Route #1 Box 131.,

Altoona IA 50009

Thomas A. Hales, Rt. 2 Box 69F, Weslaco TX

78596

Vera Hales Quilter , 651 Crystal Ave., Salt

Lake City UT 84115

Verda Hales Shepard, 4609 Parker Ave.,

Sacramento CA 95820

Vilas Robert Hales, Lorane Rt. Box 182,

Cottage Grove OR

97424

Virgil Covington Hales, 5984 N. Libby Rd.,

Paradise CA 95969

William L. Hales, 5812 Winthrop Dr., Raleigh

NC 27609

Mrs. Clement J. Falvey, 183 NW 66th Court,

Ft.

Lauderdale FL 33309

The Genealogical Society of Utah, 107 S. Main

Street,

Salt Lake City UT 84111

The Woodward-Woodard Genealogical Society,

1354

Murphy's Lane, Salt Lake City UT

NOTE: There are several people thathave sent me almost enough to a overtheir membership dues. I have a recordof all money received and from whom.Please deduct that amount from yourmembership dues. All money receivedfor membership dugs from this time onwill be acknowledged in a "NewMembers" column in future Newsletters.

RETURNED MAIL LISTThe following list contains the namesand addresses of mail that I sent that

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was returned as undeliverable for onereason or another. This was the firstHALES Newsletter. These names havebeen deleted from the Hales Directoryuntil I can attach a corrected address tothem. Would you look over this list and ifyou can correct any of the addressesplease let me know .

Aubrey L. Hales, 2304 Taft Paril, New

Orleans LA 70150

Bruce Hales, 300 Forrest Road, Ft Oglethorp

GA 30741

Diane Hales, 10943 Whipple, N Hollywood CA

90028

Donald R. Hales, 1515 Trusdale Dr., Belmont

CA 94002

Edward Hales, 1160 Alfini, Des Plaines IL

60016

Emma Jean Hales, 229 So. 7th St., Richmond

CA 94804

Eugene Hales, 3165 W. Davison Lake Rd.,

Oxford MI 48051

Frances Hales, 3236 SE Harvey, Portland OR

97208

Henry F. Hales, 4020 Rosecrans, Hawthorne

CA 90250

Jeremy M. Hales, 575 N. Hagadorn, South

Lyon MI 48178

John E. Hales, 12616 10th St., Seattle WA

98111

Leonard H. Hales, Clay NY 13041

M. B. Hales, 5920 N. Clark, Chicago IL 60680

Maurice Hales, Point Nipigon, MI

Mrs. Rozelle Hales, 277 Connally SE, Atlanta

GA 30301

Nat Edward Hales, Jr., 105 Highland Oaks

Dr ., Los

Gatos CA 95030

Paul N. Hales, 3835 SE Ankeny, Portland OR

97204

Raymond L. Hales, 4445 Conn Ave. NW,

Washington DC 20013

Richard Hales, 3101 Hillburn Rd.,

Bakersfield CA 93302

Richard A. Hales, 620 Vine, Murray UT

84107

Sarah C. Hales, 3806 Ogden Ave., Ogden UT

84402

CURRENT PROJECTS

I have purchased with my own funds thefollowing equipment to assist me inpreparing the Newsletter:

1. An IBM Selectric typewriter with fourdifferent type elements to givevariety to our newsletter. All of theelements have been used in thisnewsletter.

2. An A.B. Dick mimeograph machinecapable of reproducing half-tones andsimple colors. This Newsletter wasproduced with this equipment.

I have ordered a half-tone screen touse with my photography equipmentgiving me the capability tomimeograph pictures in futurenewsletters.

This equipment will remain my personalproperty but will be used for thenewsletter at no charge to the HALESGenealogical Society.

3. I average approximately 3 hours perweek retyping family sheets for ourHALES Book.

4. My biggest concern and our biggestexpenditure at the present timeappears to be returned mail. Any helpyou can give me on updating ourHales Directory would be greatlyappreciated. Please look over the"RETURNED MAIL LIST" sent to youin the last Newsletter along with theadditions to it in this Newsletter andg1ve me what help you can on it. Areturned Newsletter averages 28cents for the return and re-mailing atfirst class rates in the hope that it willreach the addressee.

5. I am still in the process of extractingall Hales data from parish registers. This work suffers during the timewhen I am preparing the Newsletterbut at other times I average 6 hoursper week in this effort. I will publishthese extracts in this Newsletter inthe future.

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FINANCIAL STATEMENT

Balance Forward $68.00

ReceiptsReceived in the mail 248.00My Contributions 27.63

ExpendituresPurchased Bulk Mailing Permit 15.00Yearly mail fees for permit users 30.00Paper and supplies 27.14Newsletter Mailing 23.26British Museum photocopies 29.00Stamps 18.00Research fees 25.00Checking account charges 1.05

New Balance $175.18

FAMILY GROUP SHEETS

The last sheet in this Newsletter is aFamily Group Sheet. If you have notalready done so, please complete one ofthese for your family. Also use thissheet as a master copy and provide mewith a second sheet for your parent’sfamily. If you have more information onyour extended family, please make asheet for them as well. Send me thesesheets as you get them completed.

Fill in as much information as youcan. It is important to fill in the locationof where the birth, marriage, or deathtakes place. This makes it possible tocontinue the research on these families. Please do not use numbers for months.

QUESTIONNAIRE

Can you help me with our Directory? Please provide me with your sibling’saddresses:

Your brother’s addresses

Your sister’s addresses

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2. To what extent does the study offamily history interest you?

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3. To what extent are you interested informing a Hales FamilyOrganization?

Very much Some So-so None

4. Would you like to take a more activepart in this organization during itsformative stages?

Absolutely If Necessary No

5. Comments.