Jemima Ann Adair Hales

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ID: I137 Name: Jemima Ann ADAIR Sex: F Birth: 27 MAR 1863 in Washington, Washington, Utah Death: 2 JAN 1919 in Junction, Piute, Utah Burial: JAN 1919 Junction Field Cemetery, Junction, Piute, Utah _IFLAGS: 0 Ancestral File #: 2QJK-6L IDNO: 21 _PRIMARY: Y PEDI: adopted Note: RESEARCH_NOTES: 1.US Censuses: 1870: Washington, Washington, Utah, enum. 6 Jul 1870, Roll 1613 Book 1, p. 415a, household 96, family 92 (neighbors include relatives: John Wesley Adair, John Milton Adair, Valentine Carson, John Milton Adair, William Mangum, and Samuel J. Adair): Samuel Adair, farmer, $300 real estate, $150 personal property, SC. Anne, 54, keeping house, Denmark. Anne, 4 or 9?, at home, Utah, mother noted of foreign birth. [I believe this Jemima Ann Adair and perhaps census taker just assumed Samuel's wife was mother.] 1870 US Census for Beaver City, Beaver, Utah [census for Jemima's birth father]: George W. Adair, 31, M, W, Farmer Emily, 22, F, W, Keeps House George W., 9, M, W Emily J., 4, F, W Daniel T., 2, M, W Samuel P., 4 1/2 [months], M, W. [Note lack of Jemima Ann Adair who would have been age 7 in this census.] 1880 US Census for Parowan, Iron, Utah, FHL Film 1255336, (National Archives Film T9-1336), p. 354C (Interesting to note that they lived in Parowan at the same time as Jane Hanks, Valentine Carson, and Martha Frederick Shoemaker): H. Charles Hales, Cabinet Maker, age 31, b. IA, Father b. Eng. and Mother b. NY. A. Jemima Hales, age 17, b. UT, mother born MO. A. George Hales, son, age 9M, b. UT One Apprentice age 19 residing with family [E.Francis Brown]. 1900 US Census for Junction, Piute, Utah, ED 114, p. 229, June 2 and 4, 1900: Charles H. Hales, head, b. Sept. 1848, age 57, m. 22 years, b. IA, fa. b. Eng., mo. b. NY, farmer. Gemima A., wife, Mar 1863, 37, m. 22 years, 8 total children, 6 living, b. UT, mo. b. MO. William H., son, July 1883, 16, s., b. UT, fa. b. IO, mo. b. UT. Orval W., son, Apr 1889, 11, s., b. UT, fa. b. IO, mo. b. UT. Asel L., son, Apr 1889, 11, s., b. UT, fa. b. IO, mo. b. UT. Jennie A., dau., Oct 1891, s., b. UT, fa. b. IO, mo. b. UT. Erwin G., son, Jul 1898, s., b. UT, fa. b. IO, mo. b. UT. Julia A., mother, Aug 1824, 75, widow, 12 total children, 9 living, b. NY, fa. b. Rhode Is., mo. b. MA.

2. Jemima's grandson, William Loren Hales, marries Lucille Carson, the granddaughter of Jemima's adoptive parents Valentine Carson and Hannah Waggle.

BIOGRAPHY: 1. Tom Kermen's email of 19 Jan 2003, Kermen@att.net, included the following letter from Wanda Hales, elderly aunt of his wife Karen Viola Hales. Wanda indicates the following information was given by Mary Ann Jensen (wife of Orval Woodruff Hales) as told to her by Jemima Ann: "Jemima Ann Adair was born March 27, 1863 at a small town called 'The Muddy' just over the Arizona line. Mother was Ann Chestnut Adair. Father was George Washington Adair. Another family by the name of Carson was at this same place at the same time. Jemima Ann's mother died at the time of her birth and the Carson family had just lost their new born baby. George Adair gave Jemima Ann to the Carson family to raise as their own. The Carson family then moved to Parowan. She always thought they were her parents until she married when she was told her real name. She married Charles Henry Hales the 29th of March 1878 just two days past her 15th birthday. They settled in Kanarra where her first boy was born. She was married in polygamy as the third wife. Two more sons were born to her at Kanarra. In 1885 they homesteaded a farm in Junction where she spent the rest of her life. A daughter, May, died in 1895 at age 6 from a typhoid epidemic. Her husband also contracted typhoid which caused complications and left him a semi-invalid. They bought a town lot and built a large hotel in 1902-1903 with the help of her boys. She had eight children including a set of twins. Charles Henry Hales was a carpenter by trade. He built a large recreation hall for the community before he built the hotel. He also made all the caskets for the burials at that time. Charles Henry Hales died in 1908 [error: should be 1907]. Jemima Ann worked hard all her life, first on the farm and later running the hotel. She died Jan. 2, 1919." [Kerry's commentary: It appears Jemima may have been with grandfather in 1870 as noted in the 1870 census as cited above; however, Valentine Carson is also still there and and has not yet moved to Parowan where he appears in 1880 census. I have no documentary proof yet that the Carson family adopted Jemima Ann but I have no reason not to believe so. What is clear is that she was not with her father George and she does end up in Parowan when she marries even though George was never there. Valentine Carson is a cousin of George Adair -- see his notes for more detail in this regard. Valentine is the only Carson that is in all the right places at the right times. Additionally his daughter Hannah Marie or Mariah was stillborn either 14 May 1863 or 1 Nov 1863 in Washington, Utah according to Ancestral File -- Jemima was born 27 Mar 1863 and her mother Ann Chestnut died at the same time. Perhaps the George's grief of losing his wife motivated him to give up for adoption the daughter born of that death. Jemima's older brother, George W. Adair, remained with his father.]

2. Per 25 Feb 2003 email from Harold Cahoon, local Washington, Utah, historian . From a two page biography of Mary Ellen Carson Tait printed as "Custom Made History Sheet" prepared by Bill and Elaine Rogers, 215 West 21st Street, Long Beach, CA 90906, 213-596-8213, which includes photos of Valentine, his wife Hannah, and children Mary Ellen, Eliza Jane (Ida), Rachel Emma, Alta Armedia, William Franklin, and Elizabeth Jane (noting John Thomas and Sintha Cathia are not pictured). The photo was taken probably in 1878 judging from the ages of the children. Jemima is not in the photo; considering she was married by March 1878, it is likely that she was not in the photo. Copies of this can be found in the Washington City Historical Society library and Dixie State College in southern Utah. [There are no references to Jemima Ann Adair.] Partial text follows with some [comments by me]; see Valentine Carson for full citation. Even though this is about Mary Ellen, Jemima was just a couple of years difference and their experiences may have been similar: "Mary Ellen Carson Tait, eldest child living of Valentine Carson and Hannah Wygle [Waggle] Carson, was born in Washington, Washington County, Utah, Jan. 29, 1865, in a little white adobe two-roomed house which was built by her father. He was a mason who made adobes and built many of the houses in Washington. He also helped to build the white adobe school house that stood on the public square... Her father's mother, Eliza Jane [Adair] Price was the mid-wife in Washington at that time and for many years. Mary Ellen started school in the little old schoolhouse when six or seven years old. Her first teacher was Joseph Crawford (his wife's name was Lilly), her equipment for an education was the little blue-backed speller and a slate and pencil. She remembers being at the head of her class in spelling. She was very studious and wanted to go to school. When seven years old, Mary Ellen began working in the fields with her father. He raised lucerne and molassses cane, broom corn, cotton, melons and grapes in the Washington field and at the Grape Vine Pass farm. Mary Ellen helped to cut the cane. Her father stripped it before it was cut. As he was a tall man, 6 ft., 10 in., it must have grown very tall. They hauled the cane to the big vats where it was ground, boiled and skimmed and made into molasses. It was then put into large, wooden barrels, which they had made. Each farmer made his own molasses. Mary Ellen picked cotton and grapes and helped with the hay. She remembers many happy days spent in Washington. Valentine Carson worked on the temple when it was being built in St. George, doing mason work. When the baptismal font, with the twelve iron or bronze oxen was brought to St. George, it was houled by teams and wagons and relayed from one town to the next, each town furnishing its share of horses for the long trek. Mary Ellen remembered the exciting event, as all the school children were out to see this interesting train pass through Washington. She remembers attending Conference in the old tebernacle in St. George and hearing Elisa R. Snow talk in tongues, with Zina D. H. Young as interpreter. She remembers some of President Young's visits to St. George and hearing him speak many times, always giving timely instructions to the people. He taught the Saints there to be humble and trust in the Lord, keeping His Commandments. He told them to be industrious and to take care of everyting they had. She remembered him as saying that 'willful waste brings woeful want.' In May, 1874, when Mary Ellen was in her ninth year, her parents moved to a Birch Farm 1 1/2 miles west of Kanarah. Here they lived in a long, log house with five rooms in a row. There was a well in the yard with a large wooden bucket attached to a rope, with a windlass to turn the bucket up and down. This supplied the family and animals with water. There was a nice cool cellar dug into a gravel hill which stood in front of the house They milked five or six cows, had chickens, raised good crops of hay, grain, corn and potatoes. In his garden her father raised beans, cabbage, turnips, and onions, etc. He hauled produce to the Silver Reef mine, which was northwest of Leeds in Washington County. Valentine Carson was extremely industrious, and always made good use of his time. When he wasn't working, he was reading the scriptures and other good books. Mary Ellen followed her father's good example and always found useful work to do. When her father was hauling his winter's wood to town in Kanarah, he contracted rheumatism in his right shoulder from being exposed to the cold in an early snow storm, and wasn't able to work for months. His shoulder gathered and broke, so he could do no more hard farm work. In the spring of 1878, Valentine Carson moved his family to Parowan to take a job of running the sheep for the Parowan Co-op [this would have been when Jemima married]..."

BIRTH: 1. Per tombstone. 2. See Biography above. I emailed Harold Cahoon , historian of Washington, Utah to find out where "The Muddy" was. His response: "The Muddy of wihci I am not an expert is south of Washington in the towns of St. Thomas, St. Joseph (now Logandale), and even as far south as Moapa. The Muddy referred to an area and not an exact location as in those that came to Washington, etc."

BURIAL: Per Hales tombstone in Junction Old Cemetery [which is across the street from the New Hilltop Cemetery] apparently placed very recently [older white tombstone still exists] which reads: Grandfather Charles Henry, Sept. 17, 1848 - Apr. 7, 1907.

Grandmother Jemima Ann Adair, Mar. 27, 1863 - Jan 2, 1919. Children: Ida May, Apr. 18, 1886 - June 30, 1895. George Ammon, Aug. 24, 1879 - Oct. 31, 1897. I also have on file a handwritten map of this cemetery where someone identified 42 names and their locations. On this list are the four individuals above and they are buried in the northeast corner. None of the other 38 names appear connected to my family history. The compiler of the information does state that the names of many others are long forgotten.

OBITUARY: "Piute Chieftain", Thurs., Jan. 9, 1919: Mrs. J.A. Hales died at Junction, Jan 2, 1919 of influenza. Born at Washington, Washington Co., Utah. Lived in Junction 37 years. Survived by the following children: one daughter Mrs. C.V. Moorehouse, 5 sons Charles, William, Orval, Ancel L., Glen.

!ORDINANCES: Verified 16 Mar 2002. Per family group sheet archive record submitted by Ruth Rugg Hales, 115 East 6281 South, Murray, Utah. Sheet has stamp added stating: Endowment reconfirmed for the above hus., wife, Chd.1,2, on 31 Mar 1964 and 30 Mar 1964 in the Salt Lake Temple. BAPTISM: Ordinance Index 1.02 ENDOWMENT: Ordinance Index 1.02, St. George Temple, FHL Film 170577, Ord. 1407. SEALING TO PARENTS: Ordinance Index 1.02, FHL Film 170716. p. 33, ord. 1375. SEALING TO SPOUSE: Ordinance Index 1.02, FHL Film 170579, 593.

SOURCES_MISC: 1. Per www.hales.org 21 Dec 2002. 2. LDS Church Membership Records, Junction Ward; Copy in possession of Chris Petersen; GS026044. Change Date: 4 MAY 2003 at 14:33:30

Father: George Washington ADAIR b: 27 JUN 1837 in , Pickens, Alabama Mother: Ann Catherine CHESTNUT b: 11 APR 1844 in , , Missouri

Father: Valentine CARSON b: 8 NOV 1831 in , Pickens, Alabama Mother: Hannah WAGGLE b: 10 DEC 1842 in Jonesboro, Union, Illinois

Marriage 1 Charles Henry HALES b: 17 SEP 1848 in Garden Grove, Decatur, Iowa Married: 29 MAR 1878 in St. George, Washington, Utah Children George Ammon HALES b: 24 AUG 1879 in Kanarra, Iron, Utah Charles Henry HALES b: 30 MAR 1881 in Parowan, Iron, Utah William Heber HALES b: 25 JUL 1883 in Parowan, Iron, Utah Ida May HALES b: 18 APR 1886 in Junction, Piute, Utah Acel Lenard HALES b: 19 APR 1889 in Junction, Piute, Utah Orval Woodruff HALES b: 19 APR 1889 in Junction, Piute, Utah Jennie Elmira HALES b: 26 OCT 1891 in Junction, Piute, Utah Erwin Glen HALES b: 5 JUL 1897 in Junction, Piute, Utah

• Death Certificate for Hannah Waggle Carson

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