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Levi Hale was born about the year 1800 in New York UN10, UN12,
UN13 (he was enumerated as Levi “Hail” in the 1850 census), or about 1809 in
New York UN11. In 1880, Levi stated that his parents
were born in Vermont UN13. Levi probably married Polly
sometime before 1830. He was the father of George W. Hale, according to
George’s death record MI5. Levi and his family relocated
to Lorain County, Ohio after October 1849, because his son, Albert, was born in
New York in October 1849. He was listed as a farmer in all censuses which
reported occupation, and in 1870, he was still the head of his household, with
four of his sons assisting him on the farm or working as a laborer. Levi,
Polly, and their son, Adolphus, resided with thirty-year-old Elbert (Albert) Hale
in 1880, who was the head of the household.
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1830
US Census: lived in Putnam, Washington County, New York; both he and his wife
were between twenty and twenty-nine years old.
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1840
US Census: lived in Henderson, Jefferson County, New York with one girl under
the age of five, two girls between five and nine, one boy between ten and
fourteen, and one woman between twenty and twenty-nine; Levi was between forty
and forty-nine.
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1850
US Census: lived in Henrietta, Lorain County, Ohio.
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1860
US Census: lived in Henrietta, Lorain County, Ohio.
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1870
US Census: lived in Bangor, Van Buren County, Michigan.
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1880
US Census: lived in Bangor, Van Buren County, Michigan.
Polly
Coats (Stephen, Polly) was born on June 26, 1809 in
Benson, Rutland County, Vermont to Stephen and Polly Coats VE7, VE12.
Polly consistently reported to the census enumerators that she was born in
Vermont, and she was forty years old in 1850 UN10, fifty years in 1860 UN11,
sixty-two in 1870 UN12, and
sixty-nine in 1880 UN13, so
she was born about 1808, 1810, or 1811. The enumerator of the 1880 census
recorded that she was born in New York, but her parents were born in Vermont UN13. Polly Hale lived in the same town (Henrietta, Lorain County,
Ohio) as Stephen and Caroline Coats (her brother and sister-in-law) in the
census years of 1850 and 1860 UN10, UN11.
Polly “Hail” or “Hales” was the mother of Richard,
Sarah, Pollena, Lucinda, Stephen, George W., Adolphus, Albert, and John Wilbur
Hale. Richard Hale was born in 1831 MI4, UN10, NE30, UN12 or 1833 UN13 in Jefferson County NE30, New York MI4, UN10,
UN12, NE30. He was
called a seaman and a sailor UN11, UN13, NE30. He lived with the family of Stephen and Polly
Nutting in Henderson, Jefferson County, New York in 1850 UN10, whose daughter, Melissa, he later married. Richard
and Melissa Hale lived in Henderson, Jefferson County with Windfield, William,
and Louisa Hale, ages four, three, and one, respectively, in 1860 UN11. Five years later, Richard and Malicie were
enumerated in Henderson, Jefferson County with Stephen Nutting, Richard’s
father-in-law, and George Hale, their four-year-old son NE30. The three children who were present in Richard and
Melissa’s household in 1860 were not listed on the 1865 New York State Census.
Richard, Melissa, and George Hale had relocated to Deerfield Township, Van
Buren County, Michigan by 1870 UN12, and they lived in Covert Township, Van Buren
County in 1880 UN13. Richard Hale, the son of Levi and Polly Hale, died
at age sixty on June 23, 1891 in Covert Township, Van Buren County, Michigan
from heart disease VA10. This death record conflicts with a newspaper
article regarding his death, which stated LO5:
On Tuesday evening of last week Richard Hale, of
Covert township, was killed at the Toquin crossing of the T. &
S. H. R. R. by being thrown from his carriage. He had started for a
physician for one of his neighbors; his horse took fright and ran away, and at
crossing the carriage was overturned, he thrown out and his neck broken.
Deceased was about sixty years of age, a veteran of the late war and highly
esteemed. He was the father of Geo. Hale…
His gravestone, located at Covert Cemetery in Covert
Township, stated that he died on June 23, 1891 at age sixty years, nine months,
and twenty days, which if correct, indicates that he was born on December 3,
1830. A photograph of his gravestone can be found on the Find a Grave website. Melissa Hale’s Van Buren County, Michigan
death certificate stated that she was the daughter of Stephen and Polly Nutting,
and she died on April 5, 1915 MI21.
Sarah Hale was born in New York in about 1832 UN10. A marriage application dated April 25, 1854 in
Lorain County, Ohio recorded the intent of Horace
Murray to marry Sarah Hale OH3. Sarah
probably died before 1860, because Horace “Murry”, but not Sarah, was enumerated
in the household of Levi and Polly “Hales” in Henrietta,
Lorain County in that census year UN11. Pollena Hale was born about 1834, Lucinda Hale was born about 1838, and Stephen
Hale was born about 1843, all in New York UN10. They were not
enumerated with their parents in 1860. A license for a marriage application
dated December 21, 1854 in Lorain County, Ohio recorded that John S. Rice
intended to marry Lucy Ann Hale OH3, but it is
unclear if this Lucy Ann Hale was the daughter of Levi and Polly. This John
Rice may have been the John Rice who was enumerated with John Brown, who were
both shoemakers, in Wellington, Lorain County, Ohio in 1860 UN11. A shared gravestone or
memorial marker for Sarah E. Murray and Lucinda C. Hale, located in Thomas
Cemetery, Bangor Township, Van Buren County, Michigan, appears to state that
Sarah died on July 13, 1856 and Lucinda C. Hale died on August 1, 1863 at the
age of twenty-four years, nine months, and twenty days; a photo of this
gravestone can be found on the Find a
Grave website. Stephen Hale may have been the Stephen V. Hale whose
gravestone in Thomas Cemetery, Bangor Township, Van
Buren County, Michigan indicates that he was killed on May 18, 1864 at the
age of twenty-one years and eleven months; a photo of this gravestone can be
located on the Find a Grave website. George W. Hale was born on October 4, 1843 in Henderson,
Jefferson County, New York FE1, UN20, MI5.
Adolphus Hale was born in November 1845 UN14, or about 1845 UN10, UN11, UN16, 1846 UN12, or 1848 UN13, MI23 in Jefferson County MI23, New York UN10, UN11, UN12, UN13, UN14, UN16. He lived near Elbert and Levi Hale in Bangor
Township, Van Buren County, Michigan in 1880 UN13. Adolphus Hale, age thirty-two, married Clarisa L.
Stewart, age nineteen, on November 7, 1880 in Bangor, Van Buren County,
Michigan MI23. He (as Adolphus UN14 and Adolph UN15) was called a widower on the 1900 and 1910 US Census records, when he
was enumerated in Covert Township, Van Buren County, Michigan as the brother of
“Wilber” UN14 or “William” UN15 Hale who lived with Wilber/William and Eva Hale UN14, UN15. In 1920 as Alfred Hale, he lived alone in Covert
Township UN16. According to his Van Buren County,
Michigan death certificate, Adolph Hale was born on November 8, 1845 to Levi
Hale, and he died in Bangor Township on November 25, 1925 from a cerebral
hemorrhage; his deceased wife’s name was Clara Hale. His obituary stated that
he died at the residence of Steve Boynton in Bangor and was buried next to the
graves of his wife and child at the Thomas Cemetery TU7.
Albert L. Hale was born about 1848 UN15, 1849 UN10, or 1850 UN11, UN12,
UN13 in New York UN10, UN11, UN12, UN13. He was called Elbert Hale in 1880 when he lived in
Bangor Township, Van Buren County, Michigan with his father and mother, Levi and Polly Hale UN13. He may have been the Albert Hale who was a boarder in the household of
Mary Gallup in Burdell, Osceola County, Michigan in 1900; this Albert was born
in October 1849 in New York to parents who were also born in New York, and he
was unmarried UN14. In 1910, he was enumerated as a patient (“inmate”)
at the Van Buren County Infirmary in Hartford Township, Van Buren County UN15. His Van Buren County, Michigan death certificate
stated that he was born on October 23, 1847 in New York to Levi Hale and Polly
Coats and died on April 23, 1917. His gravestone at Covert Cemetery in Covert
Township stated that he was born on October 23, 1849 and died on April 23, 1917
(a photo of which can be viewed on the Find
a Grave website). His death was caused by a “Broken neck & Fracture of
Skull, accidental, Fall from roof onto cement walk”. A newspaper article stated
IN24:
Crawling through the window of his room at the
county infirmary three miles east of Hartford last Sunday night, Albert Hale,
aged 69, a former well known resident of Covert,
plunged to death on a cement sidewalk twenty feet below. His deady [sic] body was found by
Keeper William Stackengast at five o’clock Monday morning. It was lying
across the walk on the east side of the building, his head and body bruised by
his fatal plunge. He had apparently been dead several
hours. So far as known there was but one witness to
the tragedy, Perry Parker, another inmate of the institution, states that
during the night he heard Hale open his window and saw him crawl out on an
adjoining roof. Thoroughly frightened Parker crawled back to bed and did not
report the incident… Hale formerly resided at Covert but had been an inmate of
the infirmary for several years. He was a victim of epilepsy and it is believed he suffered an attack after
retiring to his room Sunday night. In the delirium following the attack he is
thought to have crawled through the window to an adjoining roof and plunged to
the ground below. Dorf Hale of Covert, a brother of the dead man, came to the
infirmary Monday and took the body to Covert for burial.
John Wilbur Hale was born in February 1853 UN14 or about 1853 UN11, UN12, UN13,
UN15 in Henrietta, Lorain County MI23 Ohio UN11, UN12, UN13. As Wilber
Hale, he was a boarder and a servant in the household of Charles and Mary
Burton in Covert Township, Van Buren County, Michigan in 1880 UN13. He married
Eva Rosetta Safford in Covert Township, Michigan on June 20, 1880 MI23. At the time
of their marriage, both parties lived in Paulville, which was the previous name
of Palisades Park located on Lake Michigan in Covert Township RO28. Wilber and
Eva Hale and their children, Jesse, Ellen J., Roy, Ida, and twins Esther and
Chester, lived in Covert Township with Wilber’s brother, Adolphus, in 1900 UN14. Three of
these children were removed from their custody on July 25, 1901 CO41:
…upon
complaint of County Agent Crago, Wilbur Hale and wife of Covert, were arrested
upon a charge of drunkenness and being persons of scandalous and notorious
characters, the object of the arrest being to get possession of their children…
Hale and wife did not wish to stand trial but consented to release the
children, the county taking three, Ella, aged 11, Ray [sic] aged 10 and Ida, aged 7. A pair of twins aged 3 was left with
the parents upon condition that the parents reform and that they provide a
suitable home for the children, which they have not done in the past. Mr. Crago
brought the children home with him and will place them in the school at
Coldwater.
In
1910, “William” and Eva Hale were enumerated in Covert Township with their
children, Esther, Chester, and Levi, and Wilbur’s brother, Adolph UN15. The Van Buren County, Michigan death
certificate for John Wilbur Hale stated that he was born on February 2, 1853 in
Ohio to Levi Hale and Polly Coats and died on August 18, 1924 in Bangor
Township from arteriosclerosis MI21.
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1850 US Census: lived in Henrietta, Lorain County, Ohio.
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1860 US Census: lived in Henrietta, Lorain County, Ohio.
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1870
US Census: lived in Bangor, Van Buren County, Michigan.
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1880
US Census: lived in Bangor, Van Buren County, Michigan.