To friends and family,
In this posting, we turn our attention to a couple for whom we have great admiration: Edward Dolan Hale and Eva, his wife, lost at 34 to him and his young family in 1890. Edward’s dedication to his children, taken together with his skills and hard work as a machinist, set a foundation for the Hale and allied families in Laconia and elsewhere over the next four generations. The grandchildren of Edward D. and Eva – those we know most about -- include Edward Hazen Hale, and his sisters Eva and Leoine, the children of Leon Paxton and Cora Levinia Hyde Hale; and Irene and Sadie, the children of Charles and Annie Marion Hale Smith. Perhaps we will hear about other grandchildren: the children of John and Eva Maude Hale Fuller and Harry and Nellie Hale Johnson. We will post new material as it comes in!
--Don, April 16, 2012
Sun City, California
EDWARD DOLAN HALE
(1849-1922)
Edward did not remarry, but with the help of his daughter, Annie Marion Hale, then 13, raised the surviving children. Writes her granddaughter Elaine, “Her fondest memories were of her father and so [she] always spoke of him as the most wonderful man she ever knew and how patient he was with all of them but especially with her as she learned to cook and care for the family” (Elaine Wilson Spencer, August 21, 1986).
Edward worked from before 1884 to after 1900 at the Laconia Car Company, a machinist in the brass foundry where parts for railway cars were poured and finished. At the end of his life, he was working at the Oliver Machine Company. His estate included a bob house for ice fishing, a hen house, and hens appraised at $80. Also in the reckoning, $297.16 in a savings account. The boat he owned in 1919 (shown elsewhere on this site) had burned in a boathouse fire. The campsite east of Loon Island at the north end of Lake Winnisquam, often mentioned in family tradition and by Roy Buzzell (personal communication, 1983), was not included in the inventory and likely had been sold after the fire.
Edward Dolan Hale (23 Apr 1849 to 19 May 1922) and Eva C. Moulton Hale (12 Apr 1856 to 24 Jun 1890) are buried in the family plot at Union Cemetery, Academy Street, Laconia, New Hampshire.
(1849-1922)
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Annie Marion Hale Smith and her
father Edward Dolan Hale. Photo enlarged
from the vintage cyanotype photograph shown here.
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| Edward Dolan Hale’s shaving mug, with his name in gold, came to Edward Leon Morin from his grandmother, Esther Smith Hale. Edward, a great-great-grandson of Edward Dolan Hale, provided these photos for this posting |
EDWARD DOLAN HALE, gunsmith, machinist, and brass-foundry worker, raised seven children after the death of his wife, EVILENA (EVA) CATHERINE MOULTON HALE (1856-1890). They lost their ninth child, a son, stillborn, on June 6, 1890, after Eva fell in the dark while gathering laundry in the yard. She did not recover and died 18 days later on June 24, 1890.
Edward did not remarry, but with the help of his daughter, Annie Marion Hale, then 13, raised the surviving children. Writes her granddaughter Elaine, “Her fondest memories were of her father and so [she] always spoke of him as the most wonderful man she ever knew and how patient he was with all of them but especially with her as she learned to cook and care for the family” (Elaine Wilson Spencer, August 21, 1986).
Edward worked from before 1884 to after 1900 at the Laconia Car Company, a machinist in the brass foundry where parts for railway cars were poured and finished. At the end of his life, he was working at the Oliver Machine Company. His estate included a bob house for ice fishing, a hen house, and hens appraised at $80. Also in the reckoning, $297.16 in a savings account. The boat he owned in 1919 (shown elsewhere on this site) had burned in a boathouse fire. The campsite east of Loon Island at the north end of Lake Winnisquam, often mentioned in family tradition and by Roy Buzzell (personal communication, 1983), was not included in the inventory and likely had been sold after the fire.
Edward Dolan Hale (23 Apr 1849 to 19 May 1922) and Eva C. Moulton Hale (12 Apr 1856 to 24 Jun 1890) are buried in the family plot at Union Cemetery, Academy Street, Laconia, New Hampshire.
-- Don W. Woodworth and Ruth Woodworth Criger
April 12, 2012
