Early
in the 20th Century, probably in the summer of 1904, the Edward Dolan Hale family
came together in a photographer’s studio in Laconia, New Hampshire. Mr. Hale
was father, grandfather, and father-in-law to people who would go forward in
the new century to build machinery for railroads and hosiery-knitting
factories, to play music for dances, weddings, and parades, and to start
families of their own.
Standing,
from left to right, Maude Hale, Leon Paxton Hale, Nellie Hale. Front
row, Henry Hale, Annie Hale, Irene Smith, Sadie Smith, Edward Dolan Hale,
Eva Carrie Hale, Edward Hazen Hale, Cora Levina (Hyde) Hale.
We
thank Norma C. Forster-Schwinghammer, Edward Hazen Hale’s granddaughter, for
providing a copy negative of the original photograph. We consider this the most
important Hale family photograph to come down to us, and perhaps hers is the
only original image from this sitting. Her grandfather wrote down the names for
her, and we have copied them exactly.
The children of Edward Dolan Hale and Evalina (Eva) Catherine Moulton Hale, born in Laconia, Belknap County, New Hampshire:
i. Leon Paxton Hale, b. 27 June 1875, d. 16 August 1936. He married at Barton, Vermont 15 March 1897 Cora Levinia Hyde. Two of their children, Eva and Edward, are present in the 1904 family portrait. They lived in Laconia. Children: Eva, Edward, Leoine and (adopted) Gladys.
ii. Annie Marion Hale, b. 12 March 1877, d. 1943. She married at Laconia 30 July 1898 Charles Thomas Smith. They lived in Barton, Vermont and Providence, RI. Their children, Sadie (born Sarah Evelyn) and Irene (born Bernice Irene), are pictured in the 1904 family photograph.
iii. Edward Everett Hale, b.18 June 1879, d. 22 October 1891.
iv. Ada Evelyn Hale, b. 10 May 1881, d. 3 November 1942. She married at Laconia 2 June 1909 Stark G. Morrill. No children enumerated in Census records, 1910 and 1920.
v. Henry Harvey Hale, b. 13 March 1883, d. 23 November 1961. Not married.
vi. Walter Cleveland Hale, b. 6 October 1884, d. 18 April 1888.
vii. Eva Maud Hale, b. 29 September 1886, d. 11 February 1960. She married at Laconia 9 February 1907 John Albert Fuller, Jr. They lived in Pawtucket, RI. Children: George and Bertha.
viii. Nellie Moulton Hale, b. 16 June 1888, d. – June 1966. She married at Laconia 4 August 1906 Harry Smith Johnson. They lived in Cornish, Rochester, and Dover, NH. Children: Dorothy, Katherine, Ruth, Edgar.
ix. [Stillborn child] Hale, 6 June 1890.
Don W. Woodworth
Sun
City, California
woodworthdw@yahoo.com
