Parents - Stephen and Mary Ann Hales

CHARLES HENRY HALES (1817-1889) Born in Rainham, Kent, England. He trained as a boot and shoe maker in England. When his family came to Canada he chose to be a farmer. He joined the Church in Canada, being baptized by Parley P. Pratt. After residing in Canada for 6 years, the family moved to Missouri and then to Quincy, Illinois. After his marriage to Julia Ann Lockwood in Quincy, they lived in Nauvoo where he was a brick mason, played in the Nauvoo band and served in the Nauvoo Legion. He left Nauvoo in the first migration, sojourning in Garden Grove, Iowa for six years. Charles joined the rest of the family in the Salt Lake Valley in 1852. He married Frances Brunyer and moved to Spanish Fork. He was a leader and a promotor of education, a willing Church worker.

He married Julia Ann Lockwood and Frances Brunyer and had 25 children. All twenty five of them grew to adulthood.
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Charles H. Hales, for what he did toward making Utah what it is deserves to be held in grateful remembrance... His activities for the greater part of his life in Utah were centered in Utah County. He was a member for many years of the Spanish Fork choir. He was a home missionary and an active and faithful member of his quorum of seventy. He was ever a friend of the cause of education and for years served as school trustee. Also in a civic capacity he was a member of the city council and in whatever capacitity he was called to labor, either in the Church or the civic community, he served with fidelity, giving his best efforts to whatever he put his hand. His biography says of him that he was a successful farmer and by trade was a brick mason.
He was a member of the armed forces that kept the Indians under control during the early days of the pioneer settlements. He was a faithful member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints throughout his life. His family grew up and became respected and honored citizens in the communities where they chose to build their homes. He died in Spanish Fork, Utah, on July 1, 1889 at the age of 72 and was buried in the local cemetery.