Hale family

The Hale family in Utah was established by Alma Helaman Hale (1836-1908), a pioneer settler of Grantsville, Utah. Hale married Sarah Elizabeth Walker in 1856, and together they had three children. After his wife's death in 1861 he remarried, taking two wives -- Sarah Annie Clark and Ellen Victoria Clark -- in 1861 and 1865. These marriages resulted in a total of eighteen children. In 1887 the family moved north, settling in Cache County, Utah and Idaho.

Alma Helaman Hale, Jr. (1857-1938) was Mormon missionary and ecclesiastical leader in Utah. He served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to England.

Alma Helaman Hale, Jr. was born on June 11, 1857 in Grantsville, Utah. On October 1, 1844, Hale married Elizabeth Prescinda Hendricks, also of Grantsville, Utah. The couple married in the Latter-day Saint Logan Temple. Hale and Hendricks, living in Idaho, raised five children together. Amongst other church service, Hale served as a Latter-day Saint missionary in England and as a mission president. Helaman died on April 9, 1938 in Logan, Utah. He is buried in Smithfield.

Mabel Knapp (1889-1969) was the daughter of Alma Helaman Hale, Jr.

Mabel Fidelia Hale, the daughter of Alma Helaman Hale, Jr. and Elizabeth Prescinda Hendricks was born on March 20, 1889 in Swan Lake, Idaho at her grandmother's home. At the age of eighteen, Mabel carefully kept a diary. She began the diary with a short autobiography, telling of her education and where she had lived with her family. During the time she kept her journal, Mabel often traveled to Rexburg, Idaho. In 1910 she married Justin Willis Knapp. Mabel lived in Idaho until July 1969 when she passed away in Idaho Falls, Idaho.

From the guide to the Hale family journals, 1884-1910, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections)