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Hall, Mary Bates, wife of John Hall and a pioneer of 1855, was born Feb. 22, 1802, in Staffordshire, England. About the year 1828 she was married to John Hall. She and her husband joined the Church in England, where they took an active part, he being ordained to the office of an Elder. Sister Hall became the mother of six children and one adopted son, namely, Jane, Timothy, Elizabeth, Mary Julia, Fannie, and Robert Walker. Her daughter Jane emigrated to America in 1849, and after living in St. Louis until 1853 she emigrated to Utah. John Hall died in Birmingham in 1852, and the widow with the rest of the children emigrated to America in 1855, crossing the Atlantic in the ship "Charles Buck," and the [p.638] plains in Milo Andrus' ox train which arrived in Salt Lake City Oct. 24, 1855. Sister Hall lived principally with her daughter Mary in the Twelfth Ward, where she died Jan. 22, 1885. Sister Hall was a very generous and kind hearted mother, doing good whenever opportunity afforded. LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, Andrew Jenson, Vol. 2, p.637
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