Alfred Lorenzo Hall (1858-1934) Biography

The first 2 pages by Hilda Hall (Bringhurst) in 1916. The rest written by Melvin Hall, a grandson, in May of 1938. Material supplied by his father, Merrill Hall and his own research

Alfred Lorenzo Hall was born in Sugar House Ward, Salt Lake City, Utah, Nov. 15, 1858. He was the son of John Charles and Kezia Degray Hall, who were both of English nationality. At the time of his birth his parents were very destitute of food and clothing. Not having any bread in the house, his mother sat up in bed when her child was three days old and made a dress for a neighbor in exchange for some flour. In 1861 his parents were called on a mission to Dixie. Arriving in Dixie, they located in Rockville, where they lived for the rest of their lives.

Tracing the source of our present strength, we go back to the Dixie pioneer, who met the challenge of a new country in making roads, building homes, farming, freighting, and stock raising. Under such environment the children of Dixie went through about the same hardships as their parents, but they lived to see the fruits of their labors.

John C. Hall was not much of a farmer and especially when the method of irrigation was not so well known. There were steep side hills to make the irrigation ditches in, the breakwaters and dams to make in order to get the water into the ditch. Floods often came and washed the dams or the ditch out just in the season when the crops most needed the watering. For plowing the land a wooden beamed plow and an ox team was used. Horses were very scarce in the early days in Dixie. Wagons were not made of steel and hardwood then as they are now, consequently when out on a trip it was very necessary to soak up the wheels of the wagon at every stream.

After the crops were up in the fall and the molasses was made, the next event of the season was to go north on a peddling trip where the molasses, dried fruits, and other products were traded for flour, potatoes and other commodities not successfully grown here.

Much of their clothing was made by their own hands. In the early days of Rockville, cotton was raised on the farm, the seeds were picked out and the cotton spun, woven and dyed and later made into clothing. Dyes were made from certain kinds of roots.

Alfred never owned a pair of shoes until he was fourteen years of age, then they were of homemade it , but he said that their dances and other amusements were enjoyed as much. He and his chums had great sport with the Indian boys of their own age in playing different games and tricks. One was a mud fight game where the white boys would stand the Indians and flipping mud on limber sticks at each other. The white boys had the advantage in that they wore clothes. When the mud hit the bare hide of the Indian, there was a great splatter and then a roar of laughter. However, the older Indians were not all so friendly as the young ones. There often occurred Indian raids on towns, but by far more dangerous was it for the travelers if caught out by the Indians. Many of these adventures were related by Alfred.

One time in the early settlement of Dixie uncle Charles Smith was away from home, and had to camp out over night in Kanara. He put his mules in a corral, then, to make them more secure from the Indians, he put a pair of iron hobbles on each mule. During the night the Indians came to get the mules, but finding they couldn't walk, they proceeded to unfasten the hobbles. In this they were unsuccessful, so in order to take out their revenge, they shot several arrows into the mules. Uncle Charles pulled the arrows out and the mules lived.

At the age of seven, Alfred was so poor in health that he was sent to Kanab to live with some people who had more to eat than cornbread and molasses. He was never very large and healthy as a normal child is today, for at the age of 18 he weighed 96 lbs.

Education in schools at that date was very limited. Alfred went to school for about three months all together, so his schooling consisted more of the school of experience. His aim in life was to lead a practical and well balanced
life both in spiritual and temporal affairs. One maxim he believed in and lived up to was not to move foolishly from one place to another.

Alfred married Julia e. Hansen on Jan. 18, 1882, in the St. George temple. They traveled to St. George by wagon from Rockville. It took them two or three days to make the journey down and back.

Alfred and Julia started their married life together with three cows, two ponies and a small farm. Alfred did freighting and wool hauling to the silver reef mine near Leeds, Utah, in the years after he was married. For the first ten years of their married life the mine was a large source of revenue for southern Utah. Millions of dollars worth of ore were taken out. The early pioneers exploited the resources of Southern Utah to supply the silver reef with wood. The local men hauled wood from the foothills of Pinevalley mountains and the mountains and hills near Toquerville, which were once covered with trees, and left them bare hence left for the floods to wash the top soil away. Thousands of cords of wood were hauled from that vicinity and other sections in these parts.

Working for others was not in the nature of Alfred. He began to make his living with his hands and earn his bread from the sweat of his brow. Farming and cattle raising were his chief occupations.

A few years after Alfred and Julia were married, they bought a lot in Rockville, just one block east of the school building. I do not know when the following farms were acquired, but he owned a farm called Crank. This was south of Springdale. He farmed land in Zion canyon where the Wiley camp ground used to be. He had a farm at Rockville and one near Grafton, which was washed away. Alfred also had a small farm over at the horse valley wash. This place had a small stream that he used to run into a pond to irrigate his crops. He owned another farm half way between Grafton and Rockville. A waterwheel and a flume was used to get the water from the river on to the land.

As I said, Alfred furnished his own employment. Not only did he do that, but he furnished work for others. He owned some sheep with others in 1893. Merrill can remember hearding them at the age of 6 with his brother, Roy.

Cattle raising was always a source of income for Alfred. In 1896 there occurred a severe drought. Hundreds of cattle belonging to the Caanan Cattle Company perished for want of food and water. Little calves were given to anyone who would take them away and feed them. Some of Alfred's best cattle were obtained in this manner and it was partly a means of his going into the cattle business. He also rented some cattle from Dalley's, who lived in summit, about this time. He rented on shares. He had bad luck with them, so he did not make very much from them.

In 1902 Alfred bought the Crystal spring ranch on the Kolob Mountain, where he moved in the summer on account of his wife's poor health. Here he and his sons farmed and ran cattle. The family also did some dairying with as high as 25 or 30 cows some years. The family made enough cheese and butter in the summer to last them through most of the winter in Rockville, besides selling quite a lot to the other people on the mountain in the summer, and they sold some at Rockville in the winter.

They raised wheat and oats (more oats than wheat) which was harvested by a cradle and bound by hand. It was hauled in and thrashed, usually without stacking before hand. It could be thrashed greener if hauled directly from the shock. It was thrashed out by having the horses tromp it on the ground to get the grain. The chaff and grain was then run through a fanning mill that blew the chaff out of the grain. In this way Alfred and his sons were able to thrash out 100 Bu. a day.

Alfred ran hogs on the mountain ranch and he devised a way to leave them there in the winter. Alfred was a man who did not back down on anything. He was fearless in his nature. My uncles like to relate a story of a wild boar that they were all afraid of. Grandpa thought they were cowards because they were afraid of the boar. One day the old boar chased him, and I think he did not have so much to say about his boys being afraid after that. The old boar soon lost his life.

The family moved to the mountain every summer for 11 summers beginning with 1902 and ending with 1912. The ranch and cattle were sold in 1912.

Ten children were born to Alfred and Julia. They are Alfred L, Jr., Apr. 1, 1883. Died Feb. 18, 1886. Lester Leroy, Feb. 25, 1885. died Apr. 29, 1908 in Lexington, Ky. Charles Merrill, Lafayette, Alvin, John Harvey, Hilda., Clinton, Henry and Nora Crystal Hall. The last child was born on the Crystal ranch, hence the middle name.

Four of the children were called on missions Leroy died on his mission in Kentucky. Lafayette, Harvey and Hilda and later Alvin, all went on missions. Most of the children attended school in St. George. Vern graduated from the A. C. in 1926. All of the children were married in the temple.

Alfred Hall was one of the first to support the building of the hurricane canal, as he was a man of action rather than words. It would be necessary for a person to go to the ledger to really be able to appreciate the fact that he was one of the largest contributors to the project in actual labor that was performed during its construction. The canal was one of the largest irrigation projects ever undertaken in southern Utah. This piece of work was begun with the intentions of bringing under cultivation the rich soil of the Hurricane bench, which could not be washed away by the river as farms in Rockville and up the river had been. The canal was started in 1892 by a company of about seventy five men from the surrounding towns of Rockville, Grafton, Springdale, Virgin and Toquerville. Before it was completed, two-thirds of this number had dropped out. Indeed the remaining few were put to a severe test in facing discouragement of every kind, but they were later rewarded by seeing six miles of canal reaching from Hurricane damsite to the Hurricane bench completed.

Had it not been for the church, the canal may never have been completed at that time. Just when it seemed impossible to carry the work on because of finances, a delegation was sent to church headquarters to get aid. The church came to the rescue and purchased $5,000 worth of stock. This revived dead hopes and from then on the work never lagged James Jepson was one of this delegation.

Being quite a distance from most of the settlements, it was necessary for the men during the period of construction to camp there in the winter months while they were not occupied by their farm work. One of the main places where they camped was Chinatown. Thirteen years was a long time to be working on a project. Each winter was long to those who were working on the canal, but frequent pranks were played in camp to break the monotony. One time two men went to see John Miller. One of the men walked in and talked with John, while the other one put a rock over the top of his rock chimney. After both men were inside, John said he had to go out and get some meat. He then locked the door and left the two men in the house to breathe their own smoke,

The construction work was dangerous. The ditch, which is eight feet wide and four feet deep, is made entirely along a steep mountain side with the exception of a few tunnels and flumes.
Merrill said that his father was superintendent of the work most of the time while the canal was being constructed and settled. I found from the ledger that grandpa was on the canal board from 1895 to 1905, with the exception of 1899 to 1902 inclusive. The first credit of $3.00 was recorded in the ledger on Jan. 2, 1895, for canal board services. Payments were recorded in 1895, 96, 97, 98. Then there was a miss until April 1903. They were continued in 1904 and 1905.

Grandpa hired men to work on the canal for him as well as spending most of his time in the winters on the canal project. The depression of 1893 was a means of help to the project, as many hard rock miners came here who were willing to work for a very small wage. One of these men, named Mack, worked for grandpa for several winters.

After the canal was completed, the land which had been taken in the names of three men, one of which was Alfred, was divided into five acre blocks, four lots to a block and twenty acre fields. The other two men were James Jepson and Jim Ballard. From canal board ledger a to d, inclusive, 1893 1907.

The men who had either worked or paid their share to get the canal finished, drew from a hat the lot or section of field they were to have as recompense for their labors. Alfred drew with the other men and received twenty acres of land in the west fields. The land was very poor. He was discouraged and did not think he had received a very good deal, so the canal board traded him 5 acres in the south fields for 5 of his west twenty. He later bought ten more acres by this land from Frank Mcmullian. He drew three city lots and he bought 2 more. He also owned a field in the cove and 120 acres of pasture land.

The early pioneers to Dixie witnessed about as much progress in the use of machinery as any generation of people could in any part of the world in the same period of time.

Alfred was one of the foremost to make use of new machinery. He owned a self-binder or grain binder with Bishop Langston before he owned the Crystal ranch in 1902. While moving to the ranch or during the period of time while on the ranch, he acquired a whitetop buggy. This was not the first brought into the country, but it was among the first.

Later, Dave Hirschi was the man, I believe, who first discovered the possibilities of dry farming on the plains. Alfred had by this time sold his Crystal ranch and his cattle. He was now free to go into new fields. Alfred began dry farming he took up a homestead about 12 miles east of here. He raised as much grain as anyone who farmed at that time. He said he made more money from the dry farm then from any other place. He was better off financially and was in a position to do so. He bought a hay bailer soon after coming to hurricane.

In 1917 Alfred bought a Ford car. At that time there were not very many cars in the state of Utah, and there were only a few in Hurricane. He bought two Chevrolets, the last one in 1928.

1 have not attempted to name all of the machinery Alfred owned for that is un¬necessary and impossible. But I am only giving a few to illustrate the point that he was not the last to use or accept a change.

Alfred was the first man of this section to promote the Hurricane bank. Credit for the original idea must be given to Arnold Dixon of Provo. He is a cousin of Alfred. Alfred and Arnold succeeded in getting Dave Hirschi interested in the bank. I remember grandpa telling me that his cousin and he called to talk to Dave about the bank and he was not favorable to a bank upon that first visit. But Mr. Dixon told grandpa that Dave Hirschi was the man to head the bank. The success of the bank was due to Dave’s shrewd business ability and his keen fore¬
Sight.

Alfred was the largest stockholder in the bank until just before his death. He was a director from the time it was organized in 1917 until 1933.

Alfred was a man of good strength and endurance. At one time, when he was a young man, he ran from the center of Rockville to the top of the mountain on the east before another man could get half way to the top of the mountain on the north. This was performed to settle a bet.

One time while Alfred was on a peddling trip away from home, some men were trying to lift an anvil by taking hold of the small end of it. Alfred lifted it by one end, by taking hold of the small end of it. He also added two hub sands on top and lifted it up even with his arms. None of those in the crowd could lift it with the added weight.

Alfred was a good provider. In his early days, he made shoes for all of his family with the hide he had tanned himself. After his health had broken, he used to tend chickens as a means of turning his wheat into cash. He often made over $100 a month.

Alfred usually knew how to make money, but he did make two or three investments that were complete losses. One was a gypsum plant in Cedar and the other was a chicken deal in which he lost $100. There may have been others I have not listed.

Alfred was hospitable to friends and strangers the door was never closed to those who came and asked for something to eat. Relatives always knew they would be welcome at the home. Not only was he this way after he accumulated a little property, but he was this way earlier in life. In 1896, Sam and Caroline Larson were living with the Hall family while their father was on a Mission. Later Mary Dalton, an orphaned girl, lived there for two or three years. These children lived with the family during the time when it was larger than the average family is today.

Della Wright lived with Alfred and Julia for 8 years, from age 10 to 18. Many others lived there at times, including myself for nearly a year from October 1930 to September 1931.

Alfred and Julia enjoyed a number of long trips and many short ones in their automobile. They went to Wyoming on two different occasions to visit Vern and his wife, and they went into Arizona and were at the dedication of the Mesa Temple.

It was one of Alfred's desires to see the ocean before he died, but as his wife did not enjoy traveling on long trips due to her poor health he never did get the opportunity.

In about 1927 Alfred's health began to break down. He had a sever attack of psyatic rheumatism, one type of ailment following another, bothered him until the climax was reached in October 1930, with a stroke.

At that time Dan Crawford was called in to administer to him. Mr. Crawford promised him that he would get well and perform a mighty work. Alfred said later that he promised the Lord he would spend the rest of his time working in the temple if were allowed to live and get well. These promises were fulfilled.

Alfred and Julia were going to the temple in about a week's time after his stroke. They continued their trips to the St. George temple in all kinds of weather for four years. They went down about twice each week and they took others with them most of the time, charging only a small fee.

Alfred lived a religious life. He always observed the Sabbath day when it was possible to do so. He paid an honest tithing and contributed his share in other ways when it was asked of him. He went through all the quorums of the priesthood. Alfred was ready to die when the end came. In fact he had looked forward to death and I can honestly say that he did not fear it.

He died on Jan. 4, 1934.

In summing up his life's work, I would say that the outstanding characteristic was to make a useful plan and then live up to that plan, offering no excuses and his only alibi was his task well completed.

The golden wedding was celebrated in November 1931. It was celebrated then so that Vern could be present and not when it should have been, January 1932. The desire was to have it when all the family could be present. All were at the celebration, but Nora who was ill at her home in paragonah at the time.

Alfred Lorenzo Hall (1858-1934)

The first child born to John Charles Hall and Kezia DeGrey was a son who was blessed and given the name of Alfred Lorenzo. He was born in Sugar House Ward, Salt Lake City, Utah on November 15, 1858. He was born about one year after his parents had reached Utah and they were still quite destitute for food and clothing. Their arrival had been in the fall and they had been without any finances, so the progress, materially, was slow.

At the time of Alfred's birth, the family was without bread, so just three days after his arrival, his mother was found, sitting up in bed, making a dress for a neighbor in exchange for some flour. Under such privations, his childhood was anything but exciting and expensive.

Three years later, the parents, in answer to a call for volunteers to go to the Dixie Cotton Mission, moved to Rockville in Southern Utah, about 330 miles from Salt Lake City, with the hopes of doing better, financially, while doing the Lord's work.

Most of the saints who chose to go to Dixie were of the sturdy type, who loved adventure and freedom, who were industrious and who never knew defeat. Under such environmental conditions, the children of Dixie experienced much the same hardships as their parents, but they lived to see fruits of their labors. Building roads and homes, farming, freighting, and stock raising were some of the occupations they followed.

Alfred's father was not adapted to farming. His life in England had been patterned to that of a gentlemen and scholar, so he experienced many hardships and disappointments. Irrigation of the barren land was still in its infancy. It had been started by the Church, under the leadership of Brigham Young, only after the arrival of the first Saints in 1847.

There were steep side hills along which the irrigation ditches had to be built, then breakwaters and dams had to be fashioned before the water would run into the ditches. Floods, a frequent menace to the settlers in the spring of the year, washed out the dams and filled the ditches with mud and rocks, just at the season when the crops most needed the water.

For plowing the land in preparation for seed planting, a wooded beamed plow and an oxen team were used. Horses were very scarce in the early days in Dixie, so the work was slow and tiresome. Wagons were not made of steel and hardwood as they are made now, consequently, it was necessary to soak the wheels at every stream of water whenever on a trip.

After the crops were harvested in the fall and molasses was made, the next event of the season was to travel north through the state "peddling", as it was called, which meant trading molasses, dried fruit, and other products; for flour, potatoes, and other commodities not successfully grown in Dixie.

Much of their clothing was made by the skillful hands of the womenfolk. The cotton was harvested, then spun, woven, and dyed; ready for the process of making it into clothing. Dyes were made from certain wild and domestic plant roots. The Saints of necessity became very accomplished in making the necessities of life from the materials furnished by the generous hand of Mother Nature.

Alfred never had a pair of shoes to wear until he was fourteen years of age and then they were "homemade". For many years money, either currency or silver, was extremely scarce. What money the Saints did manage to have was used in the purchase of such clothing as could not be made from leather or home grown, homespun cotton, and wool. The shoes Alfred wore until he was nearly a grown young man were all made by his father from the home-tanned hide of the old ox which had died or been killed for beef.

Times were so busy and every man, woman, and child of age was required to work in the fields during planting and harvesting season. Then there were always daily chores around the home and the corral, so the young boys and girls had little time for actual playground activities. So many times, Alfred and other boys of his age had their fun while herding cows on the ditch banks or river bottom.

It was not uncommon at such times for a band of little Piute Indian boys to come swarming out of the nearby wigwams to play with them. As the play of children often follows in miniature the serious activities of their elders, this play usually turned into a sham battle between the Whites and the Reds. The ammunition consisted of a ball of stiff, well-mixed mud. The machinery was a willow stock about the length of the boy. The battle lines were drawn, each army taking refuge behind a convenient shelter of trees, rocks, or the ditch bank. All was quiet until a small warrior poked his head above his shelter, looking for a victim. He was observed by an opponent, who fixed a mud ball to the end of his stick, stepped quickly into the open, gave a quick swing and a jerk and "spat" the victim who received a neat spot of mud on his body. Immediately the assailant became the target for half a dozen of his enemies, who as they stepped from their concealment ready to aim, also became targets. The Indians had the advantage as to agility and accuracy, but they suffered because of being unclad.

Because Alfred was small and thin, most everyone called him "Skinny". At the age of twenty-one he weighed only a little over 100 pounds. Though he was skinny and unimpressive in appearance, he had amazing strength. What he lacked in size he more then made up in aggressiveness. No problem looked too large to him and he usually won his battles through his determined resoluteness.

Alfred did not attend school except for about three months, all total, so his education came more from the school experience. His aim in life was to lead a practical and well-balanced life, both spiritually and temporally. He never learned to write more than his name and did not do much reading until after he was sixty-nine years old. Then he spent much of his time studying the Gospel until his death.

The parents of Alfred were very strict in their discipline and teaching of their children. However, Alfred had his own ideas and he did not forget them easily. He was always faithful in most of the fundamental principles of the Gospel as taught him at home, although there is some evidence that he sought his pleasures without the counsel of his parents. For instance, at the age of eighteen years he went to Salt Lake City in the company of Tom Reeve, an eighteen year-old boy from Virgin. By way of acting smart both boys started smoking. His parents were greatly displeased but were never able to induce him to drop the habit. He smoked for thirty-six years then quit after he was married.

Alfred's father raised tobacco for a number of years. He had his hot beds for the tobacco plants on the south slope of a small incline. John C. never smoked, however, and never allowed his sons to acquire the habit, so he was much distressed when Alfred started smoking.

Alfred was shy and awkward in public, especially in the presence of ladies, so when he started courting Julia Hanson, who was a very popular girl, the entire village was surprised. Perhaps even he himself was a bit amazed. So sometime later he and Julia traveled to St. George from Rockville by wagon, taking two or three days to complete the journey down and back, and were married in the Temple on January 18th. They started on their married life with three cows, two horses, and a small farm. During the first fifteen years they lived in several homes and owned several farms. He felt he could take a very poor start and by applying a great deal of hard labor, make a good thing of it. In later years, he changed his mind in this respect. He placed his work where it showed most results in later life.

In working his farms, he gave his sons plenty of work and responsibility. His sons learned, while yet young in years, how to make do. In 1893, two of his sons, Roy and Merrill, were given the task of herding the sheep. In the words of one son, Vern, in speaking of his father, we see Alfred's plans for his family, "Mother always worried about the work the little fellows had to do, but don't think she said much about it. Dad's aim was to furnish plenty of work for his boys, put them at it and see that it was done. I don't think he ever really dreamed of being wealthy, but he surely had a clean reverence for hard work."

Stock raising was always a source of income to Alfred and his family. In 1896, there was a severe drought. Many of the watering holes dried up and thousands of head of cattle died for want of water. Alfred, at the time, was working for Mr. Kingsbury, foreman of the Cattle Company at Short Creek and Caana [sp?]. Mr. Kingsbury told him to take all the orphan calves of which he could take care. He took about forty calves and in this way started his own cattle business.

In 1902 he bought the Crystal Spring Ranch on Kolob Mountain, where he moved during the summer because of his wife's health. They lived there each summer for eleven years until 1912 when the ranch and cattle were sold. He and his sons farmed and raised their stock. The family also did some dairying, some years they had as many as twenty-five to thirty cows. They made enough butter and cheese in the summer to last during the winter months, besides selling quite a supply to neighbors on Kolob.

He raised wheat and oats, which were harvested by a cradle and bound by hand. It was hauled in and thrashed, usually without stacking it beforehand. The grain was thrashed out by having their horses trample over it on the ground. The chaff and grain were then run through a fanning mill which cleaned the chaff from the grain. Sometimes Alfred and his sons could thrash out 100 bushels per day.

Soon after dreams of getting Virgin River water onto the fertile but barren mesa of the Hurricane Valley began to take shape, Alfred knew he wanted to help in the project. He was one of the faithful supporters of the vast program. Unlike many of the old settlers in Rockville, he had to be busy at something during the long winter months. He would not content himself to just sitting in front of the store down on Main Street, whittling sticks and talking. He was a man of action rather than words and the records concerning the Hurricane Canal show that he was one of the largest contributors to the project in actual labor performed during its construction.

So many of the farms in and around Rockville were washed away by the unpredictable Virgin River, so when the canal, one of the largest irrigation projects ever undertaken in Southern Utah, was started, it was intended that the rich soil of the Hurricane Bench could be irrigated, safe from the floods of the Rio Virgin.

Alfred and his boys spent twelve long hard winters on the canal work. He had no regrets, however, and considered it one of his greatest accomplishments. He was superintendent during six years of the construction of the canal.

The canal was started in the year of 1892 by a company of about seventy-five men from surrounding towns of Rockville, Grafton, Springdale, Virgin, and Toquerville. Before the completion, however, about two-thirds of the original number had dropped out. The few who were left and who remained to the finish, faced many setbacks and discouragement, but were rewarded by the completion of six miles of canal, which started at the Hurricane dam site and reached to the Hurricane bench.

When the canal was nearly finished it seemed doomed to failure, but a delegation (James Jepson and Jim Ballard were two of the group) was sent to the Church headquarters to get financial aid. The church purchased $5,000 worth of stock, and with renewed faith and hopes the workers labored more diligently. Then soon families began to move into the valley and started building. It was a joyous occasion for those faithful workers when the first soil was plowed, planted, and irrigated.

In 1910, Alfred sold his property in Rockville and moved his family to Hurricane. Besides his farm in the valley, he took up a homestead about twelve miles east of Hurricane, where he began to dry farm. He was not backward nor hesitant in accepting new trends in progress. He bought farm machinery to suit his purposes. He owned one of the few cars in Hurricane when in 1917 he bought a new Ford.

His aggressiveness made him the leader in promoting the Hurricane State Bank. Arnold Dixon, cousin to Alfred, had the original idea and the two of them succeeded in stirring the interest of Dave Hirschl, who was the logical man to head the bank, because of his shrewd business ability and keen foresight. They were successful in their endeavor and Alfred was a director from the time the bank was organized in 1917 until 1933, and was the largest stockholder until just prior to his death.

Alfred had been reared in a fine religious home and he strove to give his own children the same teachings and discipline as he had received. Each Sunday was observed in attentive reverence by the entire family. All the children went to Sunday School and everyone went to the evening services whenever possible. The conduct of the children was closely watched and any problems of discipline which arose in church (there were not many) were thoroughly handled at home.

In the home, both Alfred and his wife set up a fine procedure. There was always something good to read and not only were the children encouraged to read it, but their mother always found time to read to her children. All of the children read The Book of Mormon and at the completion of it, each child was presented with one. Everyone enjoyed the quiet evenings at home, listening to their mother read, even Alfred welcomed this period of relaxation after a hard working day.

Family prayers, both night and morning, brought the family together and each child was given his turn in offering thanks. The parents tried to lead their children by living good clean examples. Their home was always a welcome haven to those in need. Alfred and Julia willingly assisted others even when they were having a difficult time during the beginning of their married life. In 1893, Sam and Caroline Larson lived with the Hall family, while their father was on a mission. Later, Mary Dalton, an orphan, lived there two or three years and Della Wright lived with them for eight years. On these occasions, their own family was at its largest number, but they never complained.

Alfred's health began to fail. He suffered a severe attack of sciatic rheumatism, then one type of sickness bothered him until October, 1930, [when] he was bedridden with a stroke. Dan Crawford was called in to administer to him. He was blessed and given a promise that he would get well and perform a great work. He was well enough that within one week's time he and his wife were continuing their temple work with more fervor. They started going to the temple regularly in about 1927 and then after his stroke they continued to make their twice weekly trips to St. George Temple for four years, regardless of the kind of weather.

On January 4, 1934, Alfred passed away after a very eventful and full life of hard work and service to family and neighbors. He was blessed with a loving and faithful companion and ten fine sons and daughters. Alfred Lorenzo, Jr., born on April 1, 1883, died February 18, 1886; Lester Leroy, born February 25, 1885, died April 29, 1908, in Lexington, Kentucky, while fulfilling a mission in the southern states; Charles Merrill, born January 25, 1887; Lafayette, born December 31, 1888; Alvin, born on October 17, 1890; John Harvey, born on February 16, 1893; Hilda, born April 21, 1895; Clinton, born September 23, 1897; Henry Vernon, born on April 4, 1900; and Nora Crystal, born on August 5, 1903. Four of the children (Leroy, Lafayette, Harvey and Hilda) filled missions for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints. All of the children were married in the temple.

Alfred lived a good, religious life, He observed the Sabbath, paid a full tithing and contributed whenever asked and held the highest Priesthood. He, to the best of his ability and knowledge, had done a good work and he seemed ready to die when the end came. He set up a useful plan for his life and then lived up to that plan and offered no excuses.