Mary Hale (abt. 1778 - 1845)

Born about 1778 in Grayson, Virginia, United States

Ancestors

Wife of John Hale 3rd — married 17 Aug 1793 in Wythe County, Virginia

Wife of James Atkins — married 31 Oct 1822 in Grayson Co, Virginia

Descendants

Died 1845 at about age 67 in Grayson, Virginia, United States

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Sources

I, Jayne Peace Pyle, have in my possession my family records that my grandmothers before me started keeping during the Civil War. They have been handed down from generation to generation. Some of my grandmothers wrote letters and gathered earlier information about the families. They copied family information from many Bibles. I now call this "The Peace/Hale Family Book," because my father is a Peace and my mother is a Hale, although it has records of many, many members of our family going back to when they arrived in America from England and Ireland. There are a few lapses, but I have worked on these records for 50 years, trying to keep people and information straight. This is not a legal record and it's not perfect, but I think it is as good as most other records. I will be glad to be corrected any time. I am a writer/researcher. I have written more than a dozen books on Southwest History and plan to write more. I received the Arizona CultureKeeper Award in 2005 for researching and recording the peoples of Arizona. My family has lived on the same ranch in Arizona for seven generations so family history was taught to me at a young age. In 2012, I received the Sharlot Hall Award for preserving Arizona History. I write this only to try to give myself some credibility as a genealogist with the other people on Wikitree. I will give as many other sources as are available to me. -Jayne Peace Pyle

My family records show there were three John Hales in three generations in a row: John Hale Sr, born 1706, John Hale Jr born 1753, and John Hale 3rd, born 1787. Two of them married women named Mary.

In my records, John Hale 3rd, was born 1770 in Franklin, Virginia and died 26 Aug 1818 in Tennesse. He is the son of John Hale (1753-1838) and Mary Willis Hale (1758-1821). - Jayne Peace Pyle

Biography

John Hale (born 1770) married his cousin Mary Hail (1778-1845), the daughter of Capt Lewis Hale (1742-1802) and Mary Burwell (1744-1809).

John Hale and Mary Hale married 17 Aug 1793 in Wythe Co, VA John Hale died 26 Aug 1818. Mary later married James Atkins in Grayson County, VA (we found a marriage record). James had been married before and had seven children, but his wife, Mary Carson Atkins, died in 1820. James had a young daughter, age 13, and Mary Hale's son, Stephen Marion Hale, was just nine years old, so they tried to make a family. But something went wrong because five years later, James Atkins married another woman. -From Jayne Peace Pyle

WILL OF JOHN HAIL 1818 This is listed under John Hall and Mary Hall, so you have to read the WILL. It is the WILL of John Hail in his hand writing dated 25 Aug 1818, the day before he died. He leaves property to his wife, Mary, and to his son, Stephen M. Hail, and he mentions his daughter, Nancy and her husband Macajah (Micajah?) Strom (?). This is the first we have heard about Nancy. This WILL was witnessed by Samuel Smith, Martha Smith, and Eleanor Reese. Lewis Hail (Mary's dad) to administer it. - Jayne Peace Pyle

Research Notes

The DNA test results of Mary Jayne Peace Pyle show the double relationship, so this proves to me, Jayne Pyle, that John Hale and Mary Hale were related.