CLAYTON COUNTY, GA - Hales Family Cemetery

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Discovered  September 2006

FRANCES
(larger)
Wife of
HAMPTON   HALES
Died - June 4,1888
 Aged 48  yrs.



The inscriptions on the graves are as follows:

(For Frances Hales)      An upright, arched grave stone on a
block.  There is a carved hand with what looks like the folded
portion of a shirt (fingers and thumb facing forward, with one
finger pointing upward) supporting an ornate design of carved
flowers as if in an urn.  There are also carvings of what
appears to be smaller flowers around the arch of the headstone
that stands about 2-1/2 feet high.  Below the hand, are these
words.  The name FRANCES is an inset in large letters.  Wife of
is engraved below in capital and lower case, and then the
husband's name is in engraved inset letters, but not as large as
FRANCES, and the words Died - June 4, 1888.  At one time, it
must have been really beautiful.


There is an indented section just behind the headstone where
flowers could have been placed.  Also, on the concrete slab over
the grave, there is an indented section at one end where perhaps
flowers could have been placed.


What I believe to be an infant's grave is about 15 feet from
this grave with an upright concrete grave marker stone embedded
on a mound of dirt and debris. I discovered this grave last
Saturday (almost right under my nose).  I think that I had
missed it because of the mound, weeds and the debris.
                                                                This small Headstone simply reads F. H.

In my search, I have not found this grave listed in any record. 
The woman, Frances Hales died June 4, 1888.  On the rather
small, but elaborate headstone it shows her age as 48 ("Aged
48").  She and her husband, Hampton Hales appeared in the 1880
U.S. Federal Census with a variant spelling of their names:


        Page 149, Line 5 - Dwelling Number 85; Family Number 91 (Clayton
County Beat 538) Sup. Dist. 4., Enum. Dist. 36.  Enumerator:  John G.
Starr
        
        Hail, Hampton   B     M     55     Head     Blacksmith     Could
not RorW  Place of birth = SC
                
                Father's POB = SC        Mother's POB = MD


                Francis      B     F      45     Wife        H.K.        
   Could not RorW  Place of birth = VA
                
                Father's POB = VA        Mother's POB = VA


On the small, grey, upright tombstone that I discovered on Sat.,
Sept. 23, only the initials F.H. appear which, of course, are
the same as Frances Hales.


The Individual Record from the Family History Library Film (LSD)
shows that Hampton Hail was born <1825>, and that his wife,
Francis Hail was born <1835>.  (Variant spellings again.)

My final speculation is that
a year after the death of Frances Hales (shown as Francis Hail) in the
1880 U.S. Census, that a Hampton Hale married an Anna Williams on July
07, 1889 in Henry County.  I am wondering if that is the Blacksmith from
Clayton.