Individual Details

Benjamin and Anna were first cousins and also first cousins once removed.

1900 Census. Kansas City, Ward 6, Wyandotte Co, KS
B. F. Hale, b. Sep 1853, age 46, married for 2? years [27 or 29], b. Kansas, parents b. Kansas
Arazima, b. Aug 1857, age 42, has had 4 children, b. MO, parents b. MO
Charles, son, b. Dec 1881, age 18, b. KS
Russell E., son, b. Oct 1893, age 16, b. MO
Homer C., son, b. Sep 1888, age 11, b. MO

A descendant, Neil Reed, has a copy of his obituary which had been prepared by the deceased himself and was read at his funeral services:
"My name is Benjamin Franklin Hale. I was born in Platt County MO., February 8, 1853. At the age of two years my mother father moved to Atchison County, Kansas and I lived there until I was 20 years old. My mother died in 1878. I left home and went to St. Louis, MO and went into business with brother Stephen Hale. I stayed there two years and then went to Indiana and farmed for seven years. There I was married to Miss Anna Taylor and we were blessed with a son, James T. Hale. He is now on a farm in Iowa. He is married and has 3 children. His mother died in 1879 and I stayed in Indiana one year, then left for Kansas City where I lived with my brother John Hale until March 18, 188? [4 is written over the original number - probably should have been 1880] when I married Miss Arzona Utley. During our married life we were blessed with found children, Charles, Russell, Homer and George Hale. Since living here in Kansas City I worked in the dairy business and labored until I became so deaf I had to stop hard work. I am youngest of a family of eleven children. All are dead but one brother in California. Mother died in 1878. Father died in 1875. I joined the Christian Church in 1880 in Oxford, IN, but my deafness hindered me from hearing in church and my only hope was reading and prayer."

Birth	8 Feb 1853	Carroll, Platte County, Missouri
Marriage	19 Sep 1875	Benton County, Indiana - Anna Lucy Taylor
Marriage	Abt 1880	Kansas City, Missouri - Arzona Utley
Death	24 Mar 1923	Kansas City, Missouri

Spouse	Anna Lucy Taylor (1855 - 1879)
Child	James Truman Hale (1877 - 1938)

Spouse	Arzona Utley (1857 - )
Child	Charles Hale (1881 - )
Child	Russell E. Hale (1883 - )
Child	Homer C. Hale (1888 - )
Child	George W. Hale (1892 - )

Father	Stephen Meadows Hale (1810 - 1873)
Mother	Mildred Pamelia Smith (1809 - 1870)
Sibling	Melissa Hale (1832 - )
Sibling	William Hale (1833 - )
Sibling	Mary Hale (1836 - 1888)
Sibling	George Washington Hale (1838 - 1870)
Sibling	Nancy Elizabeth Hale (1840 - 1877)
Sibling	John Moody Hale (1842 - 1922)
Sibling	Stephen E. Hale (1845 - 1886)
Sibling	Charles H. Hale (1849 - 1920)