Thomas Hall's Obituary

While doing a search on Google.com for "Thomas Hall" 1816 Liverpool, I ran into his obituary. It was printed in The Deseret Weekly in 1894. For those who are interested, here it is:

                                                                               THOMAS HALL

ST GEORGE, June 15, 1894.- Elder Thomas Hall, of St George, departed this life at 4:30 p.m. on the 8th of June of jaundice and other complicated ailments. He was born in Liverpool, England, September 1, 1816 and was the son of Robert Hall and Elizabeth Miller. He married Ann Hughes December 31, 1839 at Hawarden, N Wales; was baptized into the Church by Elder John Taylor at Liverpool, England, February 11, 1840 and left England in January, 1844, on board the ship Fanny, together with the Saints landing at New Orleans on the 6th of March, and arrived at Nauvoo April 11, 1844, on board the steamer Maid of Iowa.

 He arrived in Utah in 1852, and located in Salt Lake City for a few years. While there he acted as one of the special police force. In 1856 he was called on a mission to the Las Vegas gold mines, then in southern Utah and after being released from this mission and only being home for eight days he was called at the April conference 1857 on a mission to Canada and was a captain of ten in noted handcart company of who made the extremely arduous and fatiguing journey ot upwards of 1,000 miles to the Missouri river. After his return in 1858 to Salt Lake he moved to Millville, Cache county, April, 1860, where he remained until he was called on a mission to southern Utah in 1866, locating his home in St George where he remained until his death. He also filled a mission to Great Britain to obtain genealogical data for himself and wife, to which he was set apart by the late President John Taylor while in St George the last time. This mission he fulfilled with credit, preaching from time to time as opportunity offered. He was ordained a Seventy April, 184,5 in the Sixth at Nauvoo, which office he held until 25th of June, 1892, when he was ordained into the High Priests’ quorum.

 He was the father of 8 children, and leaves 40 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. He died strong in faith, bearing his testimony to the truth of this work to the last. He was quite resigned and willing to be released from his sufferings.

The funeral services were held at the Tabernacle, conducted by George Jarvis of the First ward. The speakers, Elders William Fawcett, John Pymm, David H. Cannon and D. D. Mc Arthur, made appropriate remarks of comfort and consolation to the bereaved wife, two of his sons from Cache county, and all who were present.

- DAVID MILNE [1]

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I was excited to find Thomas' obituary because it gave me some important information that I hadn't know before. I now know the name of the ship that Thomas and his family sailed on, the month of their departure, the day of their arrival, and which port they arrived in. I hope to be able to find the passengers list for them.

It also verifies that Thomas' parents were Robert Hall and Elizabeth Miller.

[1] The Church of Jesus Christ of Later-day Saints, The Deseret Weekly. Salt Lake City, Utah. The Deseret News Publishing Co. June, 1894. Vol. 49, p. 64. Google Books, accessed 9 February 2013.