More photos from the Trip

We started our trip in Arizona watching Pam and Rob's children. I had lots of fun playing with them, or rather, doing things with them that make us both happy. Like hiking up "A" Mountain (not "a mountain" - "A" Mountain. It's like how in Rexburg you don't hike "our mountain" but "R" Mountain). Here Grant and Lucy and I head up and then and down the hill. They were great. In fact, it was very much like taking Chris and Pam up and down various mountains. They were good times.

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As we headed north, we drove through Zion National Park. I don't know that I had ever been there before. It was beautiful, and there were lots of fun things to see - thought we didn't have much time to stop and see the sights. Next time. Here are a couple of the more outstanding views.

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Pictured below is part of a plaque in Kanab that was interesting. The plaque showed the City Council for the 1912-1914 term. They were all women. (The woman pictured below is a McAllister, so she's some kind of relative.) What was the reason for an all woman city council in those years? I dunno - I guess they were just better than the men in that election.

One of the other high points was a visit to the old Hurricane Canal. Melody is standing by a pile of bricks with the names of people who contributed to the canal marker. On the other side is the old canal itself. The story goes that Alf Hall (my great grandfather) and his sons had quite a bit to do with building the canal. They certainly worked on it, but what part exactly did they play? Well, they were hard workers, no doubt about it - and they earned enough shares to purchase much of the best farm land in and around Hurricane. Maybe they were more than that, maybe not.

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Peter & Melody's Big Adventure

One of of the things we planned on doing on our AZ/UT trip was to visit some Hall/McAllister family sites in So. Utah. Kanab, Rockville, and Hurricane. So here's some of the details.

If I have the story straight, sometime during the early part of the last century (I forget the exact date) Richard S. McAllister (Dick Mac, who was my paternal grandmother's father) was bishop of the ward in Kanab. He received permission to build the chapel you see below. Since then the Church has added more structure (about 2 1/2 times more) to it. It appears to be a stake center now. It looks to me like the original entrance was where the window now is in the photo on the right.

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Then over in Rockville (which was our favorite place, and it was Flag Day so there were American flags all up and down the main road - beautiful). We stopped at the cemetery and found the grave markers for John C. and Kezia Hall. Below is a couple of overall shots of the Hall section with the gorgeous cliffs in the background.

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The stone of the left is for John C. and Kezia, and the one one the right is John C.'s Utah Militia marker.

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Of note is the pillar (below) with LeRoy Hall (son of Alf and Julia who died in the mission field) marked on one side, and Alfred L. Hall Jr. (son of Alf and Julia) on the other side. Hmm, never heard of him. The marker indicates that he lived only 2 1/2 or 3 years, but I don't remember seeing his name anywhere on the family records. More photos later...