William HALLS
AT THE AGE OF 15 HE HEARD THAT SOME LATTER-DAY SAINTS WERE GOING TO PREACH. HE FELT PROMPTED TO GO. HE WENT AND WAS CONVERTED. HE PRAYED AND ASKED IF THE CHURCH WAS TRUE. A PARSONAGE APPEARED TO HIM AND TOLD THAT THE LDS CHURCH WAS THE ONLY TRUE CHURCH. EVEN WITH THIS EXPERIENCE HE DID NOT GET BAPTISED. HE HAD A GREAT FEAR OF DEATH. WHEN HE HEARD THAT MISSIONARIES WERE IN THE AREA ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF LATER, HE IMMEADIATELY WENT TO THEM AND WAS BAPTISED. ALL FEAR OF DEATH LEFT HIM. THROUGH HIS TESTOMONY HIS MOTHER, FATHER AND SISTER WERE BAPTISED.ALSO WERE HIS 3 BROTHERS. HE HAD THE PRIVLEDGE OF BAPTISING HIS FATHER. IN 1854 HE WAS CALLED ON A MISSION AND SERVED FOR 4 YEARS. HE WAS THEN CALLED TO PRESIDE OVER THE LINCOLNSHIRE MISSION. IT WAS VERY MUCH IN DEBT AND HIS 2 ASSISSTANTS WERE WITHOUT EXPERIENCE. FEELING VERY DOWN HE HAD A DREAM IN WHICH HE WAS BACK IN SLC WITH PRES YOUNG IN HIS OFFICE.HE SAID PRES YOUNG HOW CAN YOU CARRY THE BURDENS OF THE WHOLE CHURCH. PRES YOUNG SAID WHY BROTHER HALLS THIS IS THE LORDS CHURCH AND HE IS CARRYING IT ON.I HAVE BUT TO DO MY DUTY AND LEAVE THE RESULT WITH HIM. HE FIRST MARRIED LOUISA ENDERBY IN 1861 BY JOSEPH F SMITH. HE HAD THREE WIVES. WE ARE RELATED THROUGH HIS WIFE JOHANNE MARIE FRANDSEN. HE WAS ORDAINED A HIGH PRIEST BY THE APOSTLE F.D.RICHARDS.
He married Johanne Marie Frandsen 26 Jun 1871 at Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah . Johanne Marie Frandsen was born at Five Mills, Aggessies, Denmark 21 Aug 1855 daughter of Jens Frandsen and Kirsten Jensen .
They were the parents of 12
children:
Johanne Susannah Halls
born 29 Jan 1873.
Mary Halls
born 29 Aug 1875.
David Halls
born 12 Oct 1877.
Lucy Halls
born 4 Nov 1879.
Emma Halls
born 4 Nov 1879.
Sarah Halls
born 21 Nov 1881.
James Lewis Halls
born 23 Jun 1883.
Eliza Moiselle Halls
born 15 Feb 1885.
Franklin Halls
born 12 Jul 1887.
Eleanor Halls
born 21 Aug 1889.
Herbert Halls
born 5 Oct 1891.
Florence Halls
born 12 Mar 1894.
William Halls died 27 Jun 1920 at Mancos, Colorado .
Johanne Marie Frandsen died 5 Dec 1913 at Mancos, Colorado .