1904 - 1998

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• Birth	2 Dec 1904	Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA
  Gender	Male
  Died	4 Dec 1998	Rancho Palos Verdes, Los Angeles, California, USA
  Association	Sofia Elizabet or Josephine Larsdotter (Relationship: Raised by his grandmother)
  Person ID	I2234	Brixen Henson
  Last Modified	03 Jan 2013
  Father	Edgar F. Davis,   b. Abt 1874
  Mother	Esmeralda (Essie) Victoria Constansa Hall,   b. 27 Aug 1883, Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
  Family ID	F4050	Group Sheet
  Father	Joseph Henson,   b. 3 Dec 1830, Deanshanger, Northamptonshire, England ,   d. 2 Apr 1912, Tooele, Tooele, Utah, USA
  Mother	Sofia Elizabet or Josephine Larsdotter,   b. 21 Jun 1855, Heffride, Lye, Gottland, Sweden ,   d. 2 May 1934, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., Utah, USA
  Relationship	foster
  Married	21 Jun 1894
  Family ID	F17	Group Sheet
  Family	Mary Ella Lycan,   b. 1 Nov 1908, Illinois, USA ,   d. 23 Apr 1993, Los Angeles, California, USA
  Married	1926
  Children	1. Alice June Hall,   b. 18 Mar 1927, California, USA ,   d. 1 Mar 1995, San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, United States   2. Billie Jean Hall   3. Living
  Family ID	F1526	Group Sheet

• Photos		Grandma Hall with Mim and Uncle Bill in New York with Grandma's brother's family. Handwritten description on back of photo. Josephine Larson, Hall, Henson and her daughter, Josephine Henson and her adopted son, Bill Hall (with the hat), with her brother's family in New York. (I believe this is Johan Petter, who went by John, because he appears to be younger.) Bill Hall was born to Essie but was raised by Essie's mother, Josephine Hall Henson. We don't yet know…
  		Josephine Henson, Essie and Bill Hall
  Documents		Uncle Bill's Obituary William Herald Hall, Esmeralda's son, who was raised as Josephine Henson's brother by his grandmother, Josephine Hall Henson, who separated from Joseph Henson and took her previous married name of Hall.

• Notes

  He was the illegitimate son of Essie and was raised by Josephine Hall Henson. He used the last name of Hall, his mother’s maiden name. Searched SLC birth records 1898-1904 #431,230. Found nothing. 1930 Los Angeles County Census: William age 25, Mary E. age 21, (Alice) June age 3. Age at marriage: William age 21, Mary age 17 = 1926. Local newspaper is the Daily Breeze, contacted for obit on 4/22/09 Obit arrived 5/14/09 - a 73-yr resident of San Pedro, CA. (moved there in abt 1925) Member of the LA Harbor Masonic Lodge #332, Royal Arch Masons, Eastern Star, and the San Pedro Elks Lodge 966. Children’s spouses names included. Wife and daughter, June, pre-deceased him. Cremated and buried at sea. SS Death Index: 561-10-7792 birth and death dates Public Records Index: Nursing Home address in 1992: 3737 Atlantic Av #209a, Long Beach, California 90807 Address in 1971: 1247 W 21st, San Pedro, California 90731-0701