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Mary Isabella Hales Horne
Born on November 20, 1818 to Stephen and Mary Ann Hales Hales in Rainham, Kent, England. Her family left England for York (Toronto, Canada) shortly thereafter. She met her future husband in a Methodist camp meeting, and they were married in 1836. She and her husband listened to LDS missionaries (Orson Pratt and Parley P. Pratt later that same year (1836)) and were baptized.They gathered with the LDS saints in Missouri where they faced persecution, and later relocated to Quincy, Illinois, and Nauvoo. Mary joined the Relief Society in January of 1846.