George Halls, Bishop of the Mancos Ward, Colorado, was
born October 18, 1846, in the parish of Orsett, County of Essex, England, the
son of John Halls and Susannah
Selstone. His parents being quite poor,
George had but little schooling, having to begin working for wages when yet
very young. His parents became converts to "Mormonism" when George
was six years old. (1852) His father died in 1861 and in 1862 George left his
native land with his mother for Utah, crossing the Atlantic in the ship "Wm. Tapscott" and the plains in
Horton D. Haight's company.