isaac hale father of emma smith

Affidavit of Isaac Hale, father-in-law of Joseph Smith, Jr., given at Harmony Township, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania on 20 March 1834 Source: "Mormonism," Susquehanna Register, and Northern Pennsylvanian 9 (1 May 1834):1, Montrose, Pennsylvania, emphasis omitted. Bucks neighbors later wrote of those foundations being evidence of the presence and work of civilized man in it [the valley] before any known settlement of it.107The foundation was grown up with trees and only became evident when the land was cleared and plowed.108 The site has never been examined by archaeologists to evaluate if any evidence remains of what the men found. Bartlett, Crawford and Stearns Architects. boonie bears monster plan; lowest temperature in pensacola, fl; glencoe high school basketball Last Will and Testament of Isaac Hale, Susquehanna County, Pa., Wills and Administrations, 18121921, December 23, 1838, 1:21213. 159. These artifacts were in the upper layer of the topsoil and Isaac Hale likely knew of an earlier Native American presence on his property.96, Near Ouaquaga village where Daniel Buck and Isaac Hale first lived, the new settlers developed an intense interest in buried wealth. Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,103. Almon Munsons tavern in Taylortown, two and one-quarter miles west of the Hale home, was the only one near the Hale home in 18241825.271 It was in the Munson tavern where the Hale familys neighbors regularly gathered for activities, and it was in the Munson Tavern where Isaac Hale sat on the Grand Jury investigating Jason Treadwell for the murder of Oliver Harper in 1824.272 That tavern building still stands today.273 Charles Hatch operated a tavern in Lanesville, three miles east of the Hale farm, but not until 18281829.274. But it is not clear how productive these mills were or how long they stayed in operation. 293. Anderson,Ancestry and Posterity of Joseph Smith and Emma Hale, 42728. Born 21 Mar 1763 in New Haven, Connecticut. Chaffee,History of the Wyoming Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 721. 64. This Presbyterian Tarble family remained friends with the Hales, Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,120. Both she and Joseph III traveled to a conference at Amboy, Illinois. She likely lived at the school during the week. He concluded on February 29, 1836, Religion at a very Low ebb with us little or no spirit in the members and of course a great indifference among the congregation. John Comfort, letter to Dear Children, Harmony, February 29, 1836. Jacobs name continued in the tax lists through 1837 when the format of the tax assessments changed. Levi Fry settled in the low mountains on the northeastern border of Wells Township just east of the Lewis family. Lucy had her scribe insert every with a carat in front of appendage in her history, assuring the reader would not just imagine a few conveniences but every one. Selah Payne, who was a fellow Methodist of the Hale family, and who provided his home as the second meeting place along with the Hale family, began to build an African college on his property, but abandoned the project, Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,105. Ever the Democrat, as was the Hale family, Comfort lamented how everyone blamed a noticeable decline in Harmony on Presidents Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren because of the collapse of Americas banking system. 151. The similarities in name, location, and activities can easily lead to confusion between the two men. Some of those he had known for years were now leaving their community, and others were growing old along with him. The first large scale sawmill in the valley began operation in 1809.239Since the Hales were under pressure from Pickering to build the Lewis home in 1809, and Methodist meetings were held in the Hale home as early as 1810, it is likely the Hale family finished building their own new frame home in early 1810, the same year they gained legal title to their property. We might t - Latter-day Saint Blogs is a portal for mainstream blogs about The . Blackman,History of Susquehanna County, 429, 469. Near the end of that year, an assessor appraised the Hale family 15 x 30 foot log home as worth $26.133 The tax assessment noted they lived on a 150 acre farm owned by Charles Francis, using either an alternate name for Tench or that of an as yet unidentified son.134 Isaacs brother-in-law Nathaniel Lewiss family was also listed as occupying 100 acres of Charles Franciss farmland just west of the Hale family that included a 15 x 28 foot log home and a log stable of unspecified size.135 Francis paid the tax for the land, not Isaac Hale or Nathaniel Lewis. Ch.2) This quote is not from The History of the Church, Volume 1, Chapter 2, as claimed. 170. The copyist added Joe Smiths wife next to her name to preserve her famous status but did not include her baptismal date which is now lost. Quaker John Hilborn was the best educated man in the valley. Husband of Elizabeth (Lewis) Hale married 20 Sep 1790 in Wells, VT. Descendants. The site was very clean as if they had internalized Methodist founder John Wesleys aphorism cleanliness is next to godliness.299 Despite John Comforts later concerns that an interest in pursuing wealth was creeping into their Methodist community and overshadowing religious devotion, the Hale family appears to have reconciled the role of wealth into their religious practice. Wilkinson,Annals of Binghamton,34, called it valley of the Susquehanna. And, Chaffee noted of Nathaniel Lewis that the place where he lived was called Susquehanna, Amasa Franklin Chaffee,History of the Wyoming Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church(New York: Eaton & Mains, 1904), 720. If Joseph Smith met Emma while eating, it appears that he sought other occasions to visit her at home. 216. Lewis had some exposure to the use of divining rods in the search for treasure while living in Wells, Vermont, and the scant evidence suggests he had rejected these efforts early. [13][b] The couple moved to the home of Smith's parents on the edge of Manchester Township, near Palmyra. Among them was a man named Josiah Stow, a deacon in Daniel Bucks congregation, where Josiah Stowell would later also serve as a deacon. Silas Gildersleve, letter to Family, September 18, 1823, John Comfort Correspondence, George Fisk Comfort Papers, Syracuse University Special Collections; see also, Charles Wentworth Upham,The Life of Timothy Pickering(Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1878), 4:116. While the meat he proscribed may have been a simple reference to food, Hales word choice in his mid-nineteenth century will also reflected the typical diet in the area. and our George Peck listed the text of each sermon he delivered in the Hale home in a Memorandums booklet he kept for each place he stopped on his circuit. . The brook was the familys primary source of water until they dug their well. 163. The author wrote, Meantime Deacon Stowell purchased a farm at Susquehanna and moved his family there from Afton. The creek was named Lewis Creek and ran down from Turkey Hill through Jameson Hollow (now Bedbug Hollow) until it emptied into the Susquehanna River. Their separation had been so complete, she listed her children and each of their names so her mother could learn of her own grandchildren. Isaac Hale (1763 - 1839): Father of Joseph Smith's lawful wife, Emma Smith. 134. 177. Eclectic Man carved the Oliver Harper headstone. This was five years before Alva Hales baptism in the Congregational Church and thirteen years before Methodism was brought to Willingborough Township. She was also directed to compile a book of hymns for the Church, and she was warned to continue in a spirit of meekness, and beware of pride. (D&C 25:1113.). 261. Lewis, Lewis Family Collection (15501984), gives the dates of birth for the children as, Elizabeth, November 19, 1767; Nathaniel, May 27, 1769; John, October 3, 1770; Esther, May 31, 1774; Jekiel, August 20, 1776; Molly, June 9, 1779; Reuben, January 13, 1782; Amos, April 7, 1785. Her name and character have been both revered and misunderstood in Latter-day Saint memory, but her actions and influence cannot be erased. [18] She saw upholding morality as the primary purpose of the Relief Society. But his observation captured a difference in attitude between the working men and women along the Susquehanna River and the gentry in comfortable Philadelphia homes. 79. Deacon Stowells Long Hunt for GodHis Belief that Smith Could See Fifty Feet into the Earth,Bainbridge Republican,August 23, 1877, 2; reprinted inMontrose Democrat,September 19, 1877. Church History Department. 24, May 15, 1829: 3; George W. Lane Marries C. Winters,Register and Northern Farmer, September 8, 1842. But she unfortunately married a British Officer who had a wife in England which was afterwards discovered. A local slave recalled when she arrived in the valley, already several people had moved to the neighborhood, had erected log houses, cleared the lands, and begun to cultivate fields and raise stock.139 Each family built a log-house covered with bark, which differed from a log cabin in that the logs were smoothed with an adze to create straight edges, and the bark was generally used to enclose the upper portions in lieu of sawn lumber as was the case with the Hale familys neighbor John Osterhout (as seen in the illustration).140, Despite the great insulating qualities and durability of logs, even when they were hewn and nicely shaped settlers considered them less refined than sawn lumber in frame homes, and they tried to improve the look of their homes as soon circumstances allowed.141 The 1798 direct tax lists noted three sawmills in the valley, including that of Sylvanus Traves (or Travis) who lived on the farm immediately east of the Hale property. (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1998), 2:132. Emma Hale never saw her parents again after the Kirtland era. Here young Joseph Smith Jr. fell in love with a beautiful maiden named Emma Hale. See page 63 of the extended online version of the article by Mark Lyman Staker and Robin Scott Jensen, David Hales Store Ledger: New Details about Joseph and Emma Smith, the Hale Family, and the Book of Mormon,BYU Studies,accessed April 10, 2015,https://byustudies.byu.edu/PDFViewer.aspx?title=hidden&linkURL=53.3StakerJensen_Extended-5351ecc6-b7ef-451f-ad91-b4b78036d422.pdf. [11] Emma first met her future husband, Joseph Smith, in 1825. Robert Quary, a new customs collector for Pennsylvania, captured two of Captain Kidds seadogs inland in Pennsylvanias interior and spread the alarm that Kidds ship had been near the Pennsylvania coast. Although a large, level valley in the center of the township became Wells village, the Lewis family settled away from the village on inexpensive land on a rocky mountain top near the northeastern township line. Isaac Hale was born on June 23, 1997 in United States (25 years old). 92. Rumors concerning polygamy and other practices surfaced by 1842. Their daughter Emma, would go on to be the wife of Joseph Smith, founder-prophet of the LDS/Mormon church. Into this humble dwelling he moved his family on the tenth day of April, 1791. Rev. Photograph by Mark L. Staker. Although Nathaniel Lewis enlisted for two separate terms during the French and Indian war, he enlisted again in 1775 as talk of revolution moved through Connecticuts churches and taverns, and he served in the Continental Navy under Lieutenant David Welch when it was first formed until his enlistment expired on November 10, 1775.72 Since the navy was initially made of up merchantmen, Lewis may have been working in the shipping trade when he enlisted, or he may have presented his earlier navy experience at enlistment. Whatever the ultimate motivation for Hales decision to ignore the controversy, after having worked one summer in Connecticut, he concluded to try the West.29. Young Joseph (as he became known) was the first of her natural children to live to adulthood. 169. 150. 201. Court of appeal held at Isaac Hales in Harmony, February 28, 1816, see Tax Assessment Records, Harmony Township, 1815, Susquehanna County Courthouse. Disagreements erupted between Emma and Brigham Young, President of the Quorum of the Twelve, over the extent to which both the Smith family and the Church had a right to properties in Josephs name and were liable for his debts. Saved to reddit here. Photograph by Mark L. Staker. 158. Photograph by Mark L. Staker. Zenanah Gilbert, who attended a Methodist camp meeting in the area in 1810, described her experience: Sunday early in the morning Brother Ths [Thomas] Sister F [Fanny] and myself set off for to go to a Methodice field Meeting we call at the Post and [pick up numerous others with the wagon at several locations] . But as the economy continued its downward trend, all of the Hale children who could left the valley a few at a time. But her father would not suffer us to be married at his house, Joseph noted. In1811, when Samuel Thompson became the circuit rider through the Susquehanna Valley,David Hale joined the Methodists at age seventeen. David Hale implies this in his account of his parents immigration to the valley when he mentions Lurena Cole (as Lorana Cole) in the context of his discussion of his parents immigration but does not specifically say she joined them. 240. After a five month battle with consumption, Elizabeths health began to fail. 3. Sugar houses were specifically listed as taxable operations, but the intent was to tax commercial enterprises instead of family operations. Stanley and Betty Coryell,Skinner Family History,11; Roehm, Letters of George Catlin and His Family,11; and, Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,130. John Comfort, letter to Silas Comfort, Harmony, September 25, 1847. Upham,Life of Timothy Pickering, 117. Alva Hale, Letter to His Brothers and Sisters, February 20, 1842, Wilford C. Wood Museum Collection, Bountiful, Utah. David Hale expressed some uncertainty as to exactly when his father arrived in the Susquehanna Valley, dating the event to 1787 or thereabout.45 Buck and Hale were still up river at the Onondaga village in July of that year, but resources were quickly used up, leading them to follow the Warrior Path down river in the last months of that year or first months of the next.46 Hale wintered over in the valley, hunting to support himself and probably Daniel Bucks family. The early settlers grandchildren recalled years later how their families brought with them many of those old Connecticut notions and prejudices, which shaped their daily activities such as avoiding beginning to plow or plant on a Friday (considered an unlucky day) or making sure the moon was in the right quarter to begin planting to guarantee a good crop. When Pickering announced to his friends his plans to move in the neighborhood of the Isaac Hale family, his associates tried to dissuade him from settling along such a remote area of the Susquehanna. They then became discouraged, and soon after dispersed. Black, Susan Easton, and Harvey Bischoff Black, eds. The Reverend Elam Potter had grown up in the same villages as the Hale family, and he was an ardent abolitionist. 142. 298. As the first lady of Nauvoo, she hosted diplomats in her home, made public appearances with Joseph at civic and community events, and presented political petitions in support of the Church and her husband. Mark H. Forscutt, Commemorative Discourse on the Death of Mrs. Emma Bidamon,The Saints Herald(July 15, 1879): 20917; see also, Paul V. Ludy, ed.,A Tribute To Emma(Bates City, Missouri: Paul V. Ludy and Associates, 2002), 5. : Herald Publishing House, 1929), 1:580, 711. It was an even more idealized distant memory when Isaacs son David wrote about his fathers profession in the early 1870s. 20. Frank M. Eastman,The Law of Taxation in Pennsylvania(Newark, N.J.: Soney & Sage, 1909), 4552. His daughter recalled they had a white pine table, some trenchers to eat out of with a few dishes set upon a shelf, four chairs, two bedsteads, a chest of drawers with legs, two children, a dog, and a cat. He began focusing on the Old Testament rather than the New for his teaching, and his parishioners accused him of preaching immoral doctrine along with claiming the doctrine of faith was not found in the Old Testament and that a conscience was not a natural faculty, but the result of education.171 Although Buck continued to serve until his death in 1814, the congregation struggled for the rest of his tenure.172, The Hale and Lewis families were apparently influenced along with others by the Buck difficulty, and withdrew from his congregationalthough it is not clear if it was the immoral doctrine, issues of faith, those of a conscience, or all of these that offended them. The new Hale family frame home was not large enough to accomplish all of these tasks conveniently. Lavina Fielding Anderson, ed.,Lucys Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smiths Family Memoir(Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2001), 430. This suggests David rented land over the next decade from Levi Westfall who farmed with his father James two farms east of Isaac and Elizabeth Hales farm.251, Jesse and Alva Hale were both listed in the1820 census as heads of household while twenty-six-year-old David was included in his fathers household as an unnamed individual listed in his age category. Methodists in the township met at either one home or the other for worship services, elections, court sessions, or other community events. My Great-Great-Grandmother, Emma Hale Smith By Gracia N. Jones Ensign, Aug 1992, 30 Ever since the Prophet Joseph died as a martyr in Carthage, Illinois, some Latter-day Saints have felt disappointment that Joseph's wife Emma did not go with the Church in the westward exodus of the Saints in 1846-47. : mormon Isaac Hale (1763 - 1839): Father of Joseph Smith's lawful wife, Emma Smith. He selected a piece of property in the Susquehanna Valley for what he called his plantation, ordered long lists of specific trees and vegetable seed from distributors in England, and hired two menIsaac Hale and Nathaniel Lewisto clear part of thirty acres of land during the winter of 1800-1801 in anticipation of his settling the area. Ben Pykles, personal communication to author, December 28, 2011. They were Henry Drinker, who acquired large tracts of Willingborough Township, particularly on the south side of the river, and John Hilborn, who served as his land agent helping to sell the Drinker property. They have, however, long since been defaced, so as now to be invisible. This continued a struggle Joseph Smith faced for several years over how his taxes were determined. As the turnpike squeezed between the mountains, the rough road slumped into the Susquehanna Valley descending toward the river bend with its consistent early morning fog and faint smell of wet earth. Emma Hale was subpoenaed to testify, but Isaac gave details about the breakfast in his testimony, and Emma was not called. Elder Lewis is [in] good health for and old man. 18 (October 27, 1821): 141. Joseph SmithIII, Last Testimony of Sister Emma, Saints Herald, vol.26, no.19 (Oct.1, 1879),289. John Comfort, letter to Silas Comfort, Letter, February 23, 1838. 41. . Emma Hale Smith Birth date: July 10, 1804 Birth location: Harmony, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania Died: April 30, 1879 Death location: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois Emma was born 10 July 1804 to Isaac and Elizabeth Lewis Hale. After Joseph and Emma Hale Smiths marriage, they returned to the neighborhood that became for them a significant place in their familys timeline. Joseph lived near Palmyra, New York, but boarded with the Hales in Harmony while he was employed in a company of men hired by Josiah Stowell to unearth a "Dream Mine". Outline of Hale home basement, as suggested by archaeology. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. Wilkinson,Annals of Binghamton, 10708. He reminisced in his letter to his brothers and sisters of their childhood with their faithful parents. Nathaniel and Esther Lewis became Wells Townships first converts to Methodism. Born on July10, 1804, in Willingsborough (later Harmony), Pennsylvania, Emma Hale was the seventh of nine children of Isaac and Elizabeth Lewis Hale. Isaacs son David later erroneously claimed his uncle Nathaniel Lewis had served with his father during the Revolutionary War and the two men together had heard Ethan Allen swear, and so were not afraid of bears.75 Hale had served under Ebenezer Allen, not the more famous Ethan; and it was Davids grandfather Nathaniel Lewis, not his uncle who was then not quite eleven years old, who had enlisted as a private in the army and served for eight days the year following Hales service.76 Davids mistaken memory may have been due to his recalling stories of his fathers involvement with Ethan Allen in an attempt to create a new state out of northeastern Pennsylvania. Conflicts between church members and neighbors also continued to escalate, and eventually Young made the decision to relocate the church to the Salt Lake Valley. For dinner, they carried milk in bottles, and mush. George Peck covered the sermon book he used in the Hale home with gold and blue wallpaper left over from someones recent construction. 314. He said it was a young child. But his response to their home may not have been quite as exuberant as was his mothers when she visited it three years later, since she was more attuned to its elaborate character and what it did for ones place in the community. . The early involvement of Elizabeth in Methodism is discussed below. They also developed a close relationship and identification with local Native Americans, perhaps in part because of Daniel Bucks knowledge of their language and culture. 229. Wells Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 17322005, Wells, Vermont, Family Search, accessed 2008,http://FamilySearch.org. Isaac Hales perception of Joseph was that he was not very well educated, he was a stranger, and he followed a business that I could not approve.312 Given the social position and wealth of the Comfort family, when John and Phoebe Comforts son James was born in September 1805, he must have soon become one of the most eligible bachelors in the valley. Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,431. 9. 258. Together they weathered the financial collapse and threats against Josephs life in Kirtland, Ohio; the persecution of Church members in Missouri; and the separation imposed by Josephs imprisonment in Liberty Jail. isaac hale father of emma smith He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Florida incultural anthropology. after I went into the house I saw him troting through th apple tresI saw some people in the road and supposed he was hurrying to get up with themit was pretty near nightnumber of persons came into my house appeared much disturbed, much talk about the murder . John Comfort, one of the wealthiest men in the valley, a close friend of Isaac Hale and a member of the same Methodist congregation, regularly reported his success to a son in letters. While drains were common and the Smiths likely had one as well, had Isaac followed the plans he received from Pickering on his own home, the kitchen could have had clean water coming in and out with ease. A successful farmer, sawmill operator, and grain trader, Stowell hired the men either because he had heard something of a silver mine having been opened by the Spaniards or an old document had fallen into his possession, which minutely described the spot where a mine had existed in that valley.

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