155. Isaac Hale is the son of the wealthiest farmer in the village where Feyre Archeron and her family live. I have selected the standard spelling for use here, see Sarah M. Kimball, letter to Marinda Hyde, January 2, 1848, Marinda Hyde Papers 18381849, CHL; Nauvoo Stake High Council Minutes, October 27, 1839, (rough book), CHL; and Oliver Cowdery, Diary and Nauvoo High Council Minutes (fair copy), 2728, CHL. In 1788 more white settlers came to the valley where Hale and Buck first met, and Daniel Buck became their first minister.51 He also established a congregation in the Susquehanna Valley where the Hale family and their Lewis in-laws attended his services.52 Jonathan Bennett served as the deacon of the congregation.53. Peck,Life and Times,68; George Peck, Memorandums of Circuit Travels, 18161818; Peck,Early Methodism,256. 60. But as part of what then existed of an American aristocracy, he immediately gave status to the Lewis and Hale families, a relationship the family still referenced a half-century later. (Rutland: Tuttle & Co., 1869), 33; see also, Almon Chandler Hopson, Wells,Vermont Historical Magazine,in Abby Maria Hemenway, ed.,The History of Rutland County, Vermont: Civil, Ecclesiastical, Biographical and Military(White River Junction, Vt.: White River Paper Co., 1882), 1191. This negative depiction appears to have been more rhetoric than reality for Bishop Asbury as it was for Colbert. Although most of what Forscutt shares about Emmas life comes from previously published sources and he clearly confuses some of the historical information, he also had conversations with her about her life from time to time. As a result, his estate was entirely wrapped up with the finances of the church. Wilkinson,Annals of Binghamton,108. "[11] She served as president of the Relief Society until 1844. The tax valuations of log homes in the valley tended to fall into specific ranges that suggest they had common elements. Thou shalt be blessed with understanding, and have power to instruct thy sex, teach thy family righteousness, and thy little ones the way of life, and the holy angels shall watch over thee and thou shalt be saved in the kingdom of God, even so, Amen., Copyright 2023 The Joseph Smith Jr and Emma Hale Smith Historical Society, Joseph Smith Jr and Emma Hale Smith Historical Society 2023, Short Biographies of Joseph, Emma, and their family. He may have also sailed ships himself. F. Russell Meyer,The Reverend Elam Potter(Enfield, Conn.: Enfield Congregational Church, 2002). http://clegg-webb.com/Histories/Nelson%20Wheeler%20Whipple%20History.html. Paul,History of Wells,3334. 119. 1828 Susquehanna County Tax Records. During that year, Buck was charged with teaching false doctrine, leading some members of his congregation to try removing him from his position. She is buried in the Catholic Cemetery at Nauvoo, Illinois. 236. He immediately commenced paying his addresses to her.17 Emmas parents saw in her the same example of grace, refinement, and gentility they hoped their home could give. 74. Isaac also served his country in the Revolutionary war. Shortly after Emmas death, Forscutt spent five days writing up his history of Emma while living with her son Joseph III. . Anyone who lived in the region automatically became a South Sea man whether connected to the sea or not. 290. There may have been an additional Lewis son who became a preacher, but John and Nathaniel are the only two known. 225. Upham,Life of Timothy Pickering, 4:119. Farmers, ministers, and school masters were exempt from a tax on their trade. 300. 11. 316. 15. Whatever his text might be, after a short introduction, to fightfatalism,was always the subject and object of his discourse.200His opposition to predestination and to determinism fit comfortably with the emphasis of Free Will Baptists who were also successful in the region and took many of his members.201When John Gould, who would later become a follower of Joseph Smith, was busily establishing Free Will Baptist congregations in 1818, he drew primarily from Nathaniel Lewiss Methodists in the same areas and formed a group in Choconut village in Susquehanna County.202, One day when Nathaniel Lewis was preaching to a small group of individuals in the area, some unruly boys disturbed the meeting to such an extent that the elders patience gave way, and he upbraided them as the mosthogmaticalset of scoundrels he ever saw. 123. A key element of their religious activity was the use of divining rods to receive revelation. Emma Smith letter to Joseph Smith, Mar.7, 1839, in Joseph Smith Letterbook 2, 37, josephsmithpapers.org. This did not happen, however, until the family already had considerable religious experience. The Saints Herald(April 9, 1935): 465. 176. 195. 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. Upham,Life of Timothy Pickering, 117. It is not clear why only Alva and Emma are listed as Hale children in the records. Outline of Hale home basement, as suggested by archaeology. 122. Dodd, 1856), 1213. The turnpike crossed the river at the bridge into Lanesville where it continued south past what locals called the Vermont settlement on Tyler Road. There is no extant record of Emma ever seeing her parents again. These were frame homes with the most expensive valued at $80. [13] A Methodist minister performed the ceremony. The oldest sons of Isaac and Elizabeth Hale were mature when the family finished their frame home, and they may have preferred their independence staying in the log home where they had grown up. Cookie Notice 162. There are also two other individuals buried in unmarked graves within the row of Hale family headstones. Here young Joseph Smith Jr. fell in love with a beautiful maiden named Emma Hale. Wilford C. Wood later purchased a portion of this property and suggested it was the site where the Melchizedek Priesthood had been restored, presumably influenced by the 1874 atlas, see Historic Site Files, CHL. MatthewJ. He in turn hired Isaac Hale the following summer of 1793 to make sure the road on this last segment was properly constructed from Colesville south through the eastern edge of Willingborough Township.109 The segment of road Hale supervised construction on became the Harmony Turnpike as it passed along the eastern edge of Oquago Mountain.110 But the side roads remained barely passable for years afterward. Journals from the region indicate women held tea parties frequently.248 Many fragments of white kaolin clay tobacco pipes suggest that men also gathered at the home to socialize.249. His protg Silas Comfort Swallow described himself as a child of many prayers, my father having been a Methodist Class Leader and my mother an old time shouting Methodist, with a consistent life behind it, that shouted equally as loud. 207. 172. 118. Between sermons Francis Asbury designated Nathaniel Lewis and four others as local preachers and ordained Lewis a Deacon. Six years had passed since then. Little is known about Emmas knowledge and feelings about these marriages, some of which entailed commitments in this life while others involved commitments for the next life only. See also, Mark Ashurst-McGee, A Pathway to Prophethood: Joseph Smith Junior as Rodsman, Village Seer, and Judeo-Christian Prophet, (masters thesis, Utah State University, 2000); Dan Vogel, The Locations of Joseph Smiths Early Treasure Quests,Dialogue27 (Fall 1994): 20407. Emma Hale never saw her parents again after the Kirtland era. Emma also compiled a second hymnal by the same title, which was published in Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1841. Even decades later, the Hale men were hired by their neighbors to cut meat, soften it with saleratus, and smoke it for eating in later months. 3. The tune existed in American folklife earlier than the comic opera and may have made its way to Shuckburgh through another source, but the connection of the two would have been apparent to many Pennsylvanians. After Joseph and Emma Hale Smiths marriage, they returned to the neighborhood that became for them a significant place in their familys timeline. This was considered one of the miracles the couple experienced together. : mormon Isaac Hale (1763 - 1839): Father of Joseph Smith's lawful wife, Emma Smith. Alva remained in the valley with his family and cared for her. He had exceptional spelling and wrote letters in a refined, practiced hand. Isaac Hale, Harmony Township, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, U.S. Census, 1830. Upham,Life of Timothy Pickering,3641. In 1825 it had been eight years since Joseph Smith Jr. and his father left the green mountains of Vermont for the more open landscape of western New York. He did not add any value (and hence no tax) to the Morse land but increased the Smith land value by $150.00. Timothy Pickering Jr., Drawings and Instructions for a House in the Country, The Timothy Pickering Papers, 17451820, 45:4955, Massachusetts Historical Society. This set into motion the events that ultimately led to Joseph's arrest and incarceration in the jail in Carthage, Illinois. their object is not to emancipate the slave but they mean it as a hobby to overthrow the Democracy of the government.John Comfort, letter to Silas Comfort, Letter, February 23, 1838. [10] Beginning at age eight, she was involved in the local Methodist Episcopal Church in Harmony, reading the Bible and singing hymns. Emily Blackman also suggested that Daniel Buck arrived in the valley in 1787, Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,53. While the Hale property changed owners, Pennsylvania sold 9,000 acres of remaining land in the valley to Colonel Timothy Pickering Jr., a Harvard graduate, intellectual, military officer, and politician. 304. 231. Report filed in the Historic Sites Files, Historic Sites Division, LDS Church History Department. 113. 228. Diantha Ward was the mother of Isaac Hale. A local member of the Presbyterian congregation Zachariah Tarble was named after his uncle Zachariah who was captured by Indians as a young boy, along with a brother and sister, and taken into Canada where he became a Mohawk chiefa source of family pride.54 The younger Zachariah Tarble became a local Justice of the Peace and performed the marriage of Emma Hale and Joseph Smith Jr. His cousin Thomas Tarble married Daniel Bucks daughter Mary and worked on Abel Stowells farm.55. Elizabeth Hales brother Nathaniel had joined the Methodists in Wells, Vermont, with his parents along with some of [their] children and neighbors. But Elizabeth had not.181 Because of her fathers conversion, however, she may have been sympathetic to Methodism early. 72. 120. He has an almost strictly sexual relationship with Feyre. In early 1776 Nathaniel Lewis transferred his home with its sixteen acres of land by deed to his commanding officer, David Welch, and he took his family north to the Green Mountains.73 Although the family may have traveled with relatives, Elizabeth Lewis at only eight-years-old still held significant responsibility during the move, helping her expecting mother with her brothers and sisterseven-year-old Nathaniel Jr., five-year-old John, and two-year-old Esther. MacKay, et al. Elizabeth delivered her last child, Reuben, on September 18, 1810. ; The character development appearing in later volumes received mixed comments by Isaac Hale and Sam Kusek from the same site. In every flowr, and shrub, and tree, Gods goodness you may plainly see.187 Hymn writing became a popular pastime in the Susquehanna Valley and Justin Clark, editor of the local newspaper The Centinel,regularly published to an interested audience information in his newspaper about religious music, including locally written hymns under various pseudonyms.188, It took several more years before Methodism made its way to the Susquehanna Valley. 4 (Fall 1984): 44950. Davis, Lewises Who Served Their Country, 117. His carefully drawn plans for each floor of the home and elevation sketches for the building exterior depicted two main rooms with a typical window arrangement of two at the front of each room separated by a front door on the main level and five windows on the upper level in a common pattern for the period usually described by scholars as an I-house and sometimes described popularly as, five, four, and a door. While the Pickering home included its stairway access at the rear, and had a third floor half-story level, because the Hale home rear was added later, it had the more common stairway pattern at the front of the home which divided two equal halves, and the 1857 rough sketch of the home depicts a two-story structure. 5. Two of the ominous headstones at the edge of the turnpike were for Joseph Smith, who died on March 10, 1792, and Josiah Stow, a local farmer and grave robber, who died on April 2, 1820, the latter not to be confused with Josiah Stowell. 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. A second son, Frederick Granger Williams Smith (named after Frederick G. Williams, a counselor in the church's First Presidency), followed on June 29, 1836. 6562331), https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6562331/isaac-hale (accessed 12 July 2022). Searle, diary, June 1832Nov. Since Whaley wrote several decades before Blackman and drew directly from letters and personal conversations with the individuals discussed, his dating was likely more accurate. Isaacs grandmother may not have lived long afterward, however, or others agreed to take over responsibility for her care, since in 1784 Hale deeded the property earmarked for her care to his uncle David Ward, and he left for Connecticut.26 Hale may have returned to his birthplace to reconnect with the rest of his Ward relatives, particularly his uncles and aunts Jesse and Eunice Ward Cady and Daniel and Tryal Ward Curtis, since he later named two of his children Jesse and Tryal. On 23 December 1847, which would have been Joseph's 42nd birthday, Bidamon and Smith were married in Nauvoo by a Methodist circuit rider. 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. Jesse reduced the value of Isaac Hales land on appeal by $150.00. While Mumford was in the township David Hale was not taxed for a residence.281 Jeriah Mumford also paid taxes on the 434 acres of unseated lands (not occupied) for which the Joseph Smith connected to Jacob Smith was first taxed for in 1823. . 25. Isaac Hale is a Guitarist, zodiac sign: Cancer. Isaac Hale had initially welcomed Smith when he came to Harmony, Pennsylvania where Emma grew up, looking for a place to stay and continue his translation of the Golden Plates from which the Book of Mormon would be translated from. 4 Son of Reuben Hale and Diantha Ward. Net Worth: $1 Million - $2 Million (Approx.). Road Proposal, Court of Quarter Session of Peace, November, 16, 1857, Susquehanna County Courthouse. An individual of David Hale's age range was listed in the Isaac Hale house - hold for the year but may have been living elsewhere on the property. It puts his conversion to early 1779, however, which is a year before his parents were supposedly converted. Emma Hale Smith, Blessing, June 1844, typescript, Church History Library, Salt Lake City. Joseph boarded at the nearby home of Isaac Hale, where he met Emma, Isaac's twenty-year old daughter. Hartgen, Report, and Hartgen Archeological Field Investigations. While the site did not yield wine glasses or other drinking paraphernalia common to tavern sites, it did yield an abundance of white clay pipe stems and bowl fragments often found at tavern sites. In the morning after Asburys arrival, he attended a camp meeting already underway for two days and extolled, God is in the camp and with us.196 He added that more than a thousand people had gathered to the meetingquite an event for the little valley. She would eventually bear nine children and adopt two others, four of whom died at birth or shortly after, and two who died as toddlers. . After several decades his congregations became Presbyterians, and these Presbyterians continued to play an active role in community affairs. 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. 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. 124. The young prophet was installed therein not exactly to the satisfaction of the other members of the family. See Returned as Elected, Quarter Sessions Docket, Susquehanna County, 3: 3637, 7071, 101, 120. People of all faiths and perspectives are welcome to engage in civil, respectful discussion about topics related to Mormonism. 89. 134. He reminisced in his letter to his brothers and sisters of their childhood with their faithful parents. Isaac Hale hereby Covenants and agrees to sell and convey to the said Joseph Smith J un. GitHub export from English Wikipedia. Lucy Mack Smith, Lucy Mack Smith, History, 1845, 190, josephsmithpapers.org. Drawing by Ted. . In late 1806 Joel Smith replaced Stier and Lee as the Methodist circuit rider assigned to the Tioga circuit that included Harmony. Emily Austin noted Emma was a school teacher, a fine girl, of good repute and respectable, though poor parentage. Emily M. Austin,Mormonism, or, Life Among the Mormons(Madison, Wisc. Since Carmalt turned all of his uncollected debts to Rose when he left the valley, it is likely Hale purchased the Carmalt land through Rose as well. After her death in 1879, her sons published a transcript of an interview in which she purportedly denied Joseph had ever sanctioned plural marriage.6 Notwithstanding the religious and emotional turmoil over this practice, Emma maintained a deep love for Joseph. The first of Isaac and Elizabeth Hales children to leave were those daughters who had married husbands from outside the community. But he is never mentioned in later accounts of Rodsmen activity. [citation needed] Joseph had also been in debt when he died, leaving the responsibility to pay it on Emma Smith's shoulders. 252. Contribute to chinapedia/wikipedia.en development by creating an account on GitHub. 147. Emily Blackman cites Isaacs affidavit verbatim in her preliminary draft of herHistory of Susquehanna County,but makes some minor changes and introduces errors in dating in her published version, Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,581. 6. Approx. 66. Yeah, I doyou squeeze in. If Blackman was counting from the date she wrote her account in 1872 it would put Elizabeths conversion to 1822, probably too late since most of her family joined much earlier. Joseph courted Emma Hale while she lived in her parents home, and he hoped to marry her in its parlor, as was custom in the valley. Although Dubois recalled that her masters large new frame house was the first frame building in the area, she must not have noticed others in the region, since a few settlers had already begun to replace their log structures by the beginning of the nineteenth century. In May 1829, Emma and Joseph left Harmony and went to live with David Whitmer in Fayette, New York. Isaac and Elizabeth Hale had few expenses during their early years. In addition to being church president, Joseph had been trustee-in-trust for the church. In June 1844, the press of the Nauvoo Expositor, a newspaper published by disaffected former church members, was destroyed by the town marshal on orders from the town council (of which Joseph was a member). 21. Emmas patriarchal blessing, given on 9 December 1834 by her father-in-law, Joseph Smith, Sr., presents important information concerning Emmas contribution to the Restoration, how the Lord viewed Emma, and what he promised her. The next day after this happened, I went to the house where Joseph Smith Jr., lived, and where he and Harris were engaged in their translation of the Book. Menu and widgets Posted by June 29, 2022 amelie zilber brother on isaac hale father of emma smith June 29, 2022 amelie zilber brother on isaac hale father of emma smith Even the elite where Isaac lived as a boy put resources into discovering precious metal. 48. The hunters came to trade, to sell deer meat, bear meat, wild turkeys, and the like, and to exchange the skins of wild animals for such commodities, as they wished. She remembered they often had a good time. This may have influenced Elizabeths great-granddaughter Mary Anderson who gave the same date. Written byMark L. Staker Published: 08 June 2015. Many Latter Day Saints believed that her eldest son, Joseph Smith III, would one day be called to hold the same position that his father had held. DuBois and Pike, The Centennial of Susquehanna County, 1888, 36. Personalities in the Doctrine and Covenants and Joseph SmithHistory. Both Don Carlos Smiths would die the next year. This local awakening had more in common with the Second Great Awakening that would begin in a few years, however, since it attracted the unchurched in the area until nearly all the families in the valley offered morning and evening prayers.168 Both the Hale and Lewis families were caught up in this awakening, and the parents took their one-year-old sons, Alva Hale and Levi Lewis, to Buck for baptism.169, John B. Buck, a grandson of Daniel Buck, recalled years later, after the valleys Congregationalists had transformed themselves into Presbyterians, how during the 1790s the congregation, was scattered up and down the river, in cabins. While there was not a single Elect Lady among the Methodists who could prophesy and reveal the will of God, many of the women among the Shouting Methodists found themselves in the woods seeking inspiration as they reminded the young they should be retiring to the grove for a solitary walk, or private devotion.185 They saw themselves as saints in the tradition of early Christianity, and their hymns encouraged them to pray, asking to see the power of God manifested.186 To reinforce this effort, they sang Ye saints, who love the Lords dear name, Who love to worship at his feet . 313. This was when Isaac helped build the Lewis home and just before he built his own. Although earning a living remained difficult, settlers continued to come. Lyman H. Bagg, Marriages in West Springfield, Mass.The New England Historical and Genealogical Register,July 1881, 232. Robert H. Rose, letter to Miss Jane Hodge, August 20, 1808. As a native of Cape Cod and a South Sea man, born to Mary and Gershom Lewis in Gilford, Connecticut, Nathaniel Lewis grew up in shipping and worked for a time as a sailor.63 He also lived on the Connecticut coast within view of Gardiners Island where Captain William Kidd purportedly buried stolen silver before moving to Block Island to negotiate his surrender for piracy. 1833, Letter to David Hale, 1219February 1841, Travel Account and Questions, November 1837. 79. Both she and Joseph III traveled to a conference at Amboy, Illinois. King notes, drawing on her own work and that of other archaeologist, that while rural taverns show more evidence of food preparation in the archaeological record than do urban taverns, there is still an abundance of ceramic fragments for drinking paraphernalia along with those for other socializing activities, such as group smoking, at both types of taverns (18). 294. Annotated Record of Baptisms for the Dead. John Comfort, letter to Silas Comfort, January 17, 1840. It helped shape their place in that community as the residence of a pious, Christian family. The best candidate for a residence for the treasure diggers is the Isaac and Elizabeth Hale log home. [11] It was titled A Collection of Sacred Hymns, for the Church of the Latter Day Saints[13] and contained 90 hymn texts but no music. Not long after this, he returned, and while I was absent from home, carried off my daughter, into the state of New York, where they were married without my approbation or consent. The Stow Cemetery is also known as Lyons Farm Cemetery and North Windsor Cemetery. Stonemasons work in a distinctive style that makes it possible to identify headstones as coming from a particular individual as is done with other works of art. He blamed Federalists and Whigs for their problems.282, John Comfort saved his harshest words for the decline of religion in Harmony. There would not be a gristmill within twenty miles for another two decades and the family likely ate little grain themselves. July 4, 2022 . Unlike other members of the Smith family who had at times favored the claims of James J. Strang or William Smith, Emma and her children continued to live in Nauvoo as unaffiliated Latter Day Saints. [11] Untangling the church's debts and property from Emma's personal debts and property proved to be a long and complicated process for Emma and her family. Methodist Martin Lane controlled the turnpike, operated a large sawmill, and was a partner in a dry goods store. Joseph introduced the practice carefully and incrementally, marrying many additional wives, each of whom vowed to keep their participation confidential. While Comfort did not elaborate on the details of the Hale family exodus, or the apparent religious conflict he had with the family, the following spring he wrote to his son, Jesse Hale Ward Hale and Reuben Hale moved last season out on the Alegany and David Hale went this winter the last of sleighing to the same place and also Daniel Westfall moved near the same place the fore part of winter. She was also charged to act as a scribe to Joseph, to expound the scriptures, to exhort the Church, and to coordinate the publication of sacred music in a hymnbook. Almon Munsons Tavern. The headstone, made by Eclectic Man, included visual symbols from Harpers life.4, As the group rattled closer to Harmony Township, they traveled the last section of the turnpike in an experience described by a later newspaper reporter as like being rolled in a barrel. He insisted the turnpike could guarantee the traveler a shaking he will not forget in a month. But the reporter acknowledged, And what is the one thing that would atone for so many inconveniences? . Isaac Hale, and perhaps his family, likely attended these meetings during the early settlement period. See Jirah Mumford & Co., in the Harmony Township Tax Assessment records from 18261831. History Department. Hale would have needed a smokehouse and butchery to process his regular catch of game, and these were likely the first outbuildings he built after a privyif he built onenot everyone did in the early years. Timothy Pickering Letter to John Pickering, Starucca, May 3, 1807, Timothy Pickering Papers, 4:2. Andrew Tracys 17991801 diary as cited in Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,11516. Blackman,History of Susquehanna County, 138. Grow, Thou Art an Elect Lady: D&C 24, 25, 26,27, Matthew McBride and James Goldberg,eds., Revelations in Context: The Stories behind the Sections of the Doctrine and Covenants (Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2016), 3339. [citation needed] As she had in Kirtland, Emma Smith lead "the work of boarding and clothing the men engaged in building [the Nauvoo temple]". 7 Dubois believed, Taint no use to worryit only makes things worse. Last Will and Testament of Isaac Hale, Susquehanna County, Pa., Wills and Administrations, 18121921, December 23, 1838, 1:21213. [22], Emma and her family lived with friendly non-Mormons John and Sarah Cleveland in Quincy, Illinois, until Joseph escaped custody in Missouri.
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