18 (October 27, 1821): 141. It was the effectual, fervent prayer which prevails. Photographs of these headstones are in the authors collection. 30. : mormon Isaac Hale (1763 - 1839): Father of Joseph Smith's lawful wife, Emma Smith. : Frank Allaben Genealogical, 1911), 79. 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. See extended online version of Staker and Jensen, David Hales Store Ledger and later entries in the original ledger. Emma Smith - Wikipedia This conclusion is supported by a shift in the tax record on December 31, 1823, when David was taxed for one house and his fathers assessment dropped from two houses to one.254 Davids financial ledger from the period also indicates his store was on or near his fathers property by 1824, and the log home is the only candidate for both a residence and store.255, George Peck wrote notes on each sermon he delivered at Isaac Hales, he recalled he preached at . But I have not been able to reconcile the known data with this possibility. Several of Pickerings friends had purchased large tracts of land in the Susquehanna Valley from him; and those friends combined the properties together and gave them as a gift to Hamiltons widow for her familys support.155 Through this means Elizabeth Hamilton briefly became owner of a significant portion of the Hale neighborhood. . Alva borrowed the epitaph on Isaacs headstone from Benjamin Franklin: And stript of its lettering and gilding. Ancestry and Posterity of Joseph Smith and Emma Hale: With Little Sketches of Their Immigrant Ancestors All of Whom Came to America between the Years 1620 and 1685, and Settled in the States of Massachusetts and Connecticut. ; Smith and his father boarded with Isaac Hale in 1825 while working on Josiah Stowell's mining project. After 1843 it is very difficult to get a sense of the value of homes on property since the homes are included with all real property into a single value. The letter has one thousand eight hundred andthirteenfourteen written which is likely a correction because of a wrong year added just after the change on January 1. attended a Girls school for one year, he did not document his source. http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/june-2013/article/george-washington-s-incredible-garbage-dump. In 1865 the tax assessment noted a significant drop in value from $575 to $475, and Jehiel Dayton sold the land to James M. Tillman in 1868. Her husband, Dennison Root, and their children stayed in the Susquehanna Valley where some of their descendants live today. Blackman (History of Susquehanna County,9596) believed John Comfort built the first sawmill in the valley in 1809. Edward Lewis, however, also owned a dock at Coopers Island (a land mass in the river delta of New Inlet today known as Wills Island) where he would have been involved in shipping. 9. Susan Easton Black, Isaac Hale: Antagonist of Joseph Smith,Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: New York,1992, 93111. 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 . They were evidently painted by Indians; but when, or by whom, is not known. Based on her thirty years of experience doing archeology at Woodlands Native American sites, including one in the Susquehanna Valley at Great Bend, Nina M. Versaggi, Director, Public Archeology Facility, Binghamton University, has suggested the location may have been a local burial site or a sacred ritual site but was not likely the location of an early village or settlement, personal communication to author, September 13, 2013. Young Smith gave the "money-diggers" great encouragement, at first, but when they had arrived in digging, to near the place where he had stated an immense treasure would be found -- he said the enchantment was so powerful that he could not see. isaac hale father of emma smithwhere to privately print photos. Nathaniel Lewis and other Methodist preachers still held their camp meetings in the hollows and forests of the Endless Mountains, where the cries of the penitents were followed by shouts of deliverance.211, Elisha Bibbins and Marmaduke Pearce, brother-in-law to influential Shouting Methodist George Lane, briefly became the circuit riders for the valley in 1812and continued to encourage grove experiences.212They promised the faithful they could receive direct answer to prayer.213 Bibbins was a man of medium size with a prominent nose and benignant eyes who was so successful in his efforts to invite the interested to seek God in prayer that a local hunter found these Shouting Methodists praying in the woods disruptive and insisted they frightened the deer away [as] he came upon praying people everywhere.214. King, A Comparative Midden Analysis of a Household and Inn in St Marys City, Maryland,Historical Archaeology22, no. Chaffee,History of the Wyoming Conference, 49. While Lewis maintained the operation of the local congregation, circuit riders continued to come through the valley. 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. . [a] Although the company was unsuccessful in finding the suspected mine, Joseph and Emma secretly met several times at a friend's house. This hard winter preceded a severe drought the following spring and on June 6, 1800, a frost hit the county that killed most crops. In addition to being church president, Joseph had been trustee-in-trust for the church. 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. ; The character development appearing in later volumes received mixed comments by Isaac Hale and Sam Kusek from the same site. 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. Buck and Hale had left the Oquago Valley before it was settled, and J. Connecticut investors promoted Wells land; and Connecticut settlers filled its mountain valleys. 114. 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. The first sermons heard in Jackson [which was also part of Willingborough Township in the early settlement period] were those of Elder Nathaniel Lewis, a Methodist. Presumably each of the other children also inherited a small sum from their parents.297. 18008 Bothell Everett Hwy SE # F, Bothell, WA 98012. Perhaps part of Comforts lament about religious decline in the Susquehanna Valley was more a reflection of his own aging and the aging of his principal religious associates that it was due to any specific events. Larison,Sylvia Dubois, 57. If she were to have divorced Smith for his infidelity, she would have faced a difficult world being a woman of that era. 15. The only child of Isaac and Elizabeth that did not inherit the name of a family member was one of their daughters, Emma, who was born when her parents had a special relationship with a prominent family within the American gentry who may have influenced the name selection. Upham,Life of Timothy Pickering,118. 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. Her family was glad to see her. Hale gave me a cordial reception, and in the afternoon I preached in a little log school-house to a small but earnest congregation. Peck must have used the log home on the Hale property for some of his sermons. These men assessed real property in Harmony Township as directed in Section Eight of the General Assembly Act of April 11, 1799, implementing the tax laws that remained in place for many years (with some small revisions made in 1834 and 1844). He did not add any value (and hence no tax) to the Morse land but increased the Smith land value by $150.00. The fol-lowing year, David Hale began renting property from James Westfall, but he apparently continued to live on his father's land. David Hale's Store Ledger - BYU Studies Isaac was continuously taxed for a second home with the few exceptions discussed and explained in the text, until 1825 when it appears his son David Hale took over responsibility for the home. 148. Benson Bobrick,Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution(New York: Penguin Books, 1997),50-51, 148. 253. David recalled his father killed most of his wild game in the fall when it was the fattest and harvested about 100 deer each year along with bear, elk, and small animals. For additional documentation of the Hale and Wallace wedding, see Marriage Record of Antha Hale and Joseph Wallace, Enfield, Connecticut Town Records, 16821854, Enfield, Connecticut, June 23, 1789; Francis Olcott Allen,The History of Enfield, Connecticut(Lancaster, Pa.: The Wickersham Printing Co., 1900), 2:1786. Tench Francis dictated his will on April 4, 1800, leaving his large tract of Susquehanna Valley property to his wife. Emma Hale was subpoenaed to testify, but Isaac gave details about the breakfast in his testimony, and Emma was not called. . While helping Josiah Stowell look for the rumored Spanish silver, Joseph Smith Jr. took lodging on the rocky farmstead of the Hale familyan unproductive lot running from the riverbank north to Oquago Road above the floodplain. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. The law required that counties levy a tax on houses, mills, and various listed industrial sites. By referring or linking you to these resources, we do not endorse or guarantee the content or the views of the author. As the Hale family and their relatives in the valley joined Methodism one or two at a time over a period of several years, the son of Timothy Pickering Jr. died and Nathaniel Lewis moved his family into the larger Pickering home.223 The Lewis family lived in the large home until Pickering sold it to John Comfort in 1808 and gave Lewis a years notice to move his family out.224 This happened just as land ownership in the valley shifted and the settlers were finally forced to resolve their land titles. American Legal and Political Institutions, Christian Churches in Joseph Smiths Day, Daily Life of First-Generation Latter-day Saints, Joseph Smiths 1844 Campaign for United States President, Lectures on Theology (Lectures on Faith), Martin Harriss Consultations with Scholars, Printing and Publishing the Book of Mormon, Religious Beliefs in Joseph Smiths Day, Restoration of the Melchizedek Priesthood, Temple Dedications and Dedicatory Prayers, Vision of the Redemption of the Dead (D&C138), Emma Hale Smith, Church History Topics, Emma Smith, wife of Joseph Smith, played a prominent role in the restoration of the Church. Fanny Winters, a stepdaughter of Joseph McKune Sr., married Benjamin Comfort on May 12, 1829, and Catherine Winters, a sister of Fanny, married George W. Lane, a nephew of influential minister George Lane and son of Martin Lane, the prominent businessman after whom Lanesville was named.313 Robert McKune married Mary Hilborn and they moved into the Hilborn home at the death of her father, John.314 Hale sons Jesse and Ward each married a McKune girl as well, and the other Hale children married locally except Emma. MatthewJ. Timothy Pickering Letter to John Pickering, Starucca, May 3, 1807, Timothy Pickering Papers, 4:2. This continued the $10 assessment for the log home and $30 for the frame home. : M. J. Cantwell, 1882), 34. Upham,Life of Timothy Pickering,119. Emma and Joseph eloped on January18, 1827, in South Bainbridge, New York, and then went to live with the Smith family. But since Moses Comstock was the acknowledged first settler of the valley, the dating of William Smiths arrival is not firmly established. 118. He had been hired by Josiah Stowell, of South Bainbridge, New York, to dig for Spanish treasure. Stanley and Betty Coryell,Skinner Family History, 11. August 1830, Deed from Isaac and Elizabeth Hale, 25 August 1830, as . The Hales helped Emma and Joseph obtain a house and a small farm. Dubois and Pike,Centennial of Susquehanna County,73. Tradition claims for her some advanced education and surviving letters suggest she was not only a good speller but articulate and refined in her writing.310 It was natural for Isaac and Elizabeth Hale to hope for their daughter Emma a marriage that matched her with someone who reached her level of education. 91. Comfort apparently disagreed. Joseph Smith's father in law, Emma's father, the hunter and farmer and innkeeper Isaac Hale (17763-1839), was anything but a fan of his son in law. The remains of the homes foundation suggest Isaac and Elizabeth Hales frame home was 14 x 34 feet with a rear addition 12 x 24 feet. He took down his gun, shot the deer, and after dressing it, sent portions to his neighbors. The new Hale family frame home was not large enough to accomplish all of these tasks conveniently. Governors, academic leaders, businessmen, country farmers, and poor day laborers were all equally interested in finding hidden wealth in late eighteenth-century America and were equally disappointed in their failure to find anything of value. 123. In that remote region, we cannot conceive the farming will ever be profitable, a friend wrote.147, Pickering was part of the American gentry and had little in common with the Hale family. The Beers map has continued to influence some historians of Mormonism. Men spent their winters felling trees and dragging them over the frozen ground to the river where they floated logs to sawmills powered along its banks. 251. During the French and Indian War, he enlisted in New Haven, Connecticut, on March 22, 1762, in the 2nd Regiment 9th Company to fight under Captain Archibald McNeil who took part of his regiment to Havana, Cuba, to avenge Spanish involvement in the conflict. Not included in this list but included in the original act were fulling mills, slitting mills, and rolling mills. While in 1820 this may have principally been Isaac Hales meat trading in major commercial markets in the southern part of the state, it may have also been an early indication of David Hales store operation, 1820 U.S. Census, Harmony, Pennsylvania. frozen kasha varnishkes. 21. I told him as God has convinced him it is his duty to pray in secret, he ought to pray for a heart to pray. The minister then went on to partially defend his inability to pray as directed by telling Colbert about the Shaking Quakers, or Shakers, a religious group Colbert had not heard about, who had an old woman among them calld the Elect Lady, who fortold her own death. While she accurately predicted the time of her death, the minister was convinced the devil had come to take her. : Harvard University Press, 1986), 168, 173, 22932. R. Hines Statement,Naked Truths About Mormonism1 (January 1888): 2. Although Raymond Bailey noted It is thought [Emma] . Carol Cornwall Madsen, My Dear and Beloved Companion: The Letters of Joseph and Emma Smith, Ensign, Sept.2008, 1015. 160. 238. 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. The Warrior Path was a major travel route created by Native Americans on foot as war parties moved rapidly through the region to control territory of interest to competing tribes active in the beaver fur trade.37It also led to hunting grounds along the rivers tributaries. . [13] The bank's demise led to serious problems for the church and the Smith family. Her options were further limited because travel was difficult and her father had died in 1839. 5 Member of Methodist church. But in her sons eyes she managed to die a good Christian death as was expected at the time. After this, Martin Harris went away, and Oliver Cowdery came and wrote for Smith, while he interpreted as above described. 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. The Hales farmed near Harmony, Pennsylvania, and operated a country inn. In 1777 fifty-nine-year-old grandfather Ward was killed at Addision, Vermont, while fighting against General Burgoyne and a large Native American force that had mostly come from the Susquehanna Valley in northern Pennsylvania after 1,200 American soldiers burned their villages and massacred their families.22 In 1780, when Hale was seventeen, he enlisted, along with his uncle David, to fight under Colonel Ebenezer Allens command as they sought to prevent Canadian military raids into the Mohawk Valley. 66. 169. Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,102. New Patient Forms; Methodist circuit rider William Colbert left Lackawanna, fifty miles south of the Hale home, on Monday, December 3, 1792, heading north on horseback to take his increasingly popular religion into the Endless Mountains. 113. 7 [citation needed] She and Bidamon had no children of their own. They were not allowed to come into a room where their parents were talking with strangers, unless they were invited in; and if a stranger came in to talk to their parents, they were to bow and withdraw from the room.300 A good son would wait to speak to his father until spoken to, and then answer in as few words as possible. 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. Emma Hale was born on July 10, 1804, in Harmony Township, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania,[7] the seventh child of Isaac Hale and Elizabeth Lewis Hale. When Isaac Hale was a young boy in New Haven, Connecticut, he was raised in a culture that promoted the search for gold. 165. isaac hale father of emma smith - The North Creek Clinic EMMA HALE In late 1825, Joseph Smith was working as a hired hand on a farm in South Bainbridge, New York. Isaac and Elizabeth Hale in Their Endless Mountain Home 106. which was then sanctioned by the government.69 Nathaniel Lewis reenlisted in the navy at Sea Brook, Connecticut, where he served until July 22, 1763.70 But after his father, Gershom, died in Litchfield Township October 18, 1766, 27-year-old Nathaniel returned to Guilford to marry Esther Tuttle January 16, 1767. boonie bears monster plan; lowest temperature in pensacola, fl; glencoe high school basketball George Catlin,Last Rambles Amongst the Indians of the Rocky Mountains and the Andes(New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1867), 910. 228. . A grandson of Isaac and Elizabeth Hale, Lorenzo D. Wasson left the valley for Nauvoo, Illinois, perhaps to share news of Isaacs death, but also to learn more about his aunts unusual religion. Rachel Cope, A Sacred Space for Women: Hymnody in Emma Hale Smiths Theology, Journal of Religious History (2017). Trial Notes Scribe A and Trial Notes Scribe B.. Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,95. A hoe found at the site suggests it may have been more than simply a hunting camp since women worked there too. She was baptized on 28 June 1830, shortly after the Church was organized. I have accepted the date as Blackman gives it, assuming Hale remained in the valley through the winter. Emma served the needy: in Kirtland, she and Elizabeth Ann Whitney coordinated feasts for the poor, and in Nauvoo, she opened her home to the sick, orphaned, and homeless. [7] Her funeral was held May 2, 1879, in Nauvoo with RLDS Church minister Mark Hill Forscutt preaching the sermon. Saved to reddit here. The Reverend Elam Potter had grown up in the same villages as the Hale family, and he was an ardent abolitionist. Joseph identified the man as the angel Moroni. Year-round running water in the home would have been a comfort worthy of notice. He established another congregation about ten miles upriver from the Hales in South Bainbridge, New York, and found success in other valleys in the region. This brought tension between the communities. 135. 137. isaac hale father of emma smith - theluxxorgroup.com . 186. There may have been an additional Lewis son who became a preacher, but John and Nathaniel are the only two known. After the half starved Colbert ate with a nasty dirty woman and her nasty children, he established a black class in the valley west of Willingborough and then headed home.182 Methodist classes were loose associations that gathered for Bible study and provided organized service to help the needy in a community, and the white members of the community typically organized classes independently from their black members.183 This class would have operated without formal support or direction and would not have taken religion over the mountain to the Susquehanna Valley. He indicated Jesse Hales household was involved in agriculture while Isaac Hales household was involved in commerce. 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.). He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Florida incultural anthropology. Matt Kirk and Corey McQuinn, Hartgen and Associates, Inc. isaac hale father of emma smith. Net Worth: $1 Million - $2 Million (Approx.). . Since Isaac Hale was in the valley several years before he settled it with his family, it is likely he arrived after Hale was first there. George Peck recalled, during the years he was a circuit rider preaching in the Hale home, how his own fourteen-year-old sister developed a similar missionary enthusiasm. His information on Emmas early conversion appears to be part of what he learned directly from her. 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. Isaac HALE - familytrees.genopro.com : Stanley and Betty Coryell, 2005), 11. 231. After Nathaniel Lewis married Sarah Cole, Isaac Hale arrived back in Wells sometime in the summer of 1790. [citation needed] When he and the majority of the Latter Day Saints of Nauvoo abandoned the city in early 1846, Emma and her children remained behind in the emptied town.[21]. 1833, September 2, 1832; Theological Seminary,General Catalogue of the Theological Seminary(Andover, Mass. After his mother died and his father remarried, Hale joined his maternal grandparents Phebe and "the enterprising Arah Ward, mill-builder and pioneer," in Waterbury, Connecticut. One Sabbath morning, in the year 1812 when provisions were scarce, he sat reading his Bible preparatory to preaching, when he discovered a deer near his house. She soon began selecting the hymns to be sung in church meetings, working with W.W. Phelps to print some of them in 1832 in Church newspapers at a time when male clergy typically assumed responsibility for hymn selection. Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,433. 244. A curved foundation wall on the west side of the home may have been part of the original log home cellar. 26. Joseph Smith III, Last Testimony of Sister Emma,Saints Herald26 (October 1, 1879): 290. 121. When he arrived, Colonel Pickering wrote to his son Henry that Nathaniel Lewis, who has been much used to sick persons, and whose experience enables him to judge better than I, thinks your brother not likely to survive three days longer.160 Tim Pickering mentally prepared to die in good nineteenth-century fashion with a serenity of mind, flowing from a sincere and constant endeavor to preserve aconscience void of offence toward God and toward man!161 Lewis was right and his brother-in-law died three days later on May 14, 1807.162 Isaac Hale helped bury him on the brow of a hill between the mountain and Starucca [Creek]. On the day of his burial, Colonel Pickering wrote of his son, I intimated to Hail and Lewis my wish that flat stones might be set up at his grave. In 1834, Isaac Hale, who was the father-in-law of Mormon prophet Joseph Smith, swore a legal affidavit against Joseph saying that Joseph was involved in trea. 16. In addition to all the testimonies above we also have the testimony of Mr. Isaac Hale, Emma Smith's father, and this man didn't pull any punches with his opinion about his son-in-law's lifestyle. 179. 83. Life on the Hale farm remained difficult and isolated during the early years of settlement. She was the same age as Oliver Cowderys older brother Warren and could name some of the individuals involved with the Rodsmen but was uncertain of Cowdery family involvement. Rose charged the Hales $3.79 an acre for their land which was more than ten times the amount Bennett initially paid for it and a dollar per acre higher than Rose charged Isaac and Elizabeth Hales neighbors, suggesting he took advantage of the added value twenty years of Hale family improvements had given the land. In July 1830 the Lord outlined her mission, in a revelation: Thou art an elect lady, whom I have called. 144. A neighbor of the Lewis family, Old Mr. Fry, was among those who brought the practice with him. Lawrence Bothwell, ed.,The Journals of Seth Williston, 17961800(Binghamton, NY: Broome County Historical Society, 1992), 108. Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society,Rolls of Connecticut Men in the French and Indian War, 17551762, 344345. 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 noted Elizabeth Hale was for fifty years a consistent member of the Methodist church (Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,103). Isaac Hale and Elizabeth Lewis may have attended the same church services. One day, when Elisha Bibbins was the circuit rider, Isaac came across his daughter Emma in the woods while out hunting.216 Mr. . For additional background see Francis Whiting Halsey,The Old New York Frontier(New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1901), 28. The tax valuations of log homes in the valley tended to fall into specific ranges that suggest they had common elements. . Numerous contemporary sources suggest a large group of treasure diggers stayed on the Isaac and Elizabeth Hale property in 1825 and perhaps as early as 1824. Blackman (History of Susquehanna County,88) believed John Hilborn did not arrive in the valley until 1791 to serve as an agent for Henry Drinker, who arrived shortly afterward. Wells village in the central valley became the center of business in the township, while the northeastern portion of the town where the Lewis family lived did business in the village in neighboring Middletown Township where a booming settlement began to develop.
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