Anderson, Ancestry and Posterity of Joseph Smith, 299. 21, 1763, at New Haven, CT. As a small boy his maternal grandfather, Arah Ward (who had a grist mill, and married to Phebe Towner 1717-1784) took Isaac to Vermont sometime after his mother, Diantha, passed away and his father, Reuben, after remarrying, removed to Hartland in 1771. The announcement of Joseph having the plates created a great deal of excitement in the area. Upham,Life of Timothy Pickering,119. 4:5 . ; The character development appearing in later volumes received mixed comments by Isaac Hale and Sam Kusek from the same site. Personalities in the Doctrine and Covenants. Some of it was even shipped overseas. As the family worked, Connecticut and Pennsylvania soon resolved their competing land claims, and on April 4, 1789, the state of Pennsylvania sold the Hale and Lewis farms to George Ruper as part of a large tract of land that included much of the valley.94b Pennsylvania separated the valley from Tioga Township in March 1791, and made the entire valley Willingborough Township, a part of Luzerne County.95 As Isaac and Elizabeth Hale settled in Willingborough Township, Ruper sold most of his land to Tench Francis, a merchant in Philadelphia, who became their new landlord. Since he made his living hunting, there was little need to store a harvest of grain and animal feed. There must have been a good mill seat in addition to an emotional connection between the sacred site and Bucks Native American upbringing since Buck built a sawmill on the river there. . Isaac Hale is a Guitarist, zodiac sign: Cancer. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Florida incultural anthropology. 221. [11], On March 17, 1842, the Ladies' Relief Society of Nauvoo was formally organized as the women's auxiliary to the church. 18008 Bothell Everett Hwy SE # F, Bothell, WA 98012. A key element of their religious activity was the use of divining rods to receive revelation. That fall, Joseph obtained the gold plates and continued his mission of being an instrument in the hands of God in restoring the gospel. Porter, Larry C. A Study of the Origins of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the States of New York and Pennsylvania, 18161831. PhD diss., Brigham Young University, 1971. Thomas and Mary Buck Tarble became part of the same Presbyterian community near Ouaquaga village where Josiah Stowell served as a deacon.After her husband Thomas was killed in an accident and buried on Abel Stowells farm, Mary moved to father-in-law John S. Tarbeles home a little south of the Hale family. 6562331), https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6562331/isaac-hale (accessed 12 July 2022). 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. Alongside W. W. Phelps, Emma Smith compiled a Latter Day Saint hymnal, published in 1835. Both Don Carlos Smiths would die the next year. The turnpike crossed the river at the bridge into Lanesville where it continued south past what locals called the Vermont settlement on Tyler Road. Lawrence Bothwell, ed.,The Journals of Seth Williston, 17961800(Binghamton, NY: Broome County Historical Society, 1992), 108. Food remains found on the Hale property include bones from turkey, mammals (such as squirrels), and small birds (such as passenger pigeons).129 A local historian recalled how in some years there were millions of wild pigeons available for food in the valley.130 The Hale family also made money by working leather into products and processing meat for other families in the valley.131 They left behind remains of antlers and animal bones made into handles and other implements to sell in the area.132 The Hale family did well enough relying on hunting that by the opening of the nineteenth century they began to assemble many comforts. The manner in which he pretended to read and interpret, was the same as when he looked for the money-diggers, with the stone in his hat, and his hat over his face, while the Book of Plates were at the same time hid in the woods! A wing (no longer extant) was added to this house, which Emma operated as a hotel. One historian argued that unsatisfied greed, hurt pride, and infectious hatred motivated Isaac Hale. After living out their days, Isaac and Elizabeth passed away and were buried in the little cemetery adjacent to the Smith Harmony home. A detailed exploration of this home, including images of the construction plans, and the Pickering family interaction with Isaac Hale and his family is in Mark Staker, Emma Hale Smith and Her Family in Harmony, Pennsylvania, Historic Sites Files, CHL, 2010. As with Zachariah Tarble, Hilborn had been captured by Indians, but his capture occurred in 1773 near Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, 85 miles south of the Susquehanna Valley, after which he was also sold into slavery in Canada. Isaac and Elizabeth Hales son-in-law Michael Morse recalled it was Isaac Hales house where Mr. Both families were financially well placed and both played a significant role in community life. . At that time her baptismal date was given simply as ditto marks underneath Alva Hales baptismal date of January 11, 1797. He may have also sailed ships himself. Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,23. 271. Emma and her family remained rich in real estate but poor in capital. 256. . The Hale property is carefully drawn in the Rose survey maps and labeled with Isaac Hales name.232 While preparations to divide the Rose tract were underway, Isaac and his sons helped finish the Lewis familys new home in 1809 on poor farmland south of the Susquehanna River and just east of a small creek (now Bedbug Creek). Joseph McKune was the assessor and Jesse Hale was the assistant assessor. TheCommentarybecame one of the principal Methodist theological resources, and Peck indicated he had read it and believed Clarkes arguments supporting a Trinitarian view (Peck,Early Methodism,395).Peck also indicates John Comfort had access to C. Giles book,Dagon of Calvinism; or, the Young Hammerer,which may have been borrowed or owned (Peck,Early Methodism,257). Isaac Hale (1763 - 1839): Father of Joseph Smith's lawful wife, Emma Smith. 308. George Peck,Wyoming: Its History, Stirring Incidents, and Romantic Adventures(New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1858), 193. Another distinctive stone carver with a number of headstones in the larger Colesville area is Eclectic Man, who included a variety of masonic symbols on his stones suggesting the involvement of the deceased in that organization. 45. 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. 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. William Drinker and Others Exects of Henry Drinker Deced to Nathaniel Lewis, August 6, 1810, Deeds, Wilkes-Barre, Luzern County, Pennsylvania, 12: 22327. This suggests the rear addition to the Hale frame home must have been added during that 18191822 period when there was fluctuation in the value of the Hale homes on their property. When Joseph Smith arrived at the Hale farm in the fall of 1825, he found a family living in fashionable comfort incorporating in their lives American ideals of refinement and sophistication. After Nathaniel Lewis Sr.s brief war service, he built a two-story frame house in the mountains to accommodate his growing family. After they had arrived at Palmyra N.Y., Emma wrote to me enquiring whether she could take her property, consisting of clothing, furniture, cows, &c. I replied that her property was safe, and at her disposal. When Josiah Stow witnessed a land transaction of George Harpers on April 18, 1789, Harper sold the land but specifically retained ownership allways all gold and silver mines on the property.103. ", Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, "Julia Murdock Smith Dixon Middleton Family album and history", Mormon enigma: Emma Hale Smith, prophet's wife, "elect lady," polygamy's foe, Testimony regarding Emma Smith Bidamon, Nauvoo, Illinois, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints titles, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Emma_Smith&oldid=1140205784, American members of the Community of Christ, Leaders in the Church of Christ (Latter Day Saints), Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles lacking in-text citations from June 2022, Latter Day Saint biography Infobox with missing parameters, Articles with unsourced statements from August 2021, Harold B. Lee Library-related 19th century articles, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 19 February 2023, at 00:03. He covered the meat with locally gathered salt to keep it from spoiling, holding it into place by heavy stones until snow covered the ground, and he could drag the meat filled troughs through the woods over the snow. Sherman Day,Historical Collections of the State of Pennsylvania(Philadelphia: George W. Gorton, 1843), 621. John Comfort was the first Justice of the Peace in Harmony Township. This meant Joseph was under the necessity of taking her elsewhere.18 Not long after Joseph married Emma, however, the two lived briefly in the home as Joseph began his work and prepared to move into his own home. 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. Wilkinson,Annals of Binghamton, 10708. Colonel Pickering sought the advice of Benjamin Rush, formerly surgeon general in the Continental Army, and other prominent physicians who diagnosed Tim as having throat cancer. 180. Emily Blackman also suggested that Daniel Buck arrived in the valley in 1787, Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,53. Soon after this, I was informed they had brought a wonderful book of Plates down with them. As Nathaniel Lewis matured, he grew up in a Connecticut full of these stories. Even the elite where Isaac lived as a boy put resources into discovering precious metal. Chaffee,History of the Wyoming Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 721. Robert H. Rose, one of the valleys land developers, sought to attract immigrants from throughout New England and advertised in England and Germany, praising the wheat growing capabilities of the valley in newspaper advertisements. 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. Daniel Buck settled his young family in the middle of the Susquehanna Valley at Painted Rock, a site later known as Red Rock, because Native American inhabitants had used red paint to depict various figures, apparently turning the site into a ritual setting or sacred location.104 This was also the location of the Indian burying-ground in the area.105 The land at Painted Rock was not good farmland and before the railroad came through the area it consisted largely of a picturesque blend of massive freestanding rock formations and steep cliffs. Cornelius Wilson Larison, ed.,Sylvia Dubois: A Biografy of the Slav Who Whipt Her Mistres and Gand Her Fredom(New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), 5657. Isaac did not indicate the men stayed at his residence,while in the same affidavit he noted his daughter Emma and her husband Joseph lived with him briefly until they would move out, andresideupon a place near myresidence.280. George Harper to David Hotchkiss, May 16, 1792, Hotchkiss Collection, Broome County Historical Society, Binghamton, New York. His large farm was on the best land in the valley and others grew significantly less produce. 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. Map by Brandon S. Plewe. George Catlin,Last Rambles Amongst the Indians of the Rocky Mountains and the Andes(New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1867), 910. After a meeting on August 8, a congregation of the church voted that the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles should lead the church. Had this individual been Joseph Smith Jr., or his father, the Hale family would have known of it and noted it to family members that later recorded affidavits. And Alva was born November 29, 1795. Contribute to chinapedia/wikipedia.en development by creating an account on GitHub. 234. Lurena also became a popular name with future generations of the family. Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,429. [19], Joseph and Emma returned to Harmony for a time, but relations with Emma's parents broke down, and the couple went back to staying in the homes of members of the growing church. Residents changed their efforts toward improving their homes and surroundings dramatically after they gained legal title to their farms. 22. 170. Alva remained in the valley with his family and cared for her. While Isaac Hale may have been the wealthiest Methodist, Hilborn had significantly more land and made more money selling land to many of the valleys settlers than was possible in Isaacs meat marketing business. But he is never mentioned in later accounts of Rodsmen activity. He suggested to her the women in the valley were unusually strong and healthy, and he hoped if the sickly Jane were to come north and join him it would improve her health as well. Searle, Diary, June 1832Nov. Blackman,History of Susquehanna County, 469. and by this time we have a good load we get caught in a violent shower and get completely wet when we arive at the plase intendet for devotion we see about 3 thousand people there to hear a verry vulgar man talk and tell his experiences some it seams went there for the purpose of worshiping God some for pretents and some to make show and some to see what they could find to make a ridicule of indeed the methodice behave verry unbecoming and I was verry glad to retire from the crowd.204, In a letter describing a camp meeting in the valley in the fall of 1824, the writer prayed those who had gone for sport might find God.205. 155. The youngest Hale son, Reuben, could write well enough to serve as Joseph Smiths scribe, and the younger daughters were apparently also educated. Blackmans use of the phrase a little deluded suggests in her published history the Hale family initially believed Joseph Smiths revelations. 175. 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. 40. J. H. Beers and Co.,Commemorative Biographical Record of Northeastern Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe(Chicago: J. H. Beers and Co., 1900), 1232, 124748. Buck by the nape of the neck and shake him over hell until his teeth chatter like a raccoon.199, Lewiss fellow preachers viewed him as uneducated and rough while often combative against those who did not agree with him. Robert H. Rose to Isaac Hale, Deeds, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, 11:444. [citation needed] She often took in young girls in need of work, giving them jobs as maids. Emma served as a scribe during his first efforts to translate the Book of Mormon. 310. A neighbor of the Lewis family, Old Mr. Fry, was among those who brought the practice with him. When Doctor Richard Shuckburgh, Captain Borrow, and Silas Swart, some of the first white men to travel through the Susquehanna Valley, came through that region in 1734 under orders from the governor to search for mines, Shuckburgh looked over the region like stout Cortez hoping to find precious ore, but after he could not get local tribal leaders to share information with him he left, still certain they were hiding something.97Shuckburgh is credited by many with later writing the words to the songYankee Doodle,which if correct is somewhat ironic since the tune forYankee Doodlewas used for a song in the first American comic operaThe Disappointmentthat lampooned a Philadelphia merchant obsessed with buried pirate treasure.98, After Shuckburgh traveled through the Susquehanna Valley, settlers began to move into the mountains. The wealthy family lived on a 90-acre farm in the Susquehanna River Valley, where Isaac shipped meat and other merchandise downriver to Philadelphia and Baltimore. As Tim courted Lurena, and they may have already announced their planned wedding, Isaac worked on the larger, elaborate Pickering mansion. There was not time for courting between Hales return to Vermont and his marriage, and so during the six years he was away, he must have courted through correspondence. Joseph Smith first arrived in the area of Harmony, Pennsylvania, in 1825. [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. The following year, most of these additional houses were removed from the tax record, and the number of pounds of sugar produced on each property was included instead, confirming sugar houses were the focus of the tax. Various sources spell Emmas nickname differently, including Emmy, Emey, and Emy. 205. This contained 304 hymn texts. 236. But Harmony Township was virtually all Methodist. The Saints Herald(April 9, 1935): 465. In late 1806 Joel Smith replaced Stier and Lee as the Methodist circuit rider assigned to the Tioga circuit that included Harmony. A man who lived seven miles upriver from the Hale family and knew little of their personal religious devotion, still may have accurately ascribed to them a general Methodist approach to religion in the region when he noted how Emma Hale as a little girl, often got the power, as did most of those with sincere religious feelings in the valley.209, J. 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. Lewis was later particularly critical of Joseph Smiths spectacles used to translate rather than his theology or claims of angelic visitations, which may have been an outgrowth of Lewiss Vermont experiences (or may have been a reflection of the similarity between Shouting Methodist expectations and Joseph Smiths results). 1833, September 2, 1832; Theological Seminary,General Catalogue of the Theological Seminary(Andover, Mass. When most of the Saints left for the Great Basin in 1846, Emma remained in Nauvoo, claiming the Mansion House and whatever she could for the support of her children. 11. He was the only young man in the valley Emmas age that was not a stranger and yet also met all the education and business expectations of Isaac Hale. I was allowed to feel the weight of the box, and they gave me to understand, that the book of plates was then in the box -- into which, however, I was not allowed to look. 138. On November 17, 1844, she gave birth to David Hyrum Smith, the last child that she and Joseph had together. Bushman,Refinement of America,115. He was also an avid reader and was better (self) educated than most. But it also aligned him culturally with the local Native Americans since they considered it shameful for a man to do agricultural work; men were expected to hunt and fish.126. 51. Blackman noted that the region is filled with sources of salt, Emily Blackman, Susquehanna County, in William H. Egle, ed.,An Illustrated History of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania(Harrisburg: De Witt C. Goodrich & Co., 1876), 1019. 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. 198. Emma authorized and was the main signatory of a petition in summer 1842 with a thousand female signatures, denying Joseph Smith was connected with polygamy. I am grateful to Nancy Mess for helping me find the location of the current Timothy Pickering headstone in the Lanesboro Cemetery. Nationality: United States. 94. During this period, the Wood family and some of their neighbors accepted Nathaniel Woods religious doctrines, and this growing group began meeting together in Middletown. 267. 255. 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. Part of this letter is written in Emma Smiths hand and part in Joseph Smiths hand. Sherman Day outlined Roses management of Carmalts lands and suggests he acted as an agent for Carmalt when the latter left the region. Just another site. He was a Farmer. Nathaniel and Esther had four more children as the family struggled to make a living in the hard scrabble of their new settlement. 140. 16. His appearance at this time, was that of a careless young man -- not very well educated, and very saucy and insolent to his father. [1]:7 Hiding the plates in his coat, he descended down the hill after many hours, and instead of taking them home, Joseph hid the plates. When their daughter Emma was less than ten years old, the Hales built a new, two-story frame home 14 by 34 feet and expanded it during 1820-1822 to include a single level kitchen addition 12 by 24 feet, almost doubling the size of the ground level to make a comfortable but modest middling mansion. This is where Emma lived when Joseph Smith first met her. Pickering family correspondence notes Lurenas mother lived with her in the Susquehanna Valley but would return to her sons in Vermont when Lurena left for Massachusetts. The 1798 tax records list a couple of sawmills in Willingborough Township and indicates the valley had a few frame homes. 160. The author wrote, Meantime Deacon Stowell purchased a farm at Susquehanna and moved his family there from Afton. 157. Several decades later, some of the valleys residents were successfully growing marketable crops. 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 cutting the meat into strips, he layered it and put it in long, narrow troughs of birch or maple, much like those used by his Native American neighbors, and an item he probably learned to make from them. [13] A Methodist minister performed the ceremony. Ancestors. 68. Joseph and Emma lived for about two months in Emma's childhood home before moving to a house nearby. The scenery!5. Mumford owned a large lumbering company elsewhere in the county and along with the four residences in the Susquehanna Valley, the company also paid taxes on a sawmill. 148. 33. Outline of the Original Hale Farm. Staker and Jensen, David Hales Store Ledger: New Details about Joseph and Emma Smith, the Hale Family, and the Book of Mormon, and W. Curtis Monts, Water Transportation on the Susquehanna,Wyoming Historical and Geological Society23 (1970): 2139. There was no means of earning money in the valley except by hunting or making shingles.122 Wood was more plentiful than wild game and most of the settlers focused on it as their main commodity. Robert H. Rose to Miss Jane Hodge, August 21, 1806, Robert H. Rose Papers, Box 1, Folder 2, Special Collections, Binghamton University. Alva Hale, Letter to His Brothers and Sisters, February 20, 1842, Wilford C. Wood Museum Collection, Bountiful, Utah. Richard BEST died 2 May 1867 aged 48 years. His Hearken, O Ye People: The Historical Setting of Joseph Smiths Ohio Revelations(2009) is a landmark study placing the revelations received by Joseph Smithin historical perspective.

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