Emma also compiled a second hymnal by the same title, which was published in Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1841. 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. Joseph Lewis recalled his childhood home where he lived with his father, Nathaniel Lewis, as our home and residence,Joseph and Hiel Lewis, Mormon History. See relevant entries throughout Staker and Jensen, David Hales Store Ledger: New Details about Joseph and Emma Smith, the Hale Family, and the Book of Mormon., 132. 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. 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. His appearance at this time, was that of a careless young man -- not very well educated, and very saucy and insolent to his father. But Harmony Township was virtually all Methodist. Anderson,Ancestry and Posterity of Joseph Smith and Emma Hale, 42728. Lord help me to be prepared to go to rest when thou shalt remove me hence.285 The next day the oldest of Isaac and Elizabeth Hales daughters, Phebe, died. : M. J. Cantwell, 1882), 34. Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,92. 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. 1771, to live with maternal grandfather, Arah Ward. Isaac Hale hereby Covenants and agrees to sell and convey to the said Joseph Smith J un. League of Women Voters,This is Luzerne County(Wilkes-Barre, Pa.: League of Women Voters, 1963), 14. It is likely he drew his information from the notes of Vesta Pierce Crawford, who interviewed descendants of Emma Hale in the 1950s but likewise did not document her sources well. 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. Although earning a living remained difficult, settlers continued to come. Home of Isaac and Elizabeth Hale, parents of Emma Smith, wife of Joseph Smith, is replicated at the new Priesthood Restoration Site dedicated Sept. 19, 2015, at Harmony (now Oakland Township) Pennsylvania. . David rented the entire James Westfall property in 1825 and thus controlled the potential silver mine on the Westfall farm.258 The Westfall family continued to pay the tax for the James Westfall home indicating someone, likely the Widow Westfall, continued to live there. [7] Emma and Bidamon attempted to operate a store and to continue using their large house as a hotel, but Nauvoo had too few residents and visitors to make either venture very profitable. A traveling minister, who preached in the Hale home, remembered Isaac Hale as a shrewd, witty man; one of his neighbors identified him in court testimony the previous year as old Mr. Hale, but most of his neighbors would have recognized in him a devoted husband and father, a devout Christian, and a developed backwoodsman who preferred solitude and independence, even in his request to be buried apart from his neighbors.8 Isaacs wife, Elizabeth Lewis Hale, may have gone by Betsey.9 She could sign her own name in a careful, practiced hand, and her neighbors found her an intelligent, enjoyable conversationalist.10 But she remained firmly in the shadows of her husband. 153. He was likely a local Freemason. 94. Hilborn eventually purchased his freedom, but his experience gave him more familiarity with Native Americans than was typical for the period. This lady was a very intelligent woman, when young she moved in the first circles of society. Many faithful saints soon followed. Isaac Hale, son of Reuben Hale & Diantha Ward, was born Mar. The following publications provide further information about this topic. The twenty-three-year-old Tim married twenty-three-year-old Lurena Cole, on December 29, 1804.156, Just as Isaac Hale and Nathaniel Lewis finished building the large Pickering mansion, Lurena Cole Pickering and her husband Tim, along with Lurenas mother (Nathaniel Lewiss mother-in-law), moved into it.157 Lurena delivered a son, Charles Pickering, November 10, 1805. Robert H. Rose, letter to Isaac Hale, January 2, 1810, Deeds. 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. 146. Joseph McKune was the assessor and Jesse Hale was the assistant assessor. . This area of Harmony Township was originally known as Lanes Mills, but was known as Lanesville during the 1820s, and in 1829 became Lanesboro, the name it still holds today. The tree that marked the spot had been cut down when he shared his story with Catlin and the old man could not tell him where it was buried. 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. See Lydia Dimock Searle, Diary, June 1832Nov. 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. A photograph of the map is in the authors possession. : Sharp D. Lewis, 1830), 173. Relations between Young and Emma steadily deteriorated. 85. Latter Day Saints' Selection of Hymns was published in 1861. Commonwealth vs. Erastus Fink, September 4, 1827, Quarter Sessions Docket, Susquehanna County, 3:107. These were the things Buck hoped to discover. . Willingborough Township, Direct Tax Lists 1798, 3. They courted for several months while Joseph worked to improve his financial situation. Isaac Hale mentioned his log house in trial testimony recorded verbatim by two of the three judges presiding at the trial of Jason Treadwell. [11] The Latter-Day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia records that Emma Smith "filled [the position] with marked distinction as long as the society continued to hold meetings in that city [Nauvoo]". Thou hast grieved for the hardness of the hearts of thy fathers house, and thou hast longed for their salvation. Tax Assessment, Great Bend Township, 1823, Susquehanna County Courthouse. On December 21, 1819, John Comfort assessed Isaac Hale a tax for three homes on his property. Timothy Lee, before Mrs. [Emma] Smith was born.189 Emma was already born and baptized into the Congregationalists before Reverend Lee arrived in the valley. When Joseph returned to Harmony, he received a revelation for Emma, now known as Doctrine and Covenants25, calling her an elect lady and encouraging her to comfort and support Joseph in his afflictions. Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society,Rolls of Connecticut Men in the French and Indian War, 17551762, 344345. And Elizabeth Hale expected a child again. . David Hales later financial records indicate Alva gave him the twenty-five dollars left him in Isaacs will. Enoch Mudge,The American Camp-Meeting Hymn Book(Boston: Joseph Burdakin, 1818), vii; Adam Clarke, the theologian to which many Methodist clergymen, including Emmas uncle Nathaniel Lewis, looked for insight into the scriptures, interpreted the Elect Lady mentioned in the Second Epistle of John (2 John 15) as an eminent Christian matron . He was also an avid reader and was better (self) educated than most. Whether it was Isaacs first choice of occupation, or one of convenience, he was a great hunter, and made his living principally by procuring game.125 Because the valley had been a Native American hunting ground, Isaac Hales occupation put him in direct competition with the Indian villages in the region. As early as 1779 these trees bore the marks of great age.38 It was here at those trees that some of Sullivans soldiers gathered to plan their raids on the nearby villages near traces of an Indian village on the north side of the river where Josiah Stowells workmen would later look for a lost silver mine east of what would become the Hale property.39 The rest of the valley had small campsites built along the trail hidden from view for use by hunting or trapping parties making their way through there.40. Wilkinson,Annals of Binghamton,105; First Presbyterian Church Records, Hallstead, Pennsylvania. 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. Elizabeth Wasson moved with her husband to nearby Colesville in late 1829. 182. 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. 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. 315. Along with their sons (and Hales uncles) David and John Ward, Arah and Phebe Ward took ten-year-old Isaac and set out on a 176-mile journey to establish a new life in Wells, Vermont, where Arah purchased a mill site in July 1773.19 The following summer the Wards donated ten acres for a Congregational church, and David Ward served as the Reverend.20 William Cowdery Sr. (whose grandson Oliver was born in Wells) became the deacon in their church.21, Isaac helped his grandfather build a gristmill in Wells and run it until the Revolutionary War transformed their community. He was defrocked shortly afterward. George Harper to David Hotchkiss, May 16, 1792, Hotchkiss Collection, Broome County Historical Society, Binghamton, New York. Some of it was even shipped overseas. No, it wasnt, replied the accused, for the Lord knows that when he sends blessings to me I dont wait until the next day before I take them. He was acquitted.215, Alva Hale used the Sabbath as a day for target shooting, and his father, Isaac, often found himself in the woods hunting. David Hale as cited in Blackman,History of Susquehanna County, 103. Did Isaac Hale like Joseph smith? Susan Easton Black, Isaac Hale: Antagonist of Joseph Smith,Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: New York,1992, 93111. His mother recalled after Joseph first met Emma, he immediately commenced paying his addresses. Anderson,Lucys Book,361. 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. 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. The partial cellar under the original log home was dug out and expanded to create a basement for the later frame home. 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 rise of the Rodsmen placed Methodists in the community such as Lewis in direct opposition to the local treasure digging culture that had been part of their Connecticut roots. Alva placed matching headstones on his parents graves. 175. The original map is in the Timothy Pickering Papers at the Bishop Memorial Library, Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. Tak Berkategori . As he viewed the land, Rose pushed through thirty miles of woods, setting up a camp at a location occupied the week before by some indians.225 His dress was a hunting shirt, trousers and mockasons226which helped him blend in with the locals, such as Jesse Hale who was described as six feet in his moccasins. Despite the backwoods clothing, however, the wealthy Rose had little in common with the Hale family or their neighbors, and he brought with him a notion of gentility then common in his native Philadelphia. Home; Services; New Patient Center. Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,578, emphasis added. In response to Emmas invitation, Isaac and Elizabeth Hales children who had already left the Susquehanna Valley settled farms within visiting distance of the city of Nauvoo, although they elected to not live within the Mormon community. 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. George Peck(New York: Nelson and Phillips, 1873), 68; Trial Notes of Scribe A. Peck also referred to Isaac as old Brother Hale, George Peck,Early Methodism within the Bounds of the Old Genesee Conference from 1788 to 1828(New York: Carlton and Porter, 1860), 256. Court of appeal held at Isaac Hales in Harmony, February 28, 1816, see Tax Assessment Records, Harmony Township, 1815, Susquehanna County Courthouse. Eclectic Man carved the Oliver Harper headstone. See Sacred Music,The Centinel,1 (December 1, 1816): 3; Church Music,The Centinel2 (May 17, 1817): 3. Lawrence Bothwell, ed.,The Journals of Seth Williston, 17961800(Binghamton, NY: Broome County Historical Society, 1992), 108. Both she and Joseph III traveled to a conference at Amboy, Illinois. Doing so, he apparently jumped to conclusions about a temple site because of the Joseph Smith names. Since he made his living hunting, there was little need to store a harvest of grain and animal feed. But she did not need to offer them prominence in the community. He then returned to Palmyra, and soon after, Alva, agreeable to the arrangement, went up and returned with Smith and his family. They seem to have thought of it. He was a member of the Army. 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. Although Emily Blackman dates construction of the first Pickering home to 1800 (Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,95), Timothy Pickering noted in a letter to one of his sons that it was built in 1801. Some of the settlers also brought with them their interest in buried treasure and precious ore. Emma and Joseph III returned to Nauvoo after the conference and he led the church from there until moving to Plano, Illinois, in 1866. 2 Farmer, hunter, innkeeper. . 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. 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). Salt Lake City: Hawkes Publishing, 1991. 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. Remains of the stone portion of a stringer fence along the Carmalt eastern property line. Land use of area. The information presented in this article is an outgrowth of my research for the Historic Sites Division of the LDS Church Historical Department in conjunction with the reconstruction of the Isaac and Elizabeth Hale farm (17871841) and the Jesse and Mary Hale/Joseph and Emma Smith farm (18131830) in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. The 1828 assessment on the land included a detailed description of its use and, when combined with information from a 1937 aerial photograph and a careful walk of the property to discover stone fence remnants or land use details, gives a picture of how the Hales organized their land. The scenery!5. Isaac Hale is a Guitarist, zodiac sign: Cancer. This is the same version that was picked up by late nineteenth century religious publications and reprinted many times.295, Alva Hale sold the rest of his parents farm to the Dayton family in 1842, and the Daytons then rented it to Peter Blodgett. Saved to reddit here. Stow recalled that as he began plowing he turned up numerous Indian burials that included trinkets of silver among which were the many silver nose pendants and silver ear disks worn by the earlier inhabitants.99 These silver artifacts were a distinctive element of traditional Onondaga dress. For significant publications by Charles Pickering see,The Geographical Distribution of Animals and Plants:United States exploring expedition, 18381842, under the command of Charles Wilkes)(Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1863); andRaces of Man and Their Geographical Distribution (London: H. G. Bohn, 1854). 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. Ancestors. Cookie Notice Emma became its founding president,[7] with Sarah M. Cleveland and Elizabeth Ann Whitney as her counselors. 1829, Appendix 1: Agreement of Josiah Stowell and Others, 1 November In 1860, Emma affiliated with the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (later renamed Community of Christ). A few visitors from Brigham Young's faction of the Latter-day Saints came from Utah Territory to visit Smith at this house. Although first chartered in 1761 as part of the New Hampshire land grants, the township was only recently organized by members of the Ward family and other local civic leaders. Stiles looked for Winthrops mine, but he only found and recorded what he believed was Hebrew writing chiseled into the rock above a suspected site by a couple of Jewish prospectors. When the Harmony Turnpike crossed the Pennsylvania state line, the Allegheny Mountain foothills began their gentle rise. Her mother, Elizabeth, was too ill to travel. 261. 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. 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. 284. I am grateful to Betty Smith, Director of the Susquehanna County Historical Society, for her generous help throughout this research; Jean Green, Head of Special Collections, at University Binghamton University Libraries and Nicolette Dobrowolski, Head of Public Services, Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries, and numerous other staff members of their institutions for providing access to significant collections. He blamed Federalists and Whigs for their problems.282, John Comfort saved his harshest words for the decline of religion in Harmony. Into this humble dwelling he moved his family on the tenth day of April, 1791. Rev. Many of these changes and a large number of the original songs included in the hymnal are attributed to W. W. Phelps. /r/Mormon is a subreddit for articles and topics of interest to people interested in Mormon themes. 91. Mary S. and John W. Park, present owners. Wife of Joseph Smith Jr. and Latter Day Saint leader (18041879), "Elect lady" and the early church, 18301839, The workers were searching for the supposed silver mine for. 210. The Hale family had a 130-acre farm, with orchards of apples and pears, a large garden, and groves of maple trees. Besides making no land payments, they grew their own food, and found resources primarily from their own farm or by sharing with neighbors. Chaffee,History of the Wyoming Conference, 49. 220. 1, p. 212, microfilm 1,287,076, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL. Isaac Hale was not a Methodist and not exposed to the same rural religious conflicts as has confronted the Lewis family. Despite the difficulties of poverty, displacement, and persecution, Emma and Joseph maintained a deep love for and bond with each other. 137. 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 . While the missing tax records allow the second Hale home could have been built any time before October 2, 1812, it is not likely it was built too many years before that date. She remembers Emma, afterwards the wife of the Prophet, as a handsome and attractive girl, about her own age. Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,102. 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. 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. The words purported meaning of place of hulled-corn soup may have had reference to several pits containing charred corn Buck and Hale found near the ancient apple trees.44 No matter who named the mountain, that name permanently connected the Hale family and their mountain to the Onandaga people who lived there before. Husband of Elizabeth (Lewis) Hale married 20 Sep 1790 in Wells, VT. Descendants. The valley was essentially a hunting preserve, but there was a small settlement on the east end near where three apple trees stood that formed the rallying point and headquarters of all the Indians in the neighborhood. 269. Kidds surrender put the entire coast in an uproar when the constables arrested him penniless and found less than 100,000 pounds sterling hidden with his friends for safekeeping. ; Smith and his father boarded with Isaac Hale in 1825 while working on Josiah Stowell's mining project. 50. Although the novel came out in 1823, the land, houses, and people Cooper described in his 1790s village also reflected life in early Willingborough. 140. David was tall and straight, with eyes bright and brown, and hair dark almost black. He looked much like his sister Emma with whom he had a close relationship. 152. Lumber was also transported overland to the Delaware River about fifteen miles east of the Hale home where it was deposited until the spring floods carried the arks downriver straight to Philadelphia. When Lucy Smith recalled years later her visit at the Hale home in autumn 1828, she described the home as amansion that included
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