We will do it, said Hail; we will fix the stones, so that Charles, when grown up, if he should come this way, may find the spot where his fathers body was laid. These words were uttered with so much affection and respect for the deceased as showed how greatly your brother was beloved.163 Colonel Pickering wrote to his son Henry, Mr. Joseph SmithIII, Last Testimony of Sister Emma, Saints Herald, vol.26, no.19 (Oct.1, 1879),289. Paul,History of Wells,3334. Twenty-three year old Antha Hale married twenty-four year old Joseph Wallace, and Isaac may have attended the wedding on his way north to propose and arrange his own marriage. When Lucy Smith recalled years later her visit at the Hale home in autumn 1828, she described the home as amansion that included convenient appendage necessary. Since the dimensions of the Isaac and Elizabeth Hale home and its proposed layout were similar to the Joseph and Lucy Smith frame home in Manchester, New York, Lucy must have focused on something other than size in her exuberant description. On December 21, 1819, John Comfort assessed Isaac Hale a tax for three homes on his property. After offering him a ride, the man declined, saying that he was headed to Cumorah, and then disappeared suddenly. During the Jason Treadwell murder trial, part of the testimony hinged on Treadwells eating breakfast at the Hale home the morning after the murder. Short Biographies of Joseph, Emma, and their family, http://mormonhistoricsites.org/subscribe-to-our-publications/, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=brendablack&id=I1806. [13] A Methodist minister performed the ceremony. This is the same Oliver Cowdery, whose name may be found in the Book of Mormon. Trial Notes Scribe A.. 75. Father of Jesse Hale , David Hale , Alva Hale , Elizabeth Hale , Isaac Ward Hale and Emma (Hale) Bidamon. isaac hale father of emma smith isaac hale father of emma smith. 247. 41. Albert Clarke, Methodist Episcopal Church, Lanesboro, Penn., Centennial Celebration, March 35, 1912, Susquehanna County Historical Society. However, overall it seems that Isaac was not happy with his daughter's relationship with Joseph. 199. There is no extant record of Emma ever seeing her parents again. 262. 33. The scenery, sir! He had disapproved of Joseph's past money-digging and he strongly disapproved of the marriage with Emma. When James Newman died and was buried in the cemetery west of the Hale home that now bears his name, John Comfort wrote he was taken a corps into the Chapel the first time he ever entered it. John Comfort, letter to Silas Comfort, February 29, 1848. isaac hale father of emma smith - vesinhcleanup.com Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,433. 244. This second home gave the Hale family more living space; it provided a place for David Hale to live with his new bride after his marriage; it served as the Methodist church for a period; and it may have been the residence of some of the money-diggers that stayed in the area. 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. Trial Notes of Scribe A and Trial Notes of Scribe B.. Hanna, anna,andhonnawere all English spellings for a word the Onondaga applied to local rivers, brooks, or creeks meaning stream of water; andsusquewas the English spelling of a word whose meaning is still debated but may have meant muddy, roiling, or serpent like.43 Since the river is rarely muddy except during flooding and is only serpentine when seen from the sky, it may be the Onondaga intended to suggest by Susquehanna the rough, roiling rapids frequently found in the shallow water. . George B. Cone to Electa Jewett, letter, Fall 1824, Susquehanna County Historical Society. It puts his conversion to early 1779, however, which is a year before his parents were supposedly converted. For many years there were no denominations save Presbyterians [Congregationalists].170, This early religious awakening in the valley did not last long because of what became known as the Buck difficulty in 1799. 305. The new Hale family frame home was not large enough to accomplish all of these tasks conveniently. This may have influenced Elizabeths great-granddaughter Mary Anderson who gave the same date. After a meeting on August 8, a congregation of the church voted that the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles should lead the church. The Beers map has continued to influence some historians of Mormonism. During the early settlement years no one could live on their farming. Mary Bryant Alverson Mehling,Cowdrey-Cowdery-Cowdray Genealogy: William Cowdery of Lynn, Massachusetts, 1630, and His Descendants(n.p. The Susquehanna Land Company bought its land from Connecticut, but Pennsylvania also claimed ownership and bloody skirmishesthe Pennamite Wars erupted between Yankee and Pennsylvania settlers, and the most recent conflict was still not fully resolved. 261. During the earliest settlement period or before, the oldest and most commonly used name for the villagewhere Daniel Buck and Isaac Hale first met, Oquago, was attached to the mountain where Hale settled. Some historians have speculated the Stowell work party stayed in Elizabeth Hales tavern when they arrived.270 While contemporary sources indicate the group of workmen stayed on the Hale property for an extended period, the Hale Family did not own a tavern, and archaeology suggests there was no room in their frame home for a number of guests for an extended period. Some historians have emphasized Isaac Hales adversarial relationship with Joseph Smith, and others have suggested there may have initially been a more cooperative relationship between the two. Upham,Life of Timothy Pickering,118. 243. They also dressed, grained, and tanned deer hides for their neighbors. Norris Galpin Osborn,Men of Mark in Connecticut(Hartford: William R. Goodspeed, 1906), 340. Some of Emma's friends, as well as many members of the Smith family, alienated themselves from Young's followers. John RATHBORN died 12 May 1836 aged 87 years. 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. She found her long home before her parents, as they placed her in a coffin and buried her nearby in the Hale family cemetery plot. Nathaniel Lewiss later military service in the navy may reflect experience gained through his father. 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. 25 His new role suggests how much he had become a Ward rather than a Hale in both outlook and position. Trial Notes Scribe A and Trial Notes Scribe B.. 72. On September 2, 1831, the Smiths moved into John Johnson's home in Hiram, Ohio. The other families were those of John Hilborn, Martin Lane, and John Comfort. 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. 76. A little over a month after Isaac Hale arranged to purchase his land, a change in county government gave the Hale family a larger political voice. S. Hall,The School of Good Manners, Composed for the Help of Parents in Teaching their Children(Boston: S. Hall, 1790), 1011. This continued a struggle Joseph Smith faced for several years over how his taxes were determined. His headstone reads Zachariah Tarble, contemporary property deeds use that spelling, as do local histories, e.g. Tax Assessment, Great Bend Township, 1823, Susquehanna County Courthouse. When the Hale family built their new home, they slid the log home to a spot nearby (most likely the yard to the east of their home where outside work was typically done), where they lived until the new home was finished. Nancy Mess has suggested Eclectic Man may have been a brother or son of J.W. 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. 130. Isaac Hale's Testimony Against The Book of Mormon and Son-in-Law Mormon 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. Upham,Life of Timothy Pickering, 117. This took place about the 17th of November, 1825; and one of the company gave me his note for $12.68 for his board, which is still unpaid. It was at a very Low ebb with us, he complained.283 The whole nature of Methodism changed during the years he and the Hales were members, and many of the first generation converts in Harmony did not comfortably change with it. 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. 149. Many of these changes and a large number of the original songs included in the hymnal are attributed to W. W. Phelps. The age of Nathaniel Lewis Jr.s interest in preaching seems very specific, which suggests that it may be accurate. 1 Joseph Smith Jr. (1805-1844), was a treasure seeker. The village post office officially changed the name of the village from Hopbottom to Waterford in 1823 but in 1825 it changed again to Brooklyn although locals continued for many years to refer to it as Hopbottom. 267. He specifically mentioned in court testimony that one of his neighbors particularly liked his sugar. Text Size:general jonathan krantz hoi4 remove general traits. Richard L. Bushman,The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992), 115. Hale also bought an additional 40 1/2 acres of land from Caleb and Sarah Carmalt for $101.00 but did not record the deed until he sold it years later to a son-in-law, Michael Morse.234The Carmalt addition was a section of land attached to the eastern edge of the Hale property above the land of Ezekiel and William Travis. My heart is entwined around yours forever and ever, Joseph wrote to Emma in 1838.3 Emma wrote to him in Liberty Jail in 1839: I still live and am yet willing to suffer more if it is the will of kind Heaven, that I should for your sake.4, Emma struggled deeply with the principle of plural marriage. They sometimes buried brass kettles and other valuable metal not for later use in cooking but to protect their treasure from theft until it could be dug up and cut into decorative pieces for adornment.102 But there is no evidence they made any of their silver jewelry from locally mined ore. Isaac Hale was not a Methodist and not exposed to the same rural religious conflicts as has confronted the Lewis family.
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