(Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2013), 2:33138; Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Womens Rights in Early Mormonism, 18351870 (New York: AlfredA. Knopf, 2017), 8696. Son and father prepared for the rest of the family, happy they had escaped the yellow fever in the cities, and anticipating a much healthier climate along the river.152. John D. Monroe,Chapters in the History of Delaware County, New York(Delaware, New York: Delaware County Historical Association, 1949), 8997, 109. Elizabeth Hale connected herself to the Methodists early and may have been the one Hiel Lewis had heard about, confusing the details, but Isaac remained distant.190, Frederic Stier and Timothy Lee first arrived in the Susquehanna Valley in 1805 and found most of their success there in 1806.191 When Stier and Lee brought Methodism it resulted in a general revival of religion which swept along that portion of the Susquehanna Valley as the popular movement replaced Bucks Congregationalism.192 Lee did not list any Hales among his converts, but missing names in the records was not unusual as most individuals caught up in local revivals were not numbered among the short list of convertsparticularly if they were already baptized.193. 41. It helped shape their place in that community as the residence of a pious, Christian family. But Harmony Township was virtually all Methodist. This was considered one of the miracles the couple experienced together. Isaac claims, "Smith stated to me he had given up what he called 'glass-looking,' and that he expected and was willing to work hard for a living." (Isaac Hale, father of Emma Hale Smith, History of the Church, Vol.1. They also dressed, grained, and tanned deer hides for their neighbors. For example, Hymn 15 changed Isaac Watts's Joy to the World from a song about Christmas to a song about the return of Christ (see Joy to the World (Phelps)). 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. I enquired whose words they were, and was informed by Joseph or Emma, (I rather think it was the former) that they were the words of Jesus Christ. . Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Soon lumbering became a major activity along the river from as far north as Cooperstown, New York, and south beyond the Susquehanna Valley to the German settlements in Lancaster County. But he is never mentioned in later accounts of Rodsmen activity. 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. 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. [26], Emma Smith stated that the first time she became aware of a polygamy revelation being attributed to Joseph Smith was when she read about it in 1853 in Orson Pratt's booklet The Seer. Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,131. The surveyor had scarcely taken his hand from the tree, when the sharp crack of a rifle rang through the forest, and the spot where the hand had been laid was chipped by a leaden bullet, a hint that sufficed to stay all proceedings for the rest of that day.231 Despite local opposition, the surveyors finished measuring the Rose land so it could be sold, including a 90 acre segment for Isaac Hale. He sold to the railroad the portion of the farm where his fathers body was buried with the agreement the railroad would move Isaac Hale to the cemetery before laying down track over the burial spot. Anyone who lived in the region automatically became a South Sea man whether connected to the sea or not. 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. While the tax record did not indicate whose property David occupied, his store ledger notes his pigs did damage on Levi Westfalls property, and as the number of acres David paid taxes on went up or down, so also did the assessment on Westfall family property in an inverse relationship. In July 1798 Congress ordered a direct tax on the real property of Americans, known popularly as the window tax, this required that every family in the country have their home appraised. . Wills and Probate Inventories, Book 1, 21213, December 23, 1838, Susquehanna County, Montrose, Pennsylvania. George Ruper owned their land only briefly after he acquired it from Pennsylvania. The evidence suggests a mixed response to African-Americans in the valley during the early years. Emma first met Joseph Smith Jr. in 1825, while he boarded with her family. 311. Just another site. 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. Born 21 Mar 1763 in New Haven, Connecticut. Tax Assessment, Great Bend Township, 1823, Susquehanna County Courthouse. Emma Smith, wife of the Prophet Joseph Smith, served as the first president of the Relief Society and one of the Book of Mormon scribes, and she curated the Church's first hymnbook. Annotated Record of Baptisms for the Dead, 18401845: Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois. He was a Farmer. Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,103. After his dismissal, Pickering decided he wanted to retire from public life, move to the country, and become a gentleman farmer. /r/Mormon is a subreddit for articles and topics of interest to people interested in Mormon themes. http://www.sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/IL/miscill3.htm#043079. And Elizabeth Hale expected a child again. In June1844, immediately preceding her husbands death, Emma wrote, I desire with all my heart to honor and respect my husband as my head, ever to live in his confidence and by acting in unison with him retain the place which God has given me by his side.7. Many faithful saints soon followed. [10] Beginning at age eight, she was involved in the local Methodist Episcopal Church in Harmony, reading the Bible and singing hymns. John Comfort, letter to Silas Comfort, Letter February 29, 1836. See the comments of Methodist James Hamilton, Esq., in Kittanning, Pennsylvania, Letter, April 11, 1818, Thomas Hamilton Papers (17891830), Dickinson College Archives and Special Collections, Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Although Nathaniel Lewis enlisted for two separate terms during the French and Indian war, he enlisted again in 1775 as talk of revolution moved through Connecticuts churches and taverns, and he served in the Continental Navy under Lieutenant David Welch when it was first formed until his enlistment expired on November 10, 1775.72 Since the navy was initially made of up merchantmen, Lewis may have been working in the shipping trade when he enlisted, or he may have presented his earlier navy experience at enlistment. . But the Hale family was never issued a tavern license. William Drinker and Others Exects of Henry Drinker Deced to Nathaniel Lewis, August 6, 1810, Deeds, Wilkes-Barre, Luzern County, Pennsylvania, 12: 22327. 249. Augustus B. Easton, ed.,History of the Saint Croix Valley(Chicago: H. C. Cooper Jr. & Co., 1909), 2:1115; Commonwealth vs. Jason Treadwell, Susquehanna County Court of Oyer and Terminer, August 1824, Susquehanna County Courthouse, Montrose, Pennsylvania; Staker and Jensen, David Hales Store Ledger: New Details about Joseph and Emma Smith, the Hale Family, and the Book of Mormon; Byron Hale, Reuben Hales Obituary, March 21, 1887; John Travis to Jesse and Isaac W. Hale Deed, April 30, 1827, Susquehanna County Deed Books, 6:255. Approx. 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. Soon Alva prepared to go west and settle in Amboy, Illinois, within visiting distance of Nauvoo, as his brothers also gathered in the same area to live in close circumstances again. Tax Assessement, December 31, 1823 for 1824 Season, Susquehanna County Courthouse, Montrose, Pennsylvania. It is also likely the home had nice Venitian carpet that was then the height of fashion. Pickerings surviving papers also provide detailed plans for construction of the second home and information about this larger structure. When we are gone, his family will move into the other house.164 Pickering took Lurena, who was then pregnant with her second son, Edward, and the young Charles back to Salem, Massachusetts, to live. Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,433. Emma Hale, the youngest daughter of Isaac Hale and Elizabeth Lewis, was born July 10th, 1804 in Harmony, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. It is likely there were a few additional books in the valley but the data is not sufficient to discover who owned them or what they were titled. Timothy Pickering Letter to John Pickering, Starucca, May 3, 1807, Timothy Pickering Papers, 4:2. Upham,Life of Timothy Pickering,3641. Records, Letter to Church Leaders in Jackson County, Missouri, 25 June I am grateful to Mary Parks for giving me access to the tavern and helping foster research on the history of the Susquehanna Valley in numerous ways. [13] A Methodist minister performed the ceremony. She has been tossed upon the ocean of uncertainty; She has breasted the storms of persecution, and buffeted the rage of men and devils, which have borne down almost any other woman.1. [citation needed] She had persuaded John Taylor and Joseph Smith to call the organization the "Relief Society" instead of the "Benevolent Society". In addition to the daybook, the 1820 census that included David as part of his fathers household also documented the business activities of each household. This may have influenced Elizabeths great-granddaughter Mary Anderson who gave the same date. 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. When Joseph asked for Emmas hand in marriage, Isaac and Elizabeth Hale refused to allow the marriage because they disapproved of Joseph's employment in treasure digging. When the Harmony Turnpike crossed the Pennsylvania state line, the Allegheny Mountain foothills began their gentle rise. Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,53. George Edward Anderson, 1909, Courtesy LDS Church History Library. Their father, Isaac, spent his time in the backwoods and had no known formal education. 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. George Peck listed the text of each sermon he delivered in the Hale home in a Memorandums booklet he kept for each place he stopped on his circuit. He was also an avid reader and was better (self) educated than most. (From ChatGPT). Contribute to chinapedia/wikipedia.en development by creating an account on GitHub. 07/03/2022 . Margaret McColum placed an advertisement in the paper in 1824 in response to her husbands previous advertisement claiming she had left his bed and board. Margaret quipped, ELIAS never had a bed; and as to eatables, he never furnished any except Beans & Jonny Cake without Salt; which cannot, with any propriety, be denominated board. Error Corrected,Susquehanna County Republican, June 29, 1824, 3, italics in original. . See Emily Blackman, draft version of History of Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, Susquehanna County Historical Association, Montrose, Pennsylvania. Elwin G. Davis, Lewises Who Served Their Country,Lewisiana: The Lewis Letter, 8(8) 1898: 117; Milton Cemetery Records, The Hale Collection, Connecticut State Library, Hartford, Connecticut, November 1416, 1934. 165. 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. When he drew a map of the valley in 1800 it only depicted the frame homes he found there, such as that of Daniel Buck at Painted Rock and John Hilborn at the rivers bend, but not the Hale cabin between those two, or the other log homes of families scattered along the river.148 These backwoodsmen and their families did not receive Pickerings notice for most purposes.