Collection of the LDS. Courtesy LDS Church History Library, Money Hole in trees behind boy and dog to the left; Hale apple and pear orchard, center right. . . He lamented the state of religion in letter after letter for more than a decade. 150. An 1857 hand drawn map of the Susquehanna Valley includes a stylized sketch of the Hale home depicting a structure similar to the one Timothy Pickering hired Isaac Hale to build for him.244 Pickering designed a typical Federal style home for his plantation in the Susquehanna Valley that included a neatly balanced appearance. Several of the Hales neighbors made a living weaving, some producing skilled work, and the county encouraged carpet weavingoffering a prize at the annual fair for the best piece of carpeting, Cattle Show and Fair,Susquehanna County Herald,2, no. 261. 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! Many of these changes and a large number of the original songs included in the hymnal are attributed to W. W. Phelps. Ever the Democrat, as was the Hale family, Comfort lamented how everyone blamed a noticeable decline in Harmony on Presidents Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren because of the collapse of Americas banking system. Both Isaac and Elizabeths families came from the villages of New Haven County in Connecticut before settling in Vermont, which may have contributed to an emotional bond between the two. 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. Emily Blackman also suggested that Daniel Buck arrived in the valley in 1787, Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,53. 183. 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. 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. Despite Isaacs deathbed charge to his family, after his death a rift between him and his daughter Emma and her husband seemed to no longer matter to his immediate family. Providence knows bestHe sends to you whatever He wants you to have, and youve got to take it and make the best of it.174. Recorded in Susquehanna County Deeds, Deed to Joseph McKune Jr., 28 June 1833, as Recorded in Harmony, Pennsylvania | Doctrine and Covenants Central They were married on January 18, 1827 at South Bainbridge, N.Y. 5 At the Joseph Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith home in Manchester, New York. Ten days before her death she became quite uncomfortable. Francis Asbury, Journal July 11, 1807, cited in Peck,Early Methodism,154. Emma and Joseph's descendants grew At the time of the marriage, Bidamon was the father of two daughters (his two sons had died) and Emma was the mother of five surviving children. isaac hale father of emma smith - mail.scrisdemana.com Seventeen homes were valued between $918 with most valued around the lower end, twelve more valued between $2030 with most falling near the upper end, and only a few homes were valued higher than thirty dollars. Elder Lewis [prayed], Send the mind of the people up the river down to me, and the people down the river (the Presbyterians) may go to hell, and I care not. Mrs. Stid, at the same meeting, [prayed]: O Lord, take Capt. 142. 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. The younger Pickering, a Harvard graduate like his father, resigned his navy commission on May 2, 1801, left Massachusetts on the stagecoach one week later, and eventually walked from the end of the turnpike, through Pennsylvanias mountains into the Susquehanna Valley and to his fathers land. August 1830, Deed from Isaac and Elizabeth Hale, 25 August 1830, as 289. While Hale family members continued to participate in these meetings, some members of the family may have been among the many backsliders in the valley. Annotated Record of Baptisms for the Dead, 18401845: Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois. Wills and Probate Inventories, Book 1, 21213, December 23, 1838, Susquehanna County, Montrose, Pennsylvania. (Rutland, Vt.: Tuttle & Co., 1869), 33; and, Lewis Family files, Susquehanna County Historical Society Archives, Montrose, Pennsylvania. Although Blackman notes that Daniel Buck came into the valley in 1787 and David Hale recalled his father had come into the valley in 1787 or thereabout, Blackman placed the construction of the Bennett log home to 1788, either the log home was built in 1787 when Hale arrived and Blackman had an incorrect date, or Bennett built the home specifically for Hale the following spring. 88. Joseph III called upon his mother to help prepare a hymnal for the reorganization, just as she had for the early church. Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,92. Rumors concerning polygamy and other practices surfaced by 1842. The Value of what Joseph Smith's Disapproving Father-in-Law Said About His appearance at this time, was that of a careless young man -- not very well educated, and very saucy and insolent to his father. after I went into the house I saw him troting through th apple tresI saw some people in the road and supposed he was hurrying to get up with themit was pretty near nightnumber of persons came into my house appeared much disturbed, much talk about the murder . 93. Tax records, township records, and other contemporary sources shed light on Isaac Hale as a hunter who made a comfortable living shipping meat downriver to Philadelphia and elsewhere, and on his sons as boatmen who ran rafts downriver to the major urban markets. After contesting the 1828 assessment, Isaac was taxed for 63 acres of unimproved land and 28 acres of improved land, consisting of two acres of first rate land that included a kitchen garden and large work area around his house, 16 acres of second rate land along the river that included a pasture for his sheep, and ten acres of third rate land between his home and the mountain that included an orchard just north of his home, wetlands north of the orchard of little agricultural use except for as afee area for pigs, and sugar maple trees in the rocky, ascending portions to the north. The Register of Pastors in the First Presbyterian Church of Hallstead, Susquehanna County Historical Society, lists him as continuing to serve until the installation of Oliver Hill as Pastor on August 13, 1814. After her death in 1879, her sons published a transcript of an interview in which she purportedly denied Joseph had ever sanctioned plural marriage.6 Notwithstanding the religious and emotional turmoil over this practice, Emma maintained a deep love for Joseph. Isaac Hales assessment was not crossed out and lowered with the others, perhaps because his was considered a larger commercial like operation. And the office of thy calling shall be for a comfort unto my servant, Joseph Smith, Jun., thy husband, in his afflictions. (D&C 25:3, 5.) Seehttp://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=brendablack&id=I1806, accessed November 5, 2014, for possible details on Ward family history. Pennsylvania created Susquehanna County on February 21, 1810, out of part of Luzerne County, and over the next year local citizens organized a government. Both options had their advantages but the Delaware was so popular for residents of the Susquehanna Valley that the village of Deposit eventually grew up nearby, and Hale Eddy, a spot on the river just below Deposit, became a staging area to prepare lumber for spring shipments. Emma served as a scribe during his first efforts to translate the Book of Mormon. Her family was glad to see her. A local slave recalled when she arrived in the valley, already several people had moved to the neighborhood, had erected log houses, cleared the lands, and begun to cultivate fields and raise stock.139 Each family built a log-house covered with bark, which differed from a log cabin in that the logs were smoothed with an adze to create straight edges, and the bark was generally used to enclose the upper portions in lieu of sawn lumber as was the case with the Hale familys neighbor John Osterhout (as seen in the illustration).140, Despite the great insulating qualities and durability of logs, even when they were hewn and nicely shaped settlers considered them less refined than sawn lumber in frame homes, and they tried to improve the look of their homes as soon circumstances allowed.141 The 1798 direct tax lists noted three sawmills in the valley, including that of Sylvanus Traves (or Travis) who lived on the farm immediately east of the Hale property. Ground penetrating radar suggests the railroad kept its agreement as there is a body where Isaac Hales matching headstone stands next to Elizabeths in the cemetery.294 Radar also suggests there are two bodies without headstones buried next to him. Agreement with Isaac Hale, 6 April 1829, Page 1 He recorded the place and text of each sermon presumably so he wouldnt repeat a sermon in the same location. When the slave Sylvia Dubois was brought into the valley in 1803, she remembered the road that crossed the Hale property was rough, narrow, and nearly indistinguishable from the forest around it.111, None of the townships thirty-six heads of household during the 1790s could make a living farming even after new roads tied their farms to major shipping routes. He is now nearly well. When he did share limited information with her, she struggled, shifting her perspective and support over time. Isaac Hale, Harmony Township, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, U.S. Census, 1830. [citation needed] She had persuaded John Taylor and Joseph Smith to call the organization the "Relief Society" instead of the "Benevolent Society". 9. The Saints Herald(April 9, 1935): 465. Nathaniel Lewiss later military service in the navy may reflect experience gained through his father. Both Don Carlos Smiths would die the next year. If you retire into the grove. . But by July, her attitude toward the practice had shifted again, and she burned a manuscript copy of the revelation on plural marriage now found in Doctrine and Covenants132. John Comfort, letter to Silas Comfort, December 24, 1836, punctuation added for clarity. 18008 Bothell Everett Hwy SE # F, Bothell, WA 98012. Timothy Pickering Jr., Drawings and Instructions for a House in the Country, The Timothy Pickering Papers, 17451820, 45:4955, Massachusetts Historical Society. A whole list of rules about how to speak, listen, and interact with parents, social superiors, and the public in general had developed as part of proper and refined life.301 Unless a young man had read the popular etiquette books of the day, he was unlikely to know all of these rules. 6 Moved to Wells, Albany Co., New York (later in Rutland Co., Vermont), ca. Surviving writing examples suggest Emma was a skilled writer, something her parents and older siblings could not have provided her. She does not include Levi among the children. 216. The partial cellar under the original log home was dug out and expanded to create a basement for the later frame home. The home they moved into was a frame home built by Isaacs son Jesse. John Comfort, letter to Silas Comfort, Letter, February 23, 1838. Pickering grew up in and returned to die in the 1651 Pickering house in Salem, Massachusetts, which remained the oldest home in the United States continuously occupied by one family until the end of the 20th century. I am grateful to Nancy Mess for helping me find the location of the current Timothy Pickering headstone in the Lanesboro Cemetery. The Hale farm began with Isaac Hale. Eclectic Man carved the Oliver Harper headstone. After these occurrences, young Smith made several visits at my house, and at length asked my consent to his marrying my daughter Emma. [27] Many of the Latter Day Saints who joined the RLDS Church in the midwestern United States had broken with Brigham Young and/or James Strang because of opposition to polygamy. Larison,Sylvia Dubois, 57. The newly married Joseph agreed with his father-in-law, Isaac Hale, that he would buy a small farm there where he "expected to work hard for a living, and was willing to do so." 1 He would need to work hard, since his parents' family had limited financial resources to draw from as Joseph was starting his own family. This suggests Nathaniel may have owned at least one of the six volumes of theCommentary, although his statement I have got could also mean it was borrowed. Clarke suggest William Smith married Moses Comstocks daughter and settled in the valley in 1791, the year after he notes Hale and Lewis settled the valley. Emma, who was more than ordinarily communicative, December 4, 1867; and Visited Mrs. Bidamon, relict of Joseph Smith the Martyr. "[11] She served as president of the Relief Society until 1844. See Larry C. Porter, 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), 118. The detailed reports of this excavation are available in the unpublished documents: Hartgen Archaeological Associates, Inc., Report, Historic Sites, Church Historians Office, 2005; Hartgen Archeological Associates, Inc., Archeological Field Investigations and Addenda 1 and 2, Joseph Smith Jr. House Site, Town of Oakland (Formerly Harmony), Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, May 2005. League of Women Voters,This is Luzerne County(Wilkes-Barre, Pa.: League of Women Voters, 1963), 14. But her father would not suffer us to be married at his house, Joseph noted. Isaacs distinction between my house and near my residence is similar to a later account by one of Emmas Lewis cousins whose family was also taxed for two houses on their property. 299. 24, May 15, 1829: 3; George W. Lane Marries C. Winters,Register and Northern Farmer, September 8, 1842. Welds group found poor families in the valley with empty pantries and few who could spare them even a little food.114 Many of the earliest settlements in the region started their existence with place names such as Hardscrabble and Starvationnames that were only changed in the nineteenth century as circumstances changed. Among the ruins, Hale met Daniel Buck, an army surgeon and officer during the recent war. 311. 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. attended a Girls school for one year, he did not document his source. Photograph by Mark L. Staker. Albert Clarke, Methodist Episcopal Church, Lanesboro, Penn., Centennial Celebration, March 35, 1912, Susquehanna County Historical Society. Melissa A. Tiffany, Diary, 1854, Susquehanna County Historical Society, mentioned attending one tea party; Julietta Stevens, Journal, April 1848April 1853, mentioned attending parties, having boys call for dinner, and visitors over, but did not mention tea. Peck,Life and Times,68; George Peck, Memorandums of Circuit Travels, 18161818; Peck,Early Methodism,256. Jesse purchased the property from his father and married Mary July 23, 1815. 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. It is said that he did not appear to be a man like Paul, brought up at the feet of Gamaliel, though, doubtless, he was a good man. The announcement of Joseph having the plates created a great deal of excitement in the area. Jane C. Nylander,Our Own Snug Fireside: Images of the New England Home, 17601860(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993), 63. Wilkinson,Annals of Binghamton,102. 229. 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. But fellow Methodist JoshnComfort, at whose home the Methodists met when they did not meet in the Payne home, concluded, abolitionism is the most destructive to the peace of society in familys neighborhoods and the churches of god it has Divided the Baptist Church and presbeterian Church at Mont Rose. November 19, 1767, is the birthdategiven in The Lewis Family Collection, in Rollin Carroll Wynkoop Lewis, Lewis Family Collection (15501984), New Haven Colony Historical Society Library, MSS B71, Box 1, Folders I and J. The term South Sea man applied to all men who lived the southerly part of Barnstable, Massachusetts (on Cape Cod). 275. 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. Emma Hale, the youngest daughter of Isaac Hale and Elizabeth Lewis, was born July 10th, 1804 in Harmony, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. 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. . Thy soul has been afflicted because of the wickedness of men in seeking the destruction of thy companion, and thy whole soul has been drawn out in prayer for his deliverance; rejoice, for the Lord thy God has heard thy supplication. Her service in the Relief Society, however, achieved much more than benevolent work. But he may have also selected the site because of its sacred nature. After two years of unseasonably cold weather many families were at a breaking point.121 They turned increasingly to the river for support. Their log home was continuously taxed as a residence for many more years as others lived there, but the family did not build a foundation for the home when it was moved and allowed it to slowly decay. 288. [11] It was titled A Collection of Sacred Hymns, for the Church of the Latter Day Saints[13] and contained 90 hymn texts but no music.