Also in Kirtland, Emma's first selection of hymns was published as a hymnal for the church's use. Done a Methodist was because he convinced Mrs. 289. But the reflection is more than human nature ought to bear, and if God does not record our sufferings and avenge our wrongs on them that are guilty, I shall be sadly mistaken. The Hale home not only offered Isaac and Elizabeth Hales children a measure of respectability, it added to Isaac and Elizabeths own prominence in the community lending gentility to their lives. http://www.sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/IL/miscill3.htm#043079. 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. 48. 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. Anderson, Mary Audentia Smith. She soon began selecting the hymns to be sung in church meetings, working with W.W. Phelps to print some of them in 1832 in Church newspapers at a time when male clergy typically assumed responsibility for hymn selection. 81. Just like the property of his neighbors, most of the Hale land was rocky, steep mountainside that took major effort to make arable. A grandson of Isaac and Elizabeth Hale, Lorenzo D. Wasson left the valley for Nauvoo, Illinois, perhaps to share news of Isaacs death, but also to learn more about his aunts unusual religion. 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. Lurena was born in October 1782 and married Timothy Pickering III in the Susquehanna Valley in 1801. 68. 24, May 15, 1829: 3; George W. Lane Marries C. Winters,Register and Northern Farmer, September 8, 1842. 10. See Warrantee Names, R. H. Rose Survey Map.. After Isaac Hale established a farm, he returned to Wells to marry Elizabeth Lewis. Dubois and Pike,Centennial of Susquehanna County,73. 1833, June 14, 1832. and our As Joseph courted Emma during the winter of 18251826, much of this was apparently done through customary letters. [citation needed] On May 10, 1839,[13] they moved into a two-story log house in Nauvoo that they called the "Homestead". 49. Post noted in his journal: I thought R. H. Rose to be a gentleman & a man of honour & that his word might be depended upon but Alas! Isaac did not pay the tax for the log home and it may have been used by others who paid the tax for that home. attended a Girls school for one year, he did not document his source. They were not allowed to come into a room where their parents were talking with strangers, unless they were invited in; and if a stranger came in to talk to their parents, they were to bow and withdraw from the room.300 A good son would wait to speak to his father until spoken to, and then answer in as few words as possible. 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. Given the large gathering just down the road from Isaac and Elizabeth Hales farm, it is likely they were at the revival. 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. The massifs were reminiscent of their Vermont environs. Room in the Taylor (later Munson) Tavern (with original paneling) where Francis, Asbury likely slept. Emma Hale was born in Harmony Township, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, the seventh child of Isaac Hale and Elizabeth Lewis Hale. There are also two other individuals buried in unmarked graves within the row of Hale family headstones. Nathaniel Lewiss later military service in the navy may reflect experience gained through his father. 6562331), https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6562331/isaac-hale (accessed 12 July 2022). He may have also sailed ships himself. Their daughter Emma, would go on to be the wife of Joseph Smith, founder-prophet of the LDS/Mormon church. McCune, Personalities in the Doctrine and Covenants, 49. But it is not clear how productive these mills were or how long they stayed in operation. On June 13, 1840, Emma gave birth to a son, Don Carlos, named after his uncle Don Carlos Smith, Joseph's brother. 151. all Lands held by patent, warrant, location, or improvements; Houses and lots of ground, and groundrents; all gristmills, sawmills, hempmills, oilmills, snuffmills, papermills, and powdermills; all Furnaces, Forges, Bloomirzes [bloomeries], Distilleries, Sugarhouses, malthouses, Breweries, Tanningyards and farries [ferries]; all Negro and Maulatto slaves; all Horses mares geldings and Cattle above the age of four years, and all offices and posts of profit, trades and occupations, Ministers of the Gospel of Everry Denomination and Schoolmasters only excepted. Laban Capern and Johnah Brewster, letter to John Hilborn, January 24, 1814, 1813-1814 Tax Assessment Records, Harmony Township, Susquehanna County Courthouse, Montrose, Pennsylvania. Isaac Hale and James Westfall, Farmers, ministers, and school masters were exempt from a tax on their trade. They went as far as the rift or rapids, where they left their canoes, and walked past the rapids, then took passage in a large canoe around by my fathers. In 1788 more white settlers came to the valley where Hale and Buck first met, and Daniel Buck became their first minister.51 He also established a congregation in the Susquehanna Valley where the Hale family and their Lewis in-laws attended his services.52 Jonathan Bennett served as the deacon of the congregation.53. Related Topics: Joseph and Emma Hale Smith Family, Hymns, Female Relief Society of Nauvoo. Davids brother Jesse Hale moved across the river to a new home downstream by his sawmill, and in 1825 Jesse paid a tax for both of his homes as occupied structures. In a short time they returned, bringing with them a Peter Ingersol, and subsequently came to the conclusion that they would move out, and reside upon a place near my residence. He established another congregation about ten miles upriver from the Hales in South Bainbridge, New York, and found success in other valleys in the region. I have named one of the judges Scribe A (see Trial Notes Scribe A) as he recorded the following testimony, confirming the log home still stood in May 1824. She gave God glory for his boundless love to sinners.222 As he heard this prayer, the uncle resolved to give up his sins similar to Isaac Hales example a few years earlier. Colberts journal suggests the type of Methodism he brought to the area was the style that soon became popular throughout the mountains, a type known as Shouting Methodism. Some of the survivors of this massacre fled north to Canada and fought for the British in Vermont. Such marriages were rare and a similar union of a white woman in Boston to a black man made national news,Painesville Telegraph, June 15, 1827, 3; June 4, 1823, 3; March 11, 1824, 3. [22], Emma and her family lived with friendly non-Mormons John and Sarah Cleveland in Quincy, Illinois, until Joseph escaped custody in Missouri. 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. 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. J. Musket strike plate (left); antler handle (right), found on Hale Farm, Collection of. When the deeds were all registered and the debts paid, the 130 1/2 acre Hale farm included the 90 acre Rose section and 40 1/2 acre Carmalt section and was likely a subset of the original 150 acres for which Hale was taxed in 1798. Personalities in the Doctrine and Covenants and Joseph SmithHistory. 273. For dinner, they carried milk in bottles, and mush. 272. He was hunting deer and when near this place saw a young Panther about half grown standing on a fallen tree. 153. One day, when Elisha Bibbins was the circuit rider, Isaac came across his daughter Emma in the woods while out hunting.216 Mr. It was too wet and humid for a crop more susceptible to fungi than other grains.116 Barley suffered from similar challenges. 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. This early 19th century home house the Isaac and Elizabeth Hale family. [11] The texts borrowed from Protestant groups were often changed slightly to reinforce the theology of the early church. 64. They were Henry Drinker, who acquired large tracts of Willingborough Township, particularly on the south side of the river, and John Hilborn, who served as his land agent helping to sell the Drinker property. 189. 315. Isaac contested 40 acres of the assessment, arguing a son-in-law, Michael B. Morse, lived on 27 acres, and a son-in-law, Joseph Smith Jr., lived on 13 acres of the land, and they should pay the tax for their part of his property. See also, Mark Ashurst-McGee, A Pathway to Prophethood: Joseph Smith Junior as Rodsman, Village Seer, and Judeo-Christian Prophet, (masters thesis, Utah State University, 2000); Dan Vogel, The Locations of Joseph Smiths Early Treasure Quests,Dialogue27 (Fall 1994): 20407. The slave Sylvia Dubois, who worked in the tavern at the other end of the Susquehanna Valley in what became Great Bend Township, often served great numbers of hunters and drovers who came to the tavern from 18031806. When her son Joseph III became president of the RLDS Church, she was again asked to compile a hymnal. 31. . 140. You can contact the owner of the tree to get more information. Blackman,History of Susquehanna County, 469. It is also likely the home had nice Venitian carpet that was then the height of fashion. As part of the refinement of America that took place in Lucy Smiths childhood, the central stairway and the expansion of the upstairs as a social space in the home became important markers of the rituals of polite society. Although the Hale family was only part of the lesser gentry that put them into the highest social level only in their remote valley, their refined home reflected well on their family.245. Personalities in the Doctrine and Covenants. John D. Monroe,Chapters in the History of Delaware County, New York(Delaware, New York: Delaware County Historical Association, 1949), 8997, 109. Isaac Hale is reported to have expressed skepticism about Joseph Smith's religious claims and his story of discovering golden plates. While activities of the Rodsmen climaxed in 1801, the use of rods began in the late 1780s as Nathaniel Jr. approached adulthood and started courting. 134. Contents 1 History 1.1 Early Life 1.2 A Court of Thorns and Roses 2 Appearance 3 Relationships 3.1 Feyre Archeron 4 Trivia 5 References History Early Life