Husband of Elizabeth (Lewis) Hale married 20 Sep 1790 in Wells, VT. Descendants. Isaac Hales perception of Joseph was that he was not very well educated, he was a stranger, and he followed a business that I could not approve.312 Given the social position and wealth of the Comfort family, when John and Phoebe Comforts son James was born in September 1805, he must have soon become one of the most eligible bachelors in the valley. Isaac straightened the original foundation for the log home by adding a wall in front of a previous curved foundation wall on the west side of the cellar.240 He dug out a larger area to expand the cellar with a kitchen in the new basement and added a new foundation on the east side of the cellar which included a stairway so the family could access the basement from bulkhead doors at ground level.241, When the Hales added a rearaddition to their home between 1820 and 1822 to accommodate a ground level kitchen, they did not add a cellar under the new addition.242 The larger space attached to the rear of the home provided enough room for a pantry and kitchen sleeping chamber (the borning room of later generations) in addition to including a kitchen big enough to take care of most of the familys needs with the basement kitchen useful for cooking in the summer months.243. Wilkinson,Annals of Binghamton,11617. Since Carmalt turned all of his uncollected debts to Rose when he left the valley, it is likely Hale purchased the Carmalt land through Rose as well. Forty-eight years after the young, ambitious couple first settled their farm together, Isaac dictated his will on December 23, 1838, two days short of the second anniversary of Phebes death. Emma Hale was born in Harmony Township, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, the seventh child of Isaac Hale and Elizabeth Lewis Hale. McCune, Personalities in the Doctrine and Covenants, 49. John Travas (also spelled Traves and Travis), a neighbor of the Hales, had a 15 x 30 foot home valued at $16, which was likely the value of a single story structure. [citation needed] As she had in Kirtland, Emma Smith lead "the work of boarding and clothing the men engaged in building [the Nauvoo temple]". Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,103. She believed in direct answer to prayer, and spent much time at a throne of grace.III Score & X or Selections, Collections, Recollections of Seventy Busy Years(Harrisburg, Pa.: United Evangelical Publishing House, 1904), 30. 81. Journals from the region indicate women held tea parties frequently.248 Many fragments of white kaolin clay tobacco pipes suggest that men also gathered at the home to socialize.249. . 270. See extended online version of Staker and Jensen, David Hales Store Ledger and later entries in the original ledger. Anderson, Ancestry and Posterity of Joseph Smith, 300. 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. She initiated contact with her family. Stow settled on the outskirts of the Old Oquago village where Buck and Hale first met. Nahum 1:7, Romans 10:1, Luke 11:1, [and] John 21:15. Sermons preached in Sela Paynes home a little over a mile east of the Hales were based on the texts Sam. 1841 [Draft 2], History, circa JuneOctober 1839 [Draft 1], Introduction to New York and Pennsylvania Financial Matt Kirk and Corey McQuinn, Hartgen and Associates, Inc. It was the effectual, fervent prayer which prevails. Presumably he was promoted during the war and served in all three positions. http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/tarbell_john_3E.html. Their families all lived in Lanesville where the generally shallow river water filled the air with a constant roar and the creaking of several sawmills added the noise of industry and pious work to the setting. Although a large, level valley in the center of the township became Wells village, the Lewis family settled away from the village on inexpensive land on a rocky mountain top near the northeastern township line. Nancy Mess has suggested Eclectic Man may have been a brother or son of J.W. Shortly after the couple rode away from the hiding place, a small mob came over and searched the wagon for the golden plates. Among the ruins, Hale met Daniel Buck, an army surgeon and officer during the recent war. 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. John Comfort, letter to Silas Comfort, July 11, 1839, punctuation added for clarity. He began focusing on the Old Testament rather than the New for his teaching, and his parishioners accused him of preaching immoral doctrine along with claiming the doctrine of faith was not found in the Old Testament and that a conscience was not a natural faculty, but the result of education.171 Although Buck continued to serve until his death in 1814, the congregation struggled for the rest of his tenure.172, The Hale and Lewis families were apparently influenced along with others by the Buck difficulty, and withdrew from his congregationalthough it is not clear if it was the immoral doctrine, issues of faith, those of a conscience, or all of these that offended them. 246. This I refused, and gave my reasons for so doing; some of which were, that he was a stranger, and followed a business that I could not approve; he then left the place. 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. Jesse Hale served in various elected positions including superintendent of the local schools for District 3 while John Comfort served for District 1. The only library in the region for many years was his personal collection he allowed others to use. Their daughter Emma, would go on to be the wife of Joseph Smith, founder-prophet of the LDS/Mormon church. David Cordingly,Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life among the Pirates(New York: Random House, 1995), 17879. He specifically mentioned in court testimony that one of his neighbors particularly liked his sugar. Emma Hale Smith (1804-1879) - Find a Grave Memorial Outside observers were not always impressed by the Methodists who generally included more of the poor and uneducated in the valley than other congregations. 13. A man who lived seven miles upriver from the Hale family and knew little of their personal religious devotion, still may have accurately ascribed to them a general Methodist approach to religion in the region when he noted how Emma Hale as a little girl, often got the power, as did most of those with sincere religious feelings in the valley.209, J. This continued a struggle Joseph Smith faced for several years over how his taxes were determined. : N.p., 1955), 86. Hartley later collected and recounted in great detail rules for correspondence during courting. The modest headstones the men could see as they traveled were made by stonemason J. W. Stewart, known for years as Coffin Man. But it was Oliver Harpers large, ornate headstone just to the south of the two simple ones that would have likely been the focus of any discussion the men had with its neatly chiseled inscription announcing Harper had been robbed and murdered the previous year on March 11, 1824. Annotated Record of Baptisms for the Dead. Mary S. and John W. Parks, present owners. Emma was the first woman to receive temple ordinances; she then initiated other women in these sacred rituals. Emma Smith | These are the Musings of Starship Manimal 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. . 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. 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. While drains were common and the Smiths likely had one as well, had Isaac followed the plans he received from Pickering on his own home, the kitchen could have had clean water coming in and out with ease. But his response to their home may not have been quite as exuberant as was his mothers when she visited it three years later, since she was more attuned to its elaborate character and what it did for ones place in the community. Drawing by Ted. There are a large number of headstones made by Coffin Man in the region, and Nancy Mess has identified him as J. W. Stewart of Coventryville, New York. Lurena was born in October 1782 and married Timothy Pickering III in the Susquehanna Valley in 1801. 193. All of Isaac and Elizabeth Hales sons, except Reuben, had a daughter named either Elizabeth or Betsey. One Sabbath morning, in the year 1812 when provisions were scarce, he sat reading his Bible preparatory to preaching, when he discovered a deer near his house. Susan Easton Black, Isaac Hale: Antagonist of Joseph Smith,Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: New York,1992, 93111. Seba Smiths novel about life on the Susquehanna,Way Down East; or, Portraits of Yankee Life,(New York: H. W. Derby, 1857), included an entire chapter detailing the horrors of this tragedy. 107. Stanley and Betty Coryell,Skinner Family History,11; Roehm, Letters of George Catlin and His Family,11; and, Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,130. 255. In it you will find the words of eternal life.290 Isaac died and was interred below the garden on his farm. I told him as God has convinced him it is his duty to pray in secret, he ought to pray for a heart to pray. The minister then went on to partially defend his inability to pray as directed by telling Colbert about the Shaking Quakers, or Shakers, a religious group Colbert had not heard about, who had an old woman among them calld the Elect Lady, who fortold her own death. While she accurately predicted the time of her death, the minister was convinced the devil had come to take her. . Call us at (425) 485-6059. --- The below. 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. Robert H. Rose to Miss Jane Hodge, August 21, 1806, Robert H. Rose Papers, Box 1, Folder 2, Special Collections, Binghamton University. 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. David Hale's Store Ledger - BYU Studies This is discussed in detail below. See Returned as Elected, Quarter Sessions Docket, Susquehanna County, 3: 3637, 7071, 101, 120. Trial Notes of Scribe A and Trial Notes of Scribe B.. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Anderson, Ancestry and Posterity of Joseph Smith, 302. Since Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,88, 95, also claimed there was not a sawmill in Harmony Township before 1810, much later than the construction of the Hilborn and Drinker homes, and the 1798 tax records list sawmills a decade earlier than her date, the Hilborn and Drinker homes may have been built shortly after Isaac Hale purchased his property and before his marriage. He and others had already searched the spot with hired hands, but he was returning for another effort with a new workforce to help him find it, including Joseph Smith Sr. and nineteen-year-old Joseph Smith Jr. isaac hale father of emma smith. The following year, when Isaac Hale and John Hilborn were assessors, the Hale sugar house was dropped from the assessment and Isaac was taxed for 300 pounds of sugarsignificantly more than any other individual in the township.