The tune existed in American folklife earlier than the comic opera and may have made its way to Shuckburgh through another source, but the connection of the two would have been apparent to many Pennsylvanians. [citation needed] Emma herself held stock in the Society. Nathaniel returned to the war briefly as he enlisted a fourth time and served in Vermont.74. Blackman (History of Susquehanna County,88) believed John Hilborn did not arrive in the valley until 1791 to serve as an agent for Henry Drinker, who arrived shortly afterward. Vogel, Josiah Stowell, Jr., to John S. Fullmer, 17 February 1843,Early Mormon Documents,4:78, 80; Vogel, Lyman Stowell Reminiscence, 1901,Early Mormon Documents,4:86. 105. their object is not to emancipate the slave but they mean it as a hobby to overthrow the Democracy of the government.John Comfort, letter to Silas Comfort, Letter, February 23, 1838. 237. The home and farm then passed on to others.296 Alva moved west to Amboy, Illinois in the general area where the Hale family had gathered again. The Comforts named their son born May 15, 1811, Isaac Lewis Comfort. Everyone in the valley assisted each other in their daily tasks during social events where this combination of work and play were known as frolics. Frolics were occasions for dancing, eating, and socializing while settlers raised barns, husked corn, quilted fabric, or other tasks usually completed as a community. But it also aligned him culturally with the local Native Americans since they considered it shameful for a man to do agricultural work; men were expected to hunt and fish.126. When he arrived, Colonel Pickering wrote to his son Henry that Nathaniel Lewis, who has been much used to sick persons, and whose experience enables him to judge better than I, thinks your brother not likely to survive three days longer.160 Tim Pickering mentally prepared to die in good nineteenth-century fashion with a serenity of mind, flowing from a sincere and constant endeavor to preserve aconscience void of offence toward God and toward man!161 Lewis was right and his brother-in-law died three days later on May 14, 1807.162 Isaac Hale helped bury him on the brow of a hill between the mountain and Starucca [Creek]. On the day of his burial, Colonel Pickering wrote of his son, I intimated to Hail and Lewis my wish that flat stones might be set up at his grave. [11] Emma first met her future husband, Joseph Smith, in 1825. [18] Emma died peacefully in the Nauvoo House[citation needed] on April 30, 1879, at the age of 74. 1. J. 91. Isaac Hale worked for the Pickering family over the next few years. Searle, Diary, June 1832Nov. 42. After Hale returned home from military service, he inherited all of his grandfathers estate with the stipulation that he was to take into his Care his Grandmother Phebe Ward in her old age, to keep and provide for during her life, to free her from all or any cost to this State.24 Despite the presence of his uncles, Hale inherited both the property and responsibilities of a son. Alongside W. W. Phelps, Emma Smith compiled a Latter Day Saint hymnal, published in 1835. 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. Because Cope lived in the city he was more attuned to differences in attitude between the valleys occupants and persons in a more cultivated country. He also viewed hunting as a leisure activity rather than an occupation that left little time for making ones home fancy, and he clearly overstated his case. The pinkish purple blossoms of Jo Pye weed along the road had long since faded, and now the bright yellows of the towering chestnuts in the river floodplain, the muted browns of the oaks leaning over the road, the brilliant reds of the maples in groves on the higher, south-facing mountain slopes, and the deep greens of the six hundred year old hemlocks on the north facing mountainsides all began to rise and fall in a pattern familiar to Vermont emigrants. Blackman noted that the region is filled with sources of salt, Emily Blackman, Susquehanna County, in William H. Egle, ed.,An Illustrated History of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania(Harrisburg: De Witt C. Goodrich & Co., 1876), 1019. Joseph began his first efforts translating the Book of Mormon in the Hale home and found protection as he began his work. Photograph by Mark L. Staker, Knife and two forks, found on Hale Farm. Nevertheless, white settlers developed their own mines in search for hoped riches. American Legal and Political Institutions, Christian Churches in Joseph Smiths Day, Daily Life of First-Generation Latter-day Saints, Joseph Smiths 1844 Campaign for United States President, Lectures on Theology (Lectures on Faith), Martin Harriss Consultations with Scholars, Printing and Publishing the Book of Mormon, Religious Beliefs in Joseph Smiths Day, Restoration of the Melchizedek Priesthood, Temple Dedications and Dedicatory Prayers, Vision of the Redemption of the Dead (D&C138), Emma Hale Smith, Church History Topics, Emma Smith, wife of Joseph Smith, played a prominent role in the restoration of the Church. According to historical accounts, Isaac Hale, the father of Emma Hale Smith, Joseph Smith's wife, did not approve of Joseph Smith and was not pleased with his daughter's decision to marry him. Joseph courted Emma Hale while she lived in her parents home, and he hoped to marry her in its parlor, as was custom in the valley. They also dressed, grained, and tanned deer hides for their neighbors. The turnpike crossed the river at the bridge into Lanesville where it continued south past what locals called the Vermont settlement on Tyler Road. In late 1806 Joel Smith replaced Stier and Lee as the Methodist circuit rider assigned to the Tioga circuit that included Harmony. It is unlikely nineteen-year-old Joseph Smith was attuned to the Hale familys social position or that of other members of the community in November 1825. None of the daughters named a child after their mother, although two of Emmas sisters, Elizabeth and Tryal, named a daughter Emma. July 3, 2022 In consider how sergei reacts when yoni comes to the door. Before James Westfall purchased the large William Smith tract, it served as alocal landmark with its three ancient apple trees near what were believed to be traces of an Indian village.264 After Westfall purchased the property from Smith, it did not have the apple trees; but, according to Blackman, he still found on it the poles of the wigwams and several pits containing charred corn and an immense quantity of clippings, showing that arrow-heads were manufactured here on a large scale.265 George Catlin interviewed a Native American man while producing his famous paintings, and the man told Catlin his family had to leave the region when he was a young man and they could not take everything with them. When a mine was accidentally discovered in 1985 in the same hills where Stiles thought it was located, theNew York Timesdescribed it as one of the richest concentrations of gold in North America.60 What was thought to be idle gossip gathered by Stiles apparently was based on accurate information corrupted in the retelling. 27. Gehiel (Hiel) Lewis, a younger nephew of the Hales, wrote of Isaac, he was converted [to Methodism] under the ministry of Rev. 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. 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. Done to destroy her husbands rod. Upham,Life of Timothy Pickering,119. Annotated Record of Baptisms for the Dead. 52. 257. John led the Methodist congregation in Wells when his first son was born in a log cabin in the village in 1801, the same year the Rodsmen movement peaked and then collapsed, Elder John Lewis, Elial T. Foote Papers, 2:37; and Paul,History of Wells,119. which was then sanctioned by the government.69 Nathaniel Lewis reenlisted in the navy at Sea Brook, Connecticut, where he served until July 22, 1763.70 But after his father, Gershom, died in Litchfield Township October 18, 1766, 27-year-old Nathaniel returned to Guilford to marry Esther Tuttle January 16, 1767. 4 Son of Reuben Hale and Diantha Ward. 269. On his deathbed Isaac could not resist mentioning Joseph Smiths name, while Joseph wrote in his own history how his wifes father had acted under Divine providence in his defense.316. . Since the Lewis family, as were many Methodists, had been early promoters of temperance, but did not condemn tobacco use, the artifact pattern more likely reflects their use of the site as a Methodist meeting house than a public house. 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. Blackman,History of Susquehanna County, 578. isaac hale father of emma smith isaac hale father of emma smith. 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. Collection of the LDS Church History Department. The familys struggles became marked during the winter of 17991800 when a severe winter hit the county and blanketed it in deep snow from November until May. ; The Isaac Hale Beach Park on the island of Hawaii was named for a descendant who lived in the . 7 [13][b] The couple moved to the home of Smith's parents on the edge of Manchester Township, near Palmyra. Shingles were the first wood product sold because they were easily made without special equipment. George Peck, Memorandums of Circuit Travels, 18161818., 248. Stewart because of similarities in their work. B. Buck to Emily Blackman as cited in Blackman,History of Susquehanna County, 495. Although most of this frame home later burned in an 1865 fire, and was rebuilt into an even larger home by the carpenter James Tillman in the early 1870s, there is enough evidence from the original frame home to determine some significant aspects of its appearance and character. There was not time for courting between Hales return to Vermont and his marriage, and so during the six years he was away, he must have courted through correspondence. This would explain the August 23, 1877, account reported by theBainbridge Republicanthat relied heavily on William Purples account of Joseph Smiths trial for glass looking, but may have had other sources at its disposal as well. Vogel, Hiel Lewis Reply, 6 August 1879,Early Mormon Documents, 4:316. Along with what Comfort perceived as religious decline, economic decline settled in their valley contributing to an exodus of many of the valleys second generation. See, for example, H. Moll, A New Map of the North Parts of America Claimed by France, 1720, Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 34. Not long after this, he returned, and while I was absent from home, carried off my daughter, into the state of New York, where they were married without my approbation or consent. This contained 304 hymn texts. But his observation captured a difference in attitude between the working men and women along the Susquehanna River and the gentry in comfortable Philadelphia homes. 267. He was born March 21, 1763, in New Haven, Connecticut, to Diantha Ward and Reuben Hale. Emma had already assisted Joseph as a scribe during the early stages of the Book of Mormon translation. Wilford C. Wood later purchased a portion of this property and suggested it was the site where the Melchizedek Priesthood had been restored, presumably influenced by the 1874 atlas, see Historic Site Files, CHL. : Harvard University Press, 1986), 168, 173, 22932. Done a Methodist was because he convinced Mrs. Isaac and Elizabeth Hale were opposed to the relationship, disapproving of Josephs religious pursuits and his work for Josiah Stowell, who had hired Joseph to help him dig for purported lost Spanish silver in the area. . 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. Larison,Sylvia Dubois, 57. 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. During the Panic of 1837, the Kirtland Safety Society, the banking venture that Joseph and other church leaders had set up to provide financing for the growing membership, collapsed, as did many financial institutions in the United States at that time. Lewis had some exposure to the use of divining rods in the search for treasure while living in Wells, Vermont, and the scant evidence suggests he had rejected these efforts early. Court of appeal held at Isaac Hales in Harmony, February 28, 1816, see Tax Assessment Records, Harmony Township, 1815, Susquehanna County Courthouse. 36. The wealthy family lived on a 90-acre farm in the Susquehanna River Valley, where Isaac shipped meat and other merchandise downriver to Philadelphia and Baltimore. Major Buck still lived in the village July 13, 1787, when William Macclure wrote General James Clinton about a survey of the area and the desire of local men to purchase land nearby, Hinman and Hitt,The Letters and Diaries of William Macclure, 1112. 273. Several decades later, in 1825 Isaacs sons Jesse and Ward bought the Traves sawmill, and the illiterate John and Mercy Travis both signing their X for the transaction.143 Some of the millers, sawyers and workmen of these mills were among the earliest converts to Mormonism.144. 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. It is clear in the family correspondence, however, that the death occurred the year before on May 14, 1807 (see Timothy Pickering Jr. to John Pickering May 3, 1807 where Timothy IIIs death is added at the bottom of the letter in pencil noting it occurred May 14 [1807]; cf. 175. See Hartgen, Report and Hartgen Archeological Field Investigations.. 270. Emma Hale Smith greeted her parents and family again in December 1827. Stocker,Centennial History of Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, 543. 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. Mark Ashurst-McGee argues that as a result of the success Methodism found in America, religious leaders sought to distance it from folk religious practices such as dowsing in order to make themselves socially established. Mark Ashurst-McGee, Zion Rising: Joseph Smiths Early Social and Political Thought (PhD diss., Arizona State University, 2008, 70; see also Marvin Hill, Money-Digging Folklore and the Beginnings of Mormonism: An Interpretive Suggestion,BYU Studies24 (Fall 1984): 48486; and D. Michael Quinn,Early Mormonism and the Magic World View(Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1998), 31. Blackman,History of Susquehanna County, 469. 303. Debates about who should be Joseph's successor as the leader of the church also involved Emma. 112. Charles W. Upham,The Life of Timothy Pickering(Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1878), 4:5. MarkL. Staker, A Comfort unto My Servant, Joseph: Emma Hale Smith (18041879), in RichardE. TurleyJr. and BrittanyA. Chapman,eds., Women of Faith in the Latter Days, Volume One, 17751820 (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2011), 34362. Wilkinson,Annals of Binghamton,106. 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. And she wrote them of the great city her fellow believers were building called Nauvoo where the entire Hale family could come to live, even if they did not accept her religion.291. Nancy Mess, Historical Scraps from Susquehanna, unpublished manuscript in the authors possession and on file at the Lanesboro Town Hall, Susquehanna Depot, Pennsylvania. He recorded the purchase agreement with Isaac Hale in the county deed book on January 2, 1810, without noting when the payment or payments for the property fell due, or if Hale would pay the debt as a single lump sum or in regular installments over an extended period.236The latter option was more likely since the Hale family only paid one dollar down and built a new, large frame home at about the same time. This did not happen quickly. Together they weathered the financial collapse and threats against Josephs life in Kirtland, Ohio; the persecution of Church members in Missouri; and the separation imposed by Josephs imprisonment in Liberty Jail. 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. . Wendy Schnur, Collections Access and Research, Mystic Seaport, The Museum of America and the Sea, Mystic, Connecticut, Personal communication to author, February 7, 2008. Jesse Hale served in various elected positions including superintendent of the local schools for District 3 while John Comfort served for District 1. . Wilkinson,Annals of Binghamton,108. Born 21 Mar 1763 in New Haven, Connecticut. The following year, most of these additional houses were removed from the tax record, and the number of pounds of sugar produced on each property was included instead, confirming sugar houses were the focus of the tax. The flatter land along the river was initially used for family gardens, but after the famous pumpkin freshet of August 1794, when the river flooded and swept the settlers food supply downriver, settlers grew timothy grass and clover resistant to flooding along the river that provided winter hay for their livestock.112Only a narrow strip of land on the ridge that followed the floodplain on the north side of the river-supported gardens.113. When Joseph returned to Harmony, he received a revelation for Emma, now known as Doctrine and Covenants25, calling her an elect lady and encouraging her to comfort and support Joseph in his afflictions. It is also possible he drew from the general folk culture of New England and learned how to use a rod to receive revelation elsewhere. 271. 194. Her husband, Dennison Root, and their children stayed in the Susquehanna Valley where some of their descendants live today. John RATHBORN died 12 May 1836 aged 87 years. Joseph III called upon his mother to help prepare a hymnal for the reorganization, just as she had for the early church. On September 2, 1831, the Smiths moved into John Johnson's home in Hiram, Ohio. [11] The texts borrowed from Protestant groups were often changed slightly to reinforce the theology of the early church. On January 17, 1827, Joseph and Emma left the Stowell house and traveled to the house of Zachariah Tarbill[12] in South Bainbridge, New York, where they were married the following day. She remembers Emma, afterwards the wife of the Prophet, as a handsome and attractive girl, about her own age. Brother of Reuben Hale. In the morning after Asburys arrival, he attended a camp meeting already underway for two days and extolled, God is in the camp and with us.196 He added that more than a thousand people had gathered to the meetingquite an event for the little valley. 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. It was on this largely unimproved farm that Joseph Smith Jr. first met Isaac and Elizabeth Hale. Vogel, Frederick G. Mather,The Early Mormons. 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. He was the only young man in the valley Emmas age that was not a stranger and yet also met all the education and business expectations of Isaac Hale. Posted on July 4, 2022 by . They have, however, long since been defaced, so as now to be invisible. Because Luzerne County tax assessments are missing for the period before Susquehanna County was created, there is a fourteen year gap without tax information on the Hale property. He left all the personal property, furniture, clothing, and cooking utensils to his wife Elizabeth. William Cope, a young Quaker from a wealthy family in Philadelphia, came through the neighborhood in 1818 on a tour of the remote country, and he observed, these people do not seem to value the comforts of a good house as persons in a more cultivated country. Isaac Hale Birth: 21 March 1763 Waterbury, New Haven County, Connecticut Death: 11 January 1839 Harmony, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania Father: Reuben Hale (1736-1788) Mother: Diantha Ward (1741-1771) Spouse / partner: Elizabeth Lewis (1767-1842) Wedding: 20 September 1790 Wells, Rutland County, Vermont Sex: Edit Facts Ezra Stiles, the president of Yale College, lived near both Isaacs maternal and paternal families when he recorded in his diary gossip he heard from Governor Trumbull, who, he believed, received it directly from governor John Winthrop the Younger himself, how Winthrop had found plenty of Gold in a secret gold mine in the nearby mountains and had made a gold ring he showed off to his friends. Drawing by Ted. Wells Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 17322005, Wells, Vermont, Family Search, accessed 2008,http://FamilySearch.org. Latter Day Saints' Selection of Hymns was published in 1861. Daniel Buck settled his young family in the middle of the Susquehanna Valley at Painted Rock, a site later known as Red Rock, because Native American inhabitants had used red paint to depict various figures, apparently turning the site into a ritual setting or sacred location.104 This was also the location of the Indian burying-ground in the area.105 The land at Painted Rock was not good farmland and before the railroad came through the area it consisted largely of a picturesque blend of massive freestanding rock formations and steep cliffs. Caleb Carmalt & wife to Isaac Hale, July 31, 1833, Deeds, Montrose, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. These were the things Buck hoped to discover. The similarities in name, location, and activities can easily lead to confusion between the two men. A later reminiscence ties the name Harmony to Henry Drinker Jr.s land agent John Hilborn. 75. Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,53. 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. de Doina Babcinschi. Amy Wallace, Gold Lures Geologists to Connecticut,The New York Times,July 8, 1986, accessed April 10, 2015, www.nytimes.com/1986/07/08/science/gold-lures-geologists-to-connecticut.html. Emma left the Susquehanna Valley and the Hale family for the last time, never to see her parents and many other relatives again. The term South Sea man applied to all men who lived the southerly part of Barnstable, Massachusetts (on Cape Cod). A grandson recalled the family gathering around Isaacs bed on January 11, 1839, as he charged them, You must not believe in Jo Smith or any false doctrines, but believe in the Holy Bible. Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,431; Steve Sullivan, Senior Curator of Urban Ecology, Chicago Academy of Sciences and Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, personal communication with author, July 27, 2013. http://www.sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/IL/miscill3.htm#043079. Major Bucks father had placed him with the Onondaga people when only eleven years old to learn their language. Buck closed his labors,apparently,as pastor over the church in 1799(? Relations between Young and Emma steadily deteriorated. . Staker and Jensen, David Hales Store Ledger: New Details about Joseph and Emma Smith, the Hale Family, and the Book of Mormon, and W. Curtis Monts, Water Transportation on the Susquehanna,Wyoming Historical and Geological Society23 (1970): 2139. 286. On November 17, 1844, she gave birth to David Hyrum Smith, the last child that she and Joseph had together. In this way he pretended to discover minerals and hidden treasure. could neither write nor dictate a coherent well-worded letter, during that early period.304 He may have dictated some of his letters to Stowell family members who wrote for him in hopes of improving his prospects with Emma. Isaacs grandmother may not have lived long afterward, however, or others agreed to take over responsibility for her care, since in 1784 Hale deeded the property earmarked for her care to his uncle David Ward, and he left for Connecticut.26 Hale may have returned to his birthplace to reconnect with the rest of his Ward relatives, particularly his uncles and aunts Jesse and Eunice Ward Cady and Daniel and Tryal Ward Curtis, since he later named two of his children Jesse and Tryal.
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