Strale,United States Catholic Intelligencer,September 21, 1832, 415. 39. The only child of Isaac and Elizabeth that did not inherit the name of a family member was one of their daughters, Emma, who was born when her parents had a special relationship with a prominent family within the American gentry who may have influenced the name selection. Emma and her family were forced to leave the state, along with most other church members. Isaac apparently rented out his log home to these groups of men to make some money, and he may have even briefly been a little deluded in involving himself in their search for buried relics and money.269 Since his son David was renting the Westfall property and involved in later contract arrangements, it is likely David was also involved for a time. Stocker,Centennial History of Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, 530, 532. Isaac Hale - Biography - Joseph Smith Papers . While the missing tax records allow the second Hale home could have been built any time before October 2, 1812, it is not likely it was built too many years before that date. He also did not agree with his daughter's decision to join the church and move with Joseph to Ohio. Transcript: President Nelson Priesthood Restoration - Church Newsroom Boardable, sense III definitions 8 and 9,Oxford English Dictionary(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991), 341. The site was very clean as if they had internalized Methodist founder John Wesleys aphorism cleanliness is next to godliness.299 Despite John Comforts later concerns that an interest in pursuing wealth was creeping into their Methodist community and overshadowing religious devotion, the Hale family appears to have reconciled the role of wealth into their religious practice. Upham,Life of Timothy Pickering, 117, emphasis in original. He may have also sailed ships himself. REVOLUTIONARY WAR VETERAN --- This brief bio text was created by Tim Troxell, who initiated Mr. Hale's memorial: Isaac Hale was born to Reuben and Diantha (Ward) Hale. Isaac Hale (1763 - 1839): Father of Joseph Smith's lawful wife, Emma 103. . History, 18381856, volume A-1 Isaac Hales assessment was not crossed out and lowered with the others, perhaps because his was considered a larger commercial like operation. Willingborough Township, Direct Tax Lists 1798, 4. Lewis and family have, for two months, lived in the small house we built in 1801. . There was no means of earning money in the valley except by hunting or making shingles.122 Wood was more plentiful than wild game and most of the settlers focused on it as their main commodity. [11] The texts borrowed from Protestant groups were often changed slightly to reinforce the theology of the early church. Paragraphs are shortened for easier reading. 304. During trial testimony, Isaac Hale mentioned walking this specific site barefoot as he took a group of angry neighbors over to the Treadwell home east of his property to confront a member of the family, Trial Notes of Scribe B.. Acquainted with Smith during 1825+ because "the moneydiggers" working for Josiah Stowell lodged on his farm. Davis, Lewises Who Served Their Country, 117. These men assessed real property in Harmony Township as directed in Section Eight of the General Assembly Act of April 11, 1799, implementing the tax laws that remained in place for many years (with some small revisions made in 1834 and 1844). Among them was a man named Josiah Stow, a deacon in Daniel Bucks congregation, where Josiah Stowell would later also serve as a deacon. [21] According to the minutes of the founding meeting, the organization was formed to "provoke the brethren to good works in looking to the wants of the poor, [search] after objects of charity [and] to assist by correcting the virtues of the female community". Emily Austin noted Emma was a school teacher, a fine girl, of good repute and respectable, though poor parentage. Emily M. Austin,Mormonism, or, Life Among the Mormons(Madison, Wisc. Isaac bitterly opposed their courtship, but Joseph proposed to Emma, and she, preferring him to all others she had met, accepted. Wilkinson,Annals of Binghamton,102. Dubois believed, Taint no use to worryit only makes things worse. I was shown a box in which it is said they were contained, which had to all appearances, been used as a glass box of the common window glass. 269. Emma was 21years old when she met 19-year-old Joseph Smith at the end of October 1825. . 109. During the Jason Treadwell murder trial, part of the testimony hinged on Treadwells eating breakfast at the Hale home the morning after the murder. Isaac did not indicate the men stayed at his residence,while in the same affidavit he noted his daughter Emma and her husband Joseph lived with him briefly until they would move out, andresideupon a place near myresidence.280. 314. While the meat he proscribed may have been a simple reference to food, Hales word choice in his mid-nineteenth century will also reflected the typical diet in the area. He was only twelve when news arrived of the first skirmish on the Lexington Green in Massachusetts. A gaping hole grew in his neck, and he became emaciated until he looked like a living skeleton.159 The Lewis family moved into the Pickering log home to better care for him. Rose could be forceful in business affairs, and the local postman at the county seat found this new creditor cheated him.235It was Rose who had inaccurately advertised wheat would grow so well in the valley. Jacobs name continued in the tax lists through 1837 when the format of the tax assessments changed. Text Size:general jonathan krantz hoi4 remove general traits. 18008 Bothell Everett Hwy SE # F, Bothell, WA 98012. Emma Hale Smith greeted her parents and family again in December 1827. 279. Thomas Houghton,Royal Institutions: Being Proposals for Articles to Establish and Confirm Laws, Liberties, and Customs of Silver and Gold Mines to All the Kings Subjects(London: Daniel Poplar, 1694), A23,68. 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. But it is not clear how productive these mills were or how long they stayed in operation. ; The Isaac Hale Beach Park on the island of Hawaii was named for a descendant who lived in the . http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/tarbell_john_3E.html. In that remote region, we cannot conceive the farming will ever be profitable, a friend wrote.147, Pickering was part of the American gentry and had little in common with the Hale family. Sharpe,History of Oxford,12. Roses men began mapping property on the north side of the river so it could be sold. 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. During the investigation of the murder of Oliver Harper, Isaac Hale was called out of his home one evening barefoot. Welch was listed variously as a Lieutenant, Captain, and on his tombstone as a Major. "The Voice of Innocence from Nauvoo" in "Virtue Will Triumph", Learn how and when to remove this template message, Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Harmony Township, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, marriages of Joseph Smith to plural wives, "Nauvoo Relief Society Minute Book, p. 7", "Joseph and Emma Share a Common Heritage", The John Whitmer Historical Association Journal, "The Courtship and Marriage of Emma Hale and Joseph Smith", "Moroni Appeared to 17 Different People! Wilkinson,Annals of Binghamton,114. This conclusion is supported by a shift in the tax record on December 31, 1823, when David was taxed for one house and his fathers assessment dropped from two houses to one.254 Davids financial ledger from the period also indicates his store was on or near his fathers property by 1824, and the log home is the only candidate for both a residence and store.255, George Peck wrote notes on each sermon he delivered at Isaac Hales, he recalled he preached at . Governors, academic leaders, businessmen, country farmers, and poor day laborers were all equally interested in finding hidden wealth in late eighteenth-century America and were equally disappointed in their failure to find anything of value. The original tax booklet as prepared by Comfort and Hale included columns for different rates of land (1st, 2nd, 3rd, and unimproved) and a column each for houses, mills, horses, oxen, cows, and occupation. Inez A. Kennedy,Recollections of the Pioneers of Lee Count,(Dixon, Ill.: Inez A. Kennedy, Publisher, 1893), 142; Mark H. Forscutt, Commemorative Discourse on the Death of Mrs. Emma Bidamon,The Saints Herald(July 15, 1879): 20917. 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. 282. Nevertheless, it is apparent that Joseph withheld knowledge of some of these relationships from Emma. But the details of this courtship are not known. Emma's Susquehanna: Growing Up in the Isaac and Elizabeth Hale Home 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 He had exceptional spelling and wrote letters in a refined, practiced hand. There would not be a gristmill within twenty miles for another two decades and the family likely ate little grain themselves. Isaac Hale, Tax Assessment, Harmony Township, Susquehanna County, Pa., 1823 and 1824. Anderson, Ancestry and Posterity of Joseph Smith, 300. Cookie Notice My Great-Great-Grandmother, Emma Hale Smith By Gracia N. Jones Ensign, Aug 1992, 30 Ever since the Prophet Joseph died as a martyr in Carthage, Illinois, some Latter-day Saints have felt disappointment that Joseph's wife Emma did not go with the Church in the westward exodus of the Saints in 1846-47. The youngest Hale son, Reuben, could write well enough to serve as Joseph Smiths scribe, and the younger daughters were apparently also educated. Kidds surrender put the entire coast in an uproar when the constables arrested him penniless and found less than 100,000 pounds sterling hidden with his friends for safekeeping. After this, Martin Harris went away, and Oliver Cowdery came and wrote for Smith, while he interpreted as above described. 302. After his mother died and his father remarried, Hale joined his maternal grandparents Phebe and the enterprising Arah Ward, mill-builder and pioneer, in Waterbury, Connecticut. One day he was digging alone when Fry came on to one [treasure] box and he got it out [of the ground], but it was so heavy he could not lift it, so he went for someone to help, and when they returned the box was gone; he supposed the Spaniards [as ghosts] got it, Paul,History of Wells,81, 90.