Joseph and Isaac Hale, Emma's father, had a tumultuous relationship due to Emma and Joseph eloping, Joseph's treasure digging, and Isaac's frustration with Joseph constantly borrowing. See Emily Blackman, draft version of History of Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, Susquehanna County Historical Association, Montrose, Pennsylvania. 218. 314. Wilkinson,Annals of Binghamton,102. 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. Dubois and Pike,Centennial of Susquehanna County,73. Shell-edged creamware plate fragment, found on Hale Farm. [20], On November 6, 1832, Emma gave birth to Joseph Smith III in the upper room of Whitney's store in Kirtland. But as the economy continued its downward trend, all of the Hale children who could left the valley a few at a time. [citation needed] On May 10, 1839,[13] they moved into a two-story log house in Nauvoo that they called the "Homestead". Isaac Hale, Harmony Township, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, U.S. Census, 1830. 40:1, [and] James 4:8. George Peck, Memorandums of Circuit Travels, 18161818.. Isaac was born on March 21st, 1763 in New Haven, New Haven, Conn.Isaac's father is Reuben HALE and his mother was Diantha WARD.His paternal grandfather was Samuel HEALD and his paternal grandmother is Judith HODGE; his maternal grandparents were Arah WARD and Phebe TOWNER.He had two brothers and two sisters, named Reuben, Boy, Antha and Naomi.He was the second oldest of the five children. 29. Church History Department. VIDEO: The Discovery of the Book of Mormon | Scripture Central . Joseph introduced the practice carefully and incrementally, marrying many additional wives, each of whom vowed to keep their participation confidential. [16] Caleb Carmalt eventually transferred all of his unpaid mortgages to Robert H. Rose for collection, Caleb Carmalt Accounts, Rose Family Papers. The brook was the familys primary source of water until they dug their well. . Relations between Young and Emma steadily deteriorated. Nevertheless, it is apparent that Joseph withheld knowledge of some of these relationships from Emma. Early settlers referred to the place where the river entered Pennsylvania as the east bend and where it returned into New York as the west bend, while the entire river as it passed through the valley was the great bend.41 Although the valley remains officially unnamed, early residents along this great bend called it the Susquehanna Valley.42 During the twentieth century that name has generally come to refer to a much larger region that includes the entire river drainage system through upper Pennsylvania. Had this individual been Joseph Smith Jr., or his father, the Hale family would have known of it and noted it to family members that later recorded affidavits. 117. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Florida incultural anthropology. 209. When Isaac and Elizabeth Hale settled the valley, they had only nominal religious involvement. Unlike other members of the Smith family who had at times favored the claims of James J. Strang or William Smith, Emma and her children continued to live in Nauvoo as unaffiliated Latter Day Saints. His father was the leader of a Methodist class in their home.78 Two of young Nathaniels brothersJohn and Levi Lewisjoined several years later and also became heavily involved in Methodism. Not only did David Hale believe his mother was converted to Methodism in Pennsylvania (Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,103), but neighbors of the Lewis family in Vermont indicated that some of the children in the family did not join Methodism, unaware of Elizabeth Hales later conversion, Abby Maria Hemenway,The History of Rutland County, Vermont: Civil, Ecclesiastical, Biographical, and Military(White River Junction, Vt.: White River Paper Co., 1882), 1194; Paul HilandHistory of Wells, Vermont for the First Century after its Settlement; with Biographical Sketches by Robert Parks, Esq. William Colbert, A Journal of the Travels of William Colbert Methodist Preacher thro parts of Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, Delaware, and Virginia in 1790 [to 1798], Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University. [11], On March 17, 1842, the Ladies' Relief Society of Nauvoo was formally organized as the women's auxiliary to the church. : Frank Allaben Genealogical, 1911), 79. 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. 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. Tax Assessment, Great Bend Township, 1823, Susquehanna County Courthouse. 279. Although Mr. Hale was remembered as a stiff old Methodist, and . Nathaniel Lewis enlisted in the Connecticut 2nd Regiment 9th Company, Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society,Rolls of Connecticut Men in the French and Indian War, 17551762, 34445; Jacquelyn L. Ricker, ed., and Alvan Talcott, comp.,Families of Guilford, Connecticut. 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. 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. The Lewis family arrived among the earliest settlers, and they would have spent most of their time clearing land to make it productive. During their early settlement, the family scattered their refuse about their yard, after they built their mansion the artifact scatter around their home was minimal. 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. This was part of the evangelist Jonathan Edwards strategy to rear missionaries prepared from their youth to take Christianity to Indian villages in southwestern New York and northern Pennsylvania, and Buck lived with the Onondaga, or People of the Hills, for ten years before the start of the war. After Nathaniel Lewis joined the Methodists, he preached at his house where he established a small class and became the class leader.77 His young son Nathaniel Jr. may have been his first convert. He then went out of the house pretty soon about the middle of the day., Joshua McKunethink the first time I saw Treadwell after he returned from down the river was on Thursday early in the day after he had been talking at Mr. Hales around the log houseI had seen Treadwell before but had no particular conversationafter he went from Hales house I went in company with him I entered into conversation with him respecting the murder of Oliver Harper.. Provo, UT: Center for Family History and Genealogy, Brigham Young University, 2002. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. 288. Shortly after Emmas death, Forscutt spent five days writing up his history of Emma while living with her son Joseph III. The grave of Joseph and Emma's adopted daughter, Julia Smith Dixon Middleton, is shown in 2015. 51. Many other land owners in the valley were taxed on an additional home that same year. The Harmony Turnpike connected the valley with villages in New York and would later form the eastern boundary of Oakland Township when it was created December 1853, Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,100. 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. The valley was essentially a hunting preserve, but there was a small settlement on the east end near where three apple trees stood that formed the rallying point and headquarters of all the Indians in the neighborhood. [1]:7 Hiding the plates in his coat, he descended down the hill after many hours, and instead of taking them home, Joseph hid the plates. 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. The property boundary on the eastern line of the Lewis property and the western line of the Hale property cut through a Native American camp where a small band cooked food and made arrowheads. While Lewis maintained the operation of the local congregation, circuit riders continued to come through the valley. Isaac Hale was born on June 23, 1997 in United States (25 years old). As "protecting the morals of the community" became her mission, Smith supported the public confession of sins; on this subject, Smith called the women of Nauvoo to repentance with "all the frankness of a Methodist exhorter. Hand-painted tea cup and Saucer, found on Hale Farm. Stone hoe used by Onandaga women to grow corn, found on Hale Farm. 7 vols. George Peck, a minister who traveled through the valley along the great river bend many times during the first half of the nineteenth century called it the Susquehanna Valley, (Peck,Life and Times,455). They courted for several months while Joseph worked to improve his financial situation. 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. They made nose pendants, ear plugs, gorgets, and crucifixes from European silver to adorn themselves and learned to work other metals. John soon became a minister to an established congregation.79 Elizabeth was among the children that did not join the Methodists then.80 While Elizabeth likely attended meetings with her family, until 1784 none of the Methodist ministers in America had been ordained, and so early converts such as the Lewis family continued to receive the sacraments from ministers of the Congregational Churches in their area. Isaac Hale, McKune Cemetery, Oakland, Susquehanna Co., PA, Find a Grave, posted 29 June 2002 (memorial no. Emma and Joseph met when he boarded at her fathers inn while working in the area. Elizabeth Hale delivered a daughter the following Tuesday on July 10, 1804, and named her Emmaa name then popular in both the United States and Great Britain but with no apparent family connection. He asked the brethren who were gravely remonstrating with him: What do you suppose the Lord sent that deer into my field for? Well, I suppose it was to try you, one gravely answered. After offering him a ride, the man declined, saying that he was headed to Cumorah, and then disappeared suddenly. Karen Lynn Davidson, David J. Whittaker, Mark Ashurst-McGee, and Richard L. Jensen, eds.,The Joseph Smith Paper, Histories, Volume 1: 18321844(Salt Lake City: Church Historians Press, 2012), 236 (hereafterJSP,H1). 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. Fanny Winters, a stepdaughter of Joseph McKune Sr., married Benjamin Comfort on May 12, 1829, and Catherine Winters, a sister of Fanny, married George W. Lane, a nephew of influential minister George Lane and son of Martin Lane, the prominent businessman after whom Lanesville was named.313 Robert McKune married Mary Hilborn and they moved into the Hilborn home at the death of her father, John.314 Hale sons Jesse and Ward each married a McKune girl as well, and the other Hale children married locally except Emma. 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. Smith and Bidamon bought and renovated a portion of the unfinished Nauvoo House in 1869. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. What had been a small denomination ridiculed by members of the established Churches, a denomination that in Harmony included shouts of praise, falling to the floor in religious ecstasy, and above all direct and immediate answers to prayers, had become the largest denomination in America by 1820. In Harmony Township tax records, Daniels name is recorded as Daniel Tarbill, see 1820 Tax Assessment. Zachariah Tarbles descendants today spell their name Tarbell, Rupert Tarbell, Family Historian, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, personal communication to author, July 18, 2013, which appears to be an older and more consistent form, see Jack A. Frisch, TARBELL, JOHN, in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, University of Toronto, accessed July 6, 2013,http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/tarbell_john_3E.html.