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. 1771, to live with maternal grandfather, Arah Ward. 144. 176. She would eventually bear nine children and adopt two others, four of whom died at birth or shortly after, and two who died as toddlers. After her death in 1879, her sons published a transcript of an interview in which she purportedly denied Joseph had ever sanctioned plural marriage.6 Notwithstanding the religious and emotional turmoil over this practice, Emma maintained a deep love for Joseph. [11], On March 17, 1842, the Ladies' Relief Society of Nauvoo was formally organized as the women's auxiliary to the church. Wendy Schnur, Collections Access and Research, Mystic Seaport, The Museum of America and the Sea, Mystic, Connecticut, Personal communication to author, February 7, 2008. Wilkinson,Annals of Binghamton,114. 66. The words purported meaning of place of hulled-corn soup may have had reference to several pits containing charred corn Buck and Hale found near the ancient apple trees.44 No matter who named the mountain, that name permanently connected the Hale family and their mountain to the Onandaga people who lived there before. For significant publications by Charles Pickering see,The Geographical Distribution of Animals and Plants:United States exploring expedition, 18381842, under the command of Charles Wilkes)(Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1863); andRaces of Man and Their Geographical Distribution (London: H. G. Bohn, 1854). agreed with Lucy Smiths account, arguing Joseph began courting while still at the Hale farm, stating a group of money diggers boarded at his [Isaacs] house [when]JS [Joseph Smith] began courting Hales daughter Emma. Michael Hubbard MacKay, Gerrit J. Dirkmaat, Grant Underwood, Robert J. Woodford, and William G. Hartley, eds.,The Joseph Smith Papers,Documents Volume 1: July 1828June 1831(Salt Lake City: Church Historians Press, 2013), 347. Davis, Lewises Who Served Their Country, 117. Shingles were the first wood product sold because they were easily made without special equipment. Many faithful saints soon followed. If the Hale home included wallpaper it would have impressed.246 The Hale home became a civic center and a church as it was used for a variety of meetings.247 The Hale family left remnants of a high quality tea pot made of fine Jakefield pottery, a style of ceramics used by English royalty roughly during the second half of the eighteenth-century (17401790). Her mother Elizabeth Lewis Hale died in 1842. 6562331), https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6562331/isaac-hale (accessed 12 July 2022). Emma Smith N/A: N/A . . Their log home was continuously taxed as a residence for many more years as others lived there, but the family did not build a foundation for the home when it was moved and allowed it to slowly decay. [1]:12 They lived first with the Whitmers in Fayette, then with Newel K. Whitney and his family in Kirtland, Ohio, and then in a cabin on a farm owned by Isaac Morley. Windsor Bridge Company, Subject Files, Broome County Historical Society, Binghamton, New York; Trial Notes of Scribe A, Transcription of the Testimony Given at the Trial of Jason Treadwell, August, 1824, Historic Site Files, LDS Church History Library, hereafter CHL. The log home would have included a large open space that was useful for such types of gatherings. Relations between Young and Emma steadily deteriorated. 307. [23] As president of the Ladies' Relief Society, she authorized the publishing of a certificate in October 1842 denouncing polygamy and denying her husband as its creator or participant. Treadwell sobbed when he couldnt find the money, claiming it was stolen by an accomplice in robbery.6 The travel party likely paid little attention to the bridge that had Martin Lanes tollgate on the other side, as they followed the bend in the river veering right at the turn onto Oquago Roada road described by travelers as a narrow, rut-filled, tree-root- bound path running west between Oquago Mountain and the north bank of the Susquehanna River. 142. Two days after the babys birth, Colonel Pickerings good friend Alexander Hamilton was killed in his famous duel with Aaron Burr. Bucks neighbors later wrote of those foundations being evidence of the presence and work of civilized man in it [the valley] before any known settlement of it.107The foundation was grown up with trees and only became evident when the land was cleared and plowed.108 The site has never been examined by archaeologists to evaluate if any evidence remains of what the men found. Isaac and Elizabeth Lewis Hale Home Key Points of Interest The home currently on the property is a reconstruction, built by the church in 2015 Emma Hale Smith, Joseph's wife, grew up here with her parents, Isaac and Elizabeth Hale Joseph first met Emma when he and his father boarded here while working for Josiah Stowell nearby Annotated Record of Baptisms for the Dead. They were evidently painted by Indians; but when, or by whom, is not known. Based on her thirty years of experience doing archeology at Woodlands Native American sites, including one in the Susquehanna Valley at Great Bend, Nina M. Versaggi, Director, Public Archeology Facility, Binghamton University, has suggested the location may have been a local burial site or a sacred ritual site but was not likely the location of an early village or settlement, personal communication to author, September 13, 2013. Hale, Letter to His Brothers and Sisters.. Robert H. Rose, letter to Isaac Hale, January 2, 1810, Deeds. 182. Land speculators there aggressively promoted property along the Susquehanna River, advertising as far away as Germany seeking young, ambitious settlers to buy their land. 94. Emma Hale, the sister of Elizabeth Wasson, was born in the town of Harmony, Susquehanna county, Pennsylvania, July 10, 1804. . Charles Hatchs 18281829 tavern was evidently a log structure and likely related to the log tavern Sylvanus Hatch in neighboring Great Bend Township. He may have also sailed ships himself. Sugar houses were specifically listed as taxable operations, but the intent was to tax commercial enterprises instead of family operations. 7. 68. This negative depiction appears to have been more rhetoric than reality for Bishop Asbury as it was for Colbert. Isaac Hale mentioned his log house in trial testimony recorded verbatim by two of the three judges presiding at the trial of Jason Treadwell. While travelling there, they saw an elderly man walking alongside the road. Both Don Carlos Smiths would die the next year. 16. Approx. Timothy Lee, before Mrs. [Emma] Smith was born.189 Emma was already born and baptized into the Congregationalists before Reverend Lee arrived in the valley. The William and Jacob Smith assessments were adjusted in 1825 by Jesse Hale for the 1826 season. 40. B. Wilkinson dated the initial settlement of that valley to 1788, (Wilkinson,Annals of Binghamton,110112). This suggests the rear addition to the Hale frame home must have been added during that 18191822 period when there was fluctuation in the value of the Hale homes on their property. 256. 106. [7] Emma and Bidamon attempted to operate a store and to continue using their large house as a hotel, but Nauvoo had too few residents and visitors to make either venture very profitable. Emma's continuing public denial of the practice seemed to lend strength to their cause, and opposition to polygamy became a tenet of the RLDS Church. The creek was named Lewis Creek and ran down from Turkey Hill through Jameson Hollow (now Bedbug Hollow) until it emptied into the Susquehanna River. It appears the Lewis men sided with the majority of Methodists that disapproved of divining rod use.89 Nathaniel moved to the Susquehanna in autumn 1790, and whatever existed of the Methodists in Middletown where he had lived quickly dissolved so that when Methodist preacher Laban Clark arrived in the town in 1799, the family of a Mr. Peck,Life and Times,68; George Peck, Memorandums of Circuit Travels, 18161818; Peck,Early Methodism,256. Appear in a new and more beautiful edition, The epitaph likely came from an 1840 collection of the writings of Franklin that appeared shortly after Isaac Hale died since it was a modified form of Franklins epitaph first appearing in an appendix of the volume and claiming a Franklin contemporary had reworked the epitaph and showed it to Franklin for his approval. See Emily Blackman, Susquehanna County, 1090. Another distinctive stone carver with a number of headstones in the larger Colesville area is Eclectic Man, who included a variety of masonic symbols on his stones suggesting the involvement of the deceased in that organization. In December 1827, with financial support from Martin Harris,[1]:8 the couple decided to move to Harmony, where they reconciledto some extentwith Emma's parents. Silas Comfort, a boy who grew up with Emma and who attended church with his parents in her familys home, preached in the late 1820s and early 1830s. Roses men began mapping property on the north side of the river so it could be sold. Methodist circuit rider William Colbert left Lackawanna, fifty miles south of the Hale home, on Monday, December 3, 1792, heading north on horseback to take his increasingly popular religion into the Endless Mountains. 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. 226. But her father would not suffer us to be married at his house, Joseph noted. Connecticut investors promoted Wells land; and Connecticut settlers filled its mountain valleys. 56. 294. Joseph boarded at the nearby home of Isaac Hale, where he met Emma, Isaac's twenty-year old daughter. Seehttp://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=brendablack&id=I1806, accessed November 5, 2014, for possible details on Ward family history. George Peck, Memorandums of Circuit Travels, 18161818., 248. Isaac later described Elizabeth as my esteemed friend and wife of my youth.56 His perspective of husband and wife relationships is suggested in later trial testimony where Isaac recalled a neighbor had asked if he could borrow a canoe to carry his wife and children down to Munsons [Tavern] where his wifes mother lived. Hale responded, I told him [the] canoe was not fit to carry women in.57 Hale also shared the view of his contemporaries that a prospective husband needed to have a home and property prepared for his prospective bride to set up house before he could marry her.58 When Isaac left Vermont, Elizabeth was barely thirteen. 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. George Edward Anderson, 1909, Courtesy LDS Church History Library. If anyone was engaged in it [the Rodsmens treasure digging activities], it must have been the old gentleman, Oliver Cowderys father, she surmised. Screen Printing and Embroidery for clothing and accessories, as well as Technical Screenprinting, Overlays, and Labels for industrial and commercial applications Isaac Hale (1763 - 1839): Father of Joseph Smith's lawful wife, Emma Smith. Some of the settlers also brought with them their interest in buried treasure and precious ore. Shortly before the Hale family moved from Harmony, provisions were also enacted to tax pleasure carriages and watches, of which they had none. John Comfort, letter to Silas Comfort, Letter February 29, 1836. However, throughout her lifetime Emma publicly denied her husband's involvement in the practice of polygamy and denied on her deathbed that the practice had ever occurred. Isaac Hale worked for the Pickering family over the next few years. Since Rose came to evaluate the valley as an investment, he would have contacted some of the settlers on the land he planned to buy. Comfort wrote, Nathaniel Lewis Jr. [Nathaniel C. Lewis] had his leg broke last spring by the kick of an ox & has had it amputated above the knee. Son and father prepared for the rest of the family, happy they had escaped the yellow fever in the cities, and anticipating a much healthier climate along the river.152. 128. This Elect Lady, Ann Lee, had been a prophetess, Colbert acknowledged, but a prophetess who was deceived. This suggests Nathaniel may have owned at least one of the six volumes of theCommentary, although his statement I have got could also mean it was borrowed. 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. Enoch Mudge,The American Camp-Meeting Hymn Book(Boston: Joseph Burdakin, 1818), vii; Adam Clarke, the theologian to which many Methodist clergymen, including Emmas uncle Nathaniel Lewis, looked for insight into the scriptures, interpreted the Elect Lady mentioned in the Second Epistle of John (2 John 15) as an eminent Christian matron . As Joseph courted Emma during the winter of 18251826, much of this was apparently done through customary letters. While in Kirtland, Emma's feelings about temperance and the use of tobacco[11] reportedly influenced her husband's decision to pray about dietary questions. As he viewed the land, Rose pushed through thirty miles of woods, setting up a camp at a location occupied the week before by some indians.225 His dress was a hunting shirt, trousers and mockasons226which helped him blend in with the locals, such as Jesse Hale who was described as six feet in his moccasins. Despite the backwoods clothing, however, the wealthy Rose had little in common with the Hale family or their neighbors, and he brought with him a notion of gentility then common in his native Philadelphia. Larry C. Porter, Reverend George LaneGood Gifts, Much Grace, and Marked Usefulness,BYU Studies9 (Spring 1969): 327. See Emily Blackman, draft version of History of Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, Susquehanna County Historical Association, Montrose, Pennsylvania. Carol Cornwall Madsen, My Dear and Beloved Companion: The Letters of Joseph and Emma Smith, Ensign, Sept.2008, 1015. 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. Hale gave me a cordial reception, and in the afternoon I preached in a little log school-house to a small but earnest congregation. Peck must have used the log home on the Hale property for some of his sermons. It now included academically trained ministers rather than uneducated circuit riders and included a formal liturgy and structured meetings where once had been primarily organic and expressive outdoor rural meetings reverberating from the mountainsides at the beginning of the century. 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. D&C 23-26 Come Follow Me Lesson - dontmissthisstudy.com, 10 Things You Most Likely Didn't Know About Emma Smith - Called to Share, Children of Joseph Smith and Emma Smith History. 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. He experienced some melancholy while he was away from his fianc, Jane Hodge, and he wrote her of his homesickness, Even the talisman around my neck, which I fondly thought would have defended me against all mischance, cannot shield me from this evil spirit . Only six families in the valley had frame homes while less than half of the barns and other outbuildings in 1798 were specifically identified as log structures, suggesting the earliest sawn lumber went to outbuildings.142, When John Comforts sawmill began operation at the bend of the river, it was clearly the largest in the region and made lumber readily available in the area. The Beers map has continued to influence some historians of Mormonism. By February they had arranged to buy the house from Jesse and the 13 1/2 acres of farmland from Emma's father, Isaac Hale. Blackman,History of Susquehanna County, 578. The massifs were reminiscent of their Vermont environs. Thomas and Mary Buck Tarble became part of the same Presbyterian community near Ouaquaga village where Josiah Stowell served as a deacon.After her husband Thomas was killed in an accident and buried on Abel Stowells farm, Mary moved to father-in-law John S. Tarbeles home a little south of the Hale family. Dr. Robert H. Rose letter, August 2, 1814 as cited in Emily Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,502. But the details of this courtship are not known. They spend whole days in hunting & yet their houses are left in an unfinished state. David followed on March 6, 1794. (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1998), 2:132. 310. Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,95. George Harper to David Hotchkiss, May 16, 1792, Hotchkiss Collection, Broome County Historical Society, Binghamton, New York. Buck and Hale had left the Oquago Valley before it was settled, and J. old Brother Hales, and he mentioned, Mr. During the early settlement years no one could live on their farming. 124. Although earning a living remained difficult, settlers continued to come. 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. Andrew Tracys 17991801 diary as cited in Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,11516. Other sermons he listed under the name Isaac Hales as having preached in the Hale home were based on the texts, Luke 11:28, Rom. Zenanah Gilbert, Diary, September 2, 1810, Special Collections, Dickinson College.