Emma became its founding president,[7] with Sarah M. Cleveland and Elizabeth Ann Whitney as her counselors. 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. 301. Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,485, emphasis in original. Emma Smith N/A: N/A . Silas Gildersleve, letter to Family, September 18, 1823, John Comfort Correspondence, George Fisk Comfort Papers, Syracuse University Special Collections; see also, Charles Wentworth Upham,The Life of Timothy Pickering(Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1878), 4:116. Emma wanted William Marks, president of the church's central stake, to assume the church presidency, but Marks favored Sidney Rigdon for the role. She likely lived at the school during the week. A family tradition suggests that Isaac Hale overheard his young daughter Emma praying for him in the woods near their home and that this contributed to his spiritual conversion. Major Bucks father had placed him with the Onondaga people when only eleven years old to learn their language. 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.. 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. Isaac Hales friend and associate John Comfort consistently wrote his son Silas Comfort expressing hope that the situation would change. Thou hast grieved for the hardness of the hearts of thy fathers house, and thou hast longed for their salvation. A few visitors from Brigham Young's faction of the Latter-day Saints came from Utah Territory to visit Smith at this house. Land use of area. Walker, The Persisting Idea of American Treasure Hunting, 44950. 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. 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. 270. Isaac Hale is a Guitarist, zodiac sign: Cancer. As soon as Emma learned of her fathers death, she wrote her Hale family from her own mansion in Nauvoo and invited them to participate in the refined aspects of her life, even if they chose not to become Mormons. A surveyor in the employment of Dr. R. H. Rose, while tracing a boundary line through the woods, placed his hand high on a tree to mark where the ax-man, who followed, should strike out a chip as an evidence of the line that had been run. After 1843 it is very difficult to get a sense of the value of homes on property since the homes are included with all real property into a single value. 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. George Peck,The Life and Times of Rev. Debates about who should be Joseph's successor as the leader of the church also involved Emma. Photograph by Mark L. Staker. William Cope, A Journey to Great Bend and Return to Philad-a, Cope Family Papers, Pennsylvania State Archives, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, capitalization added for clarity. 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. See Day,Historical Collections of the State of Pennsylvania, 61924). For additional background see Francis Whiting Halsey,The Old New York Frontier(New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1901), 28. Beranda. She soon began selecting the hymns to be sung in church meetings, working with W.W. Phelps to print some of them in 1832 in Church newspapers at a time when male clergy typically assumed responsibility for hymn selection. Joseph boarded at the nearby home of Isaac Hale, where he met Emma, Isaac's twenty-year old daughter. It is also likely the home had nice Venitian carpet that was then the height of fashion. As the Hale family and their relatives in the valley joined Methodism one or two at a time over a period of several years, the son of Timothy Pickering Jr. died and Nathaniel Lewis moved his family into the larger Pickering home.223 The Lewis family lived in the large home until Pickering sold it to John Comfort in 1808 and gave Lewis a years notice to move his family out.224 This happened just as land ownership in the valley shifted and the settlers were finally forced to resolve their land titles. Isaac Hale. Robert H. Rose, letter to Miss Jane Hodge, August 20, 1808. Her mother-in-law, Lucy Mack Smith, praised Emmas character: I have never seen a woman in my life, who would endure every species of fatigue and hardship, from month to month, and from year to year, with that unflinching courage, zeal, and patience, which she has always done. 193. After they had arrived at Palmyra N.Y., Emma wrote to me enquiring whether she could take her property, consisting of clothing, furniture, cows, &c. I replied that her property was safe, and at her disposal. 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. The first large scale sawmill in the valley began operation in 1809.239Since the Hales were under pressure from Pickering to build the Lewis home in 1809, and Methodist meetings were held in the Hale home as early as 1810, it is likely the Hale family finished building their own new frame home in early 1810, the same year they gained legal title to their property. The daughter of Stows neighbor Elmore Russell found a large ring on her familys property supposed to have been once the ornament of some chiefs daughter. It was later tested and shown to be pure gold.100 George Catlin, who grew up in the same valley and went on to become a famous painter of Native Americans in traditional dress, recalled of his own fathers experiences, The plows in my fathers field were daily turning up Indian skulls or Indian bones, and Indian flint arrow-heads.101, These grave goods may have encouraged the locals to look for raw ore on their property as well. Rose charged the Hales $3.79 an acre for their land which was more than ten times the amount Bennett initially paid for it and a dollar per acre higher than Rose charged Isaac and Elizabeth Hales neighbors, suggesting he took advantage of the added value twenty years of Hale family improvements had given the land. The Beers map has continued to influence some historians of Mormonism. Four of Isaacs children were named after his Ward relatives, an additional three were named after Elizabeths Lewis family, and the youngest child, their son Reuben, was more likely named after Elizabeths brother Reuben Lewis than Isaacs brother Reuben Hale. Hand-painted tea cup and Saucer, found on Hale Farm. If you retire into the grove. Ground penetrating radar suggests the railroad kept its agreement as there is a body where Isaac Hales matching headstone stands next to Elizabeths in the cemetery.294 Radar also suggests there are two bodies without headstones buried next to him. 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. 208. Caleb Carmalt & wife to Isaac Hale, July 31, 1833, Deeds, Montrose, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. Buck closed his labors,apparently,as pastor over the church in 1799(? John Comfort, letter to Silas Comfort, Letter February 29, 1836. Florence Hartley,The Ladies Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness(Boston: G. W. Cottrell, Publisher, 1860), 124. 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. 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 . [7] Her funeral was held May 2, 1879, in Nauvoo with RLDS Church minister Mark Hill Forscutt preaching the sermon. Smith, and his father, with several other "money-diggers" boarded at my house while they were employed in digging for a mine that they supposed had been opened and worked by the Spaniards, many years since. David was tall and straight, with eyes bright and brown, and hair dark almost black. He looked much like his sister Emma with whom he had a close relationship. Lewis and family have, for two months, lived in the small house we built in 1801. . 304. Stocker noted in his account of this difficulty (Centennial History of Susquehanna County,550), Mr. 242. 190. Smith stated to me, that he had given up what he called "glass-looking," and that he expected to work hard for a living, and was willing to do so. 128. . Among the ruins, Hale met Daniel Buck, an army surgeon and officer during the recent war. Archaeology did not recover drinking mugs or other implements on the Hale property typically found at tavern sites.275 George Peck preached sermons in the Hale home or homes, and pious Methodists looked down on tavern keepers as not devout Christians.276 The frame home was also too small to accommodate the large Hale family and long-term additional guests. Zenanah Gilbert, who attended a Methodist camp meeting in the area in 1810, described her experience: Sunday early in the morning Brother Ths [Thomas] Sister F [Fanny] and myself set off for to go to a Methodice field Meeting we call at the Post and [pick up numerous others with the wagon at several locations] . 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. Among them was a man named Josiah Stow, a deacon in Daniel Bucks congregation, where Josiah Stowell would later also serve as a deacon. Blackman, who wrote forty years after Wilkinson noted the earliest homes had no windows and used oiled brown paper to let in light, and also concluded that many of the earliest log homes in the valley were poorly lighted. Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,469. During this period, the Wood family and some of their neighbors accepted Nathaniel Woods religious doctrines, and this growing group began meeting together in Middletown. 288. 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. The Hale property is carefully drawn in the Rose survey maps and labeled with Isaac Hales name.232 While preparations to divide the Rose tract were underway, Isaac and his sons helped finish the Lewis familys new home in 1809 on poor farmland south of the Susquehanna River and just east of a small creek (now Bedbug Creek). Emma Smith letter to Joseph Smith, Mar.7, 1839, in Joseph Smith Letterbook 2, 37, josephsmithpapers.org. A wing (no longer extant) was added to this house, which Emma operated as a hotel. old Brother Hales, and he mentioned, Mr. to designate an old town of the Tuscaroras.267 She was likely incorrect about the tribal affiliation of the ruins, since others have argued the Onondaga lived on the west side of the Susquehanna River and the Tuscarora lived on the east side. 276. 55. . It reads in part: return to the undersigned commissioners for the county aforesaid at their office in Montrose in alphabetical order, the names and sir names of the taxable inhabitanse (sic) in your township, and and (sic) of all the property within the same, made taxable, together with a just evaluation viz. . Smith lived near Palmyra, New York, but boarded with the Hales in Harmony while he was employed in a company of men hired to unearth a "Dream Mine". John Traves built a sawmill across the river a few hundred feet downstream from the Hale home. Photographs of these headstones are in the authors collection. Harris informed me afterwards, that he followed Smith's directions, and could not find the Plates, and was still dissatisfied. David Cordingly,Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life among the Pirates(New York: Random House, 1995), 17879. Collection of the, LDS Church History Department. William Drinker and Others Exects of Henry Drinker Deced to Nathaniel Lewis, August 6, 1810, Deeds, Wilkes-Barre, Luzern County, Pennsylvania, 12: 22327. Records, Letter to Church Leaders in Jackson County, Missouri, 25 June 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. Included in this list but not in the original directive was malt houses. 170. Nine months after Robert Rose purchased much of the valley, Isaac Hale paid him one dollar on November 29, 1809, for 90 acres of land and agreed to a mortgage of $340.92 for the remaining sum. Upham,Life of Timothy Pickering,119. 176. 215. Privacy Policy. When James Newman died and was buried in the cemetery west of the Hale home that now bears his name, John Comfort wrote he was taken a corps into the Chapel the first time he ever entered it. John Comfort, letter to Silas Comfort, February 29, 1848. [13] The bank's demise led to serious problems for the church and the Smith family. 90. During the next weeks, Joseph was arrested, tried, and exonerated in South Bainbridge for "glass looking" based on the state's vagrancy law. Young Joseph (as he became known) was the first of her natural children to live to adulthood. Lumber was also transported overland to the Delaware River about fifteen miles east of the Hale home where it was deposited until the spring floods carried the arks downriver straight to Philadelphia. He selected a piece of property in the Susquehanna Valley for what he called his plantation, ordered long lists of specific trees and vegetable seed from distributors in England, and hired two menIsaac Hale and Nathaniel Lewisto clear part of thirty acres of land during the winter of 1800-1801 in anticipation of his settling the area. 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. It was while here that Joseph Smith began translating the Book of Mormon from the gold plates. 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. Asbury wasnt particularly impressed with the area, noting in his journal, The heights of the Susquehanna are stupendous; the bottom lands very fertile; but this river runs through a country of unpleasing aspect, morally and physically. Born in 1790, she spent much of her later life attending tea parties and religious events. Jacob C. Ullery,Men of Vermont: An Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters and Sons of Vermont(Brattleboro, Vt.: Transcript Publishing Company, 1894), 5354; John E. Goodrich, ed.,The State of Vermont: Rolls of the Soldiers in the Revolutionary War 1775 to 1783(Rutland, Vt.: The Tuttle Co., 1904), 20809. 268. He was tasked with finding and unearthing buried treasure presumed to be located there. Emma's father, Isaac Hale died 11 January 1839. [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. They most frequently got it from Spanish treasure ships. While the Hale property changed owners, Pennsylvania sold 9,000 acres of remaining land in the valley to Colonel Timothy Pickering Jr., a Harvard graduate, intellectual, military officer, and politician. The rise of the Rodsmen placed Methodists in the community such as Lewis in direct opposition to the local treasure digging culture that had been part of their Connecticut roots. 172. 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. Early map makers of the region acknowledged their lack of information about the area by writing Endless Mountains across a large section of unmapped land without trying to include details they did not know.33The name stuck and is still used for the region today. 221. The remains of the homes foundation suggest Isaac and Elizabeth Hales frame home was 14 x 34 feet with a rear addition 12 x 24 feet. Wood was excluded from the Congregationalists some twelve years before, but the history does not indicate before what. Hale was not taxed for a barn in 1798. Their correspondence reveals not only their difficult circumstances but their commitment to each other. 207. Some of the survivors of this massacre fled north to Canada and fought for the British in Vermont. She wold often say to those that came to see hir for they ware many that she knew that hir Redemer liveth and she longd to bea at rest in the paradise of god.292, After Elizabeths death, Alva saw that his mother was buried in the family plot in the nearby cemetery.
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