Brgham Young Unversty BYU ScholarsArchve All Theses and Dssertatons 1952 Emma Hale: Wfe of the Prophet Joseph Smth Raymond T. Baley Brgham Young Unversty - Provo Follow ths and addtonal works at: https://scholarsarchve.byu.edu/etd Part of the Mormon Studes Commons, and the Women's Studes Commons BYU ScholarsArchve Ctaton Baley, Raymond T., "Emma Hale: Wfe of the Prophet Joseph Smth" (1952). All Theses and Dssertatons. 4494. https://scholarsarchve.byu.edu/etd/4494 Ths Thess s brought to you for free and open access by BYU ScholarsArchve. It has been accepted for ncluson n All Theses and Dssertatons by an authorzed admnstrator of BYU ScholarsArchve. For more nformaton, please contact scholarsarchve@byu.edu.
y J 7 3155 155 15.5 755 EMMA HALE E M M A H A L E WIFE OF THE PROPHET JOSEPH SMITH A thess submtted to the faculty of the dvson of relgon brgham young unversty n partal fulfllment of the requrements for the degree of master of scence 1810 by raymond T baley aprl 1952 192
acknowledgments acknowledg14ents the wrter sncerely apprecates the assstance of all persons who have made possble the completon of ths thess elders A wllam lund preston nbley thomas C romney and the employees of the church hstorans offce at salt lake cty have been gracous n allowng the use of materals and n offerng helpful advce and nformaton the general offcers of the relef socety oblgngly allowed the perusal of the womans offce comans s exponent n ther vesta perce crawford was especally helpful n allowng the use of her unpublshed notes that she had gathered over a perod of years on the lfe of emma smth and n suggestng nterestng sdelghts relatve to emma smths lfe the wrter s grateful to the lbrarans of the brgham young unversty for makng accessble the volumes n the specal collectons room professor wllam E berrett and drs sdney B sperry and hugh nbley have read the manuscrpt and offered many helpful suggestons the wrter acknowledges hs ndebtedness to members of hs famly who helped by typng the orgnal draft of ths manuscrpt and to mss margaret hansen who proofread read the thess ll l
TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE II ntroducton 1 11 ANCESTRY OF EMMA HALE 6 the surname hale 6 saac hale 7-111 THE HALES OF HARMONY 10 early hstory of the state of pennsylvana 10 descrpton of susquehanna county 11 hale brothers as tax collectors 11 susquehanna county far 12 A descrpton of country around harmony 12 A courtshp and marrage of joseph smth and 13 emma hale emma and the plates of the book of mormon 17 IV enma ET EMMA aaa a4a THE ELECT LADY 20 removal to fayette new york 20 emmas baptsm 20 revelaton from the lord to emma smth 22 the term elect lady lady11 2 21 emmas confrmaton 2 enma s V THE SMITHS MOVE TO OHIO 29 removal to krtland oho 29 brth and death of twns twns adopton of murdock murdoch 29 lf at hram oho 30 lfee joseph smth 111 III l born 30 v
CHAPTER PAGE VI arrval of brgham young at krtland krtland temple purchase of mummes emmas hymn book publshed brth of frederck G W smth the smths leave for mssour MISSOURI dffcultes 31 32 32 33 35 36 38 f arrval at far hest vest west 38 brth of alexander hale smth arrest of joseh joseph at far par west 38 39 J josephs letters to emma from prson 10 emma carres Tn nspred flght from mssour verson manuscrpt n 13 emma lves wth the cleavelands Cleavelands n quncy 11 MISSISSIP VII LIFE ON THE UPPER msssspp PI 15 josephs arrval at quncy 15 descrpton of commerce emma to select and publsh a hymn book commerce re named nauvoo 15 16 46 hngton joseph returns from washngton ras Tas 1 16 brth of don carlos smth 47 arval arrval of john C bennett A 18 emma smth frst female worker for temple 19 ordnances VIII tl AM THE ONLY WIFE HE EVER HAD 50 josephs love for emma 51 v
CHAPTER proe PAGE FAGE the polygamy queston 522 pont of vew of the reorganzed church 544 pont of vew of the mormon church 6 celestal marrage revelaton 577 journal hstory suggestons sugoestons of polygamy 62 0 56 lorenzo D wassons vassos letter 74 statements of brgham young concernng plural 77 marrage and endowments george A smths letter to joseph III 111 82 emma smths last testmony 87 affdavts of plural marrage practsed practced 89 joseph B noble go B F johnson 92 lorenzo snow 93 john benbow 94 elza M P lyman emly D P young 9 lydan 95 lovna walker 96 elza R snow 97 malssa wlles 98 remarks of presdent heber C kmball about 100 emma 90 95 presdent john joln helen mar vjhtney 11htneys manson house jolan taylors remarks about emma 101 VJ remarks about emma and the 102 news clppngs about polygamy 103 organzaton of the female relef socety of 10 nauvoo 0 loy 105 log nauvoo legon parade 106 letters to governor carln 107 ffteenth weddng annversary party 108 v
CHAPTER PAGE polygamy revelaton wrtten down chrstmas party 1813 l-stmas l-stman summary 183 IX THE MARTYRDOM AND successon log 109 log 109 o lo 110 112 r emma smths blessng 112 hstory before the martyrdom 116 lg emma vews her martyred Martyred HusbandIs marty husbands husbands remans 125 emma manfests opposton to the councl of the twelve owa and mssour newspaper stores 128 129 emma smth and brgham young 130 emma unwllng to gve up nspred revson emma wllng to come west on condtons 131 132 joseph smth of the twelve brgham young and the councl 133 wllam smths smthes atttude mother lucy smths atttude 135 137 00 llo lo 110 0 W regels atttude emnas emmas 140 busness ablty brth of cf davd hyrum smth the new york sun letter the letter a forgery summary l 111 112 143 144 rey ney X A NEW relf ref LIFE IN AN al al ll OLD CITY 146 boval 116 lg removal to fulton return to nauvoo 146 v vl
1.1 CHAPTER PAGE emma emmal emmat marrage 17 s to lews crum bdamon 117 letters from emmas vstors 148 john S fullmer january 31 1848 148 almon W babbtt to H C january K 31 149 1848 yo lo lyo almon W babbtt to B Y january 31 150 10 1848 jonathan C wrght february 11 1848 151 yl 11 11 dr john 14 bernhsel september 10 1848 151 tapsfeld hannah tappfeld Tapp 1qw 12 18550 121 kngs vst to emma emna ll enma may 153 11 trpps enoch trppe vst B to nauvoo november 154 51 252 18556 amberst chamberst Ch vst to nauvoo and conversaton 1 c- hanbers c- hamberss wth emma 17 summary 157 XI EMMA AND THE reorganzed church CHUBCH 155 19 CHUCH 159 the conference of aprl 6 1860 at amboy 159 19 19 emma smth bdamon receved nto fellowshp C 159 on her orgnal baptsm presdents of the reorganzed church 160 offces held by emma joseph smth III 111 emmas enma sons and grandsons 161 ll 161 death of frederck G W smth 161 alexander hale smth 162 davd hyrum smth 162 emma turns new translaton over to the 162 reorganzed church emma last years and death 163 s death of lews C bdamon 16 165 XII SUMMARY claary flaary AND concluson 167 sul SUI v
CHAPTER PAGE XIII appendces APPENDIX JOSEPH SMITH AND EMMA HALES APPENDIX II 12 174 CHILDREN 11 chronology OF EMMA HALE C OTIOLOGY 176 III l APPENDIX 111 ll chronology OF THE TIME 184 APPENDIX IV LETTER L- FROM frole JOHN R YOUNG 185 XIV bblography 188 x
CHAPTER ntroducton books and artcles about joseph smth the founder organzer and prophet of the church of jesus chrst of latter L day sants are numerous and vared n ther esteem and n ther treatment of hm hs name has become known m for good and evl throughout the world as he was told that t would j be the church he organzed more than a century ago wth sx members sgnng the artcles of ncorporaton now numbers more than a mllon souls and ths membershp stll bears 1 testmony of the dvne msson of ths man as a prophet and a restorer of truth to the people of the world n ths dspensaton j joseph smth suffered much persecuton Derse by nauguratng many new and revolutonary prncples and doctrnes durng the years from 1820 untl hs martyrdom n 1844 but the organzaton he founded has gradually grown n numbers power po wery and nfluence untl today t s recognzed as one of the most vtal relgons n the world shortly after the tme of hs martyrdom hs wdow vdow wdowly emma hale smth began to oppose vgorously the men who utho had been closest to her husband n the councls of the church and to strke out aganst them when organzed mobs drove the mormon people out of llnos after they had shot and klled joseph smth hs wfe remaned to take up her abode n the deserted cty rather than move on wth ths persecuted people
who had already been drven from three other states 2 sxteen years after the mgraton westward by the man body of latter day sants emma smth became a member of the reorganzed church of jesus chrst of latter day sants and ner her son became ts presdent A grandson also became a 1 pre-sent presdent and at the present tme aprl 1052 192 another grandson s now presdent of ths church the problem of ths thess concerns tself wth the questons why dd emma smth oppose the men who were n the leadng councl of the church and who were the closest frends of her husband what was her atttude towards the church her husband founded what knd of woman was she and what effect j dd she have upon her husband and the church he organzed t wll be the purpose of ths thess to pont out 1 some sgnfcant facts pertanng to these questons gathered n the man from prmary sources such as the journal hstory hstqy of the church of jesus chrst of latter latten day sants news clppngs from newspapers publshed n llnos owa and mssour at the tme emma hale was lvng and from domans exponent the womans womanls EPo nent of the same tme A gleanng of materal has also been made from the sx volume hstory of the church and the comprehensve hstory of the church mormon source books and the one volume story of the church and from the four volumes of the hstory of the reorganzed church of jesus chrst of latter day sants 3.3 source materals of the reorganzed 1
3 urch ca church the lf more personal detals n the lfee lfe of emma smth as recorded n ths thess are statements made by her mother nlaw by grand daughter a granddaughter and by her husband the chapter on the ancestry of emma hale s not new materal but s a condensaton from the book posterty of joseph smth and emma ancestry and booky aneesa books enma hale by a granddaughter grand daughter mary audenta smth anderson however as many of the sources aseere vere avalable n the lbrary of the utah genealogcal aswere and hstorcal socety mentoned by the author were checked 1 and were found accurate n every case A major porton of ths research was done n the latty lbrary n the latter dayy sant church offce buldng and conssts of extracts from the journal hstory of the churchy churche ths volumnous materal was compled by andrew jenson and s organzed n the chronologcal order of ts happenng t s a rch storehouse of old dares speeches letters and manu scrpts whch are all orgnal and valuable sources t s ns nts not present day opnons but detaled narratves of events as they happened from the organzaton of the church to the present tme am ndebted to sster vesta perce crawford for the extensve research that she has done and for the use of her unpublshed notes the readng of whch has helped me to have a better understandng of the problem and qute a number of
h1 quotatons from these no have become a part of ths A s thess tl benen so far as have ten able to fnd out outa out7 there has been lttle done toward collectng and organzng and makng avalable for future study the tory ocy t- lf lfe of story of the lfee emma hale smth bf of the prophet jc11- joseph smths smthe the wfee E cecl mcgavn n an hs book nauvoo the beautful has a chapter enttled th tb smth wdows and fve ages P pages of ths chapter deals wth erm eroa emm- a the elect lady and the outcast aroā āa mary audenta smth andersen a granddaughter of emma n her 1 book ancestry and posterty af eale pf josejjl smth and emma hale has a chapter dealng wth the genealogy of the hale famly emma s mentoned frequently n connecton wth the story of her husband n sur such books as the hstory sun h hstor bstor off JO joseph smth by hs mother lucy mack kack vack smth and the story of the church by nez smth davs f t was tle the te hs ory tlle journal hstory of the churchy however n brjof and ncdental artcles about her that the man porton of ths materal has been collected one of the purposes of ths thess s to present as much pertnent materal as Is readly dlly obtanable and make t avalable under one cover much more could lkely lrely be done f more thorough research coul1 cou14 fles of the reorganzed church coula be made usng the documents and dates used n ths thess have been checked by usng andrew jensons church chropogy chrojllogy as a standard very lttle materal has been found of emma smths
5 own olm o m wrtngs afew wth the excepton of a few letters and a blessng whch she craved mght be hers but these wrtngs are ncluded n ths thess wth an nterpretaton gven whch feel helps to gve some nsght nto her hopesy ambtons and desres the problem of emma smths atttude and actons troversal toward the church her husband founded s an extremely controversal one wth the two leadng latter day sant groups takng ar-ng opposte sdes on a number of very mportant ssues an- ng both sdes are represented where research materal was avalable
CHAPTER II 11 ANCESTRY OF EMMA HALE the wfe of the prophet was of englsh descent she was the thrd daughter and the seventh chld of a famly of nne chldren born to saac and elzabeth lews hale of harmony now oakland pennsylvana t j her famly genealogy has been traced back to john heald generāton the sxth generaton from emma enma who came from berwck upon tweed county northumberland england he settled hs famly at concordal massachusetts and all of hs posterty concordl t 1who who remaned n the vcnty of concord mantaned the spellng heald of the famly surname 1 those who moved away to other localtes changed the spellng and we fnd n the early new england records the followng varatons heale held hele heal hale halle hale halle balle haule heale hal haled healed hald and heald 2 haled2 healed7 wale hae oale oae the surname hal hale comes from the welsh and means a moor the name hayle means a salt water rver3 of edward III 111 rvera the hale famles of kent have exsted snce the regn l and early n the thrteenth century were erous numerous aum aun n hertfordshre Hertford york charles chanles chares lcharles charles edwn edrn prvatelyy edvn booth booth and alled famles new prvatel prnted 1clot 1910 p 23 2 bd p 23 of joseph smth and emma hale ndependence mssour herald houfe HOUFC h- ouse omary audenta smth anderson 29 129 1c2q P 293 bbd bd p 293 Poster ancestry and posterty tv
7 john heald marred dorothy An andrews drevs and reared a large fa fardly famly nly ther son jershom gershom was born at concord but moved from there to the state of connectcut and was the one to change the spellng of the surname 6 the he exact tme of the change s not known jershoms Jers son samuel was born at stow or sprngfeld and owned property there A transfer of a deed at stow bears hs sgnature as held11 hed red and ana ang deacon thomas hale sgned a deed n 1678 as hale wrtng t also as heal and hele reuben a son of samuel was born at oxford connectcut he was the father of saac hale who was the snthh father of emma hale smth the subject of ths dssertaton saac hale was born at waterbury buny connectcut march 1763.7 n the year 1780 at the age of seventeen he gave 21 17637 servce n the revolutonary war marchng wth colonel ebenezer allens alens allens command 0 0 8 about the year 1790 he joned an mmgrant tran that went through pennsylvana after returnng from ths trp he marred elzabeth lews on september the twenteth n the same year n the cty of wells vermont he and hs wfe made ther home n harmony now oakland pennsylvana and all of ther nne chldren were born n susquehanna county later nearly all of the chldren moved bbd 5bd 61bd 24 bd p 293 bd p 29 glehanna county 7emly demly C ba Bla blackman clanan hstory of susquehanna glehanna phladelpha claxton remsen and haffelfnger 18737 3 pp ap 100110 110 1 81bd bd
8 to llnos saac hale was a farmer and a great hunter he made t5 a good lvng by procurng game and sellng or barterng t9 ta elzabeth lews haley halel hae eale mother of emma emmay emmat enma was a member of the methodst church and her name and her husbands are stll to be found on the class records of the methodst epscopal church n the cty where they lved 10 A lady lvng at lanesboro Lane ats als sboro who knew emmas mother sad 1 never I vsted her but thought had learned somethng useful 7th ath her death occurred n 1842 n her 75th year 13 11 saac hale ded january 11 1839 fve and one half years before the martyrdom of hs famous sonnlaw hs wfe followed hm n death three years later or two and one half years before joseph smthes smths tragc death they are bured n the back of the garden a request that was made by hale just pror to hs death ths s now the mckune cemetery eales the eptaph over saac hales halos ealos haes grave reads the body of ssac hale the hunter lke the cover of an old book ts contents torn out and strpped of ts letterng and gldng food for worms les here yet the work tself shall not be lost and t wll as he beleved appear once more n a new and more beautful edton corrected and 91nderson Q gn- de andersen op ct p 302 a- nderson bd l-o of 101 abd tbd 101bd pp ap 301302 302 llblacknan blackman op ctt cty att pp ap 100110 110
9 amended 12 12unpublshed ferce perce peree crawford 010 14o de-scendants unpublshed notes on emma smth collected by vesta s- t tems were told to her ler loer er by most the 140 descendants of emma hale smth p 220 229 of
III l CHAPTER 111 THE HALES OF HARMONY july 1804 may 1829 the keystone state of the thrteen orgnal colones pennsylvana was frst settled by swedes n the year 1643 twelve years later the dutch ganed control over t and n 1664 the englsh took over the colones wllam penn perm the quaker acqured a grant of land whch had been gven to hs father and he was gven almost unlmted governng powers over a great deal of the terrtory whch now bears hs fathers herts name n 1683 penn perm made hs famous treaty wth the ndans and shortly afterwards many mmgrants flocked to pennsylvana penns because of the relgous toleraton assured under perms penns rule 1 pennsylvana was one of the thrteen orgnal colones and the most centrally located durng the amercan revoluton there are nne chef rvers n the state quehanna bel beng m- ost the susquehanna beng one of the most mportant modt 2 t s near the banks of ths rver n the northeastern corner of the state where saac hale a connectcut yankee who rho had gven servce n the revolutonary war and hs wfe elzabeth lews decded to settle dovn doan and vm call the place home ths was probably toward the close of the year 1790 1700 as he started for pennsylvana soon after hs marrage on september the 20th at wells ald old od lloyd llloyd lōyd lloyd edwn smth nel new ne7 nell7 3-6 nel nternatonal atlas of the sor dorld 0ld chcago the geographcal publshng co ac 1c.36 136 p 43 21bd bd
11 vermont saac hale was twenty seven and one half years of age at that tme susquehanna county s n the appalachan mountans and there were rapds near the home where emma hale was born march some pne there was also a neghborng natural cranberry 011 the rver and there were oak forests north ol t was on ths sde of the rver that saac hale and hs brother n law each other 1820 lb b5180 51.80 at fve mlls on the dollar of valuaton nathaneal lews lved near on the south were hemlock maple beech and hckory the starucca s a branch of the susquehanna and s named for an old ndan trbe who lved n the vcnty frst jesse and then davd emmas enma brothers were tax davd hale collected n 18 for the townshps of oakland and harmony collectors n ths dstrct n 1819 one man pad 606 another 707 another 808 the heavest taxpayers pad less than 00 mr mr en eln 5000 50.00 state authortes a poltcal document whch sad after year thousands of dollars voung pockets of our ctzens n the shape of taxes 1 for trout and huntng were unsure unsurr unsurpassed n hale forwarded to the doldars are vtung from the year fshng the dstrct starucca creek s n a wld country of ragged gorges ths was the creek that was noted for huntng and fshng hales boys had to qut work an hour or two before dark to grnd the meal for supper at hs door there was a stump mortar and heavy wooden pestle worked by a pole humburgs bugs jesse sprngpole hale lked all bugs but humbugs and davd were drafted n 1814 and marched n captan fred baleys balleys company to danvlle they were large strong men emmas enma people were large and strong splendd physcally they were great hunters three of jesses jessed jessen sons were klled by rebels n l the youngest three of hs sx sons daughters lt the cvl war he also had four captan joab T fell at fort donelson sergeant frank fell at cornth maretta georga and captan robert fell at jesse at home when a boy would kll panthers n the woods meat scally caly ph-yscally youn est once and then next vnter vnten once he klled 20 deer for the wnters vnters onj3e he brought home four young panthers dead hext day went back and klled the mother roads n ths dstrct n emmas tme were very rough and bad and there were few brdges over the creeks
nathanel lews methodst preacher and a poneer n the dstrct 12 lewsysj brother to gunals eunals emma mother was a fronter once sorne unruly boys dsturbed the when he was preachng some meetng and he called them the most dogmatcal hogmatcal set of scounarels scounurels scoundrels ever saw the vote n 1 1808 was about 200 n the country some ndans lved n the dstrct apples plums peaches wld grapes flax ndan corny and wheat were grown all land had to be cleared c2cared of tmber ths cost from pl2 2.12 to 151 per acre the houses 1- were frame or log sprngs were numerous the water was cold pure and clear the most promnent relgon was the presbyteran then the methodst there was a great agrcultural far n 1821 wllam rose receved the erastus catln was prze for the best acre of wheat awarded a prze for the best woolen cloth and pullman catln for the best specmen of lnen jesse sherman had the best plow johan brewster dd the most harvestng wthout sprts emmelne chapman made the turrel the best har cloth best straw bonnet and peter wm herkmer make the most maple sugar and at the far t was sad that susquehanna county led the state n havng the fewest sheep wth dsordered lvers mary ruth packed packer made the best half dozen worsted stockngs duer the best coverlet and sopha rce the best amercan leghorn bonnet elsha mack maw the best fannng mll there were no ralroads whle emma lved n pennsylvana saac would kll elk on the starucca n the fall when they were the fattest make troughs of brch or maple to hold t when cub cut up carry salt on hs back salt the meat heavy stones and cover t wth bark held down by then would gve meat away or exchange t for work on the farm emma was born and reared on the banks of the oquaqo mountan s n the mddle of the susquehanna townshp and from t come brooks drnkers creek flat brook bear creek etc and there s an sland n the rver called gulf sland another called loverss there were oak forest north of the rver sland and hemlock maple beech and hckory chabod swamp la dread lu lul was near a dreadful swamp thck wth hemlock and laurel and full of paths of wld anmals bears wolves and panthers here chabod buck was once lost but 10 st fought hs way out to the rver wth only a jack knfe for a weapon here3 herec 3 the tuscarora ndans once lved near wolves7 llo lo lo o 3 blackman ct 1001-10 3b1 ackman op cty PP 100110 loo 110 7 a
13 of emma hale very lttle more s known concernng the early grlhood t s thought that she attended school n the vcnty and that she attended a grs grls school for one year j A granddaughter daughter of emma sad emma never used slang and was very partcular about her grammar and choce of words d the hale famly conssted of the father and mother fve sons and four daughters emma enma brtna was the thrd daughter and the seventh chld n ths famly of nne chldren all of the famly were born n susquehanna county j COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE OF JOSEPH SMITH AND EMMA elema HALE joseph smth gves a very bref account of hs frst meetng wth emma hale and ther later marrage n these words n the month of october 182 gentleman by the name of josah steal chenango Che county 1825 1I hred wth an old who lved n nango state of new york he had heard somethng of a slver mne havng been opened by the spanards n harmony susquehanna county state of pennsylvana and had prevous to my hrng to hm been dggng n order f possble to dscover the mne after went to lve wth hm he took me vath the rest of hs hands to dg for the slver mne at whch contnued to work for nearly a month wthout success n our undertakng and fnally prevaled wth the old gentleman to cease dggng after t hence arose the very prevalent story of my havng been a money dgger durng the tme that was thus employed was put to board wth a mr saac hale of that place t was there frst saw my wfe hs daughter emma hale lath of january 1827 we were marred whle on the l8th 18th 1-027 was yet employed n the servce of mr stoal etoal to my contnung to assert that had seen a vson owng vson 4crawford dcrawford op od ct y p 21
persecuton stll followed me roe moe and my wfe cfes famly were very much opposed to our beng marred was therefore forey forel under elsewhere 5 so went vent WP 1 fathers the necessty of takng her wentt and were marred at the house nango of squre tarbll n south banbrdge chenango Che new york mmedately after my marrage left mr Sto stoalls shoals and stoals oas county alts alls ats went to my fathers and farmed wth hm season55 that seasons 14 wfes the account n the one volume book story of the church by nez smth davs adds a few more detals as follows once a year t was the custom of joseph knght to vst the farmers n neghborng countes and contract for wheat to be delvered at hs mll n the fall upon some of these vsts he was accompaned by an old josah stoal etoal from banbrdge new york the frend old gentleman had conceved the dea aea of searchng for an ancent slver mne supposed oposed opposed by neghborhood tradton to have been opened by the spanards somewhere n the hlls near harmony oakland n sus que queharma county harma pennsylvana spansh treasure was n those days the popular myth wth all classes of socety upon recommendaton of hs frend knght steal secured the servces of young smth and took hm to pennsylvana and put hm to board wth other hands n harmony at the prosperous farm home of saac hale the spansh treasure never materalzed and the dsapponted treasure seeker was fnally persuaded to abandon the quest but not before young joseph smth busque 1 had found tme durng moonlt nghts on the susque hanna to embark on a more successful treasure hunt of hs own emma dark eyed daughter of the hales found t easy to lke the young stranger from new york but the story of josephs vsons had followed hm and canny old saac hale was doubtful of the sort of farmer that could be made from a young man who such unusual sghts and sounds what he le te wanted gve up because of obstacles case he was under the feces necessty of takng her else- so we went and were marred at the houge of where saw and heard havng once determned t was never easy for joseph smth to lph sty squre tarbll n south banbrdge and he records n ths nango chenango Che 1.1 county 5brgham robe bobe arts hstoryof of the chrch7 church f brgham H roberts compler hstory salt sat salt bat lake cty deseret news press 1902 1002 vol 1 p 17 11
new york and the young couple went C r ī 3-5 the marrage occurred on january 18 182 vent mmedately to manchester where they lved wth the elder smths for a year later n the year on the hstorcal date of september 22 when joseph smth made hs annual vst to the hll of promse he took hs wfe and borrowed two horses and a carrage from two mllers from coles vlle josah stoal to be there that evenng etoal and joseph knght who happened the trp was taken secretly but joseph knew he was welcome to the horse and travell ng equppage two am Plates plates pates page of ether of these two old frends at that mornng he brought back the chershed but the longed for adventure had only begun the story of the golden plates spread abroad n the negh- borhood they must be protected from theft and danger there was a book to be translated and publshed joseph was uneducated and poor 0 Accordna too joseph smthes accordne accordng accordna LO 35 3.5 6 1827 dancer and smths story he hred out to josah stoal etoal n october 182 1825 and was marred to emma hale n january 1827 whle he was yet employed by mr stoal etoal he had evdently stopped workng for hm and at a later tme had been re employed josephs mother states that he asked hs parents consent to the marrage sad joseph called my husband and myself asde and 1I have been very lonely IT src sre ste e alvn ded and have concluded to get marred and f you have no objectons to my untng myself n marrage wth mss emma hale she would be my choce n preference to any other woman have ever seen wewere mere pleased dere wth hs choce and not only consented to hs marrage nth wth her but requested hm to brng her home wth hm and lve wth us7 usa ewere eber-e la bother hother gnez nez smth davs the story of the church ndependence mssour herald house 18 p O npreston lake cty 10 salt lale stevens stor 184 104 pv 040 1 7preston nbley edtor hstory of josenh stevons and alls alls als balls 1 joseah smth by l0 p 93 1c4 03 bv hs
16 he of course could not ask hs parents consent f he had remaned n harmony pennsylvana n etoal stoalss shoals employ the entre tme emmas much has been sad about joseph and emma elopement at the tme both were of legal age emma approachng her twenty thrd brthday whle joseph had just passed hs twenty frst mlestone emma was a year and one half older than joseph joseph was told by saac hale when he asked for emmas emnas hand n marrage that he was A stranger that he had no steady remuneratve employment that he had the reputaton of lookng nto peep stones and huntng for treasures wth a wtch hazel 0 stanes st0nes whether joseph and emma eloped s not qute certan the followng letter from emma to her son joseph dated october 11 1866 publshed n the sants herald vol 26 280 throws new lght upon the ssue p 289 wels vels ves was vstng at mr stowells Sto stoal who lved n etoal banbrdge and saw your father there had no ntenton of marryng when left home but durng my vst sto ells eells ellls elts vsted 0 at mr stowells your father vsted me there my folks were btterly opposed to hm mportuner by and beng mportuned your father aded by mr stowell who urged me to marry hm preferrng to marry hm to any other man knew consented at the tme that joseph was courtng the favor of emma hale she was descrbed as beng ajohn 8john Q new york john henry evans joseph smth an amercan prophet nacllllan the Macl macmllan ac macllllan co 1c4 196 p 38
I 17 very beautful wth large dgnfed body and bewtchng nc dark eyes and also exceptonally 0 1 ntellgent A pantng made of herat ths tme tne lne or a lttle latter bears out ths reputaton7 reputatons7 reputaton elma EMMA eml AND THE PLATES OF THE BOOK OF MORMON eght months and four days after ther marrage emma accompaned joseph to the sacred hll of promse and helped hm secure the plates from whch the translaton of the book of 11ormon mormon was made they had been lvng durng ths tme at the they famly home at manchester new york the events of the evenng of the twenty frst and twenty second of september 182 Smthlre smthlre smthlne record recordedl- y by nez smth davs- o 0 as recorded edby 1827 recordedby davs-o and lucy mack smth are at varance wth each other n relaton to the tme element mrs davs quotes a letter from catherne salsbury a sster to joseph smth statng that he returned to the smth home at two am that mornng whle mother smth has hm leave about mdnght and not return untl after tec breakfast after the plates had been taken from ther hdng place n the hll the remanng three months n the year vere flled wth a hectc struggle to keep the plates hdden where they could not be stolen had heard the story wealth once emma was workng some dstance p-ance b- from home sl stoen p-olen -olen m-olen gold of any sort meant fabulous after everyone n the vcnty the famly resorted to all sorts of expedents took a long horseback rde to warn joseph who ds 11-ance t was apparent that the plates could not be translated n peace and quet at evans vans op 012 po 389 oll ol ct p 38 loda oda davs vs v1s on 00 1I Ilnbley op OD cta 0 ct1 cty 0 psp V J t PIO J le 41 110 le lnbley pp 1027 ct ap 102 103
18 palmyra so a change was mperatve 1 7 12 joseph and emma enma then moved to her fathers herts place at harmony pennsylvana ths was less than three months after joseph had receved the plates emma was wth chld three months when she made a horseback trp to the wells home n macedon to warn joseph of the danger danzer to the plates dlates pates blates the record s not clear as to what part she may have played n gettng her brother alva to 155 make the 15 mle trp from harmony to manchester to move them back to the hafe hale eafe home mother smth states that alva stayed for a short nterval wth them and moved the young couple back to harmony the frst chld born to joseph and emma was named lva alva 1 -lva J llva and may have been named after ths brother of emma he was born and ded june 1 15 1828 at harmony and s bured n knovs what s knovm ana as yna the c-lhe mckune cemetery at harmony oakland c- ehe pennsylvana the chld ded at the tme of the loss of the 116 pages of manuscrpt mrs davs descrbes josephs condton as follows durng ths perod t was a td-e tlde tne tde of darlness joseph the days passed and harrs dd not return he fe was censured by revelaton for hs dsobedence hs wfe became ll almost ded hs frst born son ded at brth and was lad to rest n the famly bural lot watchng by emmas bedsde day and nght he pondered over the fate of che tred not to show hs anxety darkness and dscouragement to the precous oreclous one dre scrpt nanuscrpt manuscrpt nanu he but at length wth that curous ntuton women are sad to possess hm on a trp to hs fathers become 0of martn b-he she sent to fnd out what had 12davs op 59 02 ct p 9
19 emma was weak from her long llness joseph was tryng to redeem hmself wth saac hale by workng long and arduous hours on the lttle place they were emmas buyng from emma father upon hm lay the heavy conscousness of duty undonebut he could not farm and do the work assgned to hm too emma helped hm what tme she could spare from her as best she could n hat dutes household behold dutes13 but durng ths perod n the lfe of the young couple emma s mentoned as wrtng for her husband t s not consdered that she dd a great deal of the work as scrbe as the great burden of ths work fell upon olver cowdery but among the other scrbes are john and chrstan whtmer martn harrs and emma smth bd p 61 62 131bd
CHAPTER IV EMMA THE ELECT LADY june 1829 dec 1830 two or three weeks after joseph smth and olver dery cowdery Cov had receved the aaronc presthood by the authorty of john the baptst joseph and emma were moved to the whtmer home at fayette new york by davd whtmer who had been sent by hs father peter whtmer sr the elder whtmer had become acquanted wth vth joseph at the cty of waterloo about three mles from the whtmer home n fayette assst joseph n the translaton of the record and wanted to joseph records that upon our arrval we found mr whtmers famly very anxous concernng the work towal towa our and very frendly towardd selves tl 111 t t was n peter whtmers s whtmer home on aprl 6 1830 whle joseph and emma were lvng there that the church wass organzed mls EMMAS MIAIS BAPTISM vas the frst baptsms n ths dspensaton were those of joseph smth and olver cowdery may leay 15 1829 A short tme afterwards samuel H smth the fourth son of joseph and lucy smth was converted and baptzed ths baptsm was performed on the twenty ffth of the month olver cowdery offcatng lroberts eroberts lroberts roberts 0op ct P pe 49
21 n june 1829 hyrum smth davd whtmer and peter whtmer jr were baptzed n seneca lake the frst two by joseph smth and the latter by olvcr olver cowdery from ths tme forth many were belevers and some were baptzed n seneca county nformaton about other baptsms s meager untl the followng year durng the last week n may 1830 newell knght was baptzed by davd whtmer on the nnth of june 1830 the frst conference as an organzed church was held the number of baptzed members then was about thrty several were confrmed who had prevously 1prevously been baptzed shortly after ths conference p- davd whtmer baptzed eleven other people nto the churchy churche mmedately after the conference the prophet wrtes that he l- land and hs wfe olver cowdery john whtmer and davd whtmer vsted vtted mr lesvlle smght knght ymght of colesvlle Co and found a number n the neghborhood belevng and anxous to be baptzed A meetng was plannedlbr for the followng sunday when they were to be baptzed on the saturday before a dam was placed across a stream where t was convenent for the baptsms to take place but that evenng a mob tore out the dam and the baptsms could not be performed as planned A meetng was held vever a number of the mob attendng early however wth on monday mornng before the enemes were aware of the proceedngs the dam was repared and thrteen persons were
22 baptzed by olver cowdery emma smth beng among the number 2 n the year 1830 the nnth of june was on wednesday some say however that ths conference was held on the frst of june whch was on a tuesday the week prevous just how lesvlle long t took to make the trp from fayette to colesvlle Co s not told the only statement that have been able to fnd lesvlle s that the party of fve left for colesvlle Co mmedately after the conference emma erna enna emna smth could then have been baptzed on any one of the four mondays of june 1830 ethl 7thl lath l4th 14tl 21st or 28th t s not lkely however to have been as early as the ath 7th from a famly group sheet of joseph smth Js famly on fle n the archves of the utah genealogcal socety the date of baptsm s gven as 2 june 1120 183011 and the source of ths nformaton s shown as the utah genealogcal and hstorcal magazne vol 26 ths s evdently an error as andrew jensons church chronos chronology states that the 6th ath of aprl n 1830 was vas on a tuesday ths would make the 29th of june on tuesday and the prophet states that emma was baptzed on a monday f there s a mstake of just one day then emma wasbaptzed baptzed on monday june 28 revelaton FROM THE LORD TO Dm-ma m-ml EMMA DIMA enma SMITH durng the perod between emmas baptsm and confrmaton follo joseph smth receved the followng vrng revelaton drected to emna emma enma enna smth hs wfe gven at harmony pennsylvana n r 2roberts eroberts ct7 0op et elt cty cta pp ap 8688 88
23 july 1830 180 doctrne and covenants 2 5 underlnng mne t-he k- 1 hearken unto he voce of the lord your god whle speak daughter for verly say unto you all those who receve my my kngdom gospel are sons and daughters n 2 A revelaton gve unto you concernng my wll and f thou art fathful and walk n the paths of vrtue before me wll preserve thy lfe and thou shalt shall shat shal receve an nhertance n zon 3 behold thy sns are forgven thee and thou art an elect lady whom have called 4 murmur not because of the thngs whch thou hast not seen for they are wthheld from thee and from ce-he the c-lhe world whch s wsdom n me n a tme to come and the offce of they callng shall be for a comfort unto my servant joseph smth jun thy husband nordst wordst meeraess kaess waess n hs afflctons wth consolng words n the sprt nee 1 of meekness 6 and thou shat shall shalt go wth hm at the tme tre of hs gong and be unto hm for a scrbe whle there s no one to be a scrbe for hm that may send my servant olver cowdery whthersoever wll 7 and thou shat shall shalt be ordaned under hs hand to scrdtures scrptures church expound aund scrrtures ḻx and to exhort the churchy accordng as t shall be gven thee by my sprt 8 for he shall lay hs hands upon thee and thou shalt shall shat receve the holy ghost and thy tme shall be gven t to r tng and to learnng much wrw 9 and thou needest not fear for thy husband shall support thee n the church for unto them s hs callng that all thngs mght be revealed unto them whatsoever wll accordng to ther fath lay and seek for the thngs 10 and verly say unto thee that thou shalt shall asde the thngs of ths world of a better shat laz az 11 and t shall be gven thee also to make a selecton of sacred hymns as t shall be gven thee whch s pleasng unto me to be had n my church
24 12 for my soul delghteth delahteth dellah 0 rsc teth n heart yea the song of the rghteous oteous me heads the song of the a prayer unto and t shall be answered wth a blessng udon upon don oon ther s 13 wherefore lft up thy heart and rejoce and cleave unto the covenants whch thou hast made 14 contnue n the sprt of meekness and beware of prde let thy soul delght n thy husband and the glory whch shall come upon hm 1 reep keep reeo my nandments tānd commandments contnually and a crown of rghteousness thou shalt receve th where do thl thss del ht 15 com nandments contnua am you cannot come and except thou 16 and verly verly say unto all amen3 amena on thursday march 17 1842 joseph smth explaned to the lades of the female relef socety of nauvoo that the term elect lady meant to be elected to a certan work and that the revelaton doctrne and covenants secton 25 was enma emmas then fulflled by sster emma electon to the presdent of the socety 7 4 she havng prevously been ordaned to expound the Scrntures scrptures scrntures tunes emma was blessed and her counselors were ordaned by elder john taylor n the years that followed ths revelaton emma was a very busy woman f she had been a woman of lesure she Platon could have fulflled the dvne request to make a complaton com alaton of hymns n a very short tme but emma was very partcular tle te ch hoc 3doctrne boctrne moc trne and covenants salt lake cty publshed by th e church of jesus chrst 4journal hston tory s tonyy of the church of jesus chajt rst latter atter latten dae dak aej 1r I s sat d ltlca ajj salt clarst of latter day sants p 39 chrjt 0 at lake cty utah march 17 12 hereafter ths reference wll be abbrevated journal hstory
252 n the care of her famly beng a housekeeper of mmaculate cleanlness and allowng no outsde duty to nterfere wth her devoton to her chldren and husband her frst collecton of hymns hymns was publshed about fve years later n krtland oho byf bf wllams G & company n the frst F year followng t appo ntment her appontment to collect hymns for the use of the church many dstractng ncdents occurred whch absorbed her attenton the famly moved from pennsylvana to new york and then on to aana nana oho on aprl 30 1831 twns were born to emma they lved but a short tme and then joseph and emma adopted the mother less tvans vrns avans of john murdock beng the wfe of a prophet brought about addtonal tlona 1 addtona addtons work such as preparng meals N makng t- 1he beds etc for t-ahe the numerous frends and curous strangers who came to vst at ther home p ghs ths emma dd assst her husband a great deal after ths revelaton was gven to her by helpng to expound the scrptures actng as hs scrbe at tmes wrtng letters assstng wth the tthng and helpng to make clothng for those who worked on the temple EMMAS confrmaton n verse eght of the revelaton gven oven olven to emma the lord tpromses her that her husband should lay hands upon her and dat romses 1at she should receve the holy ghost r t ths was not accomplshed mmedately but took place n august 1830 the exact date not beng gven joseph smth relates the ncdent
exceedngly 26 f as follows wr vr early n the month of august newel knght and hs wfee pad us a vst at my place n harmony pennsylvana and as nether hs wfe nor mne had been confrmed t was proposed that we should confrm them and partake together of the sacrament n order to prepare for ths before he or hs wfe should leave us set out to procure some wne for the occason but had gone only a short dstance when was met by a heavenly messenger and receved the revelaton55 followng revelatons the revelaton s secton 27 of the doctrne and covenants relatve to the change n the sacramental symbol from wne to another symbol they were not to buy wne from ther enemes they could make t new or use somethng besdes wne joseph smth then wrtes as follows preparc prepare n obedence to the above commandment we preparedd some wne of our own makng and held our metng 0 vm roe ros moe consstng only of oll 011 olf wfe myself and my vnfe vny-e 051 fve vz newel knght and hs vrfe and john whtmer wee together of the sacrament after whch we confrmed these two ssters nto the church n a glorous manner out upon uswe prased the lord god oswe 6 partook and spent the evenng the sprt sdrt of the lord was poured and rejoced eals enma eats about the tme of emma confrmaton a sprt of persecuton began agan to be manfest n the neghbo-rhood neghborhood around harmony t was nstgated by a man of the methodst persuason who professed to be a mnster of god the prophet sad of hm ths man roan moan had learned that my father n law and hs famly had promsed us protecton and were frendly and 5roberts eroberts roberts op 013 ct p 106 6roberts eroberts roberts op OT ct p 108
27 nqurng nto the work and knowng that f he could get hm turned aganst me my frends n that place woud would be but few he vsted my father n law and told hm falsehoods concernng me of the most shameful nature whch turned the old gentleman and hs famly so much that they would aganst us nor beleve our doctrnes voul no longer promse us protecton t seems from ths statement that saac hale had become more favorably mpressed wth joseph and was begnnng to be nterested n the work that he was dongs then falsehoods of a chrstan mnster wdened the breach agan and t was never brdged after ths tme because of ths feelng t was necessary for joseph and emma to fnd another home agan the whtmer famly of fayette nvted joseph and emma to come lve wth them and they arrved n fayette durng the last week n augusts auguste n october 1830 joseph was lvng n waterloo A revelaton was gven commandng parley P pratt zba peterson peter whtmer and olver cowdery to go on a msson to mssour emma and the other ssters bused themselves makng clothng 1 out of raw materal for them and others emmala emmals enma health at ths tme was qute delcate yet she dd not favor herself on ths account but whatever her hands found to do she dd wth her mght untl so str far beyond her strength enath enoth that she brought upon herself a heavy ft of sckness whch lasted four weeks and although her strength was exhausted C stll her sprts were the same whch n fact was always the case wth her evef ever even under the most tryng crcumstances have never seen a woman n my lfe who would endure every speces of fatgue and hardshp from month to month and from year to year wth that unflnchng courage zeal 7lbd
28 and patence to endure she has been tossed upon udon ocean of uncertanty she has breasted the storms of persecuton and buffeted the rage of men and devls unon the whch would have borne down almost any other woman may be that many may yet have to encounter the same t pray god that ths may not be the case but should t be may they have grace gven them accordng to ther day even as has been the case wth her 0 durng the month of december 1830 the sants n the state of new york were commanded by revelaton to go to oho and n the latter part of january 1831 joseph joseth and emma n company wth sdney rgdon and edward partrdge left fayette new york for krtland Kr tand land geauga geaugh county oho where they arrved about the frst of february 8bbey bey op nbley 012 ct g co 191 pp ap 190191 100191
845845 84.5 CHAPTER V THE SMITHS MOVE TO OHIO january 1831 january 1838 durng the latter part of january n company wth sdney rgdon and edward partrdge joseph joserh and emma left for krtland oho they arrved there about the frst of february and were kndly receved and welcomed nto the home of newel K whtney here they lved for several weeks and receved every kndness and attenton whch could be expected 9 especally from sster whtney pda vla eda the branch at krtland had grona to almost one hun hn hunt hundred grov grown grona members at ths tme about three months after arrvng n krtland on the 30th ooth of aprl 1831 twns a boy and a grl were born to 1-3oth emma but they lved only three hours joseph and emma had thus lost ther frst three chldren emmas gref was almost more than she could bear and so nne days later hearng of the death of john murdocks Murd ocks ochs wfe n chldbrth she took the dead womants womans homans twns to rear these twns were also a boy and a grl and had been born the same day as emmass twns they were hoga named joseph S and jula they were born n orange cuyahoga Cuya county oho joseph Fe remarked that they were taken n the fond hope that they would fll the vod n her emmas lfe occasoned by the loss of her own 11 forty nne days after the brth of the twns joseph ttl 111 lroberts eroberts lr oberts roberts on ct vol 1 p 260
30 left emma to make a journey to the land of zon mssour n company wth sdney rgdon twenty seventh of august he dd not return home untl the more than two months later durng the month of september 1831 he and sdney rgdon agan began the project of the revson of the scrptures they needed a quet place for study and work away from thronger the many vstors that thronged krtland they found ths place at hram oho about thrty mles away sdney and Place joseph moved ther famles there joseph and emma makng ther abode wth the john johnson famly t was here that the twns developed a bad case of the measles and nursng them back to health became a real task on the nght of march 2th 25th ath about mdnght a mob broke nto the home and took the prophet and tarred and feathered hm durng the rest of the nght the sants gathered at the johnson home to help but the events of the nght the wntry wnd blowng upon the feversh body of lttle joseph and the exctement were too much for the sck boy and he ded four days later hs age was one day less than eleven months 2 JOSEPH SMITH III 111 l BORN n aprl of 1832 joseph smth left for mssour and durng the tme that he was gone emma stayed wth reynolds church chronos chronology oey the tarrng and featherng 24th the hstory of the church clarch ded on frday whch wouldd opy ogy lsts sunday the 25th 2th ath as the day of other places gve the date as the 25 4oul aoul be the 30th would make t thursday the 2th 29th ath clarcy p 2 states that the chld four days later