[Book of Patriarchal Blessings Index Ancestry of Joseph Smith, Jr. Page: 302 Temple Patron Notification Reference Revelations of Joseph Smith. Cook, Lyndon. 1981 Page: 37 The Doctrine and Covenants Section: 25 Comprehensive History of the LDS Church. Roberts, B.H. Volume: 1Volume: 2 LDS Biographical Encyclopedia. Jenson, Andrew. 1951 Volume: 4 Page: 196-197 Volume: 1 Page: 692 Temple Index Bureau Reorganized Minute Book, 1852-71 Olive Branch at Nauvoo Records]
Birth: Hale, Emma (Female)Date: July 10, 1804
[Book of Patriarchal Blessings Index Temple Index Bureau]
Place: Harmony, Susquehannah, PA, USA
Parents: Hale, Emma (Female)Father: Hale, Isaac [Temple Index Bureau] Mother: Lewis, Elizabeth [Temple Index Bureau]
Death: Hale, Emma (Female)Date: April 30, 1879 [Temple Index Bureau]
Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, IL, USA
[Ancestry of Joseph Smith Jr. Page: 302]
Marriage Information: Hale, Emma (Female)Spouse: Smith, Joseph Jr.[Ancestry
of Joseph Smith. Jr. Page: 30]
Date: January 18, 1827Place: South Bainbridge, Chenango, NY, USA
Children: Hale, Emma (Female)
[Revelations of Joseph Smith. Cook, Lyndon. 1981 Page: 37]
Name:Birthdate:Place:
1. Smith, Alvin
2. Smith, Thaddeus
3. Smith, Louisa
4. Smith, Joseph
5. Smith, Frederick Granger Williams
6. Smith, Alexander Hale
7. Smith, Don Carlos
8. Smith, (male child)
9. Smith, David Hyrum
Marriage Number 2 Hale, Emma (Female)Spouse: Bidamon, Lewis C.Date: December 23, 1847
Church Ordinance Data: Hale, Emma (Female)Baptism [Ancestry of Joseph
Smith Jr. Page: 30]
Date: June 29, 1830Place: Colesville, NY, USAOfficiator: Oliver Cowdery
Temple Ordinance Data: Hale, Emma (Female)Endowment
[Revelations of Joseph Smith. Cook, Lyndon. 1981 Page: 37 Temple Index
Bureau]
Date: September 28, 1843
Endowment [Temple Patron Notification Reference]
Date: January 26, 1978Temple: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT, USA
Sealed to Parents [Temple Patron Notification Reference]
Date: June 14, 1972Temple: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT, USA
Sealed to Spouse [Revelations of Joseph Smith. Cook, Lyndon. 1981 Page:
37]
Date: May 28, 1843
Places of Residence: Hale, Emma (Female)Harmony, PA, USA
Fayette, NY, USA; September 1830
Kirtland, Geauga, OH, USA; January 1831, 1832-1838
Hiram, USA; September 1831-September 1832
Nauvoo, Hancock, IL, USA; 1839
[Revelations of Joseph Smith. Cook, Lyndon. 1981 Page: 37]
Comments: Hale, Emma (Female)Emma assisted as scribe to the Book of Mormon.2. Emma adopted two twins; Joseph Murdock and Julia Murdock.
Emma was the first president of the female Relief Society, March 17,
1842.
[Revelations of Joseph Smith. Cook, Lyndon. 1981 Page: 37]
Comments: #21. Emma was instructed to prepare a hymn book for the church.
[The Doctrine and Covenants Section: 25]
Comments: #31. Emma was the wife of the Prophet Joseph Smith and the
first president of the Relief Society in 1842-1844, was born July 10, 1804,
in Harmony, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, a daughter of Isaac Hale
and Elizabeth Lewis. She was a faithful wife and mother and during
times of persecution her home was always open to the sick and needy.
She supervised the work of boarding and clothing the men engaged in building
the temples at Kirtland and Nauvoo, and during the persecutions in Illinois,
she, in company with others, journeyed to Quincy, Illinois, and presented
a memorial to Governor Carlin in behalf of her people. She was appointed
to make a selection of hymns to be used by the Church in Nauvoo, many of
which are included in the L.D.S. hymn book. When the saints were
expelled from Illinois in 1846, Emma Smith chose to remain in Nauvoo, where
she later married Major Lewis C. Bidamon in 1847.
[LDS Biographical Encyclopedia. Jenson, Andrew. 1951 Volume: 4
Page: 196-197]
Comments: #41. Emma was the first Relief Society president in the Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was born in July 10, 1804, in Harmony,
Susquehanna county, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Isaac Hale
and became acquainted with Joseph Smith in 1827, while he was employed
by Mr. Josiah Stoal (of Chenango county, New York), in Harmony, Pennsylvania.
Joseph writes. "During the times that I was thus employed,
I was put to board with a Mr. Isaac Hale, of that place; it was there I
first saw my wife (his daughter), Emma Hale. On the 18th of January,
1827, we were married, while I was yet employed in the service of Mr. Stoal.
Owing to my continuing to assert that I had seen a vision, persecution
still followed me, and my wife's father's family were very much opposed
to our being married. I was therefore under the necessity of taking
her elsewhere; so we went and were married at the house of Squire Tarbull,
in South Bainbridge, Chenango county, New York. Immediately after
my marriage, I left Mr. Stoal's and went to my father's and farmed with
them that season." Emma accepted the gospel as it had been revealed
through her husband and was baptized by Oliver Cowdery in Colesville, Broome
county, New York, in June, 1830. After this, she shared with
her husband his joys and sorrows, and, together with him, passed through
the persecutions of New York, Ohio, Missouri and Illinois. In a revelation
given through Joseph Smith in July, 1830, she was called "an elect lady"
and commanded to expound Scriptures and to exhort the Church." (Doctrine
and Covenants 25:7). When the first Female Relief Society of the
Church was organized in Nauvoo, Illinois, March 17, 1842, she was chosen
as its president, a position which she filled with marked distinction as
long as the society continued to hold meetings in that city. When
the Saints were expelled from Illinois in 1846, Emma Smith chose to remain
at her home in Nauvoo, where she was married to Lewis C. Bidamon, December
23, 1847, the Reverand William Haney, a Methodist clergyman performing
the marriage ceremony. Mr. Bidamon, who was generally known as Major
Bidamon, made the Mansion House (which had been built as a hotel by Joseph
the Prophet) his family home, and there he lived with Emma as his wife
for about twenty-two years. About 1869 they took possession of a
portion of the old Nauvoo House, a brick structure which was partly built
by the Saints before they left Nauvoo, and which for many years had stood
as a ruin on the river bank, reminding the visitor of Nauvoo's past glory.
Major Bidamon completed a part of the house and moved his family into it,
and that historic building now became Emma's home during the remainder
of her days. While residing as Mrs. Bidamon in the Mansion House
and later, as stated, in the Nauvoo House, Emma was frequently visited
by relatives and friends from Utah. To many of these she seemed restless
and unhappy, but she always manifested great interest in the friends of
her first husband. Her dislike for President Brigham Young is believed
by many to have been the main cause of her refusal to gather with the Saints
to the mountains; and it is also asserted that she on the same ground,
later on, influenced her sons to take the stand they did in regard to the
so-called Re-organization. Sister Emma died in Nauvoo, April 30, 1879,
and at the time of her demise the "Deseret News" said editorially:
"To the old members of the Church the deceased was well known, as a lady
of more than ordinary intelligence and force of character. Her opposition
to the doctrine of plural marriage, which, however, she at first embraced,
led to her departure from the faith of the gospel as revealed through her
martyred husband. She chose to remain at Nauvoo when the Saints left
for the west, and in consequence lost the honor and glory that might have
crowned her brow as "the elect lady." She was the mother of four
(seven) children, all the sons of the Prophet Joseph, viz: Joseph, now
leader of the sect which commonly bears his name, Frederick (deceased),
Alexander and David. It was mainly through her influence that they
were led into the bypath wherein they have gone astray. She has now
gone beyond the veil to await the great day of accounts. There is
no feeling of bitterness in the hearts of the Saints toward Sister Emma
Smith, but only of pity and sorrow for the course she pursued.
May her remains rest in peace."
[LDS Biographical Encyclopedia. Jenson, Andrew. 1951 Volume: 1
Page: 692]
Comments: #51. Emma was a member of the Olive Branch in Nauvoo (which
reconsorted in Amboy, Illinois).
[Reorganized Minute Book, 1852-71]