Emma Hale

Brief Life History of Emma

When Emma Hale was born on 10 July 1804, in Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Isaac Ward Hale, was 41 and her mother, Elizabeth Lewis, was 36. She married Joseph Smith Jr on 18 January 1827, in Bainbridge, Bainbridge, Chenango, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 30 April 1879, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States.

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Family Time Line

Joseph Smith Jr
1805–1844
Emma Hale
1804–1879
Marriage: 18 January 1827
Alvin Smith
1828–1828
Louisa Smith
1831–1831
Thaddeus Smith
1831–1831
Joseph Murdock Smith
1831–1832
Julia Murdock Smith
1831–1880
Joseph Smith III
1832–1914
Frederick Granger William Smith
1836–1862
Alexander Hale Smith
1838–1909
Don Carlos Smith
1840–1841
Smith
1842–1842
David Hyrum Smith
1844–1904

Sources (20)

  • Emma Bidamon, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Emma Smith and Lewis C Bedamon, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940" - Index
  • Emma Hale Smith, "Find A Grave Index"

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World Events (8)

1808

Atlantic slave trade abolished.

1812 · Harrisburg Becomes the State Capital

Harrisburg had important parts with migration, the Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution. 

1825 · The Crimes Act

The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.

Name Meaning

English: topographic name for someone who lived in a (usually remote) nook or corner of land, from Old English and Middle English hale, dative of h(e)alh ‘nook, hollow’, or a habitational name from a place so named such as Hale in Cheshire, Hampshire, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, Holme Hale (Norfolk), Hale Street (Kent), and Haile (Cumberland). In northern England the word often has a specialized meaning, denoting a piece of flat alluvial land by the side of a river, typically one deposited in a bend. See Haugh . In southeastern England it often referred to a patch of dry land in a fen. In some cases the surname may be a habitational name from any of several places in England named with this fossilized inflected form, which would originally have been preceded by a preposition, e.g. in the hale or at the hale. This surname is also established in south Wales.

Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Céile (see McHale ).

Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Halle .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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Emma Hale

The Hales farmed near Harmony, Pennsylvania, and operated a country inn . Emma and Joseph met when he boarded at her father's inn while working i n the area. Isaac bitterly opposed their courtship, b …

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