Smith, Emma Hale
Person
Biography
Citation:
Joseph Smith Papers, via WWW, March 3, 2014 (born in 1804 at Willingborough Township (later Harmony), Susquehanna, Pennsylvania; parents Isaac Hale and Elizabeth Lewis; well educated; member of the Methodist Church; baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Oliver Cowdrey in 1830; married Joseph Smith Jr. on January 18, 1827, in New York; eleven children, six of whom died early deaths; with Joseph Smith on the night he obtained the records from which The Book of Mormon; scribe during part of the translation; prominent member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "elect lady"; editor of "A Collection of Sacred Hymns, for the Church of the Latter Day Saints," published in 1835; first Relief Society president in 1842; moved around to escape mobs, husband imprisoned; Joseph Smith was murdered in June 1844, she stayed in Nauvoo; married Lewis Crum Bidamon; affiliated with the Reorganized Church of Latter-day Saints; lived in Nauvoo; d. Apr. 20, 1879 in Nauvoo, Illinois)Found in 1 Collection or Record:
May Louise Hunt Larson papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 540
Scope and Contents
Holographs, typescripts, and photocopies. The collection includes writings by Larson concerning the move her family made from Utah to Arizona, a history of Snowflake Latter-day Saint Stake Academy, biographies of Addison Pratt and Emma Hale Smith, and a birthdate record of members of the Snowflake Latter-day Saint Stake, Arizona. Also includes a biography of Larson by her daughter, Louise L. Comish and Larson's funeral program.
Dates:
1933-1965
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