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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:

Joseph Smith, Jr. indenture

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233286720]
Identifier: Vault MSS 137
Scope and Contents

Handwritten indenture. The item provides for a transfer of property from Joseph and his wife, Emma Smith, to Wilson Law. The item was signed by Joseph Smith, Willard Richards, and Samuel H. Smith.

Dates: 1842

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