I could have commanded some two thousand dollars but now I had only 1 yoke of old oxen and 2 cows left.[20], Two families moved in with Newel Knights family. First, Emma had intense anxiety over the protection of Joseph's and Hyrum's bodies. [95] Kenney, Wilford Woodruffs Journal, 1:329. While locals let the suffering Saints crowd into farms, sheds, huts, and tents, they judged the refugees to be generally of the poorer and more illiterate classes.[78] On February 25, Quincy leaders met and adopted measures to provide relief. "Women felt comfortable leaving their children in the church nursery across the hall," she writes, "because the caregivers passed background checks, earned a fair wage, and had a well-managed. . [55] The shoes belonged to the oldest boy, Morgan. to ignore it entirely. When the two authors began piecing together Emmas life, there was only one small manila folder about her in the entire LDS Archives. He also owned and rented out ten or twelve small houses he had built. I, 29 December 1833 to 31 December 1840 (Midvale, UT: Signature Books, 1983), 322. I hope this helps too! They appear, so far as we have seen, to be a mild, inoffensive people, who could not have given cause for the persecution they have met with. City leaders and residents suddenly had to deal with a humanitarian crisis thrust upon them. One day while Martha was sitting in the front of the wagon with three-year-old Keziah Butler on her lap, one of the horses began to kick. June 1831 While her brothers and sisters attended only the traditional grammar school, Emma went on to do an extra year of schooling beyond that. Mormon Church Admits Founder Joseph Smith Had Up To 40 Wives : The Two-Way The Church of Latter-day Saints never denied polygamy was part of its history. Mormons believe family life continues after death. She had to provide for the family after being deprived of the corn they had grown on their farm, which vigilantes had prevented them from harvesting. He had been separated from the family for three months or more. Eventually, however, she encountered a trial that became more than she thought she could handle. Until that time, Emma had been largely written out of official LDS history. [119] Henry Jackson petition in Johnson, Mormon Redress Petitions, 247. After a long time, Mother Smith said, We succeeded . Which is another way of saying that a particular view of history does not suit institutional needs in the moment. Great questions! It was the anniversary of the death of the twins she lost in Kirtland. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. [94], In the dark the group reached Tenneys Grove and there added to their group the last company of the poor needing help to reach Quincy. At Adam-ondi-Ahman, Saints in October 1838 were building about 150 log houses, but most of them were not finished by the time the Saints left. She said, The teams were puffing and the wagons dragging so heavily that we were all on foot, tugging along as best we could.[63], During Zera Pulsiphers exodus that March, he and his son-in-law lost horses. This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. These cookies track visitors across websites and collect information to provide customized ads. They ran out of provisions and became so weak they couldnt continue, so they held a council and prayed to know where to hunt. How Orrin Hatch protected people of faith, KSL Newsradio is preparing to celebrate its 100th anniversary. At Quincy, where some Church members lived, John taught school for a short period. Many of the Saints were converts who had sung hymns before. On May 10, Joseph Smith and his family moved into a small, two-story log house at Commerce, fifty miles north of Quincy, hoping that I and my friends may here find a resting place for a little season at least.[110] Church headquarters moved there, as did large numbers of the exiled Saints. Susan Easton Black and Charles D. Tate Jr. (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1993), 27184. Much business of consequence was accomplished during the day, Elder Woodruff noted, adding, It truly gave us great Joy to once more sit in conference with Br. Her funeral was held May 2, 1879, in Nauvoo with RLDS Church minister Mark Hill Forscutt preaching the sermon. She also learned how to cook and be a good host when her parents ran a boarding house. Brigham interpreted Emma's refusal to answer as an admission of guilt.. [4] William G. Hartley, Stand by My Servant Joseph: The Story of the Joseph Knight Family and the Restoration (Salt Lake City: Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History at Brigham Young University and Deseret Book, 2003); and William G. Hartley, Newel and Lydia Bailey Knights Kirtland Love Story and Historic Wedding, BYU Studies 39, no. In the meantime, Emma assumed that because these men represented the Twelve they acted on direct orders from Brigham. . Today, you can find her happily organizing and reorganizing her house, scrap booking, reading books to her sons, or still writing an occasional freelance article. [28] Greene, Expulsion of the Saints from Missouri, 8. As one said, those who moved during the winter traveled in colde weather thinly clad and porly furnished with provisions.[40] Women without their husbands had harder times of it than those with husbands. [121] James Galligher claimed he was exposed to the weather in which sickness followed & the loss of one of my Children.[122] Innumerable such examples can be cited. Jannalee worked as a writer and editor at LDS Living for seven years before hanging up her press badge and starting the journey of stay-at-home motherhood. He was not, however, a member of her familys faith and in fact, had received a vision at age fourteen telling him not to join any existing church because none were completely right. In jail in Richmond were Parley P. Pratt, Norman Shearer, Darwin Chase, Luman Gibbs, Morris Phelps, and King Follett. He did not court the women or put his proposals in romantic terms. When he reached the Clevelands, Emma recognized him as he dismounted from his horse and met him half way to the gate.[101], A Quincy newspaper reporter publicized the arrival of Joseph Smith and his prison companions, concluding with a favorable description of the Church President and Prophet: We had supposed from the stories and statements we had read of Jo Smith (as he is termed in the papers) to find him a very illiterate, uncouth sort of man; but from a long conversation, we acknowledge an agreeable disappointment. Your email address will not be published. [31] Smith, History of the Church, 3:25054. Her health partially returned, but she has never been able to work much since, her husband wrote in 1845. Emma had been disappeared. [5] Gentry, Latter-day Saints in Northern Missouri, 32527; Alexander L. Baugh, A Call to Arms: The 1838 Mormon Defense of Northern Missouri (PhD diss., Brigham Young University, 1996), 34047. Brigham Young and his family, with several others, Kimball said. [126] Hartley, How Shall I Gather? Ensign, October 1997, 517. FAIR is controlled and operated by the Foundation for Apologetic Information and Research (FAIR). [33] They sent agents eastward to deposit corn for Saints to use along the way, to contract for ferries, and to ensure security for the travelers. The group then included one man, two women, and children ages seven, four, three, and one. Latter-day Saint widow Elizabeth Kendall and her family first became acquainted with Emma at the Mansion House in Nauvoo. After losing twins, she adopted a set of twins, but one died after being exposed to the cold when a mob invaded their home while the children were ill. One child died at the age of fourteen months and another died less than a year later. Training experience for 1846 exodus. When those families reached Illinois early in 1839, they were poor, worn out, and ragged looking. Lorenzo said that his pants were so shredded by bushes that he refused to face Iowans until someone brought him better pants. Other scribes would do the majority of the translation, but she filled in as needed. After deliberating on the best means to finish the job, we have thought that considering the bad state of the roads, the expense of ferrage in consequence of high water, that the teams are all nearly worn out, and the brethren here very poor and very much scattered that the best solution was to forward the remainder of the poor brethren by water. By contracting with a steam boat, the poor brethren might all be removed at once and the Far West committee would be free to get out of the state. [117] Benjamin F. Johnson observed that during the rest of 1839 in the Nauvoo area, the people had flocked in from the terible exposures of the past and Nearly every one was Sick with intemitant or other fevers of which many diedIn this time of great Sickness poverty & death.[118] Henry Jackson claimed the Marchs Stormy blasts of Snow & rain so affected his Sight that he was not able to work.[119] The exodus caused considrable sickness for the Levi Hancock family.[120] Mosiah Hancock, the boy who had crossed the Mississippi ice barefoot, was an emaciated lad for many months. [88] Richard E. Bennett, Quincythe Home of Our Adoption, 101. The family filled the cart with corn. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". A Collection of Sacred Hymns for the Church of the Latter Day Saints was published in 1835. [87], It is not known how many Saints temporarily took refuge in Quincy. A Quincy Heritage Celebration was held July 24, 1999. [56] Daniel Stillwell Thomas Family History, 2729. He never charged them rent. John marked time until his family and his mother and brothers could join him in Quincy. The Apostles group arrived at Far West soon after midnight on April 26. Joseph Knight Jr., for one, claimed $200 for a mill burned down, $50 for a house burned, $50 for 3 acres of land and 50 peach trees, $25 for hay and corn, $475 for losses of land and town properties, and $150 for expenses for moving twice. [12] John Butlers escape route apparently was across northern Missouri. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. . [91] On April 18, when a group of anti-Mormons found him at the public square, they threatened to blow his brains out and tried to ride over him with their horses. [45] The Mosiah Hancock Journal (Salt Lake City: reprint by Pioneer Press, n.d.), 11. She worked hard to support his mission. Though Joseph died at a young age, Julia was raised by Emma to adulthood. As a youth she learned to canoe on the Susquehanna River and became accomplished with horses. We had the last company of the poor with us that could be removed.[96], But the exodus was not quite complete because five prisoners were still in Liberty Jail and six in Richmonds jail, including King Follett, who had just been arrested that month while trying to leave Missouri. We are sensible, brethren, that you have done all that you could do in removing the poor Saints, they said, adding that nor have we, brethren, been backward in exerting our energies for that purpose. The second day we had to cross a long prairie, and were not able to reach the settlement. In conversation, he appears intelligent and candid, and divested of all malicious thought and feeling towards his relentless persecutors.[102], Joseph Smith quickly finalized plans for a new gathering place for the homeless Saints upriver at Commerce, soon to be renamed Nauvoo. When Saints pulled out of Far West, their houses, barns, fences, stores, schools, farms, farm equipment, household goods, livestock, and stored grain fell into non-Mormons hands. Thomass version is in E. Kay Kirkham, Daniel Stillwell Thomas, Utah Pioneer of 1849, bound typescript, 26; wife Martha Pane Jones Thomass version in Kate Woodhouse Kirkham, ed., Daniel Stillwell Thomas Family History, bound typescript, n.d., n.p., 25; copies in authors possession. The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The additions were Elias Smith, Erastus Bingham, Stephen Markham, and James Newberry (History of the Church, 3:24954, includes 214 names of those who pledged). [95] At that point, Brigham Young felt that the covenant to move the poor Saints had been fulfilled: We had entered into a covenant to see the poor Saints all moved out of Missouri to Illinois, that they might be delivered out of the hands of such vile persecutors, and we spared no pains to accomplish this object until the Lord gave us the desires of our heart. Early Life and Marriage of Emma Smith. Many people have focused almost entirely on the decisions she made in the last years of Joseph Smiths life and after his death, and sometimes those events trouble Mormons and please non-Mormons. Her financial state was precarious because there had not been a clear line between the family money and the church money, with Joseph often going into debt to help support the church. Why did Emma Smith leave the LDS Church? [14] Autobiography of Anson Call, typescript, 13, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University. Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith . Learning that Missouri militia were looking for them, they set out for Iowa thrugh the wilderness, enduring snow and cold with little to eat. Among the twenty-eight men in this group were Samuel Smith and Phineas and Lorenzo Young.