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“A neighbor said of him that ‘his character was irreproachable that he was well known for truth and uprightness that he moved in the first circles of the community, and he was often spoken of as a young man of intelligence, and good morals, and possessing a mind susceptible of the highest intellectual attainments.’” Surely Emma also noticed these qualities in Joseph. Joseph, during the two years of working and waiting, attended several schools and improved his education. Emma acted on his advice and was kneeling in the woods praying when her father came upon her and listened to the fervent force of her prayer, to “the wailings of her young heart in his behalf.” Her child’s faith helped him to seek faith in the Savior, which he had not done before. In 1812, when Emma was, interestingly, eight years old, a Methodist circuit rider had come through Harmony preaching and encouraging the children to go into the woods alone and pray to the Lord. Her father knew all this, and he knew of her fine mind and deep spiritual sensibilities. Emma was also the most educated of her siblings, doing an extra year of schooling beyond grammar school.

Yet she possessed many homemaking skills and was an excellent cook. She loved to ride horses, swim, and play with her brothers. She enjoyed many privileges and improved upon them. He wanted his beautiful daughter to marry someone on par with himself.īorn on July 10, 1804, Emma was the seventh child of a family of nine. Isaac Hale was respected and wealthy, one of the wealthiest men in the Susquehanna Valley. He was young, and he had strange notions and ideas. Joseph was a nobody as far as her father was concerned an uneducated day laborer with few prospects. When she decided to say yes to his insistent importuning, which continued for the space of two years, she knew what she would be facing at home. As his mother, Lucy, expressed: “Joseph thought that no young woman that he ever was acquainted with was better calculated to render the man of her choice happy than Miss Emma Hale.”Įmma was twenty-one years old to Joseph’s nineteen. He was drawn to her stately beauty, the way she carried herself, the richness of her singing voice, and the vitality of her mind. Working for her father, he had opportunities to watch her.

Joseph was drawn to this girl from the very first. The following was taken from the book Women of the Restoration by Susan McCloud, currently on sale at.