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May 28, 2021 · What Emma Smith’s death says about her love for the gospel and for Joseph, according to one Church historian - LDS Living. By Danielle Christensen May 28, 2021 04:37 PM MDT. Editor ’ s note: This article was originally published on LDS Living in May 2021.
Jul 10, 2018 · The Church News asked Church historians to answer the question “What should Church members know about Emma Hale Smith?” Here’s what they had to say: “In 1830, the Lord told Emma Smith in Doctrine and Covenants 25 that she was “an elect lady” with a charge to expound scriptures and exhort the Church. She assisted her husband, the ...
Feb 17, 2023 · Groundbreaking Emma Smith biographer, a ‘giant’ in Mormon scholarship, dies at 82. Jan. 16, 1941 — Feb. 12, 2023: Linda King Newell’s book brought to life the faith’s first first lady. Linda...
Emma gave birth to a son on June 15, 1828, but the child died the same day. A gravestone on the Hale family property in Harmony, Pennsylvania, reads “In Memory of An Infant Son of Joseph And Emma Smith June 15th 1828.”. In a family Bible, a relative wrote the name “Alvin” to identify this child, but Emma later confirmed the infant was ...
Jul 7, 2021 · Jennifer Reeder, a historian for the Utah-based church, seeks to break through that mystery and the myth in her new biography, appropriately titled “ First: The Life and Faith of Emma Smith ,”...
Apr 29, 2021 · Latest from Mormon Land: New biography examines how Emma Smith felt ‘betrayed’ by Joseph’s polygamy. Also: Remembering historian D. Michael Quinn, a new look for temples, and a sex therapist...
May 27, 2011 · Emma Hale Smith (1804-1879), wife of the Prophet Joseph Smith, was born July 10, 1804, in the Susquehanna Valley in harmony township (now Oakland), Pennsylvania, to Isaac and Elizabeth Lewis Hale, the first permanent settlers in the valley.
