1824-1826

1824: Joseph continued to meet Moroni every year on the Fall equinox. Moroni educated him about the Nephites and Joseph related these stories to his family.

1825: Josiah Stowell hired Joseph and his father to work in Harmony, PA. They boarded at the Hale farm. Joseph's father returned to Palmyra after a month but Joseph stayed.

Isaac Hale's home in Harmony reflected his prosperity. He may not have been pleased that his daughter Emma fell in love with the farm laborer. Joseph moved to stay in Colesville with Josiah Stowell.

Emma was 21, an athletic young woman with a spirited attitude, a quick wit, and a lyrical soprano voice. At five feet nine inches, with a “dark complexion” and “piercing eyes,” she was “noble in appearance and bearing.”

Joseph and Emma continued to see each other, although they lived 20 miles apart.

"My beloved Emma—she that was my wife, even the wife of my youth, and the choice of my heart"

(JS History 5:107)

The home of Joseph Knight who loaned Joseph a horse and sled so he could visit Emma.

Emma once paddled a canoe up the Susquehannah River to visit Joseph.

This is also the site of the first branch of the church in Colesville.