Emma Smith

Emma Hale Smith Bidamon (July 10, 1804 – April 30, 1879) was the first wife of Joseph Smith and a leader in the early days of the Latter Day Saint movement during Joseph's lifetime and afterward as a member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS Church). In 1842, she was named as the first president of the Ladies' Relief Society of Nauvoo, a women's service organization.

Life

Early life and first marriage, 1804–29

Emma Hale was born in Harmony Township, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, the seventh child of Isaac Hale and Elizabeth Lewis Hale. Emma first met her future husband, Joseph Smith, in 1825. Smith lived near Palmyra, New York, but boarded with the Hales in Harmony while he was employed in a company of men hoping to unearth buried treasure. Although the company found no treasure, Smith returned to Harmony several times to court Emma. Isaac Hale refused to allow the marriage because he considered Smith's occupation disreputable. On January 17, 1827, Smith and Emma eloped across the state line to South Bainbridge, New York, where they were married the following day. The couple moved to the home of Smith's parents on the edge of Manchester Township near Palmyra.

Emma Smith (disambiguation)

Emma Smith was the wife of Joseph Smith and the first president of the Relief Society.

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Emma Smith (gymnast)

Emma Smith (born 24 September 1991 in Whiston) is a British trampoline gymnast. She is noted for holding the world record for difficulty of routine performed in competition by a woman. The difficulty was 16.00DD and was achieved on October 8, 2011 in Odense, Denmark. She is also the only woman to have competed 3 triple somersaults in a routine.

Career

Originally, Smith began her sports career in Artistic Gymnastics with the City of Liverpool Gymnastics Club and became British Espoir Champion in 2003. She left that discipline due to injuries, and made the switch to Trampoline Gymnastics in 2004. From that point, she has excelled at an exceptional rate and has made a name for herself within the sport world wide. Beginning trampolining at Aerodynamics, Smith returned to the City of Liverpool Gymnastics Club (Trampoline Squad) and settled with coach Jay Scouler. In 2007 Smith took the Junior Girls Trampoline Gymnastics British title.

As a junior in the sport, Smith achieved a place on the British team and competed internationally for the first time in 2007 at the World Age Championships, held in Canada. There, she picked up a severe knee injury, which put her in a cast and on crutches for three months. Following four weeks of intense physiotherapy, and six months of being back on a trampoline, she became Junior European Champion in April 2008, in Odense, Denmark. Later that year Smith underwent surgery on her injured knee.

Emma Smith (author)

Emma Smith (born 1923) is an English novelist.

Early life and fame

Emma Smith was born as Elspeth Hallsmith in Cornwall in 1923. She was educated privately up to the age of 16, when she decided to take up a job at the War Office. During the Second World War, she volunteered to work on the canals as a boatwoman. Later on, her experiences as a trainee boatwoman on the Grand Union Canal would become the basis for her debut novel, Maidens' Trip.

In September 1946, Smith, still only 23, went off to India with a team of documentary filmmakers that included the poet Laurie Lee, who was serving as scriptwriter on the team. Cider with Rosie, Lee's classic account of growing up in rural Gloucestershire, was in its embryonic stages during this trip; Emma Smith was one of those who would later encourage Lee to complete the book, which went on to become one of the most beloved of books about childhood in English literature.

After nine months in India, Smith returned to England in 1947 and set down to write her first book. Maidens' Trip (1948) proved to be both a critical and a commercial success and won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. With the proceeds from the book, Smith moved to Paris where she took a room in the Hotel de Tournon and, drawing on her memories of India, typed up her second novel.