1879 - Emma Hale Smith Bidamon, wife of the Prophet Joseph Smith and first president of the Nauvoo Female Relief Society, dies at her home---the riverside mansion or Nauvoo House---in Nauvoo, Illinois. During the previous few days, Emma had stated the Joseph had come to her in a vision and had shown her a "mansion of light" where she had seen and held her little baby, Don Carlos, who died in 1841. Joseph promised her that in time she would have all her children. At her death she was surrounded by three of her children---Joseph III, Alexander, and Julia---and her second husband, Lewis Bidamon. Her last moments were peaceful until she raised her self up in her bed, reached out with her left hand and said, "Joseph, Joseph," and then she died. She is buried next to her husband in the Smith Family Cemetery along the river in Nauvoo, Illinois.