Son of Ezekiel Noble and Theodocia Bates

Married Mary Adeline Beman Noble, 11 April 1834, Buffalo, Erie, New York
Not buried in the Salt Lake City Cemetery. According to sexton's records, only a memorial marker stands next to her husband Joseph Bates Noble. Her remains were originally believed to have been buried in the original pioneer cemetery at Block 48 in Salt Lake City. Children - Meriam Noble, Joseph Heber Noble, Nephi Noble, Louisa Noble, Edward Alvah Noble, Mary Adelia Noble, Hiram Brigham Young Noble, Eliza Theodocia Noble, Benjamin Noble.

Married Sarah B. Alley, 5 April 1843, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois. Children - George Omner Noble, Ann Noble

Married Mary Ann Washburn, 26 June 1843, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois. Children - Mary Elizabeth Noble, Tamar Noble, Joseph Bates Noble, Hyrum Noble, Alfred Noble.

Married Susan Ann Hammond, 3 March 1847, Winter Quarters, Douglas, Nebraska. Children - George Omner Noble, Ann Noble, Louisa Adeline Noble.

Married Julia Rosetta Thurston, 15 January 1956, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. Children - Rosetta Josephine Noble, Harriet Bates Noble, Sarah Maria Noble, Charles Edward Noble.

Married Loretta Sylvia Mecham Noble, 18 January 1857, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. Children - Susan Vilate Noble, Elnora Meacham Noble, Bates Meacham Noble, Mary Beatrice Noble, Erastus Alma Meacham Noble, Artemesia Noble, Franklin Meacham Noble, Loretta Sylvia Meacham Noble, William Wallace Noble, Joseph Parley Noble, Zina Pearl Noble.

History - Joseph Bates Noble was the keeper of the Prophet Joseph Smith's Nauvoo Legion sword. A casket stick would soon be stowaway and the two relics would start a long journey in time. The sword was hidden for 165 years with instructions not to share it with anyone. It has been handed down from father to son in the Noble family for the special purpose in giving testimony to Joseph Bates Noble a friend, Bishop, and bodyguard to the prophet.

Joseph Bates Noble served as a foot soldier in Zion's Camp, defended the church in Missouri, ranked as a Major in the Nauvoo Legion, and was a key figure along with this friend, Orrin Porter Rockwell, in rescuing the bodies of Hyrum and Joseph. He conducted the first plural marriage in the Church by marrying his sister-in-law, Louisa Beman, to the Prophet Joseph.