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James Vinson Knight
Contributed By Ray Howell · 29 August 2013
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James Vinson Knight, born 4th September 1833 at Perrisburg, New York, son of Vinson Knight and Martha McBride. The family remedies were one of the first things he told of, bitter aloes and quinine were always on the breakfast table.
James always tried to appear well for if his father saw the least appearance of being ill, he was given a big dose of this medicine.
When a small boy, his father sent him to the Prophet Joseph Smith's office with a message. James arrived out of breath and began talking. The Prophet took James's cap off and said, "Good morning, James." When James returned the greeting, he was asked what his father sent him for.
The children of Nauvoo hated the "Carthage Grays". They were a group of men dressed in grey which did every evil thing to the Mormons. As these men marched down the street; the boys would hide behind well curbs and fences and throw rocks at them. James was a good shot and often hit one of them. The reason, the boys always played ball in the street.
The Prophet Joseph and Hyrum were much together, Hyrum always serious and dignified. As they walked down the street together and came to the boys playing ball, Joseph would stop and have a turn with them batting the ball. Hyrum would put his hands on his cane behind him and lean on them until the Prophet was ready to go on.
James told of being sent on an errand one evening just at sunset. He went through a vacant lot, and under an old shed were a number of drunken men. One wore a tall silk hat, gray pants with stripes down the sides of bright color, straps under the heel of his shoes which held the pant legs tight.. This man was swearing and said, "That when the sun would come up, it would shine through Joe Smith." In so doing he was flourishing a big knife. Just as the sun came up the next morning, James was going by the old shed again and one or two men were by this man, that said he would kill the Prophet. He was on the ground, dead with a knife wound in his heart. The sun was shining through as it were. He never knew who they were, only that the man had been killed by one of the drunken crowd.
Vinson Knight, James's father took suddenly ill with what was called inflammation of the bowels. He died 31 July 1844, when James was eleven years old.
James Vincent often told of the sorrow his mother had from 1839 to 1844. She buried her husband and three children. Some would ask her how she stood it, but she always answered that there was no other thing to do but trust in the Lord and do the best she could for the children left.
She would tell James that he was the man of the family, so he shared the responsibility with his mother. One of the chores he did was to keep the soap box full. This was called soft soap, which was made from ashes. He also tended the cows, which were herded in the low lands three miles below Nauvoo.
At times there were terrible thunder storms and often his mother would have him take her parasol. One afternoon when one of these storms came up, he rushed home with the cows, using the parasol to beat the cows, with never a thought to keep the rain off himself. He said, He was so sorry when he saw that he had ruined it."
Another time in such a storm, one cow strayed into the bushes. After the storm was over, he went back to find her and it was dark before he found the cow and his way out of the woods. Ahead of him was a tall, white object that seemed to move. It would raise up flutter and then settle back. It was his habit to find out what everything was, so he took a stick, shut his eyes, hit and said, "Who are you?" He discovered it was a stump of an old tree that had been struck by lightening, the long white ashes held to it and the wind caused them to move. He always told us that if we stopped to investigate we would never see a ghost.
The Prophet came to their house one morning as they were having prayers. After they had finished, he knocked on the door and came in. There was a bottle of alcohol on the mantle. He said, "Brother Knight, praying under this." He then took the bottle, tasted it, laughed and put it back.
When Joseph and Hyrum were killed, James was at an Aunts home in Montrose.
They didn't hear about it until the next afternoon, when a man came on a horse and told them. James said that he went into the bedroom and cried a long time, feeling that nothing could have been worse.
He said that Nauvoo was in blocks of even size and that their home was like many others of red brick and two stories. His father loved flowers and had them around the house. They rhymed the names of the families living around them in the neighborhood as; Crows, Lays, Hatches, Knights and Days.
Vinson Knight was a good provider and his wife and family were left with property; a tin shop, a drug store or apothecary as it was called them, along with several lots. His wife, Martha, knew nothing about his business as she tended to the house. So Salo Stottard, a partner with Vinson in the Drug Store along with others got most of the property. Stottard has apostatized from the church, his wife took sick and died, leaving a family of little children. James's oldest sister, Almira, went to help him and soon after they were married. She was only sixteen and her mother knew nothing of it until after. He influenced her so that she was bitter towards the church, so stayed back in the east. As the saints were leaving Nauvoo for the West, they were advised that the leading brethren marry the widows. Martha married Heber C. Kimball, as it made it easier for the family to leave earlier. The other two girls had married; Rispah married Andrew Gibbons, and Adline married Gilbert Belnap. The men were converts to the church and each had a child.
Martha sold the lots, left the home, and had enough for three outfits. Thus they all started for the West. That year they came to Winter Quarters in Missouri. It was fall when they arrived there. They found that a number of the saints had built temporary homes for the winter. There were lots of timber, so they soon had homes for all of them to live in.
The Missourians were having `hog killing'. The hogs had run in the forests and had fattened on nuts. The people did their killing in groups and threw the heads, ribs, and backbones away. Andrew and Gilbert took their wagon, one of those old prairie schooners, that had a high box and boards out from each side to hold more. They were given all the meat their wagon could hold. This was a blessing from the Lord. The meat was shared with all the saints.
Corn for bread was rationed and James ground their rations in a coffee mill, each day for the eight of them.
Wild animals would get into the coop and kill their chickens. At the first sound of cackling, Martha would call James to go save the flock. One moonlight night, the chickens made a terrible fuss. James could see nothing, but as he stood looking around, a chicken flew by him and went to the coop. Afterwards, a big burley negro told him that he had the hen, dropped it, climbed a tree and lay flat on the limb over James's head. He said, "He had a stout club and if James had looked up he would have hit him to kill."
As I remember, they stayed in Winter Quarters a year, until the next spring and then came on to Utah. James hated the Missourians, as they called them.
The Missourians lived in log houses, with cracks so large that one could throw a cat through. Big fireplaces that would accommodate a horse-drawn log. These logs would burn night and day, and the people would often sit around telling yarns and spitting tobacco. They did every thing to annoy the saints.
There was a time that Cholera was among the saints. James was gathering the cows in and became so cramped and sick, as he was chasing a cow through the brush, a cramping and running off at the bowels.
He dropped on his knees and asked the Lord to take him if he was to die, but not let him die that way.
He was healed that moment.
As their company were nearing the Rocky Mountains, James's wife-to-be and my {Almira Knight Pratt} mother, Celestial Roberts who was born in England 28th of Aug.1850.
The company arrived in Salt Lake City in September of 1850. James was 17 on the 4th of the month. James often said that he would liked to have had his picture taken as he came into Salt Lake; he was bare footed, a sore on the heel of one foot and the toe of the other, so he was really lame. He was driving two cows that were too lame to pull the wagons, but gave a little milk for the families.
When they arrived in Salt Lake City, Martha went to the home of her husband, Heber, C. Kimball, and her two daughters and families went to Ogden.
James wouldn't go with his mother. She never told her family that she had married Brother Kimball. The first they knew of it was as they were traveling from Nauvoo. He came and stayed the night with them.
Martha had been a real pal with her boy and now a man took his place.
So when they got to Salt Lake he got a two year old pony, tied his few clothes in a bundle and started for Fillmore, Millard County to live with his mother's brother, Reuben McBride. He wouldn't ride the colt, as he was afraid he would stunt it, as it was so young, so he walked the entire distance, about 200 miles.
He would put his arms around its neck, make it trot, so he could take longer steps and get over move ground.
He slept on the ground cuddled close to the colt to keep warm.
He took part in the building of Fillmore and Millard County. He was in the Black Hawk and Walker Indian Wars and helped to build the dams for the town of Deseret in West Millard.
In the early sixties he went to California and worked on a big ranch owned by a Frenchman named DeBoise, in San Bernardino. He was there two winters and voted for Abraham Lincoln.
After returning to Fillmore he was called to furnish two horses and go to Florence, Nebraska as night watchman for the emigrants to Utah. He often laughed and said he had learned to doge lightening. There were some terrible thunderstorms. The Indians were very troublesome.
He told of one night that their horses were all excited. The grass was tall and they could see it move very slowly. As they called, "Who goes there!" It was still for awhile and then they could see the grass waving going from them.
In the summer of 1868, James was called to go to Laramie, Wyoming to meet emigrants, This time furnishing the wagon and team and driving his own outfit. On this the fifth time to cross the plains, he met his wife to be, Celestial Roberts. She and her family were converts to the Church from England. There were father, mother, Celestial, Philip and Maria. Celestial was beautiful, lively and popular. James was clean, sober and a very desirable bachelor. He had brown eyes, fine dark brown curly hair and small in stature.
He wore brown duck pants with white buckskin notched round patches on the seat and stripes on the front of each leg. Celestial said, "They were to keep his pants from wearing out." When he stooped over the big seat patch showed very funny.
Each teamster had the right to have who he wanted to ride with him, so Celestial rode with James across the plains. They arrived in Salt Lake City the 18th of August 1868. Her family was going to Cache Valley to her mother's brother's place, Thomas and Samuel Obrey.
James tended Church cattle at Cove Fort, south of Fillmore. He had to go back to his work, so he and Celestial were married in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City, the 22nd of Aug. 1868 by Daniel H. Wells. The man having charge of the group from England gave Celestial a (temple) recommend but James belonged to the Fillmore Ward and was worried about getting his recommend. He went to some men he knew and they recommended him to Brother Wells, whom he told of his circumstances. Brother Wells said, "A son of Vinson Knight, he was a good friend and a good enemy." Then he looked at some records and told them that James had the best of recommends. He had crossed the plains five times, had a clear record and it was a good recommend. The morning that they were married, they arose at five o'clock and went to the Jordan River and were baptized.
They left the next day in their wagon for Cove Fort in Millard County.
They then lived in Hooper five years and later moved to Kingston and Circleville, Piute County in December 1876. Here they lived seven years in the United Order, worked hard and endured exposures and as B.H.Roberts said, "came to a decrepit old age." He suffered for many years of a double rupture.
He loved the Prophet Joseph Smith and ever bore testimony of his greatness. He was ready to fight anyone that tried to defame his (Joseph's) name. He was faithful and obedient to every call of the Church.
On one occasion when he was herding cattle at Cove Fort a caravan came through from the East. They spent most of their time profaning the name of Joseph Smith. As they were passing Cove Fort, this profaning came to a very high pitch and James drew his six shooter and threatened to shoot the next one to profane the name of Joseph. This group was later killed at Mountain Meadows.
In 1908, he sold his farm in Circleville, and moved to Hinckley, Millard Co. Here he held the office of High Priest. He was a near invalid for years. He had a hot temper but knew how to govern it. He knew no fear of elements, men, or Indians.
He died at the age of 79 in Salt Lake City in the L.D.S. Hospital, 11 Apr.1912.
The nurse that tended him told his youngest son, Samuel Lee, not to mourn. "James was a clean old man."
At his funeral in Hinckley, Joseph Nielsen, a neighbor in Circleville from boyhood, said, "He was one of the most honest men he ever knew and his word was as good as his note."
He had five children: Vinson Phillip, Daisy Maria, James Aubrey, Almira Celestial, and Samuel Lee...
I, Almira Knight Pratt, have written this from memory and dates I have put down during his and my mothers lives as they told me of their experiences. He taught me to plant corn, just to pick three kernels at a time to a hill. We traveled in the mountains in hot and also bitter cold weather. He always taught me the truths of the gospel.
- dated...13 Aug. 1952, Delta, Utah
D0014 - James Vincent Knight s/o Bishop Vinson & Martha McBride Knight h/o Celestial Roberts Knight
CENSUS: 1870 United States Federal Census
Name: James Knight
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1845
Age in 1870: 25
Birthplace: New York
Home in 1870: Ogden, Weber, Utah Territory
Race: White
Gender: Male
Post Office: Ogden
Household Members: Name Age
James Knight 25
Celestial Knight 19
Source Citation: Year: 1870; Census Place: Ogden, Weber, Utah Territory; Roll: M593_1613; Page: 487; Image: 284.
1880 United States Federal Census
Name: J. N. Knight
Home in 1880: Kingston, Piute, Utah
Age: 46
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1834
Birthplace: New York
Relation to Head of Household: Self (Head)
Spouse's Name: Silestia
Father's birthplace: New York
Mother's birthplace: New York
Occupation: Laborer
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Gender: Male
Household Members: Name Age
J. N. Knight 46
Silestia Knight 29
Vinsen P. Knight 5
Moriah D. Knight 2
Jas. A. Knight 11M
Source Citation: Year: 1880; Census Place: Kingston, Piute, Utah; Roll: T9_1336; Family History Film: 1255336; Page: 530.3000; Enumeration District: 36; .
1900 United States Federal Census
Name: James C Knight
[James Vinson Knight]
Home in 1900: Circleville, Piute, Utah
Age: 66
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1834
Birthplace: New York
Relationship to head-of-house: Head
Spouse's Name: Celestia
Race: White
Occupation: Farmer
Household Members: Name Age
James C Knight 66
Celestia Knight 49
James A Knight 20
Almira C Knight 18
Samuel L Knight 12
Source Citation: Year: 1900; Census Place: Circleville, Piute, Utah; Roll: T623 1683; Page: 10A; Enumeration District: 114.
1910 United States Federal Census
Name: James V Knight
Age in 1910: 75
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1835
Birthplace: New York
Relation to Head of House: Head
Father's Birth Place: New York
Mother's Birth Place: New York
Spouse's Name: Celestia
Home in 1910: Hinckley, Millard, Utah
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Gender: Male
Household Members: Name Age
James V Knight 75
Celestia Knight 54
Samuel L Knight 22
Source Citation: Year: 1910; Census Place: Hinckley, Millard, Utah; Roll: T624_1604; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 62; Image: 283.
DEATH: Name: James V Knight
Official Cause of Death: Strangulated Hernia
Event Date: 11 Apr 1912
Event Type: Death
Event Place: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Gender: Male
Age: 80
Marital Status: Married
Race: W
Birth Date:
Birthplace: New York
Father's Name: Vincent Knight
Mother's Name: Marth
Spouse's Name:
Document Type: Certificate of Death
Source Reference:
Digital Folder Number: 004139824
Image Number: 00121
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Name: James V. Knight
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Death date: 11 Apr 1912
Death place: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Birth date:
Estimated birth year: 1832
Birth place:
Age at death: About 80 years
Gender: Male
Marital status:
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Spouse name:
Father name: Vincent Knight
Father titles:
Mother name: Martha
Mother titles:
GSU film number: 2229368
Digital GS number: 4121118
Image number: 166
Reference number: 496
Collection: Utah Death Certificates 1904-1956
MILITARY: Name: James V Knight
Death date: 11 Apr 1912
Death place:
Birthdate: 1833
Birthplace:
Cemetery: City
Burial place: Hinckley, Millard, Utah
Military unit: J C Owen's Co Cav
Branch of service: Utah Ter Mil
War: Blackhawk War
Film number: 485490
Digital GS number: 4236473
Image number: 00827
Collection: Veterans with Federal Service Buried in Utah, Territorial to 1966
OBITUARY: Deceased
Name: James V Knight
Event Type: Obituary
Event Date: 12 Apr 1912
Event Place: Utah, United States
Gender: Male
Age: 80
Relationship to Deceased: Deceased
Newspaper: Salt Lake Telegram 14 Affiliate Name: Utah Digital Newspaper Project, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah , Digital Folder Number: 100600334 , Image Number: 00148
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12 April 1912
James V. Knight of Hinckley, Utah, died at the L. D. S. hospital yesterday of strangulated hernia. He was 80 years old. The body was taken to Hinckley last night and the funeral services will be held Sunday, April 14.
1603 Richard Knight, 1656 David Knight, 1693 David E. Knight, 1721 David Knight, 1742 Samuel Knight, 1768 Rodolphus Knight, 1804 Vinson Knight, 1833 James Vincent Knight, 1887 Samuel Lee Knight, 1917 Milton Knight
1880 Utah Map
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James Vinson KNIGHT [Parents] [scrapbook]-402 was born on 4 Sep 1833 in Perrysburg, Cattaraugus, New York. He died on 11 Apr 1912 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah from Strangulated Hernia. He was buried on 15 Apr 1912 in Hinckley City Cemetery, Hinckley, Millard, Utah. James married Celestial ROBERTS-398 on 22 Aug 1868 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
BIOGRAPHY: Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847–1868
Knight, J. V.
Birth Date: Unknown
Death Date: Unknown
Gender: Male
Age: Unknown
Company: Samuel D. White Company (1863)
Out/Back Teamster
Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847–1868
Knight, James Vinson
Birth Date: 4 Sep. 1833
Death Date: 11 Apr. 1912
Gender: Male
Age: 16
Company: Warren Foote Company (1850)
Pioneer Information: 2 people
Sources: Ancestral File
Foote, Warren, Autobiography and journals 1837-1903, vol. 1, 110-26.
Warren Foote Emigrating Company, Journal 1850 June-Sept.
BIOGRAPHY: Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847–1868
Knight, J. V.
Birth Date: Unknown
Death Date: Unknown
Gender: Male
Age: Unknown
Company: Samuel D. White Company (1863)
Out/Back Teamster
Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847–1868
Knight, James Vinson
Birth Date: 4 Sep. 1833
Death Date: 11 Apr. 1912
Gender: Male
Age: 16
Company: Warren Foote Company (1850)
Pioneer Information: 2 people
Sources: Ancestral File
Foote, Warren, Autobiography and journals 1837-1903, vol. 1, 110-26.
Warren Foote Emigrating Company, Journal 1850 June-Sept.
James Vinson Knight
Contributed By Ray Howell · 29 August 2013
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JAMES VINSON KNIGHT
by Almira K. Pratt
by Almira K. Pratt
James Vinson Knight, born 4th September 1833 at Perrisburg, New York, son of Vinson Knight and Martha McBride. The family remedies were one of the first things he told of, bitter aloes and quinine were always on the breakfast table.
James always tried to appear well for if his father saw the least appearance of being ill, he was given a big dose of this medicine.
When a small boy, his father sent him to the Prophet Joseph Smith's office with a message. James arrived out of breath and began talking. The Prophet took James's cap off and said, "Good morning, James." When James returned the greeting, he was asked what his father sent him for.
The children of Nauvoo hated the "Carthage Grays". They were a group of men dressed in grey which did every evil thing to the Mormons. As these men marched down the street; the boys would hide behind well curbs and fences and throw rocks at them. James was a good shot and often hit one of them. The reason, the boys always played ball in the street.
Prophet
The Prophet Joseph and Hyrum were much together, Hyrum always serious and dignified. As they walked down the street together and came to the boys playing ball, Joseph would stop and have a turn with them batting the ball. Hyrum would put his hands on his cane behind him and lean on them until the Prophet was ready to go on.
James told of being sent on an errand one evening just at sunset. He went through a vacant lot, and under an old shed were a number of drunken men. One wore a tall silk hat, gray pants with stripes down the sides of bright color, straps under the heel of his shoes which held the pant legs tight.. This man was swearing and said, "That when the sun would come up, it would shine through Joe Smith." In so doing he was flourishing a big knife. Just as the sun came up the next morning, James was going by the old shed again and one or two men were by this man, that said he would kill the Prophet. He was on the ground, dead with a knife wound in his heart. The sun was shining through as it were. He never knew who they were, only that the man had been killed by one of the drunken crowd.
DEATH OF FATHER, VINSON
Vinson Knight, James's father took suddenly ill with what was called inflammation of the bowels. He died 31 July 1844, when James was eleven years old.
James Vincent often told of the sorrow his mother had from 1839 to 1844. She buried her husband and three children. Some would ask her how she stood it, but she always answered that there was no other thing to do but trust in the Lord and do the best she could for the children left.
She would tell James that he was the man of the family, so he shared the responsibility with his mother. One of the chores he did was to keep the soap box full. This was called soft soap, which was made from ashes. He also tended the cows, which were herded in the low lands three miles below Nauvoo.
At times there were terrible thunder storms and often his mother would have him take her parasol. One afternoon when one of these storms came up, he rushed home with the cows, using the parasol to beat the cows, with never a thought to keep the rain off himself. He said, He was so sorry when he saw that he had ruined it."
Another time in such a storm, one cow strayed into the bushes. After the storm was over, he went back to find her and it was dark before he found the cow and his way out of the woods. Ahead of him was a tall, white object that seemed to move. It would raise up flutter and then settle back. It was his habit to find out what everything was, so he took a stick, shut his eyes, hit and said, "Who are you?" He discovered it was a stump of an old tree that had been struck by lightening, the long white ashes held to it and the wind caused them to move. He always told us that if we stopped to investigate we would never see a ghost.
The Prophet came to their house one morning as they were having prayers. After they had finished, he knocked on the door and came in. There was a bottle of alcohol on the mantle. He said, "Brother Knight, praying under this." He then took the bottle, tasted it, laughed and put it back.
When Joseph and Hyrum were killed, James was at an Aunts home in Montrose.
They didn't hear about it until the next afternoon, when a man came on a horse and told them. James said that he went into the bedroom and cried a long time, feeling that nothing could have been worse.
He said that Nauvoo was in blocks of even size and that their home was like many others of red brick and two stories. His father loved flowers and had them around the house. They rhymed the names of the families living around them in the neighborhood as; Crows, Lays, Hatches, Knights and Days.
Vinson Knight was a good provider and his wife and family were left with property; a tin shop, a drug store or apothecary as it was called them, along with several lots. His wife, Martha, knew nothing about his business as she tended to the house. So Salo Stottard, a partner with Vinson in the Drug Store along with others got most of the property. Stottard has apostatized from the church, his wife took sick and died, leaving a family of little children. James's oldest sister, Almira, went to help him and soon after they were married. She was only sixteen and her mother knew nothing of it until after. He influenced her so that she was bitter towards the church, so stayed back in the east. As the saints were leaving Nauvoo for the West, they were advised that the leading brethren marry the widows. Martha married Heber C. Kimball, as it made it easier for the family to leave earlier. The other two girls had married; Rispah married Andrew Gibbons, and Adline married Gilbert Belnap. The men were converts to the church and each had a child.
WINTER QUARTERS
Martha sold the lots, left the home, and had enough for three outfits. Thus they all started for the West. That year they came to Winter Quarters in Missouri. It was fall when they arrived there. They found that a number of the saints had built temporary homes for the winter. There were lots of timber, so they soon had homes for all of them to live in.
The Missourians were having `hog killing'. The hogs had run in the forests and had fattened on nuts. The people did their killing in groups and threw the heads, ribs, and backbones away. Andrew and Gilbert took their wagon, one of those old prairie schooners, that had a high box and boards out from each side to hold more. They were given all the meat their wagon could hold. This was a blessing from the Lord. The meat was shared with all the saints.
Corn for bread was rationed and James ground their rations in a coffee mill, each day for the eight of them.
Wild animals would get into the coop and kill their chickens. At the first sound of cackling, Martha would call James to go save the flock. One moonlight night, the chickens made a terrible fuss. James could see nothing, but as he stood looking around, a chicken flew by him and went to the coop. Afterwards, a big burley negro told him that he had the hen, dropped it, climbed a tree and lay flat on the limb over James's head. He said, "He had a stout club and if James had looked up he would have hit him to kill."
As I remember, they stayed in Winter Quarters a year, until the next spring and then came on to Utah. James hated the Missourians, as they called them.
The Missourians lived in log houses, with cracks so large that one could throw a cat through. Big fireplaces that would accommodate a horse-drawn log. These logs would burn night and day, and the people would often sit around telling yarns and spitting tobacco. They did every thing to annoy the saints.
CHOLERA
There was a time that Cholera was among the saints. James was gathering the cows in and became so cramped and sick, as he was chasing a cow through the brush, a cramping and running off at the bowels.
He dropped on his knees and asked the Lord to take him if he was to die, but not let him die that way.
He was healed that moment.
SALT LAKE CITY
As their company were nearing the Rocky Mountains, James's wife-to-be and my {Almira Knight Pratt} mother, Celestial Roberts who was born in England 28th of Aug.1850.
The company arrived in Salt Lake City in September of 1850. James was 17 on the 4th of the month. James often said that he would liked to have had his picture taken as he came into Salt Lake; he was bare footed, a sore on the heel of one foot and the toe of the other, so he was really lame. He was driving two cows that were too lame to pull the wagons, but gave a little milk for the families.
When they arrived in Salt Lake City, Martha went to the home of her husband, Heber, C. Kimball, and her two daughters and families went to Ogden.
James wouldn't go with his mother. She never told her family that she had married Brother Kimball. The first they knew of it was as they were traveling from Nauvoo. He came and stayed the night with them.
Martha had been a real pal with her boy and now a man took his place.
So when they got to Salt Lake he got a two year old pony, tied his few clothes in a bundle and started for Fillmore, Millard County to live with his mother's brother, Reuben McBride. He wouldn't ride the colt, as he was afraid he would stunt it, as it was so young, so he walked the entire distance, about 200 miles.
He would put his arms around its neck, make it trot, so he could take longer steps and get over move ground.
He slept on the ground cuddled close to the colt to keep warm.
He took part in the building of Fillmore and Millard County. He was in the Black Hawk and Walker Indian Wars and helped to build the dams for the town of Deseret in West Millard.
In the early sixties he went to California and worked on a big ranch owned by a Frenchman named DeBoise, in San Bernardino. He was there two winters and voted for Abraham Lincoln.
After returning to Fillmore he was called to furnish two horses and go to Florence, Nebraska as night watchman for the emigrants to Utah. He often laughed and said he had learned to doge lightening. There were some terrible thunderstorms. The Indians were very troublesome.
He told of one night that their horses were all excited. The grass was tall and they could see it move very slowly. As they called, "Who goes there!" It was still for awhile and then they could see the grass waving going from them.
In the summer of 1868, James was called to go to Laramie, Wyoming to meet emigrants, This time furnishing the wagon and team and driving his own outfit. On this the fifth time to cross the plains, he met his wife to be, Celestial Roberts. She and her family were converts to the Church from England. There were father, mother, Celestial, Philip and Maria. Celestial was beautiful, lively and popular. James was clean, sober and a very desirable bachelor. He had brown eyes, fine dark brown curly hair and small in stature.
He wore brown duck pants with white buckskin notched round patches on the seat and stripes on the front of each leg. Celestial said, "They were to keep his pants from wearing out." When he stooped over the big seat patch showed very funny.
Each teamster had the right to have who he wanted to ride with him, so Celestial rode with James across the plains. They arrived in Salt Lake City the 18th of August 1868. Her family was going to Cache Valley to her mother's brother's place, Thomas and Samuel Obrey.
James tended Church cattle at Cove Fort, south of Fillmore. He had to go back to his work, so he and Celestial were married in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City, the 22nd of Aug. 1868 by Daniel H. Wells. The man having charge of the group from England gave Celestial a (temple) recommend but James belonged to the Fillmore Ward and was worried about getting his recommend. He went to some men he knew and they recommended him to Brother Wells, whom he told of his circumstances. Brother Wells said, "A son of Vinson Knight, he was a good friend and a good enemy." Then he looked at some records and told them that James had the best of recommends. He had crossed the plains five times, had a clear record and it was a good recommend. The morning that they were married, they arose at five o'clock and went to the Jordan River and were baptized.
They left the next day in their wagon for Cove Fort in Millard County.
They then lived in Hooper five years and later moved to Kingston and Circleville, Piute County in December 1876. Here they lived seven years in the United Order, worked hard and endured exposures and as B.H.Roberts said, "came to a decrepit old age." He suffered for many years of a double rupture.
He loved the Prophet Joseph Smith and ever bore testimony of his greatness. He was ready to fight anyone that tried to defame his (Joseph's) name. He was faithful and obedient to every call of the Church.
On one occasion when he was herding cattle at Cove Fort a caravan came through from the East. They spent most of their time profaning the name of Joseph Smith. As they were passing Cove Fort, this profaning came to a very high pitch and James drew his six shooter and threatened to shoot the next one to profane the name of Joseph. This group was later killed at Mountain Meadows.
In 1908, he sold his farm in Circleville, and moved to Hinckley, Millard Co. Here he held the office of High Priest. He was a near invalid for years. He had a hot temper but knew how to govern it. He knew no fear of elements, men, or Indians.
He died at the age of 79 in Salt Lake City in the L.D.S. Hospital, 11 Apr.1912.
The nurse that tended him told his youngest son, Samuel Lee, not to mourn. "James was a clean old man."
At his funeral in Hinckley, Joseph Nielsen, a neighbor in Circleville from boyhood, said, "He was one of the most honest men he ever knew and his word was as good as his note."
He had five children: Vinson Phillip, Daisy Maria, James Aubrey, Almira Celestial, and Samuel Lee...
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I, Almira Knight Pratt, have written this from memory and dates I have put down during his and my mothers lives as they told me of their experiences. He taught me to plant corn, just to pick three kernels at a time to a hill. We traveled in the mountains in hot and also bitter cold weather. He always taught me the truths of the gospel.
- dated...13 Aug. 1952, Delta, Utah
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D0014 - James Vincent Knight s/o Bishop Vinson & Martha McBride Knight h/o Celestial Roberts Knight
CENSUS: 1870 United States Federal Census
Name: James Knight
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1845
Age in 1870: 25
Birthplace: New York
Home in 1870: Ogden, Weber, Utah Territory
Race: White
Gender: Male
Post Office: Ogden
Household Members: Name Age
James Knight 25
Celestial Knight 19
Source Citation: Year: 1870; Census Place: Ogden, Weber, Utah Territory; Roll: M593_1613; Page: 487; Image: 284.
1880 United States Federal Census
Name: J. N. Knight
Home in 1880: Kingston, Piute, Utah
Age: 46
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1834
Birthplace: New York
Relation to Head of Household: Self (Head)
Spouse's Name: Silestia
Father's birthplace: New York
Mother's birthplace: New York
Occupation: Laborer
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Gender: Male
Household Members: Name Age
J. N. Knight 46
Silestia Knight 29
Vinsen P. Knight 5
Moriah D. Knight 2
Jas. A. Knight 11M
Source Citation: Year: 1880; Census Place: Kingston, Piute, Utah; Roll: T9_1336; Family History Film: 1255336; Page: 530.3000; Enumeration District: 36; .
1900 United States Federal Census
Name: James C Knight
[James Vinson Knight]
Home in 1900: Circleville, Piute, Utah
Age: 66
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1834
Birthplace: New York
Relationship to head-of-house: Head
Spouse's Name: Celestia
Race: White
Occupation: Farmer
Household Members: Name Age
James C Knight 66
Celestia Knight 49
James A Knight 20
Almira C Knight 18
Samuel L Knight 12
Source Citation: Year: 1900; Census Place: Circleville, Piute, Utah; Roll: T623 1683; Page: 10A; Enumeration District: 114.
1910 United States Federal Census
Name: James V Knight
Age in 1910: 75
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1835
Birthplace: New York
Relation to Head of House: Head
Father's Birth Place: New York
Mother's Birth Place: New York
Spouse's Name: Celestia
Home in 1910: Hinckley, Millard, Utah
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Gender: Male
Household Members: Name Age
James V Knight 75
Celestia Knight 54
Samuel L Knight 22
Source Citation: Year: 1910; Census Place: Hinckley, Millard, Utah; Roll: T624_1604; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 62; Image: 283.
DEATH: Name: James V Knight
Official Cause of Death: Strangulated Hernia
Event Date: 11 Apr 1912
Event Type: Death
Event Place: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Gender: Male
Age: 80
Marital Status: Married
Race: W
Birth Date:
Birthplace: New York
Father's Name: Vincent Knight
Mother's Name: Marth
Spouse's Name:
Document Type: Certificate of Death
Source Reference:
Digital Folder Number: 004139824
Image Number: 00121
Citing this Record:
"Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1908-1949," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NQHZ-Q6B : accessed 04 Feb 2014), James V Knight, 1912.
Name: James V. Knight
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Death date: 11 Apr 1912
Death place: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Birth date:
Estimated birth year: 1832
Birth place:
Age at death: About 80 years
Gender: Male
Marital status:
Race or color:
Spouse name:
Father name: Vincent Knight
Father titles:
Mother name: Martha
Mother titles:
GSU film number: 2229368
Digital GS number: 4121118
Image number: 166
Reference number: 496
Collection: Utah Death Certificates 1904-1956
MILITARY: Name: James V Knight
Death date: 11 Apr 1912
Death place:
Birthdate: 1833
Birthplace:
Cemetery: City
Burial place: Hinckley, Millard, Utah
Military unit: J C Owen's Co Cav
Branch of service: Utah Ter Mil
War: Blackhawk War
Film number: 485490
Digital GS number: 4236473
Image number: 00827
Collection: Veterans with Federal Service Buried in Utah, Territorial to 1966
OBITUARY: Deceased
Name: James V Knight
Event Type: Obituary
Event Date: 12 Apr 1912
Event Place: Utah, United States
Gender: Male
Age: 80
Relationship to Deceased: Deceased
Newspaper: Salt Lake Telegram 14 Affiliate Name: Utah Digital Newspaper Project, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah , Digital Folder Number: 100600334 , Image Number: 00148
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Salt Lake Telegram
12 April 1912
James V. Knight of Hinckley, Utah, died at the L. D. S. hospital yesterday of strangulated hernia. He was 80 years old. The body was taken to Hinckley last night and the funeral services will be held Sunday, April 14.
1603 Richard Knight, 1656 David Knight, 1693 David E. Knight, 1721 David Knight, 1742 Samuel Knight, 1768 Rodolphus Knight, 1804 Vinson Knight, 1833 James Vincent Knight, 1887 Samuel Lee Knight, 1917 Milton Knight
