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Vinson Knight Home |
Vinson Knight Home
Nauvoo, Illinois |
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Biography |
Vinson Knight was born March 14, 1804 at Norwich, Hampshire County, Massachusetts and baptized in 1834. He married Martha McBride on March 14, 1826.Vinson Knight was appointed Bishop over the lower Nauvoo Ward on October 5, 1839 and was a member of the city council and the Nauvoo Agricultural and Manufacturing Association. On January 19, 1841, he was designated by revelation to be the presiding Bishop of the church. (1) He died in Nauvoo on July 31, 1842, just five months after he wrote the letter below. He was endowed before July, 1843. | |
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Letter to his family back east: |
City of Nauvoo
February 14, 1842We have not had any sleighing and the weather most of the time has been mild and all things seem to move in good order and good feelings. I think we have no reason to complain, but on the other hand to rejoice and praise God . . . My family are in good health at this time. The children are all glad to hear from Grandmother and all their relations. Martha and all the children send their love to you. Rodophus E. [a son] grows finely. The children all love him and sometimes cry to hold him. I wish you could see him. You would say that he was a fine boy. (2) | |
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(1) LDS D&C 124:141; RLDS D&C 107:45.
(2) Knight, Vinson, "Letters," (Salt Lake City, UT: LDSCA). | | |
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