FamilySearch ID: LLQF-6V6
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Vinson Knight

Birth	14 March 1804	Norwich, Huntington, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States	Citation(s) Birth Citation(s) "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), Entry for Vinson Knight, ID: LLQF-6V6. Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts, Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 (Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute), database with images, Ancestry.com, Vinson Knight, 14 March 1804; citing Huntington County, Massachusetts, United States, page 14;Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook), Provo, Utah.
Death	31 July 1842	Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States	Citation(s) Death Citation(s) William Dresser Huntington, William D. Huntington cemetery and financial records, 1839-1884, MS 22047_b0001_f0001_00243.
Burial	1 August 1842	Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States	Citation(s) Burial Citation(s) Find A Grave, database and images, memorial page for Vinson Knight (1804-1842), memorial #16957795. "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for Vinson Knight, ID: LLQF-6V6. William Dresser Huntington, William D. Huntington cemetery and financial records, 1839-1884, MS 22047_b0001_f0001_00243.

Father	Rodolphus Knight
Mother	Rizpah Lee

Marriages Label

• Martha McBride

Married

6 July 1826

New York, United States

Citation(s)

Marriage Citation(s)
    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for Vinson Knight and Martha McBride, ID: LLQF-6V6 and ID: KWJY-F33.

    Gary James Bergara, "Identifying the Earliest Mormon Polygamists, 1841-1844" (Stanford, California: Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 2005), p. 14-15.

    Salt Lake Herald, Salt Lake Herald (Salt Lake City, Utah: W.C. Dunbar & E.L. Sloan, 1870-1920), Nov 21, 1901, pg. 8, Widow of Prophet Joseph Smith Dead.

          Children:
               Almira Knight
               Rizpah Jane Knight
               Adaline Knight
               James Vinson Knight
               Nathaniel Knight
               Martha Abigail Knight
               Rodolphus Elderkin Knight

• Philinda Clark Eldredge

Married

31 July 1842

Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States

Citation(s)

Marriage Citation(s)
    Gary James Bergara, "Identifying the Earliest Mormon Polygamists, 1841-1844" (Stanford, California: Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 2005), p. 14-15.

    George D. Smith, Nauvoo Polygamy (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2011), p. 603.

    Lisle G. Brown, Nauvoo Sealings, Adoptions, and Anointings (Salt Lake City, Utah: The Smith-Pettit Foundation, 2006), p. 174-175.

    Brian C. Hales, Joseph Smith's Polygamy (Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2013), p. 495-496.

Residences Label

• 1840	Hancock County, Illinois, United States
• 1842	Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States

Death & Burial Records Label

• Death Record	View Source	Image(s)
• Grave Marker	View Source

Census Records Label

• 1840 Population Census	Hancock County, Illinois	Extract	Image
• 1842 Population Census	Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois	Extract	Image

Nauvoo Community Project

Nauvoo Community Project

Vinson Knight