Joseph Knight - Unsung Hero
A History of Joseph [Ether] Knight (1840–1878) and Jane Lucinda Judd (1849–1918)
by Jacqueline W. Solomon
Published by Cox Printing (1997)
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About Joseph Knight:
Joseph was born into the Church and grew up around Nauvoo and the events that occurred there. His family left Nauvoo when the saints were driven out and started west. Brigham Young called him to help settle Northern Arizona . His was the first death in the Arizona settlement.
When Joseph Ether Knight was born on 18 October 1840, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States, his father, Newel Knight, was 40 and his mother, Lydia Goldthwaite, was 28. He married Jane Lucinda Judd on 17 February 1863, in Santa Clara, Washington, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Nevada, United States in 1870 and Utah, United States in 1870. He died on 27 June 1878, in Sunset Sawmill, Yavapai, Arizona, United States, at the age of 37, and was buried in Sunset Cemetery, Winslow, Navajo, Arizona, United States.
About Jane Lucinda Judd ( by Lydia Jane Hancock McClellen and Emily La Preell Hancock Goodman):
Jane Lucinda Judd, third child and daughter of Hyrum Judd land Lisania Fuller, was born on the plains of Iowa in Potowatomi County.
Her father, Hyrum Judd, enlisted in the Mormon Battalion Company E on 16 July 1846. He was a teamster and so took one of the first wagons that ever crossed the continent. His wife, Lisania, stayed in Council Bluffs through the winter where their first son, Jerome, was born 22 February 1847.
When the Mormon Battalion disbanded in July 1847, Hyrum acquired several ponies and started for Salt Lake City. He arrived there in time to return with a company to Winter Quarters. He went to Council Bluffs to join his wife and two children land they traveled on to Potowatomi County, Iowa, where Jane was born.
We know very little about her childhood except that arrived in Salt Lake City when she was approximately two years old.
They settled in Farmington and built a home intending to spend the rest of their lives there. However, their father was called to help settle the Dixie Country land they settled in Santa Clara.
She met and was keeping company with Jesse Knight, the great miner and financier when she met his brother, Joseph Ether Knight, and fell in love with him. They were married 1863.
When Hyrum Judd was called to help settle Panguitch, Joseph and Jane went along. They were next called to settle Arizona.
Joseph and Jane traveled with her brother, Jerome, about a week behind her father because they were driving sheep and cattle and grass and water were scarce.
The two oldest boys, Joseph 11 and Jessie, 9, were riding horses helping to care for thje cattle. Jane says they were so small they were unable to reach the stirrups. Every little while they would climb into the wagon to get their feet warm as she had a stove in her wagon.
The night of 9 December 1878, Jane gave birth to a baby girl, Roxie, her seventh child, with the help of her sister-in-law, Susan Judd.
The company stayed in Houserock tree days before continuing their trip to give her a chance to rest.
When they reached Sunset, Arizona. most of the Judds stayed there. Joseph and Jane, with a few other families, went on to St. Joseph, now Joseph City, and then went on across the river to settle the town of Obed. While there, Joseph became ill land Hyrum Judd took him to Sunset to get better care.
Joseph didn't have the heart or nerve to tell Jane he wanted her to join the United order, so he asked Hyrum Judd to tell her after his death.
He died 27 June 1878 and was buried there in Sunset. To our knowledge, he was the first death in any of the four camps which included Sunset, Brigham City, St. Joseph, and Obed. Years later after there was no town there, the government put up a marker on his grave. The marker used at the time of his death must have worn down. In Israel Call's diary we find: "Tuesday, 2 January 1885, Israel Call went to Sunset with the headstone for Joseph Ether Knight's grave."
This left Jane a widow with seven children, living in a wagon. The children were:
Joseph Ether Knight, born 16 January 1867, Santa Clara, Utah
Jessie Wilber Knight born 11 August 1868, Eagle Valley, Nevada
EFfie Jane Knight born 10 November 1871, Panguitch Utah
Hyrum Knight born 15 April 1873 Panguitch Utah
Lisania Knight born 15 April 1873 Pangjitch Utah
Arza Knight born 2 May 1876 Pangjitch Uah
Roxie Knight born 9 December 1877 Houserock, Arizona
Jane joined the Order and on 11 June 1880, she journeyed to St. George, Utah, where she was married to Israel Call being the second wife. Their first child, Lydia was born in Sunset, Arizona. In 1883, the Order in Sunset was breaking up and Israel moved Jane to Wilford to take care of some cattle. Their, their son, Newel, was born 26 September 1883. He then moved her back to St. Joseph and Leonard was born 16 August 1885.
Shortly after this, Israel left for Utah with his wife Dora, (Aunt Dora, as we lovingly called her), and their family. Dora's health was bad, she was losing her eyesight. In fact, she was almost blind. This left Jane alone with ten children.
Meanwhile, her parents had moved. Hyrum withdrew from the Order just what he had put into it and went to the Gila Valley and helped settle Smithville, now called Pima. Jane and her children made a trip by team and wagon to see them because her father was moving into Old Mexico. On her way to her parent's home, her baby, Leonard took sick with Diphtheria and died the day after they arrived there. He was buried in Pima.
In January 1866, Israel returned to Arizona. He purchased the Standiford Ranch at Shumway, Arizona. On January 20, he moved his wife, Jane, and her family into it. He stayed there and farmed through the next summer and returned to Bountiful in October 1866.
In the fall of 1888, Israel went again to Arizona and stayed through the winter and spring with his family there. After planting the crops in the spring, he returned to Bountiful. This was the last time that he spent any time with his family in Arizona.
The Staniford Ranch was quite isolated and there were still hostile Indians around so Joseph used to sleep across the threshold so if they were attacked he would be the first to know and arouse the rest of the family.
Jane had a hard time taking care of the the family. The two older boys ran the ranch land did what they could. Joseph, the oldest son, never married.
When they first moved there, one of the boys needed Sunday pants. Jane found a pair of men's pants poked in a chimney. She washed, ripped and pressed them and made the boy a pair of Sunday trousers.
After several years, Joseph obtained work in Panguitch and Jane sold the ranch and went with him. After a year there, she returned to Taylor where she lived until all of her children, except Joseph, were married. The three daughters, Lisania, Roxie and Lydia lived in Mesa so she sold her home in Taylor and moved to Mesa.
She bought a lot and had a house built next door to Lydia. All of Lydia's children remember her well.
She was a meticulous housekeeper and would not lie down on a bed after it had been made for the day. I can remember going to her house and finding her lying on the floor so she wouldn't mess up her bed. She used to come over to our place to lie down because mother was "so sloppy" she didn't care if beds were lain on.
She was a beautiful woman with long curly hair. Her grandchildren can remember her brushing it ...her elbow cracking as she bent her arm.
She knitted beautifully and would knit stockings for her grandchildren when they were born. During WWI she was in poor health and often unable to sleep at night. This did not keep her from knitting sox for the soldiers. She knitted so fast, they gave her yarn by the box. When she couldn't sleep, she would pick up her knitting without bothering to light a lamp and knit away without dropping a stitch. When she passed away 1 July 1918, she had a large box of sox knitted to the heel and toe, and box after box of yarn she hadn't had time to knit.
As part of her posterity, we look back and marvel in admiration and love at the way she reared her nine children alone, without resentment or bitterness in her heart.
In her later years, she looked at her sons-in-laws, especially Clarence Hancock, for help and guidance in any problems that arose.
She was truly a faithful Latter-Day Saint woman and a true pioneer. Born on the plains, she helped settle Santa Clara, Utah, Eagle Valley, Nevada, Panguith, Utah; Sunset Arizona, Obed, and Taylor Arizona.
During the times she was living in Mesa, she made the trip to Bountiful, Utah to visit Israel and Aunt Dora. She stayed with them and did temple work. That was the last time she ever saw Israel.
She passed away in Mesa, Arizona, 1 July 1918 and was buried in the Mesa Cemetery, 2 July 1918.
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