OFFSPRING
Namesake, but not the first son.
Who is Joseph Knight, Jr.?
It turned the Knight mill wheel in Pennsylvania.
What is the Susquehanna River?
Polly swept the floors. Joseph opened the doors, and the new Colesville Branch met here.
What is the Knight home?
The county where Independence was built.
What is Jackson County?
A cooper built them.
What is a barrel?
Hearts of the Knight family members were broken when the Prophet Joseph and his brother Hyrum were laid to rest here.
What is Nauvoo?
Named after a Biblical prophet.
Who is Nahum?
It turned Newel Knight’s grist mill wheel in Illinois.
What is the Mississippi?
In Missouri, two brothers Newel and Joseph hired out to build these for others.
What are mills, or what are saw and grist mills?
The city of significance near Thompson, Ohio.
What is Kirtland?
Before it was Nauvoo, the town had a different name.
What is Commerce?
Polly Peck Knight had a final wish of being buried here.
What is Zion? or, What is Missouri?
Polly Peck was his daughter.
Who is Joseph Peck?
It was faster than taking a wagon to Kirtland.
What is the Erie Canal?
Newel left home in Missouri for several months in 1836 to help build it.
What is the Kirtland Temple?
The county governing Colesville Township.
What is Broome County?
Something the wainwright worked to make.
What is a wagon?
Joseph Knight, Sr. persevered and for the sake of the Gospel he left behind homes in Colesville, and Thompson and Jackson County and Clay County, and Caldwell County, and Nauvoo. But he never made it all the way west to Utah. He was buried here in 1846.
What is Mt. Pisgah?
This spouse reminds you of a November holiday.
Who is Thankful?
Heading west to Independence, it was the last leg of the journey.
What is the Missouri River?
Aug. 3, 1831, Newel was part of a small group who dedicated a cornerstone for this building.
What is the temple in Independence?
Joseph Knight, Jr. worked for a time in LaHarpe, in this county.
What is Hancock County?
They called it a sidewheeler.
What is a riverboat with a paddle on the side?
Polly Knight Stringham had only one son before she died in and was buried here.
What is Nauvoo?
Her only child was father to 13 children.
Who is Polly Knight Stringham?
Near the Knight homes in Kaw Township.
What is the Big Blue River?
July 1832, Parley Pratt conducted a meeting here to divide Zion into three branches.
What is Father Knight’s home? (in Kaw township)
This new county was created by government leaders to specifically be a place where church members could safely gather in Missouri.
What is Caldwell County?
Before Commerce, Illinois was built, that spot on the Mississippi River was called Quashquema by this group of people
Who were the Sac and Fox people or Who were Native Americans.
Newel and Lydia left Nauvoo in 1846 and headed West with an exploratory company of Saints. Newel died of pneumonia and left Lydia with 8 children to get to Utah and raise when he was buried here.
Where is Niobrara or Ponca Camp?