Daughter of Silas Knight and Eunice Higley
Married Ephraim Twitchell, 1 March 1924, Pomeroy, Meigs, Ohio
Children - Anciel Twitchell, Celestia Ursula Twitchell, Eunice Twitchell, Eunice Celinda Twitchell, James Ephraim Twitchell, Edwin Twitchell, Orrin Twitchell, Joshua Twitchell, Amanda Twitchell, Sarah Celestia Twitchell
History - Phoebe Melissa Knight, the fourth child and third daughter of Silas and Eunice (Higley) Knight was born 14 June 1804 at Tolland, Hampton County, Massachusetts; md. 1 March 1824 at Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Ephraim Twitchell a resident of Meigs County.
History - Phoebe Melissa with her parents and family moved from Massachusetts to Gallia County (now Meigs Co.) in the "Ohio Valley" in 1810 and settled in Salisbury, near Rutland. The Twitchell family moved from Vermont to Gallia Co., Ohio near Rutland on the Seioto River in the "Ohio Country" about 1813.
Ephraim Twitchell was 10 years old when they arrived in the Ohio Valley. The Knight and Twitchell families lived in the same area. Here Phoebe Melissa was to meet and marry Ephraim and the young couple made their home in Bedford, Meigs County. It should be noted that Phoebe Melissa's older sister Eunice Ursula had married the other brother, Joshua Twitchell Jr., 24 June 1816. We know the two sisters and their husbands (brothers) had a close family tie throughout their lives.
The Seioto and Ohio Rivers provided many non-farming activities and the Twitchells engaged in farming and river rafting logs and other supplies. The family moved to McDonough County, Illinois in late 1832 where they farmed for awhile. After they became members of the LDS Church, they re-settled in Nauvoo and bought land and farmed until the trouble started with the Saints. It is interesting to note that found in the Nauvoo Church Records is a patriarchal blessing given in 1844 to Phoebe Melissa (Knight) Twitchell and lists her father as Silas Knight and mother as Eunice.
In February 1846 they lost their 19-year-old daughter Celestia in death, and the same month the persecution of the Saints began to become more intense and they were finally driven from their homes. Thus began the hard trip to Council Bluffs, Iowa and Winter Quarters. The Twitchell families raised a large crop of potatoes and corn on government land.
While at Winter Quarters, when the call came for volunteers for the Mormon Battalion to help in the War with Mexico, Phoebe Melissa and Ephraim's oldest son, Anciel, was one of the volunteers. He was married and they had one small son, Ephraim, who later died in Winter Quarters.
The Mormon Battalion made the longest march on foot in military history, around 2,000 miles. The battalion left Mt. Pisgah, Iowa, on July 20, 1846, arrived at Fort Leavenworth 1st of August, march resumed towards Santa Fe, New Mexico 700 miles distant, arriving there in two parts, the 9th and 12th of October 1846. From Santa Fe to San Diego was a distance of 1,100 miles, mostly thru desert and with much suffering. They arrived at San Diego, California January 29, 1847. Anciel walked all the way.
Anciel's wife Louisa had her own team and wagon and she went along with the Twitchell families. James Ephriam their fourth child and second son, was a boy of 13 years, yet he drove an outfit of two oxen and took his turn like his father standing guard during this perilous journey. The other two brothers, Edwin and Orin, were 11 and 9 years, and their task was to drive the sheep across the plains.
The two brothers, Ephriam and Joshua and their families arrived in Utah in Heber C. Kimball=s 2nd Division in late September 1848, and wintered in what is now the present city of Ogden, Utah. They built 5 log cabins on Ogden Creek for their families. It was a terrible cold winter, but they managed to pull through the winter with everyone working together. It was here their daughter Sarah Celestia was born 12 October 1848, the first child born in Ogden.
In April 1849, we find the Twitchell and Hopper families again prepared to move further west, this time to California. Their son, Anciel was still in California and his wife and parents were most anxious to see him again. After more hardships and scarce food supplies, they arrived in Sutter=s Fort in Sacramento the first week in July 1849.
The families were in Sacramento for about a year and they decided to settle in San Juan Bautista, Monterey County, California. The land there is a black rich soil and I find on record that they were there in September 1851, where they farmed and raised some cattle. Ephriam was an Elder in the Church and the President of the branch in San Juan Bautista. They held services in Joshua's home, as he had a large house.
Then in 1856, Ephriam and family moved to San Bernardino, California. This is the first time the two brothers, Ephriam and Joshua were ever separated any distance as they were very close as brothers. In the fall of 1857, conditions were not favorable for them to remain there any longer, then they went by wagon train to Milford, Utah, and on to Beaver as some of the first settlers to make their home. Phoebe Melissa died the next spring and her grave is said to have been the first in the Beaver Cemetery.
Ephriam later remarried Sarah Hadden, 7 January 1860, and they had several children. He died at Beaver, Utah 23 Dec 1872, he and Phoebe Melissa are both buried in the Beaver Cemetery.
Married Ephraim Twitchell, 1 March 1924, Pomeroy, Meigs, Ohio
Children - Anciel Twitchell, Celestia Ursula Twitchell, Eunice Twitchell, Eunice Celinda Twitchell, James Ephraim Twitchell, Edwin Twitchell, Orrin Twitchell, Joshua Twitchell, Amanda Twitchell, Sarah Celestia Twitchell
History - Phoebe Melissa Knight, the fourth child and third daughter of Silas and Eunice (Higley) Knight was born 14 June 1804 at Tolland, Hampton County, Massachusetts; md. 1 March 1824 at Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Ephraim Twitchell a resident of Meigs County.
History - Phoebe Melissa with her parents and family moved from Massachusetts to Gallia County (now Meigs Co.) in the "Ohio Valley" in 1810 and settled in Salisbury, near Rutland. The Twitchell family moved from Vermont to Gallia Co., Ohio near Rutland on the Seioto River in the "Ohio Country" about 1813.
Ephraim Twitchell was 10 years old when they arrived in the Ohio Valley. The Knight and Twitchell families lived in the same area. Here Phoebe Melissa was to meet and marry Ephraim and the young couple made their home in Bedford, Meigs County. It should be noted that Phoebe Melissa's older sister Eunice Ursula had married the other brother, Joshua Twitchell Jr., 24 June 1816. We know the two sisters and their husbands (brothers) had a close family tie throughout their lives.
The Seioto and Ohio Rivers provided many non-farming activities and the Twitchells engaged in farming and river rafting logs and other supplies. The family moved to McDonough County, Illinois in late 1832 where they farmed for awhile. After they became members of the LDS Church, they re-settled in Nauvoo and bought land and farmed until the trouble started with the Saints. It is interesting to note that found in the Nauvoo Church Records is a patriarchal blessing given in 1844 to Phoebe Melissa (Knight) Twitchell and lists her father as Silas Knight and mother as Eunice.
In February 1846 they lost their 19-year-old daughter Celestia in death, and the same month the persecution of the Saints began to become more intense and they were finally driven from their homes. Thus began the hard trip to Council Bluffs, Iowa and Winter Quarters. The Twitchell families raised a large crop of potatoes and corn on government land.
While at Winter Quarters, when the call came for volunteers for the Mormon Battalion to help in the War with Mexico, Phoebe Melissa and Ephraim's oldest son, Anciel, was one of the volunteers. He was married and they had one small son, Ephraim, who later died in Winter Quarters.
The Mormon Battalion made the longest march on foot in military history, around 2,000 miles. The battalion left Mt. Pisgah, Iowa, on July 20, 1846, arrived at Fort Leavenworth 1st of August, march resumed towards Santa Fe, New Mexico 700 miles distant, arriving there in two parts, the 9th and 12th of October 1846. From Santa Fe to San Diego was a distance of 1,100 miles, mostly thru desert and with much suffering. They arrived at San Diego, California January 29, 1847. Anciel walked all the way.
Anciel's wife Louisa had her own team and wagon and she went along with the Twitchell families. James Ephriam their fourth child and second son, was a boy of 13 years, yet he drove an outfit of two oxen and took his turn like his father standing guard during this perilous journey. The other two brothers, Edwin and Orin, were 11 and 9 years, and their task was to drive the sheep across the plains.
The two brothers, Ephriam and Joshua and their families arrived in Utah in Heber C. Kimball=s 2nd Division in late September 1848, and wintered in what is now the present city of Ogden, Utah. They built 5 log cabins on Ogden Creek for their families. It was a terrible cold winter, but they managed to pull through the winter with everyone working together. It was here their daughter Sarah Celestia was born 12 October 1848, the first child born in Ogden.
In April 1849, we find the Twitchell and Hopper families again prepared to move further west, this time to California. Their son, Anciel was still in California and his wife and parents were most anxious to see him again. After more hardships and scarce food supplies, they arrived in Sutter=s Fort in Sacramento the first week in July 1849.
The families were in Sacramento for about a year and they decided to settle in San Juan Bautista, Monterey County, California. The land there is a black rich soil and I find on record that they were there in September 1851, where they farmed and raised some cattle. Ephriam was an Elder in the Church and the President of the branch in San Juan Bautista. They held services in Joshua's home, as he had a large house.
Then in 1856, Ephriam and family moved to San Bernardino, California. This is the first time the two brothers, Ephriam and Joshua were ever separated any distance as they were very close as brothers. In the fall of 1857, conditions were not favorable for them to remain there any longer, then they went by wagon train to Milford, Utah, and on to Beaver as some of the first settlers to make their home. Phoebe Melissa died the next spring and her grave is said to have been the first in the Beaver Cemetery.
Ephriam later remarried Sarah Hadden, 7 January 1860, and they had several children. He died at Beaver, Utah 23 Dec 1872, he and Phoebe Melissa are both buried in the Beaver Cemetery.
Daughter of Silas Knight and Eunice Higley
Married Ephraim Twitchell, 1 March 1924, Pomeroy, Meigs, Ohio
Children - Anciel Twitchell, Celestia Ursula Twitchell, Eunice Twitchell, Eunice Celinda Twitchell, James Ephraim Twitchell, Edwin Twitchell, Orrin Twitchell, Joshua Twitchell, Amanda Twitchell, Sarah Celestia Twitchell
History - Phoebe Melissa Knight, the fourth child and third daughter of Silas and Eunice (Higley) Knight was born 14 June 1804 at Tolland, Hampton County, Massachusetts; md. 1 March 1824 at Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Ephraim Twitchell a resident of Meigs County.
History - Phoebe Melissa with her parents and family moved from Massachusetts to Gallia County (now Meigs Co.) in the "Ohio Valley" in 1810 and settled in Salisbury, near Rutland. The Twitchell family moved from Vermont to Gallia Co., Ohio near Rutland on the Seioto River in the "Ohio Country" about 1813.
Ephraim Twitchell was 10 years old when they arrived in the Ohio Valley. The Knight and Twitchell families lived in the same area. Here Phoebe Melissa was to meet and marry Ephraim and the young couple made their home in Bedford, Meigs County. It should be noted that Phoebe Melissa's older sister Eunice Ursula had married the other brother, Joshua Twitchell Jr., 24 June 1816. We know the two sisters and their husbands (brothers) had a close family tie throughout their lives.
The Seioto and Ohio Rivers provided many non-farming activities and the Twitchells engaged in farming and river rafting logs and other supplies. The family moved to McDonough County, Illinois in late 1832 where they farmed for awhile. After they became members of the LDS Church, they re-settled in Nauvoo and bought land and farmed until the trouble started with the Saints. It is interesting to note that found in the Nauvoo Church Records is a patriarchal blessing given in 1844 to Phoebe Melissa (Knight) Twitchell and lists her father as Silas Knight and mother as Eunice.
In February 1846 they lost their 19-year-old daughter Celestia in death, and the same month the persecution of the Saints began to become more intense and they were finally driven from their homes. Thus began the hard trip to Council Bluffs, Iowa and Winter Quarters. The Twitchell families raised a large crop of potatoes and corn on government land.
While at Winter Quarters, when the call came for volunteers for the Mormon Battalion to help in the War with Mexico, Phoebe Melissa and Ephraim's oldest son, Anciel, was one of the volunteers. He was married and they had one small son, Ephraim, who later died in Winter Quarters.
The Mormon Battalion made the longest march on foot in military history, around 2,000 miles. The battalion left Mt. Pisgah, Iowa, on July 20, 1846, arrived at Fort Leavenworth 1st of August, march resumed towards Santa Fe, New Mexico 700 miles distant, arriving there in two parts, the 9th and 12th of October 1846. From Santa Fe to San Diego was a distance of 1,100 miles, mostly thru desert and with much suffering. They arrived at San Diego, California January 29, 1847. Anciel walked all the way.
Anciel's wife Louisa had her own team and wagon and she went along with the Twitchell families. James Ephriam their fourth child and second son, was a boy of 13 years, yet he drove an outfit of two oxen and took his turn like his father standing guard during this perilous journey. The other two brothers, Edwin and Orin, were 11 and 9 years, and their task was to drive the sheep across the plains.
The two brothers, Ephriam and Joshua and their families arrived in Utah in Heber C. Kimball=s 2nd Division in late September 1848, and wintered in what is now the present city of Ogden, Utah. They built 5 log cabins on Ogden Creek for their families. It was a terrible cold winter, but they managed to pull through the winter with everyone working together. It was here their daughter Sarah Celestia was born 12 October 1848, the first child born in Ogden.
In April 1849, we find the Twitchell and Hopper families again prepared to move further west, this time to California. Their son, Anciel was still in California and his wife and parents were most anxious to see him again. After more hardships and scarce food supplies, they arrived in Sutter=s Fort in Sacramento the first week in July 1849.
The families were in Sacramento for about a year and they decided to settle in San Juan Bautista, Monterey County, California. The land there is a black rich soil and I find on record that they were there in September 1851, where they farmed and raised some cattle. Ephriam was an Elder in the Church and the President of the branch in San Juan Bautista. They held services in Joshua's home, as he had a large house.
Then in 1856, Ephriam and family moved to San Bernardino, California. This is the first time the two brothers, Ephriam and Joshua were ever separated any distance as they were very close as brothers. In the fall of 1857, conditions were not favorable for them to remain there any longer, then they went by wagon train to Milford, Utah, and on to Beaver as some of the first settlers to make their home. Phoebe Melissa died the next spring and her grave is said to have been the first in the Beaver Cemetery.
Ephriam later remarried Sarah Hadden, 7 January 1860, and they had several children. He died at Beaver, Utah 23 Dec 1872, he and Phoebe Melissa are both buried in the Beaver Cemetery.
Married Ephraim Twitchell, 1 March 1924, Pomeroy, Meigs, Ohio
Children - Anciel Twitchell, Celestia Ursula Twitchell, Eunice Twitchell, Eunice Celinda Twitchell, James Ephraim Twitchell, Edwin Twitchell, Orrin Twitchell, Joshua Twitchell, Amanda Twitchell, Sarah Celestia Twitchell
History - Phoebe Melissa Knight, the fourth child and third daughter of Silas and Eunice (Higley) Knight was born 14 June 1804 at Tolland, Hampton County, Massachusetts; md. 1 March 1824 at Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Ephraim Twitchell a resident of Meigs County.
History - Phoebe Melissa with her parents and family moved from Massachusetts to Gallia County (now Meigs Co.) in the "Ohio Valley" in 1810 and settled in Salisbury, near Rutland. The Twitchell family moved from Vermont to Gallia Co., Ohio near Rutland on the Seioto River in the "Ohio Country" about 1813.
Ephraim Twitchell was 10 years old when they arrived in the Ohio Valley. The Knight and Twitchell families lived in the same area. Here Phoebe Melissa was to meet and marry Ephraim and the young couple made their home in Bedford, Meigs County. It should be noted that Phoebe Melissa's older sister Eunice Ursula had married the other brother, Joshua Twitchell Jr., 24 June 1816. We know the two sisters and their husbands (brothers) had a close family tie throughout their lives.
The Seioto and Ohio Rivers provided many non-farming activities and the Twitchells engaged in farming and river rafting logs and other supplies. The family moved to McDonough County, Illinois in late 1832 where they farmed for awhile. After they became members of the LDS Church, they re-settled in Nauvoo and bought land and farmed until the trouble started with the Saints. It is interesting to note that found in the Nauvoo Church Records is a patriarchal blessing given in 1844 to Phoebe Melissa (Knight) Twitchell and lists her father as Silas Knight and mother as Eunice.
In February 1846 they lost their 19-year-old daughter Celestia in death, and the same month the persecution of the Saints began to become more intense and they were finally driven from their homes. Thus began the hard trip to Council Bluffs, Iowa and Winter Quarters. The Twitchell families raised a large crop of potatoes and corn on government land.
While at Winter Quarters, when the call came for volunteers for the Mormon Battalion to help in the War with Mexico, Phoebe Melissa and Ephraim's oldest son, Anciel, was one of the volunteers. He was married and they had one small son, Ephraim, who later died in Winter Quarters.
The Mormon Battalion made the longest march on foot in military history, around 2,000 miles. The battalion left Mt. Pisgah, Iowa, on July 20, 1846, arrived at Fort Leavenworth 1st of August, march resumed towards Santa Fe, New Mexico 700 miles distant, arriving there in two parts, the 9th and 12th of October 1846. From Santa Fe to San Diego was a distance of 1,100 miles, mostly thru desert and with much suffering. They arrived at San Diego, California January 29, 1847. Anciel walked all the way.
Anciel's wife Louisa had her own team and wagon and she went along with the Twitchell families. James Ephriam their fourth child and second son, was a boy of 13 years, yet he drove an outfit of two oxen and took his turn like his father standing guard during this perilous journey. The other two brothers, Edwin and Orin, were 11 and 9 years, and their task was to drive the sheep across the plains.
The two brothers, Ephriam and Joshua and their families arrived in Utah in Heber C. Kimball=s 2nd Division in late September 1848, and wintered in what is now the present city of Ogden, Utah. They built 5 log cabins on Ogden Creek for their families. It was a terrible cold winter, but they managed to pull through the winter with everyone working together. It was here their daughter Sarah Celestia was born 12 October 1848, the first child born in Ogden.
In April 1849, we find the Twitchell and Hopper families again prepared to move further west, this time to California. Their son, Anciel was still in California and his wife and parents were most anxious to see him again. After more hardships and scarce food supplies, they arrived in Sutter=s Fort in Sacramento the first week in July 1849.
The families were in Sacramento for about a year and they decided to settle in San Juan Bautista, Monterey County, California. The land there is a black rich soil and I find on record that they were there in September 1851, where they farmed and raised some cattle. Ephriam was an Elder in the Church and the President of the branch in San Juan Bautista. They held services in Joshua's home, as he had a large house.
Then in 1856, Ephriam and family moved to San Bernardino, California. This is the first time the two brothers, Ephriam and Joshua were ever separated any distance as they were very close as brothers. In the fall of 1857, conditions were not favorable for them to remain there any longer, then they went by wagon train to Milford, Utah, and on to Beaver as some of the first settlers to make their home. Phoebe Melissa died the next spring and her grave is said to have been the first in the Beaver Cemetery.
Ephriam later remarried Sarah Hadden, 7 January 1860, and they had several children. He died at Beaver, Utah 23 Dec 1872, he and Phoebe Melissa are both buried in the Beaver Cemetery.
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