(38) Sally Knight short history

"Winter Quarters" from http://winterquarters.byu.edu/pages/Other.aspx

Sally was the daughter of Newel Knight and Lydia Goldthwaite of Kirtland, Ohio.  Newel’s parents were Universalists living at Colesville, Broome County, N.Y., who became interested in Joseph Smith’s teachings, Newel having had the first miracle performed on him by the Prophet Joseph.

        Sally went through the struggles of the early pioneers.  Her folks had crossed the plains and were camping near Winter Quarters when the little family was called to suffer a great sorrow by the death of the husband and father.  He had been taken suddenly ill in the night with an acute pain in his side.  Everything was done for him that could be done, but with no relief.  He died and was buried in a rude coffin made from a wagon box.  This left the mother with 6 children, Sally being her oldest, and one more being born seven months after her husband’s passing, making a total of seven.

Sally’s widowed mother felt the task of getting their outfit ready to move the next spring was more than she could do, though her children helped in what ways they could.  They had a struggle to live from day to day, and had to stay on the plains for three years, until they could afford an adequate mode of travel.  They didn’t reach the Salt Lake Valley until October of 1850.  That winter she and her family built an adobe cabin in the Valley.  Sally was 14 at that time. ⁶¹

61- Dec. of G. Palmer & P. Draper, p. 447 - Sally’s background

^{Mormon Monument in Nebraska.}

"A temporary settlement was established in northern Nebraska when a group of saints led by Newell Knight spent the winter with the Ponca tribe near the mouth of the Niobrara River. Knight and some others died during the winter and were buried at Niobrara. The survivors remained with the Poncas through the winter of 1846-47 and then returned to Winter Quarters to prepare for the westward trek." 

http://www.ldschurchnews.com/articles/58713/United-States-information-Nebraska.html

For more Knight history see http://www.josephknightfamily.org/history/history.html

For more info on Newel Knight and the temporary settlement near the mouth of the Niobrara River see http://winterquarters.byu.edu/pages/Other.aspx