Person:Phebe Knight (46)

BIOGRAPHY: http://www.geocities.com/heartland/valley/6368/Almond/EphraimTwitchellhistory.html Melissa's parents, Silas and Eunice Knight, died in Ohio in 1839, and Melissa received one hundred dollars from the sale of land from her father's estate. Ursula received the same.

After they were married, Ephraim and Melissa lived in Bedford, Meigs County, Ohio for at least six years. While they were living in Bedford, they heard of a place in Springcreek, Illinois that sounded good to them. Because Ephraim was a farmer and stockman, he bought the farm in Springcreek, McDonnough County, Illinois and left the Ohio Valley. Their next five children were born in Springcreek. They were Eunice Celinda, born April 15, 1832, James Ephraim, born October 19, 1834, Edwin, born May 23, 1836, Orin, born September 19, 1839, and Joshua, born May 20, l842. Some of Joshua and Ursula's children were now grown and married, but they all moved to Illinois also.

The family of Ephraim and Melissa had now heard of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from missionaries. In the spring of 1842, about JULY, they and all their children, joined this restored church and were baptized. Their son Anciel, and daughters Celestia Ursula and Eunice Celinda were old enough to be baptized but James Ephraim was not eight years old until October of that year, so he had to wait. Their 8th child, Joshua, was born that same spring on May 20, 1842 in Springcreek, Illinois.

Genealogy of the Twitchell Family Record of the Descendants of the Puritan Benjamin Twitchell 1632 - 1927 1929 Page 133/134/227